Let's be honest. The minimum wage is an outdated government control mechanism which hampers small business owners and ensures that the poor get poorer. Let's take a look at the quasi-utopia we could live in if the minimum ...read more
More companies than you would think weasel their way around the minimum wage law. It is extremely rare to find a company that simply sets an hourly wage less than the minimum, because that is so easily discovered and dealt...read more
Yes, minimum wage is a law! Not a guideline of how much one should be paid but it is a LAW that if you employ someone you need to pay them the absolute mimimum wage. Many companies do not realize or rather they do but ...read more
There are many reasons to work for minimum wage - or less. Workers often start cheap to get experience. Sometimes the search falls just short of a reasonable offer for some number of reasons. Having delivered newspa...read more
If you apply for a job and they tell you that they don't pay minimum wage, its probably time to walk away. However; in Canada at least it is legal to pay less than minimum wage for your training period. Sad but true. If th...read more
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