Analysis on Minimum Wage in Indonesia “Comprehensive Negative Impacts Analysis of Minimum Wage for DKI Jakarta” [pic] Andhika Putra Sudarman 1106055822 Fakultas Hukum Universitas Indonesia Depok “If the Minimum Wage of DKI Jakarta is set to Rp10.000.000‚00‚ will everybody prosper?” Laborers in DKI Jakarta demonstrating for an increase of minimum wage[[1]][[2]] is not a rare thing to see. The reason is because they can no longer meet their needs with their current wage. However‚ minimum wage has
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The concept of minimum wage is to ensure that employers do not pay wages below the mandated level. However this does not always happen instead this policy ends up hurting these workers and the economy in terms of lower job opportunities. This is because the increase of labor costs keeping all other things constant would eat into the net profits of the company. Therefore in order to offset the decrease in profits‚ the need for low skilled labor decreases and companies look for higher productivity
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Minimum Wage - The Dubious Policy Minimum Wage The Questionable Policy As early as 4:00 am in the dark and cold morning of winter‚ a few people walking on an wet sidewalk. Under chilling wind‚ those people walk to a large‚ old building. Inside the building‚ the people work for repetitive‚ backbreaking low waged jobs. In the same day‚ late at night‚ you can see similar scene: some people walking out of the building under heavy humidity. I’m not one of those people‚ I don’t know the feeling
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The impact of the minimum price per unit of alcohol on the on and off trade. The Scottish Government has suggested introducing a minimum price per unit of alcohol to reduce binge drinking. The impact of this on the on and off trade will be researched. The Scottish government has introduced a minimum price per unit of alcohol of £ 0.45. www.bbc.co.uk [online] The proposal is to put the price up for really cheap alcohol‚ with that‚ less people would have access to that‚ for example a two litre-bottle
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Minimum Needs Programme The Minimum needs Program (MNP) was introduced in the country in the first year of the Fifth Five Year Plan (1974–78). The objective of the programme is to provide certain basic minimum needs and thereby improve the living standards of the people. It is the expression of the commitment of the government for the social and economic development of the community particularly the underprivileged and undeserved population. Initially‚ there were eight components of MNP
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History of the Minimum Wage · 1938 -- The minimum wage was first enacted into law as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938. The original minimum wage applied to workers engaged in interstate commerce and the production of goods for interstate commerce. In 1938‚ this applied to roughly 11.0 million workers out of a total of 54.9 million workers. The minimum wage was set at $0.25 per hour. · 1961 -- Amendments to the minimum wage law extend coverage primarily to employees in large
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The concept of a minimum wage has been around for over a century; New Zealand was the first country to have a minimum wage‚ enacted in 1894. The United States introduced minimum wage during the Great Depression in 1938. (Anderson) A minimum wage is a price floor; this sets a base line wage that companies have to pay their employees. Currently in the United States nearly 75 million people work minimum wage jobs. (Goldstein) In 2004 the federal minimum wage was $5.15 an hour and only 12 states had
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Minimum Wage In the United States Minimum Wage is approaching record lows. Even with recent increases inflation is one of the main reasons that workers are being paid less for labor than they were back in the Seventies. There are about 3 million workers in the United States that worked full time year round last year and still fell below the National poverty level. If everyone earns exactly the same amount of money‚ then the income distribution would be perfectly equal. If no one earns any money
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comes with a minimum wage hourly rate. Many teens taking on their first job are willing to take any pay and are therefore satisfied with this rate. The current minimum wage in California is $9 and $7.25 across the United States. The minimum wage must be raised because the cost of living has gone up severely‚ the cost of education has increased‚ and it will save the government money. Since the cost of living has sky rocketed‚ it has become almost impossible to raise a family on a minimum wage job. A
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According to this case‚ in the 1990s dot-coms were very popular. The walk-in stores were not excelling and at this time it seemed like a bad idea to open one that will be selling stuffed animals. Despite this fact‚ Maxine Clark founded Build- A-Bear Workshop in 1996. Unexpectedly‚ Clark’s store excelled quickly and greatly‚ having more supporters versus non-supporters. Not only is the company continuously excelling in profits‚ but it is also expanding the availability of its products by the many
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