Sentences with phrase «wage female workers»

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And it shows that old, young, female and black low - skilled workers face the highest levels of unemployment after a minimum wage increase.

At the federal level, the wage premium for public sector workers was 7.8 per cent for males and 16.0 per cent for females compared to the private sector.

If a business owner required all female workers to wear religious head scarves, we can tell him he can't; if a business owner claims his religion forbids him from paying workers more than $ 5 an hour, we can nonetheless require him to pay the minimum wage.

The government can, however, impose health and safety requirements on all EMPLOYERS — they can require a minimum wage, they can require that female or minority workers are not discriminated against, and so forth.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in 2014, female full - time wage and salary workers ages 25 and older with only a high school diploma had median weekly earnings of $ 578; women with a bachelor's degree or higher had a median weekly income of $ 1,049.