wage floor造句

• The 106th Congress, which is still in a lame-duck session, may push through a $ 1 increase in the $ 5 . 15 wage floor, but Bush would likely protest any further increases as a job killer.
• Despite the pay increase recommended by the committee, the students who occupied Massachusetts Hall last spring said the committee snubbed them by not recommending a wage floor _ and they vowed a new round of campus protests.
• The White House decided to seek compromise with GOP congressional leaders rather than formally submit the 75 cent boost in the wage floor for 2 . 5 million Americans that administration officials had outlined before Clinton's address.
• Confronting President George W . Bush's proposal to let states decide minimum wage levels, congressional Democrats have filed a bill that would increase the wage floor nationwide to $ 6.65 an hour by the end of 2003.
• In lieu of a wage floor, the 19-member committee of administrators, professors, students, and workers called for Harvard to establish a " parity wage policy " that would guarantee subcontracted employees the same minimum wage as union members.
• Confronting President George W . Bush's proposal to let states decide minimum wage levels, congressional Democrats have filed a bill that would increase the wage floor nationwide to $ 6 . 65 an hour by the end of 2003.
• The defining feature that differentiates the independent Living Wage rates from the statutory wage floors is that they are based on analysis of the specific goods and services that employees and their families need to meet a minimum acceptable standard of living.
• Al Gore and Richard Gephardt ( who calls it " a metaphor for the differences " between the parties ) want to raise the wage, whose buying power is slipping mercilessly, while Dick Armey, House majority leader, wants to scrap the wage floor entirely.
• The president's plan to seek a 75 cent increase in the minimum wage to push the wage floor to $ 5 an hour " fits with a consistent theme that this president has articulated-- that working families . . . need to get a break,"
• Global competition and lower overseas wages, de-unionization of the U . S . work force, technology-aided productivity improvements, a stagnant minimum wage floor, greater use of temporary and contract workers, and the higher costs of health-care coverage for individuals have all contributed to the downward pressure on pay.