This may mean increasing the minimum wage, encouraging greater unionization or perhaps even establishing limits on the ratios between the percentages of the profit that employees at different levels within a company are receiving as compensation for their labors.
In the U.S. case, the report's recommendations include raising the minimum wage, encouraging the growth of trades unions, providing wage subsidies to those on moderate incomes, investing in infrastructure and education, boosting home ownership, making the personal tax system more progressive, closing corporate tax loopholes, and making the financial system more stable.
During a meeting with parents and teachers in the library, Mr. Gore argued that the government could help working parents spend more time with their children by raising the minimum wage, encouraging more flexible work hours and requiring businesses to provide family-leave time.
Critics of minimum-wage laws argue that higher wages encourage employers to hire fewer workers.
We will tackle low pay with a strengthened minimum wage, and encourage employers to pay a living wage.
There was also concern that the rise in the minimum wage would encourage EU migration to the UK and undermine the purpose of David Cameron's key EU renegotiation objective – giving Britain the right to bar EU migrants from receiving tax credits for four years.
Obama promises minimum wage boost.
The ideas range from raising the minimum wage and encouraging the growth of trade unions, to changing the tax code and investing in infrastructure.
So he promised to be radical in government - compelling employers to pay a higher minimum wage and encouraging more house building.
"Some interns don't qualify for the national minimum wage and we encourage employers to pay reasonable out-of-pocket expenses in these cases".
The federal government set minimum wages in many industries, and it encouraged the growth of trade unions.
