Wage Laws Quotes

Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold.

Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.

I want people to make a lot more than $9. $9 is not enough. The problem is that if you can't do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws never worked in terms of helping the middle class attain more prosperity.

Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker's employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone from being hired at the wage which would pay his employer to hire him.

Laws protecting this right - whatever the level of the minimum wage, and whatever the Government chooses to call it - are only as strong as the threat of enforcement is both real and feared.

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

It was a glorious day of triumph for the working people of this country when the odious decision of the Supreme Court forbidding the enactment of State minimum-wage laws for women was swept aside; and let me say that the man responsible for that great humane victory, singly and alone is President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.

The minimum wage is important for many nations

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day