Minimum wage

IF YOU OBTAIN A JOB IN A NATURAL FOODS STORE, A GROCERY STORE WITH A natural foods department, or a natural foods superstore, you will probably start at minimum wage. If you are still in high school and living at home, that should not be a problem, and in all likelihood you will receive regular raises. Here as in most professions, education and experience will equal higher pay. 

IF YOU WORK IN A NATURAL FOODS SUPERSTORE, THERE WILL PROBABLY BE A fairly obvious career path in place for any employee who wishes to advance. You will start out at the bottom of the employment ladder, probably as a minimum wage earner. From there you can advance to senior status, such as senior clerk, assistant supervisor and supervisor positions, including assistant department manager and department manager. You may learn all this information when you are hired. 

The most important piece of federal legislation affecting compensation is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which was adopted in 1938 as a means of economic recovery from the Great Depression. The purposes of the FLSA were to create minimum wage standards, promote fair competition in interstate commerce, generate job growth and reduce unemployment, and curtail child labor. 

The FLSA, also sometimes referred to as the Wage and Hour Law, is enforced by the U.S. DOL. Its primary objective is to eliminate detrimental working conditions and to establish protections for employees regarding minimum wage, child labor, and overtime provisions. In addition, the regulations identify and exclude certain workers (exempt) from FLSA coverage. 

Loi n° 2006-339 du 23 mars 2006, JO 24 mars. Unemployed persons who prior to the entry into force of this law received earnings from employment in addition to ASS are subject to the former aggregation rule. It is geared to the minimum wage and, after a certain period, provides for a degressive reduction of the aggregation of income with ASS. 

CIE employees have the same rights and duties as the rest of a company s staff from the seventh month of employment, they are likewise entitled to any collectively agreed benefits.73 Their remuneration must be at least as high as the minimum wage. 

The maximum amount is equivalent to 47% of the minimum wage per hour worked. 

Art. 48). The level of follow-up benefits was 70% of the statutory minimum wage or - if this amount was less (e.g. for part-time workers) - 70% of the actual (daily) wage (ex Arts. 51 et seq. WW). The maximum duration of receipt was 2 years this term was extended to VA years for persons aged 51 A years or older on the first day of unemployment. 

In private or public job training the individual receives the minimum wage fixed by collective bargaining and the employer receives a wage subsidy. The minimum period of being employed by the same private employer is 6 months. 

More positive work incentives have been introduced also to make work pay . In 1998 the NMW Act established an independent statutory Low Pay Commission to make recommendations about the level and operation of a minimum wage. The legislation established a single national hourly rate to cover all mature workers, except the self employed. The only exception is younger people and trainees who can be paid a lower development rate. 

The flexibility of a labour market also depends on the social labour market institutions such as minimum wage, UI, social assistance, and tax incentives. 

See the geographical overview Minimum Wage Laws in the States, July 24, 2007, available at the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) website. 

The Federal Unemployment Tax Act of 1939 (P.L.76-379) (hereafter FUTA) and Titles III, IX, and XII of the Social Security Act of 1935 form the framework of the system. FUTA imposes certain mandates on states as a condition of their receipt of federal administrative funds and tax rebates. The two most important among them are a federally determined minimum wage base and the use of firm-level experience rating. FUTA imposes a 6.2% gross tax rate on the first USD... 

TANF cash benefit levels are relatively low (Lazere and Tallent 2006). Table 46 shows the maximum monthly TANF cash benefits for a family of three, the hours of work required at the state minimum wage to generate earnings equivalent to the TANF benefit, the individual monthly work requirement in hours, the maximum monthly income permitting initial TANF cash benefit eligibility, and the maximum monthly income to maintain continuing eligibility for at least partial cash TANF benefits and/Op[r supportive services. 

Table 46. Maximum benefits in state TANF programmes, their minimum wage work equivalent, and individual work requirement for families of three (one adult and two dependent children) with no income maximum monthly income for eligibility and benefits...

For TANF recipients subject to an employment requirement, in all states except Alaska cash benefits are lower than the income which would be produced by working the minimum required number of hours at the state minimum wage. However, a person who is working at the minimum wage plus the federal EITC, and where available SEITC, is much better off than a TANF recipient, especially because of transition benefits like Food Stamp and Medicaid health benefits. 

The reservation wage is the minimum wage rate that a worker will accept to begin a new job. 

In the United States, the access control and the control of sojourn is very strict with regards to the unemployment insurance. Concerning social assistance benefits, the rule that benefits are paid up to a maximum of 60 months during the whole lifetime is even more rigorous. US activation addresses in a holistic manner all entities concerned, i.e. the job seekers and their families, the employers and, last but not least, the state itself. The high degree of indirect promotion (e.g. by minimum wages, premiums for jobs and tax reduction both for employers and employees) for low paid jobs is remarkable. US labour market policy often comprehends financial incentives as the better way for activation. The practice of sanctions underlines this idea. 

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