Sentences with phrase «less than the minimum wage»

If you drive for Uber or Lyft, you probably make less than minimum wage.

Several of Uber's employee reviews on Glassdoor feature claims that drivers are making around or less than the minimum wage, while Lyft drivers have also made similar claims on the company review site.

It costs $ 10 to sign up, and most reps sell Avon part - time and make on average less than minimum wage doing it.

Unlike in those other casee, the plaintiffs did receive some compensation, but at less than $ 1 per hour, far far less than minimum wage.

Today, many flight attendants begin their careers making less than minimum wage — as I did as a flight attendant for Pinnacle Airlines, where I was employed from 2011 to 2013.

It compelled me to justify myself, to explain to my interrogators how I planned to live in New York City on so little — less than minimum wage after accounting for the cost of my uniform and unpaid training time.

«If you work it out, if I didn't get compensated for expenses, I'd be working for less than minimum wage,» Ms. Berwick said.

Uber and Lyft drivers are earning less than minimum wage.

If you spent more than half an hour, you «made» less than minimum wage.

hi, there is no body in usa who hired muslims, and from where he got fired, it is hard to breath in usa like muslim, less than minimum wage is fix for muslims, more holy more less pay and more hard work

Or, hire illegals for gardening or housecleaning work and pay them even less than minimum wage.

Jesus Lives He sure does, cuts my lawn, pulls the weeds and cleans the pool for less than minimum wage, YEE HAW.

Why aren't you allowed to pay less than the minimum wage?

Attorneys for the plaintiffs today announced their filing of a collective action lawsuit against Darden Restaurants, the world's largest full - service restaurant group, alleging servers were paid less than the minimum wage and were not compensated for time they were required to work off the clock.

(After I abandoned freelancing, I had a small home - based business that probably earned me less than minimum wage but at least I was being creative, and that mattered much more than money at the time.)

Selling to shops is all well and good but your pricing has to be so keen to allow for their 2.4 markup that you can end up slaving away into the wee hours for less than minimum wage.

but I'm still paying both of them less than minimum wage, you know?

These are usually paid less than minimum wage and often are only employed a few hours here and there.

One year after launching a task force to look into abusive work conditions in nail salons throughout the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered the payment of $ 2 million to hundreds of workers who have been denied overtime and paid less than minimum wage.

He was addressing MPs following a Guardian report last year that workers at the sportswear chain's warehouse had been subjected to rigorous searches and surveillance, which led to staff receiving less than the minimum wage.

The target is often unrealistic and means they are paid less than the minimum wage.

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson caused a furore after it was revealed that he had proposed a plan to make pensioners pick crops for less than the minimum wage as a way of cutting eastern European immigration.

Tip credits allow restaurants to pay employees at a rate less than the minimum wage, as long as their tips make up the difference.

Zero hours contracts are stripping workers of employment rights and routinely paying them less than the minimum wage, Commons committee discovers

The candidate on this stage who pays less than the minimum wage he is advocating for is Aaron Woolf, who pays $ 10.

Rstaurant workers say a boost in their minimum wage will help combat the harassment they face in the workplace as Gov. Andrew Cuomo considers a pay boost for workers who make less than the minimum wage.

With the tip credit, restaurants in New York state are allowed to pay tipped workers less than minimum wage as long as their tips make up for those smaller wages.

I agree with groups like the National Organization for Women and the Food Chain Workers Alliance that want to eliminate the tip deduction that allows employers to pay tipped workers less than the minimum wage.

Owen Paterson denies he sought to replace east European workers with older Britons on less than minimum wage

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it's time the state examines whether to do away with the practice of allowing employers to pay tipped workers less than the minimum wage.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it's time the state examines whether to do away with the practice of allowing employers to pay tipped workers less than the minimum wage.

If they can outflank the Tories on these millions of people, many of whom earn much less than the minimum wage and would laugh at the idea of a day of work sick or taking a real holiday, then they would have a credible platform to attack big business.

Meanwhile your average yoga teacher is earning less than minimum wage and either has an independent income or sure as hell can't afford to wear Sweaty Betty's # 70 «Chandrasana» leggings.

At my old firm, it worked out to less than minimum wage — I could make more at Starbucks!

My colleagues and I kept an account of our work hours over a term and we were on less than the minimum wage.

Most authors earn less than minimum wage (we are not all J.K. Rowling or Mrs Fifty shades) and have to work second jobs while giving up time with our friends and families to bring you the books you love.

Other authors I know earn much less than minimum wage having received contracts for $ 15,000 for three books that has taken then multiple years to produce.

I can't speak for others, but because I am able to spend several months of my time working for far less than minimum wage, considering I usually work 10 - 12 hours, six days / week, to edit and publish a book, my clients (writers) prefer to enter into a business arrangement with me rather than become a contractor for the production of their work and deal with the «very real» business of distributing and marketing their title afterwards.

Times have changed radically in the last decade... even more so, the past few years — today's author has to be prepared to work their butt off to get his book noticed by the media, the public, you name it; they often are disconnected from the editor who «acquired» the book and the one that does the editing; and advances have shrunk, even disappeared (many authors work for far less than minimum wage).

If I charged $ 250 — $ 500 to copyedit a novel - length manuscript, I'd be making less than minimum wage.

Depending on how much time was spent, this pirate may actually have earned less than the minimum wage!

And let's not forget that the author, the creator of the product, gets paid less than minimum wage for their work and will never get an accurate accounting of his sales without demanding an accounting and being willing to take the legacy publisher to court to get it.

So either you are a famous author who earns an insane amount of money per month, or you struggle at the bottom, earning less than the minimum wage, no wonder it's a gamble.

Less than minimum wage!

That's less than $ 15 per hour, less than minimum wage in a growing number of US cities.

My best estimate says that I earn considerably less than minimum wage, so let any who think that I am in it for money consider otherwise.

Then I lost my job and started teaching part time and earning far less than minimum wage per semester.

It is a world where jobs pay less than the minimum wage, and sometimes nothing at all; where employers do not pay overtime for 60 - hour weeks, and deny meal breaks that are required by law; where vital health and safety regulations are routinely ignored, even after injuries occur; and where workers are subject to blatant discrimination, and retaliated against for speaking up or trying to organize.

Almost all of them work in conditions which are entirely unregulated, and many of them are paid less than minimum wage.

This case tested a federal minimum wage law which banned shipping goods in interstate commerce where they were produced by people paid less than minimum wage, and also banned the employment of those people at less than minimum wage in that context.