New Deal measures — Social Security, a 40-hour work week with time-and-a-half overtime, unemployment insurance, the right to form unions and bargain collectively, the minimum wage — leveled the playing field.
NCLR urges lawmakers to pass comprehensive immigration reform for the sake of all of America's workers, for the very same reasons that Navarrette cites--maintaining fair wages, leveling the playing field of America's workforce, and upholding high workplace standards.
Their thinking: This will relieve some of the downward pressure on wages and level the playing field between immigrant and native-born workers.
Since both the low-wage and the unlevel playing field arguments apply particularly to manufactured goods trade, let us examine U.S. trade performance in this area.
The former Labor Government established the current laws, which allow foreign vessels to operate on Australia's coastal waters, but require them to pay Australian wages to maintain a level playing field for Australian shipping companies.
For him, competing with business owners who do not pay the proper wages makes for an uneven playing field.
The most profound effect of a mark-to-market tax would be to level the playing field between wage earners, on one hand, and founders and investors on the other.
That means creating jobs with living wages, encouraging local enterprises, and giving them a level playing field against big retailers which pay low wages and suck money out of the local economy.
And I just feel that if American women understood that for us to go forward, for us to close the wage gap, we need an even playing field.
The U.S. tax code is becoming a more level playing field for low-wage workers and their families.
