Australia has gone from a highly centralized wage determination system to a mainly decentralized one. There has been a move away from accords and awards to enterprise bargaining‚ through the 96 Workplace Relations Act. Recent policies include changes to unfair dismissal claims and the 2005 workplace reforms package. Throughout the 20th century‚ Australia has maintained a system of tribunals to make decisions about wage and non wage outcomes and to help resolve industrial disputes. Institutional
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Cons of Minimum Wage The argument for minimum wage has remained remake consistent over the years. Some people are against minimum wage and the other think minimum wage can help you in a certain way. In the midst of the Great Depression‚ the Unites States federal government passed the Fair Labor Standards Act. The law has been amended almost every year to expand coverage of the wage floor and to increase the wage itself. Many of the fifty states have enacted their own minimum wage laws‚ some of them
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Is There a Gender Wage Gap Women make less than men in the work place even though they have the same education and experience. Even with the enactment of The Equal Pay Act in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy gender based equality has not been eliminated. Since 1963 the gap has become smaller but according to Kassenboehmer & Sinning (2014) there is still an approximately a 7% gap between men and women. Women continue to be on the low end in regards to their income. This needs to stop and both men
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Boston University defines minimum wage as‚ "the lowest level of earnings for employees set by government legislation." In general there are two fiscal and social arguments on the minimum wage. Supply side economists see a minimum wage as an overreaching burden placed on small businesses while demand side economists argue wages set too low will result in higher levels of poverty. In this article I bring out some of the main intellectual concerns of the minimum wage. My goal for this article is not
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Their jobs don’t pay them enough money to pay for fees‚ food‚ rent‚ etc. It’s the same for adults too. To prevent this‚ the minimum wage should be raised. This could lead to increasing economic activity and jobs. Other benefits are higher school attendance and lower high school drop offs. However‚ it could increase layoffs and unemployment. Even though raising living wage can start some problems with more experienced workers‚ people gain more money to afford their needs. Some pros are larger finance
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business as a man with the same job position‚ and still receive less pay? What a very exhausting feeling! The difference between the amounts of money paid to women and men‚ often for doing the same work is titled‚ the “Gender Wage Gap.” I chose this topic because I am a woman‚ and the thought of a man receiving higher pay than me for the same job is a very difficult thought to have. I believe that understanding the gender wage gap is very important to society as a whole. Equality for women is a perquisite
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the reference (Issues Surrounding the Minimum Wage Debate REVISION 2- Bruce D. Philips‚NFIB Research Foundation‚ 11/30/05) increasing the minimum wage hurts low-skill employees. Most economists agree that increasing the minimum wage destroys jobs. This job loss is concentrated on the least skilled employees in the economy. Research from Duke University‚ the University of Wisconsin‚ and Michigan State University indicates that increases in the minimum wage hurt low-skill employees. Cornell University
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Wal-Mart: Minimum Wage versus Fair Wage Wal-Mart has employed millions of people over the past fifty years. The first Wal-Mart‚ employing just a handful of people‚ was opened by Sam Walton 1962. Now‚ Wal-Mart employs 2.2 million associates (Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. 4). Wal-Mart is under fire for paying entry-level employees market wage for their work. Market wage (minimum wage or slightly higher) is the price of labor determined by the labor market. Is Wal-Mart hindering employees from achieving the
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& Hanson‚ G. H.. (1996). Globalization‚ Outsourcing‚ and Wage Inequality. The American Economic Review‚ 86(2)‚ 240–245. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2118130 In this article‚ Feenstra and Hansen reexamine their previously published work on the effects of globalization and outsourcing on the wages of less-skilled workers in the United States for the periods of 1972 to 1992. They point out that data shows the wages of less skilled workers has fallen dramatically since the
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Minimum wage is the lowest amount of money earned per hour by a worker authorized by law. The federal government allows each individual state to set its own minimum wage amount. The current federal minimum wage stands at $7.25 per hour. Increasing the federal minimum wage can help many people‚ but it also has many drawbacks. Consumer prices will skyrocket and cause inflation‚ when money becomes less valuable‚ if the federal minimum wage increases. Also‚ increasing the minimum wage causes employers
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