living wage

NOUN
  1. a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably
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  • We need to be just as comfortable with the flip side: A living wage encourages work.
  • ‘Course, another reason that couples stayed together in the past was that women actually having jobs beyond washerwoman/alewyf/seamstress - hem hem**/ wise woman that paid a living wage is a comparatively recent phenomenon. Tax before marriage
  • Our programme on the labour market and employment conditions is aimed at creating a democratic work-environment, guaranteeing a living wage, multi-skilling of workers, as well as civilised working hours and rights of women workers. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
  • He does make a living wage but only by working 72 hours a week.
  • "We established guidelines to measure the minimum amount needed to provide a 'living wage' for a family and to realign our financial priorities so that we could pay that amount," Sister Maureen Geary, OP, told Sojourners.
  • Ithaca Produce pays employees living wages by the county's standards, and the move would take their 24-hour trucking from a location in close contact with surrounding residents to a more isolated location that still has good access to the highway. Living in Dryden: May 2004 Archives
  • Our programme on the labour market and employment conditions is aimed at cr eating a democratic work-environment, guaranteeing a living wage, multi-skilling of workers, as well as civilised working hours and rights of women workers. ANC Strategy and Tactics - as amended by conference ,December 1997
  • The ANC together with the working class movement of our country have created conditions that promote a democratic work environment guaranteeing a living wage, the multiskilling of workers and a civilised working class. Trapped Mineworkers
  • Living wage advocates are stepping up a campaign to ensure the benefits of prosperity extend to those at the bottom end of the income scale.
  • Many farmers have to depend on subsidies to make a living wage.
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