Sentence examples for minimum wage lawmakers from inspiring English sources

Apart from not raising the minimum wage, lawmakers have colluded with factory owners to keep workers from forming unions to negotiate for better pay.

In the 1930s, as Congress passed some of the nation's core labor laws — including the 40 hour workweek and the minimum wage — lawmakers intentionally excluded occupations in which most of the nation's black, Latino and Asian workers were employed such as domestic work and farm labor.

By increasing the minimum wage, lawmakers will be endorsing the not-so-radical notion that all workers deserve the chance to provide for their families, and that our economy does better when we work together.

LOS ANGELES — A California judge on Friday declined a request by the Schwarzenegger administration to compel the state controller to reduce the pay of 200,000 state workers to the minimum wage while lawmakers muddled though a budget impasse.

In 2014, voters passed a ballot measure increasing the minimum wage; GOP lawmakers again claimed voters didn't realize what they had done and passed legislation excluding anyone under 18 from the paycheck boost.

As Los Angeles launches a series of hearings on boosting the minimum wage, several lawmakers are pushing to let some small businesses and nonprofits increase pay more gradually.

In 2008, when he was controller, he refused to obey Schwarzenegger's order to cut the pay of state workers to minimum wage until lawmakers passed a budget.

As more local jurisdictions choose to raise their minimum wages, Republican lawmakers and governors are implementing statewide laws that make it illegal to do so.

The shift toward raising the minimum wage by local lawmakers comes at a time when the fight for $15 movement has swelled into the largest protest by low-wage workers in US history.

To better anticipate the direction of the current debate, it's helpful to look at the history of the federal minimum wage law, how lawmakers have addressed the issue in the past and who is for and against raising it in the present debate.

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