wage
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Including housing deductions, employers can now pay H-2A workers $13.90 an hour, significantly below California’s minimum wage of $16.90 an hour.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
This could include raising the agricultural minimum wage, increasing the California Employment Development Department’s program oversight capacity, and bolstering legal protections for undocumented farmworkers organizing for better working conditions.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Placement agencies will also no longer be allowed to implement wage deductions, and it will be illegal to hire children under the age of 18 as domestic workers.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Annual wage growth, excluding bonuses, increased to 3.6% in the three months through February, up from 3.5% previously.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
For our tenement we paid six rands, half my father’s wage.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
Vocabulary lists containing wage
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