Sentences with phrase «below living wage»

«Half of all women in part - time work earn less than # 7.20 an hour, below the living wage standard.

However 10 % of trainee solicitors in London are paid below the living wage and 20 % of those across the rest of the country.

«We told the mayor that while he was telling us he was against the project, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen was having private email conversations with FreshDirect lobbyists promising support for the $ 140 million subsidy if the company could deliver on living wage jobs, but more than half of FreshDirect's workforce remains below living wage,» Harry Bubbins, member of the group, said in the press release.

Twenty - seven per cent of women, who are more likely to be single parents than men, earn below the living wage.

Those governments have kept the minimum wage below a living wage, allowed private social care companies to pay less than even the inadequate minimum wage, done almost nothing to enforce the quality of private rental accommodation and nothing to prevent gouging rents.

«The company didn't understand that though they were paying above the minimum legal wage, it was far below a living wage.»

Not exact matches

Still, many economists and public policy advocates argue that in states where minimum wage is higher than the federal mandate, the economies fare better than in states where businesses stick to the federal minimum wage, which is currently not indexed to inflation and hence forces some workers to live below poverty level.

More recently the EU's official think tank on life at work said: ``... the level of wage inequality in the EU as a whole is below that of the US.

Cuomo is stumping across New York pushing for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage — but a state entity run by his appointees, the Battery Park City Authority, just slashed salaries below his proposed «living» wage by booting its unionized park enforcement officers and outsourcing the work to a private firm, AlliedBarton.

The senator is opposing a higher minimum wage even though he represents portions of the city of Syracuse, one of the poorest cities in America, a place where 50 percent of the children are living below the federal poverty level.

Children whose parents are employed full time are less likely to live below the poverty line, but earning a wage was no guarantee of economic security in 2015, according to NCCP research.

«On average, welfare recipients ages 17 to 21 read at the sixth - grade level, well below what is needed to earn a living wage.

It has a significantly above - average wage premium for college graduates, a solid median income, and a below - average cost of living.

According to People Tree even the minimum wage set by governments in developing countries is 3 or 4 times below the real cost of living.

Providing competitive wage career development opportunities is especially important considering the fact that half of all public school students are now living at or below the poverty line and in light of recent studies which suggest students receiving paid internships receive more job offers and higher salaries than their unpaid counterparts.

«This is # 5 per hour, far below the # 7.20 per hour national living wage for the over 25s which they would be entitled to if they were «workers».