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Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, an employer has to pay each employee the minimum wage, unless the employee is "engaged in an occupation in which the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips". If the employee's wage does not equal minimum wage, including tips, the employer must make up the difference.
Only half of full-time female employees earn a livable income compared to 62% of male staffers, according to the report. Working women earn on average $4.20 less per hour than men doing the same work.
If an employee does not earn enough in tips, the employer must still pay the $7.25 minimum wage. But this means in many states tips do not go to workers: tips are taken by employers to subsidize low pay. Under FLSA 1938 §216(b)-(c) the secretary of state can enforce the law, or individuals can claim on their own behalf. Federal enforcement is ...
In order to find an employer in violation of the Equal Pay Act, a plaintiff must prove that "(1) the employer pays different wages to employees of the opposite sex; (2) the employees perform equal work on jobs requiring equal skill, effort, and responsibility; and (3) the jobs are performed under similar working conditions."[1] Even if the ...
Wages adjusted for inflation in the US from 1964 to 2004 Unemployment compared to wages. Wage data (e.g. median wages) for different occupations in the US can be found from the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, [5] broken down into subgroups (e.g. marketing managers, financial managers, etc.) [6] by state, [7] metropolitan areas, [8] and gender.
Meanwhile, many of the United States’ largest employers, like Amazon, Walmart, Costco, and Starbucks, have all begun to pay their workers a minimum wage of $15 or higher.
‘You’re both basically making minimum wage’: Self-employed couple have 2 kids, $4.5K in savings, $175K in debt and worry they’ll retire broke, but refuse to get 9-5 jobs. Ramit Sethi responds
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a U.S. labor law that protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of planned closings and mass layoffs of employees. [1]