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double time

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Definition of double time

as in minimum wage

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Recent Examples of double time This year, Memorial Day falls on Monday, May 25, so taking off the following Tuesday and Wednesday means extending your weekend by double time. — Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2025 Those employees would include nonexempt hourly workers who were allegedly denied minimum wage, overtime, double time and other benefits. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Part of the decrease is that the new company’s employees will no longer routinely work weekends, which are time-and-a-half or double time, unless called in to do so. — Sacbee.com, 11 July 2025 Its crystal ball discerns patterns to predict what styles will blow up—then guides the requisite design, sourcing, and inventory decisions in double time. — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for double time

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Kim, 49, a member of San Francisco’s board of supervisors from 2011 to 2019, has touted her advocacy for California’s first $15 minimum wage and making the city’s community college tuition free, among other progressive causes.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Raise the minimum wage, expand overtime pay, get rid of tax breaks for the top 1%, create a cost of living tax cut, give small businesses a tax cut and rebuild labor unions.

— Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of minimum wage

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The data is now online Suarez placed an item on the July 22 commission agenda calling for discussion of overtime practices in the police and fire departments.

— Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026
Arizona’s Carson Beck and King — two NFL rookies who once faced off in an eight-overtime college thriller won by Georgia’s Beck over Georgia Tech’s King — threw swords at each other throughout that second quarter.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of overtime

Noun

In Rhode Island, most hourly workers are required to be paid time and a half on Sundays and holidays.

— Wheeler Cowperthwaite, The Providence Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
Paying employees time and a half inflates state agencies’ payroll costs, but often the practice is unavoidable to fill critical staffing gaps.

— William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 23 Feb. 2026

Definition of time and a half

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The announcement follows similar action taken by workers at various branches of the V&A Museum in London, who voted to strike over pay, working conditions, and the institution’s refusal to seek living wage accreditation.

— News Desk, Artforum, 3 Aug. 2026
Maybe that means hiring full-time refs and paying them a living wage.

— Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026

Definition of living wage

Noun

Experts say the escalating costs of employers’ premiums are reducing workers’ wages and take-home pay, while raising the prices of goods and services in California and across the country.

— Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
Doubles champions also get a pay bump of 10%, making their take-home pay £760,000 (just over $1 million).

— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 12 July 2026

Definition of take-home pay

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