Sentences with phrase «making federal minimum wage»

A U.S. employee making the federal minimum wage and working 40 hours a week would make an annual salary of $ 15,080.

Raise the wages of state workers making federal minimum wage because they aren't included under state minimum wage law.

By contrast, the states with the highest proportion of workers making the federal minimum wage or less are Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and Idaho, where between seven and eight percent of workers make at or below $ 7.25.

As a result, unsurprisingly, these states have the lowest percentage of workers making the federal minimum wage.

Chief Executive Doug McMillon recently said the company would improve opportunities for workers, including getting the roughly 6,000 people who make the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 an hour at its stores off that rate.

The hike, which will begin to take effect on July 1, nods to President Obama's agenda to make the federal minimum wage $ 10.10.

Not exact matches

The Vermont senator supports increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, and changing the Affordable Care Act to make health care universally available through a single - payer system administered by the federal government.

The Department of Labor lawsuit, originally filed in 2012, alleged that the company flouted the federal Fair Labor Standards Act because its workers weren't making minimum wage ($ 7.25 an hour) when their bosses required them to take unpaid breaks, according to the Associated Press.

Then, the state leaped ahead of the federal minimum wage of $ 5.15 and began making employers pay $ 6 an hour, with subsequent increases to $ 7.15 by 2007.

He stressed that the NLC had made a proposal of N56, 000 Minimum Wage to the Federal Government and was still sticking to the demand.

In this new video from Funny or Die, Mary Poppins is fed up with only making the Federal Minimum, and campaigns for a wage increase... in song!

If an employee is paid mostly in tips, and those tips do not add up to the federal or state minimum wage, the employer is obligated to make up the difference.

Ottawa should re-establish a federal minimum wage — the report does not suggest any floor but notes that many suggestions were made during hearings for a figure of at least $ 10 per hour