A minimum wage.
Alabama does not have a state minimum wage law.
There was no minimum wage law in 1800.
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Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee do not have minimum wage laws. This does not mean they do not have minimum wages because there is a federal minimum wage that these states must still enforce. States can only choose to have higher minimum wages than the federal law or have no specific law at all and enforce the federal law.
The minimum wage for a lawyer is the same as the minimum wage for everyone else - $7.25 in some states per federal law, slightly higher in others per state law. Minimum wage is not assigned by job category. Obviously a lawyer can expectto make more, but as "minimum wage" goes, this is it.
The first minimum wage law was passed in 1938.
There is one federal minimum wage law. Most states also have a separate minimum wage law than the federal, which might be higher.
As of July 2010, federal minimum wage is $7.25 and Minnesota minimum wage is the same because federal law prevails. However, by statute, the minimum wage in Minnesota is $5.25 or $6.15 depending on annual sales.
Florida minimum wage posters should have the state minimum wage information. An employer is required by law to post this information.
Increases in the minimum wage are regulated by law, and therefore increases in the minimum wage are mandatory. Other wage increases are negotiated.
The world's first minimum wage law was enacted in New Zealand in 1894. The first minimum wage law in the US was enacted in 1912 in the State of Massachusetts. The first national law was in 1938. The amount was set at $0.30 (present day value of $4.70).