minimum rate of pay

There is a place for minimum rates of pay.

These groups may also attempt to establish minimum rates of pay and working conditions, but only rarely have models been sufficiently organized to go on strike.

The Government is seeking to scrap the councils, which have powers to set minimum rates of pay and other terms of conditions of service.

As the union can't negotiate separately with every club or pub in the country, the MU has established minimum rates of pay for these gigs.

The Commission also had the power to set minimum rates of pay for juniors, trainees and apprentices, employees with disabilities and piece workers.

That abolishes Wages Councils but denies the lowest paid British workers a minimum rate of pay which the other eleven member states provide.

Until 1969, legislation allowed employers to pay women a minimum rate of pay that was 25 per cent less than male employees doing the same or similar work.

The Agricultural Wages Board is responsible for setting the minimum rates of pay and other terms and conditions for workers employed in agriculture.

The proposal for a directive rightly begins by establishing the principle of minimum rates of pay and the entitlement of posted workers to annual holidays.

The Agricultural Workers Act (1936) improved conditions for rural labourers by setting a minimum rate of pay and required a decent level of living conditions.

This would also help to tackle the grey economy by preventing unfair competition on the part of businesses paying their workers at a rate less than the minimum rate of pay.

The Low Pay Unit, which sets minimum rates of pay for 2.5 milion workers, announced that Mrs Shephard had condemned the poorest families to even lower wages.

And, thirdly, the provisions on minimum rates of pay and paid annual holidays may be waived if the amount of work to be carried out during the posting is insignificant.

Among these provisions are: minimum rates of pay, adequate working conditions, special protection and education requirements for minors, arbitration of disputes and grievances, and affirmative action in auditions and hiring.

If you employ agricultural workers, this guide will help you understand how to apply minimum rates of pay, and benefit and leave entitlements for the different grades and categories of agricultural worker.

Whereas the original intention had been to suspend completely the key provisions on minimum rates of pay and annual holidays for the first three months of a posting, a compulsory threshold is now no longer specified.

Firstly, the principle of subsidiarity is taken into account, in that the Member States may, after consulting employers and employees, opt not to apply the provisions on minimum rates of pay for the first four weeks of a posting.

The Australian Fair Pay Commission (AFPC) was an Australian legislative body created under the Howard Government's "WorkChoices" industrial relations law in 2006 to set the minimum rate of pay for workers.

Employees are also generally entitled by law to receive a minimum rate of pay during the notice period even if they do not work, for instance because they are ill or because they are willing to work but you do not give them any to do.

Title I, Section 7(b) permitted the establishment of standards regarding maximum hours of labor, minimum rates of pay, and working conditions in the industries covered by the codes, while Section 7(c) authorized the President to impose such standards on codes when voluntary agreement could not be reached.

It is further stated in point 3: ' The provisions on minimum paid annual holidays and minimum rates of pay may generally be waived if the amount of work is insignificant.' Is it the host country or the home country that determines what is meant by 'insignificant' ?

These include standards of health and safety on board, accommodation, the provision of food, and indeed the guarantee that minimum rates of pay are also applied to those who are employees, and that there is an obligation on boat owners and skippers to ensure that people's contributions are fully paid up.

The adoption of contractual or national minimum rates of pay not only serves to eliminate the wage-cost benefits of posting workers from low-wage countries in high-wage countries; more significantly, it also becomes impossible, or at least much more difficult, for posted workers to find employment in host countries which have higher wage levels.