In 1990, Congress created a "subminimum" wage for teenagers after business groups warned that the higher minimum would devastate industries like restaurants. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It’s also important to know that for ninety calendar days from your first day of work, your new boss has the right to pay you what’s called subminimum wage. ❋ Jean Chatzky (2010)
I can't help wondering how different things might be if Congress had not adopted the third in a series of scheduled minimum-wage increases a year ago -- or if it allowed private sector employers to pay young people a subminimum wage today. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The blacks who resent Latinos and vice versa are junior high school students and low-skilled workers who see their jobs going to illegals who accept subminimum wages. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
In Spain and France, for example, slave-like working conditions and subminimum wages enable the agricultural industry to maintain competitive prices while regulations bar produce from Africa. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I should note that I disagree with certain provisions added to the minimum wage title of the Act, such as the provision creating a new subminimum wage for young people and the one denying increased cash wages to most employees who rely on tips for part of their income. ❋ Clinton, Bill, 1946- (1996)
One means, therefore, of reducing the incentives for employers to hire illegals is to crack down on illegalities with regard to subminimum wages and substandard working conditions. ❋ ITY National Archives (1994)
Never lose sight of the fact that one of the reasons that employers hire illegals is because they feel that they can provide substandard working conditions and subminimum wages. ❋ ITY National Archives (1994)
His answer, though, is pretty much the same one given by agricultural interests in Texas and elsewhere ~ you know the one ~ where they tell us Americans won't do those jobs, but then they forget to add "at subminimum wage". ❋ WFAA-TV (2010)
Under Michigan law, the subminimum wage is set at either the federal minimum wage or 85 percent of the state minimum wage, whichever is higher.
However, the worker centers and other community groups involved soon realized they needed a contract to ensure that labor standards did not revert to subminimum levels once the media spotlight was turned off and government enforcement agencies moved on to their next targets. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Bush was even set to allow states to pay subminimum wages to welfare recipients in "workfare" jobs, but he backed down when news reports uncovered the scheme. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Michigan's subminimum wage, a wage paid to employees younger than 18, will jump from $6.55 to ❋ Unknown (2009)
Michigan's subminimum wage, a wage paid to employees younger than 18, will jump from $6.55 to $7.25 when the federal minimum wage rises to that rate on Friday.
- 500,000 Black women and 2 million Black kids forced off welfare and into subminimum wage poverty by Clinton's "welfare reform" ❋ Unknown (2008)
You want me to be one of those good Mexicans, one of those hardworking, churchgoing, family-valuing, get dressed in my best clothes on Sunday and walk with my cousins down those broad sun-baked boulevards to a park named after Chavez, humble respectful nigger taco Mexicans, the ones we all love and respect and pay subminimum wage? ❋ Don Winslow (2010)
