Sentence examples for a fair minimum wage from inspiring English sources

The true remedy to this problem is a fair minimum wage, indexed to the real cost of living.

I am standing up for my rights and demanding a fair minimum wage of $15 an hour for all Americans.

National small business advocacy groups like Small Business Majority, the Main Street Alliance and Business for a Fair Minimum Wage are pushing those owners' messages in Washington.

The first pay increase to $8.75 an hour from $7.75 will take place 90 days from the certification, which be probably at the end of February, says Ed Flanagan, chair of Alaskans for a Fair Minimum Wage.

Holly Sklar is CEO of a national group called Business for a Fair Minimum Wage that favors raising the wage floor in states and nationwide, and she points to a number of surveys by reputable pollsters — from CareerBuilder, Small Business Majority, and the American Sustainable Business Council — that found most businesses agree.

"Business for a Fair Minimum Wage" is another example, a loose collection of consultants, lawyers, self-employed artists, and hundreds of others who can support a higher minimum wage because they don't have to pay it.

As the 2016 gets started, it is important that CEOs concern themselves more with how they can stop denying their lowest-paid employees a fairer minimum wage than with how much more compensation they are going to demand for themselves over the next 351 days.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, which Harkin chairs, is holding a full committee hearing to honor the federal minimum wage and promote Harkin's latest effort to boost it to $10.10 an hour, the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013.

Having a service charge "allows us to run a much more balanced and efficient operation". A bill introduced last year, the Fair Minimum Wage Act, would re-couple the hourly wage for tipped workers to the minimum wage.

The increase is modeled on a proposal before Congress -- the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 (FMWA) -- to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 in three annual increments and then index it to inflation.

Two dozen of the nation's top business leaders will gather on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and Thursday to rally support behind the Fair Minimum Wage Act, an effort to raise the federal minimum wage to at least $10.10 per hour over the next two years, the Agenda Project, a nonprofit progressive group, announced Tuesday.