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Additionally, the United States currently holds laws and statutes that protect men and women against sexual harassment. India and Japan have also put in place similar guidance to help handle sexual harassment. These laws needed to be put into place because pregnant women and young mothers in Japan get harassed daily at the workplace. People harass these women to quit their jobs. Another example of an employment issue within Japan, is maternity harassment. Today, cultural limitations are still preventing women from being able to get jobs or start a career. Although globalization of women’s rights has changed in the last twenty years, there still is much advancement to be made. When evaluating international employment issues, minimum …show more content…

This issue stretches internationally across the world amongst a variety of different countries. For example, last year in Bangladesh, Garment workers rioted in the street blocking many roadways and even setting factories on fire in some cases all because they wanted a higher minimum wage, an increase to around $104.00 a month. Another example, Haitian workers recently undertook a walkout from a large amount of different apparel plants completely shutting down the country’s assembly sector for 2 days. This was all in effort to get a new minimum wage of $12.00 a day. This just goes to show that minimum wage issues are vastly different internationally. In the United States we are stressing for $10-$15 every hour of work. In one country they are stressing for $12.00 a day. In another country like Bangladesh, they are pushing for a whopping $100.00 a month. (Nolan, Hamilton - We Need an International Minimum Wage). When examining minimum wages internationally, Australia has the highest minimum wage amongst all other countries sitting at around $16.88 an hour, while Sierra Leone marks the list for one of the lowest minimum wage potentially sitting at around $0.03 an hour.
Recently, an idea was presented issuing Global Minimum Wage, or a worldwide minimum wage. As Thomas Palley states in his article, “sometimes it’s the most outlandish ideas that are the best.” I thought just maybe it seemed somewhat possible under the right conditions and set of standards. This crazy idea that “Palley” suggests is setting a minimum wage based on a fixed percent of 50% of each country’s median wage. Through proper implementation, this idea could not only affect many families and their lifestyles, there could be an extremely positive effect on poverty around the

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Is it ethical to raise the minimum wage when it doesn’t necessarily affect the very poor, the people it’s aimed at helping? The minimum wage is the lowest hourly wage an employer is permitted by law to pay an employee for his work. The current federal minimum wage is set at $7.25 an hour. Across the country, there is an overwhelming push in favor of raising wages for our poorest workers. In January 2016 the minimum wage in California was raised to $10 an hour.

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I watched a documentary called “Living on Minimum Wage” in the series Thirty Days. In the series Thirty Days, a man named Morgan Spurlock puts himself into certain situations to experience the problems some Americans face everyday. Mr. Spurlock decided to live off of minimum wage in the state of Ohio. The minimum wage in Ohio now is $8.10 per hour, but in 2005, when the episode was filmed, the minimum wage was $5.15 per hour. He started off with one week worth minimum wage ($300).

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Raising the minimum wage has been one of the biggest debates during the 21st century. One side of the spectrum argues that raising it will make it so they have a living wage, while the other argues that raising it will hurt the economy. Whichever the case is, people are clearly divided on this issue. Before Oregon passed the 15 dollar minimum wage law, people wrote arguments to try to either prevent or pass this law. The article, “How a $15 minimum wage would affect a real business: Guest opinion” by Lee Spector argues that raising the minimum wage would hurt small businesses like the one he earns.

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Today’s minimum of $7.25 an hour is worth 25 percent less than the minimum in the late 1960s. From research, a full-time, minimum-wage worker earns about $15,000 per year, which is below the federal poverty line for a worker with just one child. We need to raise the minimum wage to the point where the lowest-paid worker can afford their basic needs, such as food and other necessities. An increase to $10.00 an hour as proposed by President Barack Obama would actually reinstate the wage factor to the same value it had back in the 1960s. In doing so, it would lift earnings for nearly 28 million workers nationwide roughly 1 in 5 U.S. workers.

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By increasing the minimum wage, low-paid workers would be able to afford better-quality food, housing, and healthcare. This would help to improve their physical and mental health and reduce poverty rates. Additionally, increasing the minimum wage would help to reduce financial stress for low-paid workers and their families. This would help to improve their quality of life and reduce poverty rates. Overall, increasing Australia’s Federal minimum wage is an important step towards improving the lives of low-paid workers and their

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What is minimum wage and why is it important? It is self-explanatory; it is the minimum amount that a worker can be paid for an hour of work. It is important as it is the building block of someone’s career. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. There are also state minimum wages that differ from this but almost all of them are near the federal amount.

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Seven dollars and twenty-five cents an hour, or fourteen thousand five hundred per year, is the lowest amount the government deems appropriate to pay workers. This amount is sufficient for a single person with no extra expenses, but that is often not the reality of minimum wage workers. While some believe that raising the minimum wage would do more harm than good, increasing the minimum wage to a living wage would benefit society by reducing poverty, increasing productivity, spurring economic growth, and improving peoples’ quality of life. Some people say that paying workers a living wage would benefit not only the workers but the whole of society.

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Out of fifty states, twenty-nine have raised the federal minimum wage above $7.25. As of January first, 2016, only two states have raised their wage to ten dollars, those two states are California and Massachusetts. Moving to California or Massachusetts to get paid higher seems like a great idea does it not? What most people do not understand that with a higher wage comes higher prices along with that increase of money. You may be getting paid ten or fifteen dollars an hour to serve people burgers, but you go to the grocery store and spend your entire paycheck on food for your family.

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Since the Great Depression, there has been a minimum wage in America, but this minimum wage has changed 22 times since the Great Deprnbession. Many people say minimum wage should stay at $7.25 like it has been since 2009. Meanwhile, other people believe that minimum wage should be $15.00 so they can have more money to live comfortably. People think that a higher minimum wage will help, but it will hurt more people than it will help. If America makes the minimum wage $9.00, people will no longer be in poverty and it will make the economy balance out.

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