Word: waged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston shelters are understaffed, run by low-wage workers, often ex-street people themselves, and poorly trained," he said...
...high-court turnaround came in an obscure case from San Antonio, where the local transit authority challenged the U.S. Labor Department's right to apply federal wage and hour rules to overtime payments of its bus drivers and other employees. A U.S. district judge concluded that public transit was one of the core local functions protected under the 1976 Supreme Court ruling, and that the wages and hours of transit workers were therefore immune to federal regulation. In overturning that finding, Justice Blackmun wrote for the court majority that various federal tribunals had failed utterly to agree on which local...
...group of "Let's Go" assistant editors filed with the Wage Hour Division of a local Labor Department office for a review of their flat-rate salaries, which often represented less than minimum-wage compensation because these students were working more than 40 hours per week...
...They obviously knew they could take the issue to the labor office," she said, adding that HSA would have corrected the problem on its own and paid the students on the appropriate wage-scale...
...they demand compliance with both the Tutu Principles and the Sullivan Principles. Together with the University's standard guidelines for operations in South Africa, these principles require companies to: do less than 50 percent of their business in the country; pay laborers equally for equal work, institute a minimum wage; end workplace segregation; invest "massively" in education reforms and in community development; actively oppose the "influx control laws," which control the freedom of non-whites to move about the country and represent the cornerstone of apartheid; and (in the near future) to discontinue producing hardware or supplying any capital whatsoever...