Example sentences for: minimum-wage

How can you use “minimum-wage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's a mistake for these countries to argue that having minimum-wage laws or regulations keeping corporations from running toxic dumps will wreck their chances of competing in the world market, just like it's a mistake for small businesses to argue that having a minimum-wage law in the United States does irreparable harm to them.

  • A few weeks earlier, during the minimum-wage debate (in which small business was once again singled out for favored tax treatment), virtually every opponent argued that raising the minimum wage could hurt small businesses--which create most of America's jobs.

  • An article explains why businesses are not opposing a proposed minimum-wage hike.

  • In 1992, Guess paid the Labor Department $573,000 in fines for those minimum-wage and overtime-pay violations, and things seemed to have quieted down a bit within the bulletproof-windowed, razor-wire-surrounded stone building that serves as the company's bunker ...

  • Unlike Levi's, Guess has made its way in the world by subcontracting out production work, violating minimum-wage and maximum-hour laws, and suing everyone in sight.


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