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Mr. Livesey has also asked Munchies to compensate him for lost wages because he took a day of sick leave due to his sudden illness.
In ordinary construction, wages for skilled and unskilled workers are more or less standard.
Contingencies such as unrecoverable medical or dental expenses, hospital expenses and loss of wages are also provided for.
Colonel John Rolt, defence force spokesperson, said the bi-weekly wages proved to be unpractical.
The methods of tree felling were altered and piece work was introduced, doubling the woodcutters ' wages and leading to increased costs.
Meanwhile, their rather toothless union, typical of the Third World, cannot press for minimum wages or maximum hours.
We are mostly a service economy based on low wages with a dwindling manufacturing and production economy.
Personally I can't begrudge the players high wages because if they didn't get the money it would only go to less deserving people.
And the wages of workers who do the jobs we try not to think about, in care homes, on rubbish tips or on our streets, are scandalously low.
Surgeons are being paid three times their normal daily wages by desperate health chiefs racing to beat the clock over waiting times targets.
They were paid Regular Force wages only on the day they deployed, and their families bore the cost.
There were those who profited from the event, none more so than the tilers, bricklayers and glaziers whose wages trebled.
Despite the fact that wages and salaries are by far the biggest element of the NHS budget, there have been tight controls on the pay bill.
Right now we have a cost-of-living increase, that is tied more to wages than actual inflation.
Workers at Lake Creek meatworks in Rockhampton, Queensland returned to work on July 18, after a four-day strike over wages and conditions.
A generation ago, meatpacking workers earned some of the highest wages of any industrial workers in the United States.
During the years that followed, wages at the meatpacking factories improved slightly.
Union leaders say it will result in a second class of workers with lower wages and benefits than those at the parent airline.
As he wages his campaign against them, the visual gags and wise-cracks come thick and fast.
If we do not increase their wages and salaries, then they will pack their bags and go.
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Rising wages contrasted with declining textile prices, which fell remorselessly in every textile industry for which we have data.
If international rugby is to mean anything, trans-nations marauders seeking higher wages really should be stopped.
Some time ago, as president of a local school board, I compared the lifetime wages of male and female teachers.
By the same token, let's examine the minimum wages as mandated by legislation.
It is a scandal that people die younger in the north, fewer young people go to university, and wages are lower.
Consider the fact that teachers almost universally discount their wages in order to teach in private schools.
Following a petition of some west-country weavers, an Act was passed in 1702 forbidding the payment of wages in truck.
But there are no guarantees for any of the sacked workers on pensions, re-employment or maintenance of wages and conditions of work.
For example, in Canada part-time wages average 55.9 percent of full-time wages.
Benoit, president of a machine shop in St. Johnsbury, has been watching the wages at the local McDonald's with a wary eye.
The protesters are demanding the government rescind a series of austerity measures that would tax workers' wages and pensions.
Unions use collective bargaining to help set wages and salaries and worker benefits.
Workers have seen the standard of living, the social safety net, and wages decline over the last thirty years.
At current wages for low-level jobs and current levels of welfare, there are indeed many jobs that Americans will not take.
This is at a time when wages and other costs are running well ahead of the rest of Europe.
Government and landlords tried to keep the lid on rising wages and changing social aspirations.
Economists and historians regard a reduction in real wages as one of the distinguishing features of the modern period.
As production becomes rationalized and routinized over time, the skills and hence high wages of the city labor force become unnecessary.
An employer has to pay his employees wages during a strike and cannot lock them out.
It is often asserted that by keeping wages low for apprentices, employers will automatically take more on.
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The drop stems mainly from slower growth in wages and salaries, smaller increases in benefits, and a bigger rise in net interest payments.
High wages and rigid labor rules have hurt productivity, eroded earnings, and made companies reluctant to hire.
Huge wages were paid to men on the rigs in those days, and were the envy of us landlubbers.
He said wages for contract lifeguards were reasonable and the department has no difficulty hiring contract employees.
He said, however, the department would review wages for contract lifeguards next summer.
Highly paid civil servants faced six per cent cuts in their wages in three phases.
In 2002, unemployment levels reached historic highs of 23 percent, real wages plummeted and the peso was severely devalued.
This often means they pay workers low wages and charge customers high prices.
Of course, if the recovery continues apace, a strong labor market could bump wages up.
Government sets price ceilings and floors, dictates wages through laws and labor courts, and confiscates profits.
However, wages for the striking workers are far lower than for auto workers.
Within one year, Douglass earns the wages of the most experienced calkers, at times bringing in nine dollars per week.
It is a good example of how casualisation is being used to slash wages and conditions.
Some argue that minimum wages constrain job creation by the onus they put on employers.
The municipal workers are demanding that serious negotiations take place and that their wages be fully indexed to the rate of inflation.
Workers said yesterday that they were entitled to these wages because of the hazardous nature of their jobs.
They note that if the company paid one cent more for each bushel of tomatoes, tomato pickers ' wages could be roughly doubled.
I had imagined Aboriginal jackaroos working for the stockman and once he died he wanted them to be paid their wages and let go.
Deepening poverty exacerbated by rising prices and pegged wages will lead to growing anti-government hostility.
New theories of unemployment give a reason that wages and prices would be sticky.
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The key question is whether wages will continue to grow fast enough to offset rising energy prices.
Congress can show a commitment to this by raising or eliminating the cap on wages taxed for Social Security.
In some countries, workers on coffee farms are paid obscenely low wages to work in the hot sun.
Ohio in particularly, has minimum wages set, but they are lower than the federal standard.
Manufacturing wages for female workers range as low as 12 cents to 30 cents per hour.
Average hourly earnings figures for the month of October showed that real wages are falling as job growth stagnates.
For a start, real wages have been stagnant or declined for the majority of workers.
Over the past few years, the economy has boomed while wages have remained stagnant.
The authority had a wide statutory power to pay its employees such salaries and wages as it thought fit.
In 2002 the increase in wages was matched by the climb in the consumer price index of 30 percent.
Workers at foreign companies' nonunion shops make roughly the same in wages and benefits as unionized employees in Detroit.
An agreement to restrain wages on the part of the central labour federation might not extend to the population of non-union workers.
The players and non-playing staff are also showing their support by deferring up to 25 per cent of wages so that the club can move forward.
That money will enable the club to pay its playing and non-playing staff their wages for July today.
We've seen a reduction in wages and terms conditions, to get what they see as a lean industry, which is a disgrace.
And finally, do you consider animals to be lazy layabouts scrounging off our hard-earned wages all the time?
Admissions to Bantry House are not subject to Vat and the maintenance, which includes staff wages and repairs, can be offset against tax.
German wages are in fact too low, they argue, for if they were not, the country would not have a visible trade surplus year in, year out.
This requires real wages and other remuneration to rise more slowly than productivity.
The party, though, was non-committal on restoring the wages and benefits of the hospital workers.
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Workers received their brown paper envelope containing their wages on Fridays.
The sum of money is the equivalent of four or five month's wages for a fisherman in the area.
It costs a lot to become a hairdresser and it can take quite a long time on low wages before you can feel you are getting somewhere.
Items recorded in the journals included wages paid to carpenters, bricklayers and other construction workers.
The new powers given to magistrates to deduct fines from wages and benefits are a useful tool.
Personal allowances and thresholds will probably be indexed, sucking more people into higher-rate tax as wages rise faster than prices.
The ship may ultimately have to be sold to cover the unpaid debts, as well as the crew's wages and costs for returning them home.
A skull rests on the threshold as a reminder of the wages of sin, and, above, an unkindness of ravens presides.
Cost cuts gave companies more money to pass on to employees in the form of higher wages and bonuses, economists said.
This may be because higher wages induce more people to join the labor market and fewer people beg.
Plus, the labor market still has a long way to go before wages and prices begin to drive each other higher.
A healthy labor market and rising real wages are set to keep the economy humming.
But today's report comparing property inflation with rises in wages suggests we are frightened of the wrong bogeyman.
Current wages are also protected, unless a court has ordered you to make payments for child support, alimony or other support or maintenance.
The amount is equivalent to more than six months wages for a lot of workers.
The full amount is then repaid over a period of up to three years by taking a small amount out of their wages either weekly or monthly.
Wages in the Czech Republic are about a fifth to a quarter of the wages paid in Germany.
These provisions leave some without sick pay, others without pensions, and all on wages that just hover above the minimum wage.
In 1999 pilots launched a sick-out when the company refused to increase wages for pilots at regional carrier Reno Air, which American acquired.
The bindlestiffs of that era had a very strong network and used their unified power to demand fair wages and social treatment.
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That's the only way we can stop employers exploiting us with miserable wages and inhuman conditions.
They had to clean, haul trash, launder, cook, shine shoes, and porter, and take the meanest wages for harsh, demeaning work.
Higher wages gave the working classes greater consuming power than they had had in Britain.
I know as an economist that minimum wages increase unemployment, and as a libertarian I'm against mandating such policies on private parties.
Constraining the wage would affect thousands of workers on minimum wages and lead to a real cut in living standards.
Employees are often forced to work a seven-day week and complain of low wages and poor working conditions.
Therefore we shall be in a position to offer attractive wages and suitable working conditions.
Some states and cities have adopted higher minimum wages and enacted living-wage ordinances.
If a nation enforced minimum wages or working conditions, industry would move to one where there was no enforcement.
Many economists have backed away from the argument that minimum wages lead to fewer jobs.
At the same time, Britain's bosses faced a very militant working class determined to defend their jobs, wages and conditions.
Workers do use it every time they organise a trade union and fight for better wages and conditions.
If workfare replaces welfare, wages will become more flexible enabling EU labor markets to absorb immigrants more efficiently.
Access explains that higher minimum wages unsustained by productivity gains will lift unemployment.
It includes both wages and employer contributions for benefits and social insurance.
In 1993-94, the Klein government rolled back health care workers ' wages by 5 percent.
The cost of travel to and from a job would lower most wages below the level of unemployment benefit.
But United pay his weekly wages so Keane is careful not to tread on the precious egos of anybody still at the club.
I'm thinking it'll cost half my daily wages in cab fare, but it might just be worth it.
The intention is to force up unemployment, drive down wages and reduce taxation.
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Rises earlier this year in tax and national insurance mean that average take-home wages are falling.
In just 5 years the wages and salaries earned by New Zealanders have increased by 32 percent.
Workers pay taxes on cash wages but not on fringe benefits like health insurance.
Call it the greenhouse effect or the wages of tampering too much with the environment.
In place of moral vertigo what we get, especially in West's fine performance, is a mortified awareness of the wages of sin.
It is because sin is universal, and death is the consequence or wages of sin.
Extensive lung damage resulting from inhalation of the deadly vapours were the wages of his diligence.
And the players would be free to walk away if the club were to default on their wages on Friday.
Can we sleep easy at nights knowing that people are being paid sweatshop wages for our benefit?
But social accord will not exist if, as a result of reform, people's spending increases by more than half while their wages go up only a quarter.
Thus, our productivity, wages and standards of living, our money and our wealth, are continually at risk.
Chris Falls, who has 25 years in the industry, is keen to improve the wages and conditions of his fellow shearers and other pastoral workers.
The coup was widely welcomed by the population, who hope for both their wages and for elections.
To be sure, every increase in wages and social welfare measures boosts demand.
That is in addition to paying the wages of the huge number of rural administrators.
The organization puts out annual employment counts and wages by industry, occupation, and state.
And another downward ratchet in wages would just about guarantee it will get worse.
Low wages and high unemployment levels among persons with disabilities has made both the production and affordability of wheelchairs a problem.
Future revenue would be harvested from a single-rate flat tax on wages or, better still, a stiff sales tax on consumption.
During the same period the typical investor lost 10 percent of his or her portfolio and workers' wages barely kept up with the rate of inflation.
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But they did so aggrievedly and they looked forward to armistice when they could win back what they saw as just wages and rights.
It is widely accepted that workers are being priced out of London because wages cannot keep up with spiralling house prices.
These delegates will be accountable to, recallable by, and paid the same wages as the people who elect them.
Some were simple employees who worked for the excellent wages the calling offered.
Union leaders scotched the strike after the company's management agreed to recommence negotiations on wages and related issues.
Whether or not the cost of value of the course is excludable from wages to the employee depends on various factors.
Large withholders need to disclose on the form the total of salary, wages and other payments.
The wages these jobs inject into the economy more than outweigh the impact of the payroll-tax increase and the sequester.
These are the latest attempt to revive a flagging peace process between striking security workers and managers who want to axe 150 posts and slash wages by 40 per cent.
The downtown contract, unlike the strip contract, gives the union bureaucracy the flexibility to adjust how much of the negotiated amount goes to wages and health care.
The new austerity measures include higher taxes on wages and pensions and a value-added tax on services, such as transportation, which up to now had been exempt.
The price of bread and the wages of labour were regulated by the local justices of the peace in order to protect consumers and workers from exploitation.
The F.W. Woolworth Company reported profit margins of 20 percent but actually lowered the wages of salesgirls in its stores, citing the need for belt tightening.
The U.S. is a consumer-driven economy, but consumer confidence remains at recessionary levels and wages have hardly budged.
The miners themselves went on strike again and again, trying to get their wages raised.
The tribute was originally designed as a revenue source to pay the wages of the oarsmen who kept the Persians away.
The personnel authority also said it will set up a study group to review wages for state employees assigned to local governments and local bureaus.
In this scenario, productivity will rise, but wages may stagnate or decline.
If there were a Murphy's Law of Economic Collapse, it would hold that as jobs disappear and wages plummet, the price of your dream house will skyrocket.
For one, wages tend to be lower in authoritarian regimes than in democracies, giving businesses in dictatorships a monetary advantage in selling exports abroad.
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It was also supported by trades unions, which feared that non-whites would agree to work for lower wages than Europeans and so undercut their standard of living.
When economic expansion began to decline in the 1970s, it was more profitable to export capital to underdeveloped countries where wages were low, than to import workers.
Workers detailed the ways they are cheated out of their wages by spurious fees, endemic undercounting of apples picked under the piece rate pay system.
Lind pointed out that control of labour in Hawaii extended far beyond wages and working conditions to include the gamut of living conditions in the plantation work camps.
The demonstration was in opposition to government plans to levy a new tax on those employing guest workers as domestics, and to cut the minimum wages of maids.
On the other hand, immigrants tend to have lower skills and are more willing to accept lower wages than native-born workers.
It is true that in the short run, wages seem to be sticky and we get results that are inconsistent with market clearing, notably bouts of high unemployment.
Inflation helps the economy deal with sticky wages and prices.
Consider, for example, whether it makes sense to plow ever-greater sums into college educations if wages are stagnant?
In contrast, wages have leveled off or fallen over the same period.
And while moo Cluck moo has only been in business since the spring, Parker believes higher wages lead to better results.
The wages in real terms for agricultural workers and artisans have fallen.
Adib Khan, the principal of Ghulam Nabi Charkhi school in tapa e Nader Khan, gives his own wages to keep his school going.
Raw materials were provided by shroffs in the city to four out of six establishments in the sample and the artisans charged wages for the manufacture of the ornaments.
Inflation in the high-growth economies will change the relative real wages between the counties the same way a devaluation can.
What is even more unbelievable is that the Executive is failing to use civil means, such as arrestment of wages or benefits, to pursue the unpaid fines.
The difference is that the government sets a lower limit to the movement of wages and also mandates working conditions and other benefits that are the same for everyone.
Harping about a Republican war on women while wages stagnate and growth sputters is trivial and desperate.
By this reckoning, buoyant growth will boost wages and salaries, giving home buyers the extra money they need to cover their increased borrowing costs and so buttress housing.
To comply, the Housing Department decided to reject any tender bid should the monthly wages of subcontracted workers be less than the market value.
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In addition, there is now a new differential between the wages of drivers in the huge container cranes and those operating cranes used to load and unload bulk cargo.
Even after American returns to full employment, the outlook for wages is grim.
The Sunbelt, with its job growth, strong middle class wages and lows housing costs, is a good bet for the future.
Most people have no idea how much money they have forgone in wages because of those benefits.
We already have one of the highest national minimum wages in Europe.
Employers set wages above the market equilibrium level to increase employee productivity, reduce production softness, and cut the costs associated with labour turnover.
The new focus on the state level includes an effort to make state minimum wages as lasting as most living wage ordinances, by indexing them to the cost of living.
Like it or not, ethnicity, assimilation and wages are the same the currents that roil immigration.
Working in political theatre is even tougher, particularly if you start off as a student with a massive overdraft to clear and the wages of a bean counter.
Not only did the first division leaders pick him up on a free, but rather than superstar wages he's happy with a bowl of milk and a tin of cat food.
One of the wages of polarization is the obscuring of what once was broad common ground even on supposed culture war issues.
He has been placed on the transfer list and fined two weeks wages following his reaction to being substituted in the 1-0 home defeat to Rotherham on Saturday.
The first wave of Asian immigrants worked for low wages in woollen mills.
Irish Ferries, if successful with their bully-boy tactics, will serve as a precedent for every unscrupulous employer to force down wages in a race to the bottom.
To spread fish on the bawn to make wages we went there without much sleep.
The United States will then be forced into a trade surplus as incomes fall far enough to reduce imports and wages fall far enough to make U.S. goods competitive.
Yes, the economy remains sclerotic, work force participation is abysmal, and wages stagnate.
They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world.
Imagine a thought experiment, in which Walmart agreed to pay marginally higher wages across the board.
The human cost of low wages is obvious and has been extensively documented.
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On the flipside, overall wages and benefits are lower in right-to-work states.
Many companies say sharply boosting the wages of entry-level employees would likely lead to less hiring.
She could barely pay the rent off of the measly tips that the patrons were giving, and her wages were too low to provide her with any material comfort.
With higher wages in effect, says the CBO, employers are less likely to hire.
Sentenced to hang for piracy, William Fly spoke from the gallows to a large crowd, telling captains to pay sailors their wages or take as a warning his murder of a captain.
And a genuine squeeze on the middle class is under way, in which higher prices for many key goods and services are outrunning rising wages and income.
The difference in wages remained constant, not increasing over time.
I looked at bracket creep which is effectively the force of higher wages pushing people into higher tax payment areas, into higher brackets of tax payment.
And because Social Security benefits are indexed to wages and inflation, so is the likely trajectory of the system's finances.
After all, the indentured have to go into debt in order to find work, and their wages are then used to pay off the debts.
They have used globalization of the economy to bust unions, to keep wages low, to keep benefits low, and that's had an impact on a lot of workers.
By keeping wages close to subsistence level, the Arkansas-based retailer offers low prices that draw herds of gleeful shoppers away from the competition.
One-third of all Egyptians who work for wages work for the state, directly or indirectly.
The real appeal of Stakhanovism was clearly a material one, for exceptionally high wages and special privileges rewarded workers who exceeded the established production norms.
That could help pay for better wages and facilities for the brightest university staff and limit the brain drain to better funded English institutions.
The wages are low and the working conditions difficult, all in the service of chasing what for most will be an impossible dream.
But there is an obsession, bordering on pathology, with keeping wages as low as humanly possible.
The list covered staff news letters, invoice printouts, diary management, home to work communications links and of course staff wages cross indexed with PAYE and tax codes.
American wages have fallen, health insurance plans have been watered down.
This ability to attract international investment was predicated on the destruction of tens of thousands of jobs, massive cuts in wages and constant speed-ups.
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With the end of the golden weather looking imminent, New Zealanders need a Government with a plan and a vision to deliver better jobs and higher wages for all.
If you are thinking of joining the brain drain and hopping the ditch, then these changes will directly influence the wages and conditions you get over there.
Back wages owed to workers can be used as an estimate for the cost of compliance because they represent the amount of underpayment in compensation for a typical contractor.
The living-wage movement has helped awaken America to the fact that many of its citizens make wages that cannot provide them with even a minimally decent life.
His reign was marked by bullying management, increasing casualisation, fanatical hatred of trade unions and a constant chipping away at wages and conditions.
To be fair, Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell, in their magisterial How The West Grew Rich, do argue that labor unions improved wages in manufacturing.
While top executives are raking it in, wages for workers are diminishing.
After it lost the cash cow it milked as a main source of income over the last 50 years, it cannot even afford to pay staff wages on time, or even give them a New Year's bonus.
Walmart has raised wages in recent years in response to worker discontent, Lichtenstein said.
Their wages were paid in alcohol and goods such as kettles and blankets.
Increasing prices and frozen wages add up to hardship for the poorer families.
The x. of Awgust Maximilian emperowr of Almayne came to kynge Henry of England besyde Terwen, and there the emperowre had wages of the kynge.
The employer paid a back payment to his employee on his wages from 3 months earlier.
Classical unemployment is the result of real wages being above their market clearing level leading to an excess supply of labour.
Let us not assume such previous conjecturals, but rather consult and expostulate death, since death is the wages and the reward of sin.
Women should earn equal wages with men for equal work done. Child marriages and polygamy are a gangrene on society.
Once she got going about my wages and everything else she had to pay out. She couldn't keep the wolf from the door, she said.
Given the low wages and high inflation in the later Empire, the soldiers felt that they had a right to acquire plunder.
The hourly productivity levels, as well as average hourly wages in Norway, are among the highest in the world.
Surprisingly, Henry instead turned to King Stephen, who paid the outstanding wages and thereby allowed Henry to retire gracefully.
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These attempts to regulate wages could not succeed in the long run, but in the short term they were enforced with great vigour.
The higher wages for workers combined with sinking prices on grain products led to a problematic economic situation for the gentry.
After the plague and other exogenous causes of population decline lowered the labor supply, wages increased.
Opportunities for leisure activities increased dramatically as real wages continued to grow and hours of work continued to decline.
Calls for the implementation of the Charter were soon included alongside demands for the restoration of wages to previous levels.
In 1908, he introduced the Trade Boards Bill setting up the first minimum wages in Britain.
The opposite happens if fewer people offer their wages in the market as the supply curve shifts to the left.
The employee contribution is deducted from gross wages by the employer, with no action required by the employee.
Classical models of unemployment occurs when wages are too high for employers to be willing to hire more workers.
He posited that the growth of population and capital, pressing against a fixed supply of land, pushes up rents and holds down wages and profits.
Smith maintained that, with rent and profit, other costs besides wages also enter the price of a commodity.
Research suggests that emigration causes an increase in the wages of those who remain in the country of origin.
For all my other servants I solicit the wages due them, and a year more, lest they be unprovided for.
The usual pattern was to create an endowment to pay the wages of a master to instruct local boys in Latin and sometimes Greek without charge.
And, if IBR programs are optional, only students who expect to have low wages will opt into the program.
Payments often covered expensive materials, and in many cases the wages of assistants had to be paid out of them.
In December Samuel Whitbread MP introduced a bill giving magistrates the power to fix minimum wages and Fox said he would vote for it.
It means that income invested as advances of wages to labour creates employment, and not income spent on consumer goods.
When profits rise or wages fall, the rate of profits increases, which in turn increases the rate of capital accumulation.
As a cinema owner you didn't have to pay the wages of musicians and benshi any more.
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Crew members who survived were frequently cheated out out their wages on their return.
If they could do so, they might doubtless succeed in diminishing the hours of labour, and obtaining the same wages for less work.
They would also have a limited power of obtaining, by combination, an increase of general wages at the expense of profits.
Under the new law, wages increases were monitored and those ruled to be unacceptably high were rolled back by the government.
Private sector unions faced plant closures in many manufacturing industries and demands to reduce wages and increase productivity.
Those still employed were forced to accept longer hours, lower wages and district wage agreements.
Over the next five years, unemployment plummeted and average wages both per hour and per week rose.
The out migration has increased the average wages for the workers who remained in Poland, in particular for those with intermediate level skills.
A major cause of economic inequality within modern market economies is the determination of wages by the market.
For a businessman who has the profit motive as the prime interest, it is a losing proposition to offer below or above market wages to workers.
Competition amongst workers tends to drive down wages due to the expendable nature of the worker in relation to his or her particular job.
Members may also receive higher wages through collective bargaining, political influence, or corruption.
This decrease in wages caused a period of compression and decreased inequality between skilled and unskilled workers.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
Employment is important but if wages do not rise substantially in relation to living costs it will not provide a route out of poverty alone.
John Stuart Mill... was not long in proving that the moral minimum of wages was a myth.
He has also ensured that orchestra members' wages have increased quite dramatically, after falling over the previous few years.
Emphasised also are Smith's statements of the need for high wages for the poor, and the efforts to keep wages low.
Tijuana, because of the dreams of border crossers, and its relatively higher wages compared to the rest of Mexico, naturally attracts immigrants.
As of today, nearly one million people are living with minimal wages or unemployed not enough to cover their costs of living.
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In 1890, the United States imposed a tariff on foreign cloth which led to a general cut in wages throughout the British textile industry.
Under his leadership after 1909, Liberals extended minimum wages to farm workers.
Instead they were attracted by the higher wages available in industries such as iron.
The sudden downturn in the market saw the ironmasters quickly dismiss surplus workers and cut the wages of those in work.
According to Rothbard, government support for failed enterprises and keeping wages above their market values actually prolonged the Depression.
Jobs disappeared and wages plummeted, leaving people desperate and charities unable to cope.
But businesses had little choice and wages were reduced, workers were laid off, and investments postponed.
Fairtrade Standards for hired labour situations specify that employees receive minimum wages and collective bargaining.
For the subsidised schools, the main costs such as the teacher's wages and building maintenance completely borne by the Flemish government.
However, like the rest of Cornwall, housing remains comparatively expensive, wages low and unemployment high.
On a global level, Rome's workers receive the 30th highest wages in 2009, coming three places higher than in 2008, in which the city ranked 33rd.
The flow of migrants to advanced economic countries has been claimed to provide a means through which global wages converge.
An IMF study noted a potential for skills to be transferred back to developing countries as wages in those a countries rise.
Because the plague killed so many of the working population, wages rose due to the demand for labor.
Although mining was difficult and dangerous, the wages were good, which is what drew the indigenous labor.
Some were permitted to work after hours earning wages equal to those paid to white workers.
There was a time when the half-tone photographer received considerable more in wages than did the proofer.
So although domestic wages remained higher, they did not grow nearly as fast as they might have otherwise.
Exporting capital, he concluded, put a lid on the growth of domestic wages in the domestic standard of living.
The Convention urged the church in 1997 and 2000 to promote living wages for all.

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