The Minimum Wage

[greene8535]

It's nice to make sure beginning teens don't get ripped, but it doesn't do much good for the working class middle aged people... Maybe it should increase w/ age?

[jackattack]

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Minimum wage in Kansas is $2.65 per hour by the way: http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm

 

Have fun surviving off that.. It's sickening. In general the median seems to be about $6 per hour which is still a ridiculous wage for a full grown adult.

 

 

 

Not true. Federal law supersedes state law, so if the state law has a lower minimum wage the federal law takes precedent. The national minimum wage in the US is 5.75$ an hour. In no state can it be lower then that.

 

 

 

The State law excludes from coverage any employment that is subject to the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

 

 

 

Straight from the website of the Kansas Department of Labor:

 

http://www.dol.ks.gov/ES/HTML/laws_RES.html

 

 

 

Kansas Minimum Wage and Overtime Law (K.S.A. 44-1201 et. seq.)

 

 

 

Guarantees a minimum wage of $2.65 per hour for workers 18 years of age and older. Overtime pay is required after 46 hours of work in a work week.

 

 

 

Federal law doesn't surpass it, and there have been many attempts to raise the pathetic minimum wage of $2.65:

 

 

 

http://www.unionvoice.org/kansas_workbe ... id=1551213

 

 

 

As the article says, if you were to work full time in Kansas at minimum wage, you'd earn $5,000 per year. You can't live on that.

 

 

 

Minimum wage employees that would be eligible for the FLSA are schools, government agencies and large companies; For which few poor people have qualifications to work for (should include the Burger Kings and fast food restaurants though)

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You can't go lower than the federal minimum wage unless it is a job that makes tips or is on commission. I'm fairly sure that he's right.

[Rebdragon]

Minimum wage should increase with inflation. By the time you're an adult if you aren't making past minimum wage in a developed country like the US, it's kind of your fault, not the governments. I mean, I was making five+ dollars over minimum wage when I was sixteen working part time as a busser; just get through your edumacation and get a at least semi-real job, and you should be making a decent amount more than minimum wage at the very least.

[Zonorhc]

try telling the australian government that. i get 1 shift a fortnight, im 18 and only paid about 100-200$ a month. makes living impossible and i cant claim any compensation etc on it. plus moving out is out of the question for 5 years on that rate. -.-

 

It's not up to the government to determine how many shifts you get. Talk to your employer.

 

 

 

With the amount you earn, you should be eligible for Youth Allowance, Austudy or some other type of government handout.

 

 

 

Plus you get free healthcare and government supported tertiary education, which is a lot more than what you'd get in the US.

 

 

 

By the time I was 18, I was earning roughly $200-250/week on two shifts of call centre work, which, believe me, is not difficult in the slightest.

[Flyingjj]

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Minimum wage in Kansas is $2.65 per hour by the way: http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm

 

Have fun surviving off that.. It's sickening. In general the median seems to be about $6 per hour which is still a ridiculous wage for a full grown adult.

 

 

 

Not true. Federal law supersedes state law, so if the state law has a lower minimum wage the federal law takes precedent. The national minimum wage in the US is 5.75$ an hour. In no state can it be lower then that.

 

 

 

The State law excludes from coverage any employment that is subject to the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

 

 

 

Straight from the website of the Kansas Department of Labor:

 

http://www.dol.ks.gov/ES/HTML/laws_RES.html

 

 

 

Kansas Minimum Wage and Overtime Law (K.S.A. 44-1201 et. seq.)

 

 

 

Guarantees a minimum wage of $2.65 per hour for workers 18 years of age and older. Overtime pay is required after 46 hours of work in a work week.

 

 

 

Federal law doesn't surpass it, and there have been many attempts to raise the pathetic minimum wage of $2.65:

 

 

 

http://www.unionvoice.org/kansas_workbe ... id=1551213

 

 

 

As the article says, if you were to work full time in Kansas at minimum wage, you'd earn $5,000 per year. You can't live on that.

 

 

 

Minimum wage employees that would be eligible for the FLSA are schools, government agencies and large companies; For which few poor people have qualifications to work for (should include the Burger Kings and fast food restaurants though)

 

 

 

You can't go lower than the federal minimum wage unless it is a job that makes tips or is on commission. I'm fairly sure that he's right.

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I think its something like any business that is not contained entirely in a state is subject to that states laws and any business (like fast food chains) that operate in multiple states fall under federal regulations.