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On January 3, five striking garment workers were shot dead in Phnom Penh while peacefully demanding a
minimum
livable wage.
South Africa will introduce a statutory
minimum
wage next year, which will help to protect many vulnerable workers, and could lead to simpler and fairer outcomes than the current thicket of collective-bargaining agreements and sectoral determinations.
Moreover, locally managed public works and community-based employment programs should be expanded, subject to the
minimum
wage and basic work standards.
But the original Bretton Woods framework was not built in a day; indeed, the 1944 conference was preceded by two and a half years of preparatory negotiations, which is probably the
minimum
needed to decide such weighty issues.
Indeed, companies often have an interest in going beyond
minimum
legal requirements: peer respect and a good reputation as an employer are marketable assets.
Europe cannot build an efficient external policy without achieving a
minimum
of harmonization of member state policies regarding energy flows, interconnections, infrastructure, investment, and greater progress toward a single energy market.
A majority of Americans want gun control, an increase in the
minimum
wage, guaranteed access to health insurance, and better regulation of the banks that brought on the 2008 crisis.
And by strengthening pension systems, including through
minimum
guaranteed benefits, governments can provide a safety net for the vulnerable elderly and reduce incentives for precautionary savings.
If, for example, a target country provides
minimum
wage guarantees and replacement incomes for the domestic unemployed, immigrants simply force domestic residents into the care of the welfare state.
At a minimum, referenda should be required to achieve a supermajority with a high percentage of voter turnout.
But, as Singh has realized, just talking about these questions can make clear what India’s bottom lines are and the
minimum
standards of civilized conduct that India expects from its neighbor.
So, after a varying mix of tolerance and “heterodox” responses, officials are pulled into loosening their own monetary policy in order to weaken their countries’ currencies or, at a minimum, limit the pace of appreciation.
Reconnecting productivity gains and wage gains requires both policy actions, such as an increase in the
minimum
wage with a link to productivity growth, and changes in corporate human-resources practices, such as broader reliance on profit-sharing programs.
But, just a few years ago, the US auto industry pushed for a requirement in a trade deal that would have granted it a
minimum
market share of US exports to South Korea.
At minimum, average GDP growth of 5% is expected for the next decade (a figure now met for over 18 months).
Instead of victory, the goal must be a
minimum
of stability – and this still seems achievable.
Indeed, US military withdrawal from Iraq can be accomplished without causing a major regional catastrophe only if America manages to establish such a
minimum
of regional stability.
According to Preemption Watch, in 2016 alone, at least 36 state governments – most of them Republican-led – preempted cities by introducing laws on a wide range of issues, from
minimum
wage to environmental protection, gun control, fracking, immigration, and anti-discrimination ordinances.
It is apparent in huge citizen marches, and in coordinated civil-society initiatives advocating for a national popular vote, congressional redistricting, automatic voter registration, and a higher
minimum
wage.
There you will find a set of thoughtful proposals ranging from raising the
minimum
wage to establishing model “Promise Neighborhoods” that will attempt to turn around areas with high levels of poverty and low levels of educational achievement by providing services such as early childhood education and crime prevention.
But, at a minimum, the Democratic Party needs a six-percentage-point edge to retake the House of Representatives, owing to Republican gerrymandering of congressional districts.
Recognizing the link between economic growth and poverty reduction, those who crafted the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) estimated that halving poverty by 2015 in Africa requires countries to achieve an average
minimum
growth rate of 7% annually.
Implementing our program of social justice and economic growth will allow wages to be doubled in the course of a year by bringing them into line with labor's contribution to the national income, expanding workers' rights to stand up for their interests, and increasing the
minimum
wage by three times.
Now, with the introduction of FFP-mandated time clocks, workers can punch in and record their hours, ensuring that at least they will receive the state’s
minimum
wage.
Of course, any regulation in this field requires at least some involvement by a doctor but the Oregon Act recognizes the fundamental dilemma faced by doctors confronted with a patient’s request to die and strives to keep that involvement to a
minimum.
After NAFTA, the policies needed to mitigate globalization’s negative effects – such as higher
minimum
wages for manufacturing workers – were never implemented.
For Americans earning
minimum
wage ($7.25 per hour), time spent driving at a rate of 30 miles (48 kilometers) per hour costs $0.24 per mile.
Though policies like limits on mortgages for first-time buyers and
minimum
residency requirements for purchasing property in a first-tier city like Beijing or Shanghai helped to ease demand, supply-side tactics, such as limiting credit to real-estate developers and imposing new taxes on property sales, have proved to be counter-productive.
I thought 15 years of ceaseless effort would be the
minimum
necessary.
At the same time, US troops in Uganda are subject to legal limits – at a minimum, the Geneva Conventions, whose most important norms include the prohibition of murder, torture, and cruel treatment.
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