Sentence examples for legislated minimum from inspiring English sources

Di Natale also announced his plan to introduce a so-called Buffett Rule to force Australia's wealthiest citizens to pay a legislated minimum amount of tax – 35% of their total income – to make it impossible for them to pay less tax than teachers, nurses or shop assistants.

And when President Obama took office he stood by as an enormous, previously legislated minimum wage increase went into effect.

By June 2015, the monthly transfer per child was ARS 837, representing around 12% of the mean household income for unemployed and informal households with children and 14% of the legislated minimum wage.11 For a typical poor beneficiary family with three children, the benefit implies an increase of 35% in total household income.

The real value of the AUH benefit per child, which has remained relatively constant over time, represents 14% of the legislated minimum wage and hence a significant rise of the mean household income for unemployed and informal households with children (i.e., the potential beneficiaries of the program).

According to John Ritchotte, a labor specialist at the International Labor Organization's Asia-Pacific office in Bangkok, Singapore is now the only country in the region without any kind of legislated minimum wage.

While American and British regulators have adopted the principles of Europe's new measure, officials here are going a step further by legislating minimum caps for cash bonuses and other changes to compensation.

"Responsive parliaments" in the EU and elsewhere are encouraging investors in renewable energy by legislating minimum demand and floor prices, he notes.

Their refusal to even consider a statewide increase reveals the truth of the matter: This has nothing to do with what level of government - state or municipal - should be able to legislate minimum wages.

Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams also urged ministers to legislate for minimum staffing levels for nurses, set up a free whistle blowing hotline for health service staff and tackle a backlog in the system of clinical coding of patients.

I suppose it was "intellectual snobbery" that founded the union movement and legislated for a minimum wage as well.

Many countries, including Australia, the Netherlands, Rwanda, Thailand and Russia (Smith, 1992; Marufu et al., 1995) have legislated requirements for minimum populations of target organisms and contaminants per weight unit of inoculants.