legal minimum

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For hourly workers, employees and employers could agree to reduce the worker’s base wage to their state’s legal minimum and make up any difference in compensation through extra hours of fake “overtime.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

The Living Wage Foundation says the rate is worth £2,418 more per year than the legal minimum wage in the UK, and £5,050 more in London.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

Mrs Willgoose said she was glad the killer's minimum term had been raised above the legal minimum, which would have been 15 years.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

The meeting was scheduled with 24 hours’ advance notice — the legal minimum.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

Among minor differences between the two houses ordained by the constitution was the legal minimum age of their members, that of senators being forty and of deputies twenty-five.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various