Word: wage
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FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORES looking forward to minimum-wage summer jobs may have less to look forward to if a Reagan Administration proposal to cut youth wages wins Congressional approval. The "youth opportunity wage act of 1985" would allow employers to pay persons under age 20 $2.50 an hour or 75 percent of the adult minimum wage, whichever is less, from May to September each year. Supporters of the legislation, introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), say the bill will increase the number of jobs open to young people. Education Week...
...conservative group called Fairness in Media, which launched a campaign in January to buy CBS stock in hopes of changing what it considers to be the network's liberal bias. Fairness in Media obtained a list of stockholders two weeks ago, but the names came too late to wage a proxy fight at the company's annual meeting next week. Turner has met twice with the group's representatives, but the two as yet have not linked forces...
...argue that comparable worth laws would involve the Government in a morass of subjective judgments about salary considerations best left to the free market; Democratic Representative Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio, a proponent, dismisses these objections as "hysterical responses (that) detract from a reasoned public debate of sex-based wage discrimination." The draft report concludes that enforcing comparable worth laws would require massive Government intervention into the economy and lead to "a radical reordering of our economic system...
...signatory companies (which employ 80 percent of non whites working for American companies) had fully desegregated their facilities. All signatories have reported paying equal wages for equal work since 1980. As a result, the Black white wage gap has been narrowed considerable in these firms. A 1982 survey of multinational and South African companies revealed that signatory companies have cut the wage differential in unskilled jobs in half...
...important to note that the continuance of wage different to, especially in managerial and supervisors jobs, partly reflects the differences in Black and white education. Thus, the wage gap will be further narrowed as signatories continue to expand their training programs at all jobs will level for non whites...