Because 68.27 is less than 100, Tree World is a âsmall businessâ under the minimum wage ordinance. do tips count toward the minimum wage? Tips and gratuities do not affect the new minimum wage owed to employees.
Before 1982, the penny was made of copper which is why they, unlike most other coins, don't look silver. However, after 1982, the U.S. government realized that it was too expensive to make a pennyâmore than the penny was worth in moneyâso they decided, instead, to make it with a mixture of two different metals. Nearly ninety nine per cent of the penny is made of zinc while the other per cent (at most) is made of copper.
The oldest metal object found in the Middle East consists of copper (it was a tiny awl dating back as far as 5100 B.C.). The U.S. penny was originally made of pure copper (nowadays, it is 97.5 percent zinc with a thin copper skin).Copper ranks as third-most-consumed industrial metal in the world, after iron and aluminum, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Pennies were made of pure copper only from 1783 to 1837. 2  For most of the coin's history, it has been made of bronze (95 percent copper, with 5 percent tin and zinc). 3  Today, pennies are 97.5 percent zinc and 2.5 percent copper. 4  People need copper in their diets.