Since then, a number of judges in states like Georgia, New York, and California have all agreed that strippers deserve wages, and cases are currently kicking around in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina concerning the same issue.
We should invest in our youth and their education to create a pool of talented, industrious and passionate workers who deserve wages commensurate to their value to the work force.
"We want the hotels and the restaurants to realize that laundry workers are people, too, and they deserve wage increases," Mr. Larancuent said.
She aligns herself with The Greenhorns – a group of young farmers who are spearheading a new movement – when they assert, "The time has come for us to embrace farming and its practitioners to recognize their service, to praise them, and to pay them a deserved wage.
As a Christian, I'm often asked to explain the moral case for paying the living wage and why we should take seriously these words of Jesus Christ: "The worker deserves their wages".
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, 70, may be entitled to £95.70 a week from the state, but seems happy enough with his £4m a year salary – and who, outside Liverpool perhaps, could deny that he deserves high wages?
Jesus put it succinctly – "The worker deserves his wages" – and the theme was taken up by Chaucer in The Somonour's Tale.
(A notable use of this was in Samuel Pepys' diary, where he described his kitchen maid as "an admirable slut who pleases us mightily doing better service than most the others and deserves better wages").
"Anybody who works in city government deserves a wage increase because rents and everything else goes up.
Low-paid employees currently denied overtime pay deserve a wage that is commensurate with the hours they work.
