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What to do if companies don't pay the minimum wage 5 Articles

  • 1 of 5

    by Marty Dytrych

    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 The minimum wage is an outdated government control mechanism which hampers small business owners and ensures that the poor get poorer.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

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    by Pamela Parker

    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

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    by Michelangelo B

    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

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    by Gordon Murray

    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

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    by Melissa Glenn

    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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