Sentence examples for substandard wages from inspiring English sources

All this has been accomplished at substandard wages, too often not remotely enough to live on.

Our problem is with the contractors who are exploiting them, giving them substandard wages and no benefits".

High-tech companies love H-1B visa workers because they will work extremely long hours for substandard wages.

The bill would strengthen the administration's executive initiative by embedding into law safeguards against substandard wages, abusive working conditions and sexual and labor exploitation.

The company, the nation's largest private employer, has been a target of attacks by labor groups for what they call substandard wages and benefits.

When vulnerable immigrants accept substandard wages and living conditions, it undermines American workers and makes it difficult for law-abiding employers to compete.

At USC, Dawson was "repeatedly paid a substandard wage insofar as he was denied full pay for all hours worked, including overtime pay, and was frequently permitted to work without receiving required minimum wage payments," according to the suit. .

They include: the unemployment rate, long-term unemployment, substandard minimum wages, the economic circumstances of major central cities, and suburban poverty.

Inexpensive clothes are made there, mostly by immigrant Chinese women who work for low wages in substandard conditions, and the garments are shipped duty-free to the United States with a "Made in the U.S.A".

Most of the aldermen who spoke before the vote criticized Wal-Mart for what they said were unfair labor practices, including poor wages and substandard health care benefits, and said they worried that the megastore might crush smaller businesses.

Due to their vulnerable position in the host country, such migrants are not in a position to refuse low wages and substandard social and labour rights (King, 2000: 18).