| This implies the continuation of a low wage economy and huge tax handouts to the multinationals. |
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| Of course, those poor people who were lucky enough to have jobs at the minimum wage would now be earning lower wages. |
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| The coalfields have given way to unemployment queues, night watchmen's sheds and minimum wage component assembly jobs. |
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| Why the state should lend a hand to assist people already doing a fair bit better than the basic wage beats me. |
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| None of the remaining batsmen got into double figures, leaving Gambhir to wage a lone battle against the West bowlers. |
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| There were a few pickets outside, assistant curators and clerical staff having a wage dispute with the museum. |
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| We want the government to set the price of goods and guarantee a minimum wage so as not to put profits above the needs of the people. |
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| When we had to take action against a neighbour, we had to get wage arrestments and eventually bank arrestments. |
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| Indeed, when you factor out variables like having children, the wage gap virtually disappears. |
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| It is only those workers whose market wage is below the minimum wage who are placed in employment jeopardy. |
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| It was always spelt out to me that I would have to trim the wage bill and the playing staff and there has been quite a bit of clearing the decks. |
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| The initial impetus for these reforms was to promote a high skill, high wage economy. |
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| Their demand for more autonomy is undermined by the brutal campaign that they wage against innocent civilians throughout Russia. |
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| Instead, they established settlements on the outskirts of towns, where they worked as wage laborers. |
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| The real question is whether it can successfully wage a war of public opinion during and after the military conflict. |
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| Is high school just a place to be brainwashed and prepared for a lifetime of wage slavery? |
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| In the past the minimum wage never applied to apprentices who were employed under the Apprenticeship Act. |
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| The company claims the wage rise is totally unacceptable and has refused to lift the lockout until the union ends all industrial action. |
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| In purely distributional terms, these wage earners have little to gain from nationalization or socialization. |
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| The temptation is to wage war on stupidity as if it were a vanquishable object. |
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| Under last year's agreement, the daily wage rate was 98 rupees with an attendance allowance of 14 rupees. |
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| In Australia's case starting profit margins had been squeezed by the early 1980's wage explosion. |
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| Florida's new minimum wage is indexed to inflation, so the state will readjust the minimum every fall. |
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| Thus, I believe the monthly wage bill contributes just as much to their problems as the payback on investment. |
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| War has been declared on us by religious fanatics who are prepared to wage that war without limit. |
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| They demanded wage increases and the preservation of easy terms of payment for communal services in rural areas. |
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| Many factories illegally disregard the minimum wage and frequently pay their laborers much less. |
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| We are, in effect, wage slaves for huge corporations which were designed in the 19th century. |
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| Many can't afford to take this time off, because they receive no wage or social welfare payment while they do so. |
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| The mass entry of women into the workplace has transformed them from unpaid domestic slaves into wage slaves with cash to spend. |
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| Living wage advocates are stepping up a campaign to ensure the benefits of prosperity extend to those at the bottom end of the income scale. |
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| An average worker on a full-time wage is taxed less than in Australia, as a proportion of wages. |
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| Suffice to say, much as I would love to be a wage slave again for the sake of my dreams of becoming a homeowner, I am not ready. |
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| In the marketplace everything becomes a commodity and all workers become wage slaves who can be fired without compunction. |
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| It is equally idiotic to wage chemical warfare against the vectors of disease. |
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| In terms of wages, 69 percent of exporters surveyed expect to pay a wage rise in the next 12 months. |
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| The company signed, then retaliated by raising the rate for room and board just enough to wipe out our wage increase. |
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| On December 17 the last of six union locals ratified an agreement sanctioning huge wage and job cuts. |
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| The party also proposed that the state assume responsibility for full employment based on a minimum wage related to the cost of living. |
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| It unambiguously raises the effective cost of employment for minimum wage jobs. |
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| Instead of a loss of minimum wage jobs, there has actually been an uptick in the number of such positions. |
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| Unions said more than 20000 members downed tools yesterday in a wage dispute with the electricity utility. |
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| In February 1931 the government agreed to some of the improvements that workers had asked for, for example a minimum wage of five pesetas. |
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| The inherent tendency of capitalist evolution is to raise real wage rates steadily. |
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| Nesc says inflation must be tackled to avoid a wage price spiral becoming embedded in the economy. |
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| They tend to work in fairly intense bursts and argue that entitlements such as time and a half will add 2.5 to 3 percent to their wage bills. |
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| The government in Hong Kong has set a minimum wage level for the Filipinas. |
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| Research documents the significant productivity and real wage effects of gainsharing in firm case studies. |
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| The exact wage varies, but is usually pegged at the amount needed to keep a working family off welfare and other government subsidies. |
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| The poets have donated what ever amount they can afford, oftentimes coming from minimum wage paychecks in truly selfless gestures. |
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| Mill managements claim the wage cut is necessary because of low prices offered by the Food Corporation of India for hulling the rice. |
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| The cleaners, members of the union, are campaigning for a living wage as well as sick pay, holidays and a pension. |
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| The trend away from traditional national wage contracts and collective bargaining is in full swing. |
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| The Fair Trade label would require growers to pay a fair wage and to permit collective bargaining. |
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| Does anyone know why the minimum wage is not indexed to either inflation or wage growth, like social security? |
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| The self-indulgent lifestyle of the celebrity nouveau riches is as far from her experience as it is from any wage slave in a tedious job. |
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| Now, my husband is in a business that is expanding and will probably bring in more money annually than the two of us ever made as wage slaves. |
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| Well the problem with the minimum wage and Mr Howard is that Mr Howard is the chief chiseller. |
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| The relation between wage level and salubriousness has already been proven in several sociomedical studies, in our country and elsewhere. |
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| As a result, large groups were excluded from politics, such as wage laborers, poor peasants, cottagers, land workers, and women. |
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| But the wage is the same amount of cash the council wants to slash from tourism and leisure. |
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| All we are asking for is a decent wage to cover the cost of living as council tax keeps rising. |
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| The union has cut its wage demand by more than half, seeking a 2.5 percent yearly increase. |
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| We insist that those responsible for conspiring to wage unprovoked wars and carry out illegal coups must be tried for war crimes. |
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| One of the biggest concerns in Italy right now is the extent of spiralling wage bills. |
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| The tight labor market meant that workers in all wage groups earned more money. |
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| Girls leaving school often find work more easily than the boys and go on to become the main wage earner. |
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| Most of the children are refugees or illegal immigrants or are themselves the children of agricultural wage slaves. |
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| Workers were paid a form of piece rate, which was a minimum wage plus a bonus for output over a certain level. |
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| Not only do entrepreneurs have to work differently from the wage slave, they have to think differently, too. |
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| The prize possession of a warm winter coat was taken down to the pawnbroker and left as security until the next wage came in. |
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| Through us they wage viral war competing for space in the human experience. |
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| However, because of the ripple effect, employers who do not pay the minimum wage still have a considerable stake in any changes to that wage. |
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| With the rise in wage costs and prices, increased inflation led to lower competitiveness. |
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| I got a job in the post office and actually worked for minimum wage in New York for a while to try to organize Latino workers. |
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| The question of whether employees can sign away their rights to litigate wage claims collectively is not going away. |
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| Some industrialists, especially foreign investors, chose to exploit available subsidies and low wage rates. |
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| Most radical of all were the ultraists like John Brown, who were prepared to wage armed conflict to achieve their objectives. |
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| The Phillips curve over-predicted wage gains, let alone unit costs and inflation. |
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| The depression forced most firms to resort to repeated rounds of employee layoffs, wage cuts, and work speedups. |
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| Thousands of city employees were fired and there was a wage freeze for the survivors. |
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| When employers want to reward all members of a hierarchical work group equally, they usually raise every member's wage by the same percentage. |
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| He would be delighted to make the taxi squad, drawing a minimum wage and scrimmaging against the varsity during the week. |
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| Janitors, handymen and elevator operators are to receive a 9.5 percent wage increase over the course of a three-year agreement. |
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| Simply raise the minimum wage for staff in bars or other workplaces that have smokers. |
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| Jorge admits he finds it difficult to survive on the wage earned solely from busking. |
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| When did we agree to laws enabling companies to fine workers many times their daily wage if they went on strike for a day? |
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| In 1950, the typical family structure consisted of a full-time working father, who was the sole wage earner, and a stay-at-home mom. |
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| We can also wage war by being sure to vote and use the democratic system that makes sovereign nations great. |
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| The great nobles essentially use poets and poetry in the early seventeenth century to wage a war of prestige. |
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| The fall in prices would be greater than the fall not only in their wage rates but also in the overall average of wage rates. |
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| The group came forward at the end of last week following news of the players' refusal to accept a 30 per cent wage deferral. |
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| They sometimes came into conflict with the Burmese dynastic rulers, or with other ethnic groups inclined to wage war. |
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| As pointed out before, one of the reasons for wage inflexibility is labour market regulation. |
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| He also wants to set minimum wage increases in line with inflation if he gets in office. |
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| In 1974, the state of Washington conducted a pioneering study of wage inequities in its civil service. |
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| Many men returned to work on the mills every season for many years as they got a regular wage and their keep. |
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| But the real impact of the living wage may be its effect on state and city minimum wages. |
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| Most likely, the leadership is using this initiative to wage war against their own renegade, polygamist brethren. |
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| Workers and unions are enjoined to accept wage cuts without too much demur, provided they are satisfied jobs would be saved. |
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| The workers were demanding the payment of wage arrears and improved working conditions. |
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| The pictor imaginarius made 150 denarii a day, double the daily wage of a wall painter and six times that of a field labourer. |
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| The plan involves agreeing a pay rise for this year and continuing negotiations over wage increases for the next two years. |
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| The maximum period of exemption from paying the minimum wage is one year and the minimum is three months. |
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| This efficiency wage argument has merit, but taken to extremes it could cause major problems. |
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| Following the war, voluntary migration to places of wage employment in rural and urban areas accelerated significantly. |
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| Or I could wage a war of extermination against them, and their leader, a sentient giant dustball named Rupert. |
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| He called on the government to pay firefighters a decent wage for the lifesaving work they do. |
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| Management is seeking sweeping demands for increased workloads, wage and benefit concessions and other givebacks. |
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| Where your shopping dollar helps bring the prevailing retail wage in your town down to Wal-Mart level. |
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| The profession of arms is a noble calling, and there is no shame in wage labor. |
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| We cannot compare on this basis with present day, out of control, inflated property prices which are well beyond moderate wage earners. |
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| He has started to roll out a minimum pension for all Peruvians over age 65 and plans to raise the minimum wage a second time. |
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| They simply provide a fixed-dollar wage supplement, which employees can then use as they see fit to purchase their own healthcare services. |
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| It's a fight we should be more than willing to wage because there is absolutely no doubt who has the moral high ground. |
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| The current level of wage drift is not sustainable and will weaken employment prospects in the exposed sectors of the economy. |
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| Such a wage level is needed to maintain the independence of the judiciary and also to attract skilled jurists to the bench, they argue. |
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| Like the minimum wage, the national agreement may put a floor under wage increases, but nothing more. |
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| Whereas benefits are indexed to consumer price index inflation, revenue growth is driven by real wage growth. |
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| Why work as a wage slave when the promise of big payoff from being on TV is only an audition away? |
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| They believe he will have a serious re-election fight on his hands next year and needs mondo cash to wage it. |
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| Moreover, by papal decree, the monarchs of Spain and Portugal were commanded to wage a holy war to support this missionary endeavour. |
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| There were precedents in most agrarian societies for wage labor and tenantry. |
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| Under the current system, initial Social Security benefits are indexed to average wage gains across the economy. |
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| Years ago I was working as a wage slave, collecting carts for my local grocery store. |
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| The St. Louis machinists are seeking wage and benefit compensation similar to machinists at Boeing's Seattle operations. |
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| In fact, of the 13 states that exceeded the federal minimum wage in 2003, seven outperformed the rest of the country in job creation. |
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| It appears that human capital and expected wage differences overwhelm the impact of all other variables in the model. |
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| Many of us earn an average wage and, as things stand now, would not be able to afford private health care. |
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| The current method of wage indexation was created in 1977, under the Carter Administration. |
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| At no point in the story, therefore, is Pip set to be a drudge or a wage slave, though he has nothing of the gentleman about him. |
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| The basic wage was for unskilled workers, and additional payments were specified for occupational skills. |
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| And wage levels and living standards in the poorer countries on the euro zone's rim are catching up with those in the richer nations. |
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| Careful tracking of the production of each worker was kept and served as the basis for wage payment. |
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| The report said interest rates on currency assets remained uninvitingly low while domestic wage growth was strong. |
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| I believe that this legislation discriminates between a wage earner and a contractor. |
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| Donor agencies are also putting pressure on the government to control spending and resist demands for further wage hikes. |
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| He left and the club was left with an enormous wage bill and debts it could not afford to pay. |
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| I am a writer, a musician, an activist, but maybe most importantly right now, I am a student and I am a wage slave. |
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| Many young people simply found cash crop agriculture on the Reserves more remunerative than wage labor on settler farms or in the mines. |
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| Workers on the lower end can struggle on less than minimum wage with no overtime or benefits. |
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| These men do low wage and often seasonal work, and owe large sums of money which most could never hope to pay off. |
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| There were also big wage gains in retailing and construction, two industries that hire a lot of entry-level workers. |
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| The marginal costs of long-term wage contracts increase with variability in aggregate demand. |
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| Coal is simply harvested by henchmen and these two resources are all that's needed to wage war. |
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| We keep all of the tiny wage they pay me, but its enough to stop us going up the wall. |
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| Compensation of employees is the sum of wage and salary accruals, employer contributions for government social insurance, and other labor income. |
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| Therefore, the reservation wage tends to increase for individuals with greater levels of human capital. |
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| The workers are to begin voting in a strike ballot on January 25, following their rejection of a proposed two-year wage deal from the company. |
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| Constraining the wage would affect thousands of workers on minimum wages and lead to a real cut in living standards. |
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| It will offer jobs at the national minimum wage and with the same rights as permanent employees. |
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| Should she get a job, she will not be eligible for the minimum wage because young people are deemed not to deserve it. |
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| As cash wage growth falls close to zero, even minor upticks in inflation translate into painful, and highly visible, pay cuts. |
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| All in all, these are factors which indicate that the insiders are the wage determiners of society. |
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| Their action began three weeks after the annual wage negotiations with the company reached a stalemate. |
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| Attempting to cure poverty by increasing the minimum wage is thus somewhat recursive. |
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| She worked in a bar for minimum wage and practically lived off of the measly tips she made. |
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| Their unions have asked the Labor Ministry to mediate a solution to their back pay and wage demands. |
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| If applicants have the money and wherewithal to wage a war of words, the effort usually pays off. |
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| What matters for the amount of labor supplied is the after-tax wage rate relative to income from wealth. |
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| Men with better tech skills get the high-paying jobs, and the wage gap widens between the genders. |
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| He also promised to immediately exempt minimum wage earners from tax and give them a rebate for this year. |
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| Everyone needs a reason to justify getting up in the morning, and a wage doesn't really do it for most people. |
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| The higher minimum wage will induce some employers to reduce their workforces, others to change nonwage terms of the contract. |
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| Like many progressive Keynesians, I supported growth policies to remedy a stagnant wage economy. |
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| Unfortunately, I have never procured an overburdened wage package, so monetary wisecracks have not been part of my repertoire. |
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| Mr Chew and his wife have not received a bank book, wage slip and tickets for a New Year holiday to Paris which should have arrived in the post. |
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| He may have his legion of knockers who scoff at his lack of goals compared with his wage packet. |
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| The business owner must keep records of hours worked and the hourly wage has to be rational. |
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| For workers, the value of their working time is measurable by the minimum hourly wage they would accept to work. |
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| Surveys in Niger in 1982 and 1987 showed a rising level of activity and wage rates in the informal sector. |
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| This was followed shortly thereafter by a public-sector wage and hiring freeze. |
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| How will we wage war mercifully, when he may deliberately move his military forces right next to civilians? |
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| Its only commitments, expressed with imprecision, were to statutory recognition, a minimum wage and adhesion to the EU Social Chapter. |
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| The wage includes service charges, tips, incentive payments and commissions. |
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| Workers initially demanded a 24 percent wage increase which union officials lowered to 20 percent. |
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| The best solution I can think of is the wage cap which operates in Rugby League. |
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| The move has proved unpopular with the public in Slovakia, where the average monthly wage is 14 000 korunas. |
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| In the final analysis, the source of all profit is the surplus value extracted from the employment of wage labour by capital. |
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| All the agencies have Chinese signs explaining the concept of the minimum wage law. |
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| The downturn turned him from the owner of a small carpet and floor maintenance company to a low-paid hourly wage earner. |
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| Consumers bear the real cost of health care through wage offsets or through higher prices for U.S. output. |
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| The song is an off-kilter anthem for wage slaves everywhere, but McCaughey insists it wasn't written from first-hand experience. |
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| By contrast, German commitment to wage moderation has decreased its real exchange rate relative to Italy's by almost the same amount. |
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| Significant cost reductions and a greater focus on wage moderation were necessary to protect jobs in the year ahead. |
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| Ireland needs to see significant and continuous cost reductions and wage moderation if we are to protect existing employment. |
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| It's also the third, following Washington and Oregon, to index its minimum wage to inflation. |
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| Price pressure could lead to a wage spiral while dangerously high government spending also poses very real dangers down the line, he warned. |
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| Taken together, this core legislation entrenched the suppression of wage rises and cuts to the public sector. |
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| Greater life expectancy and faster than expected growth in wage bills have added to fund costs. |
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| The second answer is that raising the minimum wage will have a ripple effect. |
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| Up to 170,000 homeworkers could get more money under new minimum wage regulations. |
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| One set of institutions monitored the compliance of the parties to their agreement to exchange wage moderation for the reinvestment of profits. |
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| The federal government may have no enumerated power with which to wage a war on drugs, but states do have a general police power. |
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| Long distance coaches are unattractive in the US, partly because of their high exposure to fuel and inflationary wage costs. |
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| A sub-postmistress has won a year-long battle to be paid the minimum wage by the Post Office in a decision set to cost millions. |
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| Also in Eire, there's a scheme for paying a living wage to artists once they have proved themselves, as it were. |
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| They fear you might use the certainty of a weekly wage to start mucking up again. |
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| Occasionally. in those days, some would be paid a wage but mostly they would work for their keep and a little pocket money. |
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| The danger of high long-term oil prices feeding through to wage demands also remains a concern. |
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| Music companies are the first to wage a wide-scale attack against people who steal digital property over the Net. |
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| I think the increasingly unequal distribution of the wage share itself is also contributing to the sour political mood. |
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| So, exactly half of its vessels were registered under flags of convenience, avoiding taxes, paying a fraction of Canadian wage rates, etc. |
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| They demanded the immediate payment of wage arrears outstanding for nearly a year. |
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| The private sector average wage would be used to set salaries for all public sector employees. |
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| Reportedly the salary for a new employee is double the minimum wage set by the government. |
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| If the average wage doubles, then we'll all have twice as much to spend on where we live. |
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| However, business operations have been restructured, with workers across the board accepting wage cuts and lay-offs. |
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| This has led the government to try to limit wage increases to below that level. |
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| Workers will accept this wage if it at least offsets the marginal disutility of work. |
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| Vancouverites wage a private war against Torontonians in a storm of jealousy and rivalry of which Toronto is completely unaware. |
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| Marie maintains a list of people ready and willing to fill positions and as an extra bonus to employers there are wage subsidies available. |
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| The deal only provides a five percent wage increase, backdated to January, and another five percent from January next year. |
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| As an airline co-pilot he could readily cash a wage cheque and date the best bank tellers at the same time. |
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| It seems likely that China can supply unlimited quantities of general manufacturing to the world without major wage rises. |
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| The second round of talks on the annual wage and salary increments ended unresolved over the overtime issue. |
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| The union says in 2003 the company will take a wage survey and if we are underpaid, we will get additional wage increases. |
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| Generally, women are important in farming and the local food trade, while cattle herders and wage laborers are usually men. |
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| For he explained the process of wage determination in full, whereas the later version was simply a theory of the demand for labour. |
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| Among the important results of their study is the role played by education in the wage determination process. |
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| The courses are free for unemployed people, while wage earners pay a small fee. |
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| There will also be money available for marketing and wage subsidies for firms hiring unemployed people. |
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| Putting up the minimum wage and increasing unemployment benefit are not the way ahead. |
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| If it is necessary to wage wars, the world's strongest nation needs a man with abilities, not a scrimshanker with an IQ of 100 meters farm track. |
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| Like tens of thousands of poor Asian women, she came to Hong Kong looking for a living wage as a domestic helper. |
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| The reliance on the wage base for funding reflects an earlier economy in which wage compensation dominated. |
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| I agree one should not fork out in excess of four to five times the average weekly wage for any computer based on looks. |
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| This will be the first year of operation of the scheme providing for pupils to be paid a minimum wage during their pupillage. |
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| I am wary of unneeded redistribution programs, or a central wage setting, but market forces aren't even the best system around. |
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| They have opposed every attempt to raise the minimum wage over the past two generations. |
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| They do not want to believe that he would wage a pointless war, that he is as reckless as he is. |
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| The world was mired in economic slump, which brought with it mass unemployment and wage cuts. |
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| For four decades now, he has been working in a firewood shop as a daily wage labourer till recently and is now a commission agent. |
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| The cynical exploitation of international conflicts to wage war to achieve such a crass strategic end is what makes this war so immoral. |
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| It confuses a shift in purchasing power with a net increase of it, wage rates with wage payments. |
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| He backs an increase in the minimum wage and expanded health coverage for the uninsured. |
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| Unions were promised increased health and unemployment payments and social security stipends in return for wage restraint. |
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| Private bus operators are answerable for the loss to the State, students, unemployed and the daily wage earners. |
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| Every Republican administration since Reagan has doggedly opposed minimum wage increases. |
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| Today's deviants have declared war on the society as a whole, so we have no choice but to wage war against them. |
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| At that time, workers struck for 40 days and obtained a 3 percent wage increase for each year of a three-year contract. |
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| The power to wage war inherent in the authority of a government provides the necessary subordination of citizen to state. |
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| This would have left virtually the entire chapel earning below the average wage in Britain. |
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| It's time to raise the wage floor in America so people who go to work every day can make a decent living. |
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| This implies among other things that the wage rate is equal to the subsistence basket evaluated in production prices. |
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| Of course, the demand for a shorter standard working week and job-sharing without loss of wage income is a radical demand on capitalism. |
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| Yet trying to hike the minimum wage always sparks a monumental battle in Washington. |
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| If you are not running your wage tax administration correctly you run the risk of paying a heavy penalty. |
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| Initially, he saw them mainly as a way of augmenting his slender wage packet, but soon he became obsessed. |
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| In both cases, the real wage will not decline and a devaluation of the nominal exchange rate will not be effective. |
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| The minimum wage differs from one province to another due to differing price indexes and average per capita income. |
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| After all, they are hiring themselves out on a daily basis for minimum wage to perform defined short-term jobs as unskilled manual laborers. |
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| In Michigan, the problem is sclerotic corporate health-care, pension, and wage policies that are hugely expensive. |
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| German unions maintain rigid wage differentials for skills in order to protect their poorest workers. |
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| We are demanding that the minimum wage at Mabor be increased from 630,000 meticais to 1.5 million meticais a month. |
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| The present analyses draw participants from the 2,877 wage and salaried workers. |
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| Factors of production do not move easily across national boundaries in response to wage price differentials. |
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| And it is also true that wage differentials between the public and private sector pay have increased. |
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| The unions protested against wage cuts and layoffs for public sector workers. |
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| Those additional wage costs are on top of higher prices for oil, steel, copper, plastics, etc. |
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| If the widening of the wage differential is allowed to proceed unchecked, it threatens to create within our own country a social problem of major proportions. |
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| He lifted wage and price controls, which triggered inflation. |
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| The case for a living wage is economically and ethically powerful if it is made by working poor who genuinely need a living wage. |
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| Occasionally they may list benefactors to the monastery, specifying their particular contribution to work on the fabric, or record a wage or corrody to a building craftsman. |
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| Okay, that wage increase for home health workers was overdue. |
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| Other factors contributing to such households are housing shortages and the need to generate income through both wage labor and subsistence production. |
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| The average starting wage for a school-leaver in this country is between forty and sixty pounds a week, increasing to something like one hundred and fifty in adulthood. |
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| One of the first acts of the duumvirate was reopen the national wage case and intervene in favour of the principle of equal pay for work of equal value. |
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| Their life means juggling time with their children with long hours, unsociable shifts, and with a wage that won't stretch to pay for clothes, trainers and educational trips. |
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| The requisite disempowerment of workers, in both the workplace and wage negotiations, was facilitated by the reconsolidation of enterprise unions. |
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| The teachers are seeking an hourly wage increase of 10.19 lempiras. |
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| The actual market wage results from economic forces that turn these seemingly irreconcilable demands into a cooperative contract that benefits everyone. |
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| Private sector workers receive only the flat rate bonus with no annual increments to their basic pay with the result that they end up at the bottom of the wage scale. |
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| You should reward your more productive employees with merit-based pay, such as bonus or share option schemes, rather than increasing wage rates across the board. |
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| His demagogic promises of jobs and wage increases never materialized. |
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| There was no minimum wage until the socialist takeover, thicko. |
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| As businesses seek to restock inventory as well as meet new demand, factory production will speed up, creating new jobs, more profits, and bigger wage and salary increases. |
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| The Chamber and AFL-CIO agreed to a wage scale that would pay foreigners the greater of actual or prevailing wages. |
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| Even Republicans who opposed a federal wage hike in this cycle were often supportive or silent about state and local increases. |
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| The wage for 20 days was much higher than the normal salary for domestics. |
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| The price may be as various as the amount paid for a specific commodity, an hourly wage rate, or a professional fee for technical advice, or an insurance premium and so on. |
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| Also, strict wage ceilings were maintained on public enterprises. |
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| Children as young as 14 are also working illegally, while minor workplace misdemeanours are frequently met with corporal punishment or punitive wage reductions. |
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| Inching up the minimum wage as a weak backstop is not enough. |
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| The majority of workers have now received the early retirement package and wage arrears with the exception of eight who were, instead, given the sack. |
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| The first skirmish in the renewed battle for gender wage equality seemed to be won by Republicans. |
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| The strikers are demanding 7,500 naira as monthly minimum wage but the government has stipulated it only pay the 5,500 naira agreed by the governors of Nigeria's 36 states. |
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| If the price level and nominal wage are flexible enough, the short-run aggregate supply curve shifts rightward until the economy produces its potential output. |
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| It acknowledges the principle of dominance and explains wage differentials basically in terms of differences in required attribute levels, in a simple linear specification. |
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| They ask, rather, that we open our eyes to the realities of a racialized and repressive social order whose institutions wage war against many young people. |
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| Even more striking is Novkov's treatment of the United States Supreme Court's opinion in Adkins v. Children's Hospital invalidating a minimum wage law for women. |
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| Our air offensive, with the use of defoliants such as Agent Orange, has seriously reduced their strength in the trees and their capacity to wage war on the ground. |
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| Keynes also makes an invalid argument, claiming that a fall in the nominal wage rate may not decrease the real wage rate but would rather increase the rate of unemployment. |
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| Labour will increase the minimum wage by 9 per cent year-on-year. |
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| For collective bargaining to have a real point, it must achieve wage rates and non-wage conditions more favourable to the employees than the customary rate. |
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| A predictable, inflation-adjusted minimum wage would make business planning easier. |
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| Obviously, there are both price and income effects operating, in that income itself is the multiple of the wage rate and the number of hours worked. |
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| Nearly all councils in Zambia are owing their workers millions of Kwacha in arrears and were looking up to Government to release grants to settle the wage bills. |
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| It will be seen that the non-success of the labor unions is due to perfectly natural causes which are inevitable consequences of the wage system of production. |
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| Given the growing number of failing establishments that were downsizing their labor forces, the timing was not right to shove a wage increase down the throat of business. |
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