subsistence wage

Federal law stipulates a minimum wage, which may not be lower than the subsistence wage.
La législation fédérale fixe un salaire minimum qui ne peut pas être inférieur au minimum vital.
Table 11 Distribution of the general population with money income less than a subsistence wage by basic age groups (percentages)
Tableau 11 Répartition de la population ayant un revenu inférieur au minimum vital par principaux groupes d'âge (pourcentage)
Mr. PILLAY asked how teachers could be expected to go on teaching when they, like the rest of the intelligentsia, received a salary which was lower than the minimum subsistence wage.
M. PILLAY demande comment les professeurs sont censés continuer à enseigner alors qu'ils touchent un salaire inférieur au salaire minimum de subsistance, comme le reste de l'intelligentsia.
The numbers of persons with money incomes lower than subsistence wage and the percentage of the corresponding category of the population among the overall number of citizens has been reduced.
Le nombre de personnes dont le revenu est inférieur au minimum vital a baissé, de même que leur proportion dans l'ensemble de la population.
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