Sentences with phrase «at a minimum wage»

The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

That fits with findings that Generation Y are more likely to work part - time and at minimum wage than older generations, making sticking at a company and rising up the ranks more difficult.

More than half of the 243 employers in the province permitted to hire temporary foreign workers at minimum wage over a 10 - month period ended in June were in the food - service business, the Alberta Federation of Labour found recently through a freedom - of - information request.

It is only a couple hours a day and at minimum wage.

That may not sound like a lot of money, but over the course of a year, you could easily earn as much as if you were working full - time at a minimum wage job — only with the perks of running your own business!

In fact, working full - time at minimum wage earns you only $ 14,000 a year.

Imagine you're a mother of two working 40 hours a week at a minimum wage job in food service, while your husband hunts for a job.

Only recently, too, did Romney reveal that he indeed will be a true «mandate» POTUS (video for that too) by indicating employers be made to give automatic pay raises that are tied to inflation to all employees at the minimum wage level.

The reason is that minimum wage workers tend to spend at minimum wage paying outlets, so an increase in the minimum need not reduce, and sometimes increases minimum wage employment.

Show your thanks to the migrant workers who toil in the hot sun at minimum wage so you can have a cheap salad and the truckers who drive 6,000 miles to bring produce from California to your table.

At the chain's Manhattan locations, new employees start at $ 10 an hour rather than at the minimum wage of $ 8.75.

They'll get 40 hours at minimum wage, no more, no less, regardless of travel time or how many hours they actually spend practicing or training.

I have applied for hundreds of jobs (including the bottom of the barrel positions) and been interviewed maybe three times in the last year and I am lucky to get a three month contract at minimum wage.

For a parent working full time at the minimum wage of $ 7.25 per hour, that represents 6 percent of gross income.

«And if they work at the minimum wage today under our standards, they are poor.

If you are lucky enough to get a 40 hour work week at the minimum wage you will earn $ 18,720 a year.....

It is commendable that he, as well as numerous members of the Democratic party, believe that all current workers at minimum wage and future workers be given a more conducive living wage but in practice it would cause a greater number of current workers and perspective workers to be or remain unemployed.

«I don't think... anyone in good faith could leave Albany until we get things done, like at least the pension forfeiture bill which we agreed to last year — which still hasn't been passed — the LLC loophole, which is just an obvious anomaly that could be passed easily, in my opinion, which would at least reflect the sense of the people that this has been a wholly unprecedented year in terms of investigations of legislators,» the governor said after speaking at a minimum wage rally outside the Capitol.

The right - leaning Empire Center, at odds with the Fiscal Policy Institute about raising the wage, agrees that the tax credit will encourage businesses to hire teens and to cap their wages at the minimum wage.

Millie Martinez of Syracuse needed help from an interpreter to tell of her plight at the minimum wage hearing in Syracuse today.

Shantel Walker, 33, a worker at Papa John's for the last 10 years, speaks at the minimum wage rally in Manhattan outside the New York State Department of Labor.

«Universal credit will ensure that the vast majority of children will be lifted out of poverty if at least one parent works 35 hours a week at the minimum wage — or 24 hours if they are a lone parent,» he added.

Don't waste precious study hours at a minimum wage job.

The discussion turns to the responsibilities of having a baby and how much time and effort it might take to earn the needed money for a baby's care at a minimum wage salary, which is usually the best salary available to students this age.

As Passive Guy points out, «[t] he exquisite moral balancing described seems to ignore one big reality — most bookstore employees are working at minimum wage with little hope of being able earn enough from their employment to live in a pleasant residence, support a family or enjoy the even the most modest trappings of a middle - class life.

A young couple these days can work at a minimum wage that will cover both a mortgage payment AND investing.

That's more than you'll make working eight hours a day at minimum wage.

We also looked at data on median home values in each state to determine where it would take the longest to save for a down payment on a home at the minimum wage.

The Bank of Canada estimated that about eight per cent of all employees work at minimum wage, a proportion that increases to 11 per cent if a threshold of five per cent above minimum wage is used.

So, for this example, let's say I'm a family of two — just my wife and I. Combined, we only make $ 18,000 (At first I didn't think this was possible, but if you only work part - time, 20 hours per week, at minimum wage of $ 8.50, you end up at this income level).

I think investing at minimum wage is about priorities, and often is even about finding ways to big for more money.

If, however, they are working at a minimum wage job, and have three children to support, it's likely the court will conclude that they don't have the resources to repay the loan.

What are his skills and why is he settling at a minimum wage job?

In the absence of a program to ensure affordability, those who live at minimum wage struggle to have a pet spayed or neutered.

Retailers may also want to avoid trying to control costs by hiring people at minimum wage.

Just think about all the jobs that will be created — I suspect very few at minimum wage — getting the job done and getting it done right.

I now work 20 - 30 hours a week at minimum wage, no stress, more time to hike and enjoy life and because of the changes I can afford to live just fine.

Of course, such time may be compensated at the minimum wage rather than the employees» regular rates.

It turns out that most lawyers outside the GTA don't make that much at the end of the day after expenses, and simply don't have the time to spare or money to afford a paid articling student, even at minimum wage.

Group fully supports the progressive changes in Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, which provide protections for many new immigrants entering the labour force who, because of employment barriers, are often placed in jobs at minimum wage, physically demanding and involve irregular or odd working hours.

In small firms and rural areas, inexperienced legal receptionists may begin at minimum wage.

Recall the case a couple years ago with the 2 international students who worked off - campus at minimum wage jobs and faced deportation.

For a small investment, a couple of college students working at minimum wage can go through computer billing summary reports and produce some interesting statistics.

In other words, even two people working forty hours each at minimum wage would come up substantially short.

It also takes 13.79 hours working at minimum wage ($ 7.25) to get enough money to buy 60 Trooper Crates.

The pay for unskilled jobs is extremely low, often at the minimum wage of $ 208 per month and sometimes not even that.

It's common to start this career in an unpaid internship, or short - term seasonal post at minimum wage.

You worked at a minimum wage job through school, so you are already past an «entry level» resume, right?

Where else can someone who is working at unskilled things like serving tables, washing dishes, driving a delivery truck, working at an auto assembly plant or other factory, telemarketing at some boring office or who is otherwise working at any minimum wage job due to a lack of education and / or meaningful real - life experience etc., get to go to real estate classes (hoping that a few months thereafter to be guiding uneducated consumers through the most expensive and most important financial transactions of their lives in trade for big fat commissions) often with a minimalist education (maybe just scraped by at that after multiple attempts to pass grade ten or eleven) and expect to instantly be labelled a professional operative upon passing the real estate courses» exams via penning memorized responses to forewarned - about - exam - questions by instructors who need to display a suitable passing percentage of students to keep their part - time teaching jobs?

That's one hour at a minimum wage job but you can make a ton more with a little effort.