What is the wage of life?
The Life Wage Regulation is a law that guarantees wages to workers sufficient to secure their needs. While both minimum wages and regulations on life wages dictate wages of workers by law, life wages are often higher than the minimum wage. Those who advocate the protection of workers with a wage regulation claim that this wage should be high enough to provide a modest home, adequate food, clothing, medical care, household needs and a certain amount of free time to a worker and his family. The live wage should generally be high enough for the worker to be obliged to work for no more than 40 hours a week and should not be asked to rely on any alternative financial resources. Those who support the enforcement of these regulations usually point out that many workers seek to support their families and write down for too long at more jobs in obtaining debt in the payment of basic expenses.
Some states and cities in the United States adoptedManagement of life wages aimed at providing workers working 40 hours a week with sufficient income. These cities include San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston. Maryland has adopted a nationwide regulation on life wages. Activists in other countries, such as Canada and the United Kingdom, are working to establish laws on living wages in their local areas.
The concept of live wages is likely to return to the end of the 19th century. Pope Leo XIII is generally attributed to the idea of protecting workers through a regulation on life wages. It is assumed that his writings had an impact on the working movement at the beginning of the 20th century. These movements noted the establishment of trade unions, shortening the working week, removal of children's work and establishing laws on minimum wages in the vast majority of the Western world.
Modern advocates believe in the living wage regulations, the woman's minimum wage is not reasonable to protect workers. In many oBlastech minimum wage does not provide a reasonable income for a worker to support, much less of his family. Many minimum workers find more jobs. In families with children, both parents are often forced to work for more than 40 hours a week to support their families. Combined wages of both parents are often not enough to give the family adequate housing, clothes, food, practical items and recreation.