2014’s annual State of the Union address‚ President Obama aggressively addressed the age-old debate of raising the minimum wage. The President has urged legislators to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour to fight the ongoing battle of class inequality. Subsequently‚ Massachusetts legislators proposed a bill that would incrementally raise the state minimum wage to $10.50 over the next two years just weeks after the President’s address. The prospects of this proposed legislation have
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a Façade that we subconsciously put on or is it the lack of knowledge about the prevailing evils that drives inaccurate judgement of our absolute surrounding? What in fact is “Untouchability”? Where does it occur? Who are the major victims of discrimination‚ caste or otherwise‚ in India? Does Stalin K. successfully strike a chord in the eyes of not only the youth but of people in power as well? These‚ along with others‚ are questions I would like to attempt to answer in my essay. To say the caste
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Since its inception‚ minimum wage legislation has been a highly debated topic with controversy surrounding its true effect on the economy. While some economists state that firms can afford to pay a higher minimum wage‚ others argue that a higher minimum wage is detrimental to employees and firms‚ especially small ones. This is because it will result in lower total revenue for the firms eventually causing them to go out of business or it will increase unemployment because firms lay off employees
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Minimum wage is imperative to our economic well being. It is defined as the minimum hourly wage an employer can pay an employee for work (Minimumwage.com). Some may assume minimum wage is for the purpose of the employers and healthy composition‚ while others argue it is for fair and just wages at the expense of the workers. Whether the wage is for the employers‚ workers‚ or government the matter of lowering or higher the wage may have a more drastic effect. Minimum wage has been altered many
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Minimum Wage Legislation I am going to pose the question to you the students of Sir Sandford Fleming College‚ do you really want the minimum wage legislation left in affect? As college students you are not benefiting or gaining anything from minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage legislation requires all employees to be paid at least some fixed given dollar amount per hour. This sounds good‚ but it isn’t all that it seems! Minimum wage is an example of government intervention. The government
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the federal minimum wage‚ and if so how high Over the recent years‚ many economists and employers in the United States have been debating about the need to either increase or decrease the federal minimum wage. This debate increased when President Barrack Obama revealed his plans to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10/hr‚ during the 2014 State of the Union Address. The proponents of this proposal are of the train of thought that increasing the minimum wage will increasingly strengthen
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Effects of Discrimination Unit 2- P3‚ M1 Discriminatory practice on a service user within a health or social care service can have potentially very bad effects on that individual. Firstly if within a hospital a service user was being discriminated against‚ one of the many possible effects could be depression and self-harm. An example of discrimination within a hospital environment could be that a service user is discriminated about their sexuality‚ and could be treated different from some
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workers earning minimum wage are somehow affiliated with the food service and preparation industry. People that earn the minimum wage in the United States are typically young workers‚ looking for part time jobs while still attending school. Nearly half of the 3 million workers earning at or below minimum wage are ages 16 to 24 (Drew Desliver). The city of Seattle recently made a change involving the payments of minimum wage workers. They announced that all minimum wage workers will now be paid
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regularly increase minimum wage to keep up with inflation‚ according to the National Employment Law Project. This means that minimum wage workers in the remaining 38 states are below the poverty line. These workers rely on the government for the remaining funds to maintain a basic livelihood. More surprisingly‚ minimum wage workers are no longer just teenagers aiming for a quick buck over summer. Now‚ 3.8 million American workers‚ two-thirds of whom are women‚ rely on a minimum wage job for their daily
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PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT OBJECT AND SCOPE The Payment of Wages Act (Act IV of 1936) was passed to regulate the payment of wages to certain classes of persons employed in factories and industrial establishments. The Act ensures regular and prompt payment of wages and prevents the exploitation of wage-earners by prohibiting arbitrary fines and deductions from wages. The Act applies to the whole of India‚ including the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Act applies to the payment of wages to persons
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