Sentence examples for increase of the minimum from inspiring English sources

The government has announced some minor concessions on tuition fees, notably an annual increase of the minimum salary at which graduates will have to start repaying fees.

The restaurant industry statement is a reply, of sorts, to a similar statement signed by more than 600 economists endorsing the increase of the minimum wage.

In the last few months of 2010, Egyptians protested for an increase of the minimum monthly wage to less than $240, but the now departed Nazif government decreed that less than $100 was sufficient as a basic income.

Earlier in the year she was praised for standing up to labor leaders who had tried unsuccessfully to pressure her into accepting their demands for an increase of the minimum wage.

Exports make up more than 60% of the country's GDP Thailand is the world's largest exporter of rice.In this context, the proposed increase of the minimum wage to about $10 a day, another election pledge, is under particular scrutiny.

Before that Congress adjourned, it had enacted three important Democratic measures, an expansion of public housing, new disability benefits under Social Security and an increase of the minimum wage to a dollar an hour from 75 cents, and Eisenhower's highway program.

3M lowered its outlook slightly, forecasting 2008 earnings of $5.40 to $5.48 a share, an 8 to 10percentt increase, instead of the minimum 10percentt increase it had previously predicted.

The Welsh Government said that the "risk of consumers switching to illegal drugs or new psychoactive substances as a result of an increase in the minimum price of alcohol is considered low".

The Treasury made an assessment – though not technically a recommendation – of the impact of increasing the minimum wage to £7 over two years by October 2015.

The Treasury made an assessment – though not technically a recommendation – of the impact of increasing the minimum wage to £7 from October.

Virtually every dollar of increase in the minimum wage will be used to purchase goods and services.