restaurants are ripping off international students‚ paying wages as little as $10 an hour and take advantage of students desired need for work. A large number of foreign students in this cash industry‚ where visa restrictions are broke‚ receive wages well below the legal entitlement‚ and laws on working conditions are ignored. Restaurants in Melbourne’s China Town and Chadstone shopping centre are paying wages below the legal minimum wage of $17.70 an hour. Chinese student Chiquita Yu is working
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styles. Working people lives in the paycheck of the minimum wage. A Minimum wage is the minimum an employer has to pay an unskilled worker based on the regulations set forth by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that was originally established in 1938. Over the years there has been much debate about raising the federal minimum wage. Some are against and some are in favor in raising the minimum wage. The United States should raise the Federal Minimum Wage to help people to afford education‚ help the poor
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argument of raising or keeping the minimum wage payment‚ it brings attention to the workers and big corporations. Many thoughts on the cost of living with a higher minimum would make the cost of living boost to the point where it’s not affordable to the average citizen. Raising the minimum wage could crush small businesses and turn eight employees at a chain restaurant to four employees due to the insufficient funds to pay the other four. Increasing the minimum wage will hurt the United States in more
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together with working a minimum wage job could make it more difficult. Seeing every year that America is a place where people move for better opportunities for them and their families. It is difficult to start out on jobs that pay little to nothing especially when supporting family members or just an individual working on their own. Minimum wage should be raised because it would boost the economy‚ help people out of poverty‚ and help college students. Many people argue that minimum wage should not be raised
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Minimum Wage A minimum wage is the lowest hourly wage that employers have to compensate the workers for their service. Currently the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. However‚ many states also have their own minimum wage laws. In those instances‚ the employee is entitled to the higher of the two minimum wages. In this paper we will discuss the brief history of the minimum wage law and its current legislation. We will also analyze the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage‚ and the
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Minimum Wage The minimum wage has been a part of the United States labor system since I can remember. However there has not always been a minimum wage. What were the causes that made out government step in and enforce a minimum wage and how does this affect our economy today? During The Great Depression of the 1930’s there was no national minimum wage or legislation to protect workers. There were few jobs and many people willing to work. This caused wages to drop drastically. People were forced
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of its successes‚ the company has been dogged for more than a decade by repeated and persistent accusations that its products are made in sweatshops where workers‚ many of them children‚ slave away in hazardous conditions for less than subsistence wages. Nike’s wealth‚ its detractors claim‚ has been built upon the backs of the world’s poor. To many‚ Nike has become a symbol of the evils of globalization—a rich Western corporation exploiting the world’s poor to provide expensive shoes and apparel to
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Along with additional information‚ the best wat to gage the true effect of the minimum wage would be to examine Card and Krueger’s actual experiment results. Unfortunately‚ we cannot rule out‚ based on that individual case study that the effects were in truth larger or smaller than what was examined in the case of New Jersey raising their minimum wage in 1992(). Given the problems surrounding Card and Krueger’s minimum wage research‚ Dube‚ Lester and Reich replicated Card and Krueger’s New Jersey-Pennsylvania
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value of the minimum wage."(Sklar). The low minimum wage is sinking more and more families into poverty.Families who only have one minimum wage worker can’t support their families.Families with more than 2 children struggle to get along. Minimum wage workers are still making less than they did in 1997.The federal minimum wage was enacted in 1938 through the Fair Labor Standards Act. Workers have to adjust to the increased cost of living. The minimum wage today is $7.25. Sitting the minimum so low means
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David Metcalf has concluded that the implementation of the minimum wage appears to have had no negative impact upon Employment. Critically examine the possible explanations for this outcome. The minimum wage was implemented and became law on the 1st April 1999 this helped prevent unfair low pay and “levelled the playing field” (http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/layer?topicId=1074402393) for employers as companies could compete on quality of goods rather than setting a reduced price based
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