How to Use subminimum in a Sentence
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If the subminimum wage is low, your tip will help the employee make a livable wage.
—Stacey Vanek Smith, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
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Instead, they’re only required to pay subminimum wage, which varies from state to state.
—Emma Janssen, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
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The plan also would eliminate a youth subminimum wage that allows businesses to pay teens less during the first 90 days of work.
—Allison Prang, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2021
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That clause would allow Florida to set a subminimum wage as low as $4.25 an hour, the same as the federal youth minimum wage.
—Caroline Glenn, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Nov. 2021
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Recently, the city of Chicago raised its minimum wage to $15 an hour and its subminimum wage to $9 an hour, the latter a win for restauranteurs like Williams.
—Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 3 July 2021
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Workers are no longer willing to work for subminimum wages, and hundreds of employers have raised wages to recruit staff.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2021
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The association has spent decades fighting increases to the minimum wage at the federal and state levels, as well as the subminimum wage paid to tipped workers like waiters.
—Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
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The solution is not to continue allowing a subminimum wage but to build a business model that does not make the exploitation of employees central to its success.
—Elena Soderblom, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
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What's more, federal law still allows US employers to pay subminimum wages to nearly a million workers.
—Gina Cummings For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
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However, none of these efforts are influenced by the existence of subminimum wage.
—Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
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The rising gap between executive pay and employees’ wages is a good place to start, particularly in one of the few industries where subminimum wages are allowed.
—Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 15 Dec. 2022
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At least 14 states have banned subminimum wages, and advocates are ramping up pressure on the federal government to repeal the more than 80-year-old law authorizing them nationwide.
—Madison Hopkins, ProPublica, 19 Nov. 2022
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That can be difficult to find, as the U.S. Department of Labor allows businesses to pay subminimum wage to employees with disabilities.
—Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2023
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Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, which advocates to end subminimum wage policies, encourages customers to tip.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
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According to law, establishments that pay a subminimum wage must make up the difference between an employee’s earnings — wage plus tips — and the state’s regular minimum wage.
—Tara Nurin, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
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This includes youth workers and workers with disabilities who currently make subminimum wage.
—Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
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But, in their determination to prepare students for employment, many schools, like other institutions at the time, came to resemble sweatshops, making blind children spin wool and grind tobacco for subminimum wages.
—Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
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Missouri, however, does little to help sheltered workshop employees make that move — even though getting disabled workers ready for the regular workforce is the goal behind the federal law authorizing subminimum wages.
—Madison Hopkins, ProPublica, 19 Nov. 2022
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