"Her current job pays at the minimum wage rate, monthly and not weekly.
The trouble is, the minimum wage rate for an apprentice is £2.68 per hour.
Information on the current minimum wage rate is available from University Human Resources Staff Compensation.
Swiss voters will decide on 18 May whether to introduce a minimum wage rate of nearly $25 an hour.
Those aged 16-18, and people 19 or over who are in the first year of the apprenticeship receive the apprentice minimum wage rate of £3.30 an hour.
The centrepiece of the budget was a minimum wage rate for over-25s, to be set at £7.20 from next April and rising to about £9 by 2020.
Altogether, workers in 17 states remain at the will of the federal minimum wage rate with its cities preempted from setting a higher local minimum wage.
For example, Britain didn't have a minimum wage until 1999 — but at current exchange rates Britain's minimum wage rate is now about twice as high as ours.
The national living wage, which is simply the name given to the statutory national minimum wage rate for over 25s, is set at £7.50 an hour.
It entitles them to pay at the minimum wage rate — $7.25 an hour — for those hours, plus an amount equal to any overtime pay they earned.
But he added: "There is worrying evidence that a significant number of employers are not paying apprentices the relevant minimum wage rate.
