| Under the council's offer, many employees on middle salary grades will only receive lump-sum payments with no cost-of-living increase. |
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| Therefore, Table 2 contains additional versions employing a state cost-of-living index. |
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| Right now we have a cost-of-living increase, that is tied more to wages than actual inflation. |
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| Meanwhile, further one-day walkouts in London over cost-of-living allowances could be staged if the Government refuses to give ground. |
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| They represent a major cost-of-living blow for lower income groups for whom bread and mealie meal are the staple diet. |
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| The first is its challenge to the view that a cost-of-living index should be the concept underlying the Consumer Price Index. |
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| The board implemented a hiring freeze and deferred cost-of-living raises for its staff. |
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| Billions of dollars are at stake, and large political constituencies influence and are influenced by choices of indices such as a cost-of-living index. |
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| The formula is driven by monthly data from the cost-of-living index. |
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| He was ready to tweak the cost-of-living formula for Social Security. |
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| Copeland's approach to constructing the software component of the cost-of-living price index explicitly accounts for consumer heterogeneity. |
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| The state cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is approaching 6 percent, which makes the salary proposal a dumbfounding one, board member David Tokofsky said. |
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