Sentence examples for main wage from inspiring English sources

The administration's move calls for home care aides to be protected under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the nation's main wage and hour law.

Under the new rule, home care aides, unlike baby sitters, would be covered under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the nation's main wage and hour law.

In the main wage negotiations, the group closest to an agreement with the city is a coalition of uniformed workers that includes firefighters, corrections officers and police lieutenants.

Ms. Cole, the main wage earner in a family of five, is in federal parlance a GS-11 — that is, someone who in Philadelphia makes roughly $61,000 to $79,000 a year, depending on experience.

Davis's family were left devastated by her death, but amid the grieving thought needed to be given to how the children would cope financially now that the main wage earner had been taken from them under such horrific circumstances.

The calculated inverse Mill's ratios from this model are included in the main wage equation.

He has become the main wage-earner, running his own marketing company, while she is on a break from her career, recovering from breast cancer.

Her father made propaganda broadcasts for the BBC, while her mother became the main wage-earner as secretary to a wealthy socialite.

The social class of 176 families (24 families had missing data) was determined by classifying the occupation of the main wage-earner in the family using the UK Standard Occupation Classification 2000 (www.ons.gov.uk).

To end the 22-day strike that was embarrassing Yale and grating on its students, the university gave its two main unions wage and pension increases that are generous by most any definition.

The majority of men still earn the main household wage in families but this is no longer enough to secure the status that used to come with the honorific of "breadwinner".