Sentence examples for floor wage from inspiring English sources

It is a fifth of the £230 a month estimated by the Asia Floor Wage Alliance to be the minimum required for a living wage back in 2013.

It's been more than three years since 1,138 workers were killed when the Rana Plaza factory collapsed in Bangladesh, yet little progress has been made to improve labor conditions for garment workers, according to the Asia Floor Wage Alliance.

According to the Asia Floor Wage Alliance, a global coalition of trade unions, workers' groups and human rights organisations, the monthly living wage for Bangladesh in 2017 was 37,661Tk.

A series of new reports by the Asia Floor Wage Alliance, a coalition of trade unions and other research and advocacy groups, has put a new spotlight on the conditions.

The Floor Wage Alliance's report on Gap, for instance, pointed to "sweatshop" conditions at one of the retailer's suppliers: Workers in one factory were regularly forced into working more than 100 hours a week at poverty-level wages.

The investigation found that many workers earn about £233 a month, less than half the national living wage of £530, calculated for China by the Asia Floor Wage Alliance.

This type of calculation occurs partly to put a floor underneath wage rates, so that people make enough money to pay their bills.

Generous minimum wages and unemployment benefits also put a floor under wages, pricing many people out of the labour market.

The government's rural employment-guarantee scheme has put a floor under wages.

It will decrease when the private economy grows, while preserving a floor for wages and conditions.

Companies such as Ikea have used the calculator to set the floor under wages at their stores around the U.S.