minimum wage legislation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofminimum,wageandlegislation
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minimum
adjective
uk/ˈmɪn.ɪ.məm/us/ˈmɪn.ə.məm/
used to describe something that is the smallest or least allowed ...
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wage
noun[S]
uk/weɪdʒ/us/weɪdʒ/
a particular amount of money that is paid, usually every week, to an employee, especially one who does work that needs physical skills or strength, rather than a job needing a ...
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legislation
noun[U]
uk/ˌledʒ.ɪˈsleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌledʒ.əˈsleɪ.ʃən/
a law or set of laws suggested by a government and made official by ...
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(Definition ofminimum,wageandlegislationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The ultimate success of minimumwagelegislationdepends on enforcement.
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Meanwhile, ' norms' of payment and working conditions may have developed over time and are influenced by minimumwagelegislation.
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It depends on the importance of freedom of contract and whether whatever is important about it is threatened by minimumwagelegislation.
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Put more positively, they enable unions to negotiate effective wage floors, and therefore reduce their reliance on minimumwagelegislationand other forms of government intervention for this purpose.
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Enforcement of minimumwagelegislationis, of course, conducted through the criminal courts.
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All workers will be covered by the minimumwagelegislationapart from the genuinely self-employed and voluntary workers.
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The table shows that the national minimumwagelegislationwill have a massive impact on small enterprises.
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It has been introduced against all our minimumwagelegislation.
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It is that quasi volunteers who involve themselves in pre-school playgroups think that they should be exempted from minimumwagelegislation.
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I have no present plans to introduce minimumwagelegislation.
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In this situation, would she not reconsider the urgency of introducing minimumwagelegislation?
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But we are the only serious industrial country in the western world that does not have some form of minimumwagelegislation.
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But the backbone of it all—and the greatest attack on poverty—is the introduction of minimumwagelegislation.
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Their point was that despite the good intentions behind minimumwagelegislation, it creates unemployment among those who are weakest in the market place.
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What worries me about it is that it is a form of minimumwagelegislationwhich essentially is unilateral in its form of operation.
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We must press ahead with legislation, in some cases, perhaps, minimumwagelegislation, in others, perhaps, legislation to establish machinery for conciliation and arbitration.
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That is better than minimumwagelegislation, which is extremely inflationary.
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In those days, in the absence of any trade union organisation or minimumwagelegislation, we had sweated, miserably low wages.
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That makes the new clause necessary and provides an interesting test of the principle of minimumwagelegislation.
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He told the world: "people working and living as part of a family (for example au pairs) will be exempt" from the minimumwagelegislation.
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