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  • adjective Below the normal minimum

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sub- +‎ minimum

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Examples

  • In 1990, Congress created a "subminimum" wage for teenagers after business groups warned that the higher minimum would devastate industries like restaurants.

    Too Soon To Panic 2008

  • It’s also important to know that for ninety calendar days from your first day of work, your new boss has the right to pay you what’s called subminimum wage.

    Not Your Parents’ Money Book Jean Chatzky 2010

  • I can't help wondering how different things might be if Congress had not adopted the third in a series of scheduled minimum-wage increases a year ago -- or if it allowed private sector employers to pay young people a subminimum wage today.

    A minimum condition for summer jobs? 2010

  • The blacks who resent Latinos and vice versa are junior high school students and low-skilled workers who see their jobs going to illegals who accept subminimum wages.

    So everyone was piling on Hillary on the Sunday shows... Ann Althouse 2008

  • In Spain and France, for example, slave-like working conditions and subminimum wages enable the agricultural industry to maintain competitive prices while regulations bar produce from Africa.

    MAIL CALL 2007

  • I should note that I disagree with certain provisions added to the minimum wage title of the Act, such as the provision creating a new subminimum wage for young people and the one denying increased cash wages to most employees who rely on tips for part of their income.

    President Statement On Minimum Wage Bill Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1996

  • One means, therefore, of reducing the incentives for employers to hire illegals is to crack down on illegalities with regard to subminimum wages and substandard working conditions.

    Briefing By Labor Secretary Robert Reich ITY National Archives 1994

  • Never lose sight of the fact that one of the reasons that employers hire illegals is because they feel that they can provide substandard working conditions and subminimum wages.

    Briefing By Labor Secretary Robert Reich ITY National Archives 1994

  • His answer, though, is pretty much the same one given by agricultural interests in Texas and elsewhere ~ you know the one ~ where they tell us Americans won't do those jobs, but then they forget to add "at subminimum wage".

    Latest Articles WFAA-TV 2010

  • However, the worker centers and other community groups involved soon realized they needed a contract to ensure that labor standards did not revert to subminimum levels once the media spotlight was turned off and government enforcement agencies moved on to their next targets.

    LA IMC 2009

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