Sentence examples for working for substandard from inspiring English sources

Creating a narrative that these people are working for substandard pay because they want to is nothing short of demeaning and offensive.

There are still millions working for substandard wages, many of them immigrants, often in arduous jobs that people out of work simply decline to take.

Talking point: People don't come here because they think that if they suffer through years of working for substandard wages with no government benefits, they one day may or may not be allowed to stay here temporarily.

An unstemmed tide of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic courses through Puerto Rico every day, headed directly for New York or staying here to work for substandard wages.

DISTRACTED WORKERS Do employees working for bankrupt companies make substandard cars?

Matt Whitworth, acting United States attorney for the Western District of Missouri, said the defendants used false information to obtain fake work visas for the foreign workers, who were then threatened with deportation while living in substandard apartments and working for inadequate pay.

A cab driver told her that most were working for minimal pay and living in substandard conditions.

Rather than endure years of mediocre work for substandard wages while we tried to rebuild our finances, we chose to explore options that would allow us to start living the retirement life we had dreamed about now.

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".

A 2010 study of Maryland crab-pickers, done by American University and a migrant workers' rights group that operates in Baltimore, found that many worked for low wages in substandard conditions and ended up in debt, in part because of high fees they paid to recruiters who connected them with employers.

For his opposition to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 (under which indigent farm labourers could be compelled to work in factories for substandard wages), his employer dismissed him (May 1838) and had him imprisoned for debt (December 1840 February 1844).