MINIMUM WAGES ACT‚ 1948 Background A tripartite Committee Viz.‚ "The Committee on Fair Wage" was set up in 1948 to provide guidelines for wage structures in the country. The report of this Committee was a major landmark in the history of formulation of wage policy in India. Its recommendations set out the key concepts of the ’living wage’‚ "minimum wages” and "fair wage" besides setting out guidelines for wage fixation. Article 39 states that the State shall‚ in particular‚ direct its policy
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Over the years objects have become more expensive with growing minimum wage. In my short life most things have increased in price. What’s surprising is that the extra money in wage does not usually buy its equivalent in goods from forty years ago. The toys‚ food‚ or trinkets today are more expensive compared to modern minimum wage. More expensive things like cars and houses though have increased a good deal. As things have been increasing in money‚ the amount for something does not end up proportional
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are either working a well-paying job or a low pay job‚ either way‚ they still come as an underdog within the workplace that they are in. Wage discrimination is the discrimination towards minorities in the workplace that experience wage gap among their coworkers. It doesn’t matter the race‚ gender‚ ethnicity‚and the religion people experience outcomes of wage gap severely. That is a social issue in America that needs to be fixed and get the attention of. The gender inequality affects every race
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Minimum Wage A high school student that has a job or is thinking about getting a job knows what minimum wage is because they know how little it is. Minimum wage is a set p/hr earnings an employer must pay his or her employees. Oregon is one of eighteen states in the U.S. that has set a higher minimum wage then the federal law of only $5.15 per/hr. For many years there has been a debate on weather or not highirng the minimum wage helps or hurts the economy‚ in most states with a higher minimum
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treated fairly compared to their male counterparts. The gender wage gap has been a real and prevalent issue in our society for decades. Even in the present‚ women are inclined to get lower salaries than men throughout the world‚ and most importantly in the United States where the constitution nonetheless says “all men are created equal.” However‚ there is much we can do to stop discrimination in the work force. The United States’ wage gap is caused by discrimination against women who have less opportunities
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Raising the minimum wage is a topic that often brings about much debate. But in the overall aspect‚ what such changes would it bring? People often fight over if it would be more of a good thing or more of a bad thing‚ throwing around misconstrued ideas before actually doing their research just because they heard it somewhere else. Well after much consideration‚ research‚ and discussion it does appear that it would be more beneficial to raise the minimum wage because it wouldn’t only lead to economic
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the federal minimum wage‚ and if so how high Over the recent years‚ many economists and employers in the United States have been debating about the need to either increase or decrease the federal minimum wage. This debate increased when President Barrack Obama revealed his plans to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10/hr‚ during the 2014 State of the Union Address. The proponents of this proposal are of the train of thought that increasing the minimum wage will increasingly strengthen
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regularly increase minimum wage to keep up with inflation‚ according to the National Employment Law Project. This means that minimum wage workers in the remaining 38 states are below the poverty line. These workers rely on the government for the remaining funds to maintain a basic livelihood. More surprisingly‚ minimum wage workers are no longer just teenagers aiming for a quick buck over summer. Now‚ 3.8 million American workers‚ two-thirds of whom are women‚ rely on a minimum wage job for their daily
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Higher wage hurts the people it is meant to help the most‚ including the ones in poverty and low working class. Many of the uneducated will be competed out of jobs making it harder than it already is to get a job. In “Researchers Probe Pros and Cons Of Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage” Wang reveals‚ “The weight of evidence suggests that moderate minimum wage increases have insignificant to non-existing negative effects on employment… reduce worker turnover and worker retention‚ and result in small‚ one-time
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A minimum wage is introduced into an experimental labor market characterized by gift exchange. In the experiment‚ subjects are randomly divided into two groups‚ including manager group and employees group‚ with ten subjects in each group. In all periods each manager was matched anonymously with one employee no more than twice and never re-matched in two consecutive periods. In each period‚ the manager makes an individual wage offer to his matched employee and wage offers were written directly on
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