Sentences with phrase «earn national minimum wage»

Staff are also furious over pay levels, where coastguard watch assistants, who actively participate in search planning and other duties in response to 999 calls, only earn the national minimum wage.

While parents who are paid a higher hourly rate may indeed qualify for support by working a low number of hours per week, those who earn national minimum wage or national living wage will effectively have to work more hours to qualify for the same type of support - but those extra hours may not be available to them.

Not exact matches

«Mixed fleet crew earn just over the minimum wage and below the national average,» said Unite regional officer Matt Smith.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

«The increase in national minimum wage and national living wage is very welcome news for those on low pay, however businesses can still do more to help those employed earn enough to escape working poverty.

When the proposed national minimum wage is introduced in 2015, Amazon Germany's some 100,000 employees today will be earning a full one Euro above that minimum wage of 8.5 Euros.

A single parent earning the minimum wage would need to work 81 hours a week to afford the average two - bedroom apartment in Rhode Island, according to a report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

Another recent report out of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) purports an inability for renters in every state, earning minimum wage and working 40 hours each week, to afford a two - bedroom rental, giving way to a shortage of 7.4 million affordable units for low - income renter households.