legal minimum

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In the interim, the state and local governments must act decisively to enforce the existing wage floor, ensuring employers cannot use expanded housing deductions to push workers’ pay below the legal minimum.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

But in 2024, the firm faced a backlash after revealing it would no longer hire new staff on the real living wage, instead paying the lower legal minimum wage.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 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

In Indonesian law, the legal minimum age for marriage is 19 — but many religious unions escape government scrutiny and involve underage brides.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

It enables wages boards to establish a legal minimum wage in scheduled industries which will undoubtedly grow in number.

From Liberalism by Hobhouse, L. T. (Leonard Trelawny)