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How To Use Wage increase In A Sentence

  • They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase.
  • Wage increases were eaten up by the rise in the cost of living.
  • Wage increases are being kept to a minimum because of the recession.
  • They will react with hostility to the price rises and calls for equivalent wage increases are bound to be heard.
  • The firm promised a wage increase to the workers / promised the workers a wage increase.
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  • Okay, that wage increase for home health workers was overdue.
  • The offer on the table at the moment is a 10% wage increase.
  • Rampant inflation means that our wage increases soon become worth nothing.
  • He also wants to set minimum wage increases in line with inflation if he gets in office.
  • The recent wage increases point up still further the difference between this government and the last.
  • Given the growing number of failing establishments that were downsizing their labor forces, the timing was not right to shove a wage increase (even if a small one) down the throat of business.
  • Mike said, ‘When you do your math and figure in the gainsharing cuts, the wage increase is only 67 cents an hour and not $2.00 like the company said in the newspaper.’
  • The two parties of labour and capital have bargained a new wage increase.
  • Management and unions have struck a bargain over wage increases.
  • We have only to note the way groups of workers use widening or narrowing differentials in the pay structure to argue for wage increases to see the truth of George's statement.
  • Analysts say Beijing is supporting wage increases as a way to stimulate domestic consumption and make the country less dependent on low-priced exports.
  • The union says in 2003 the company will take a wage survey and if we are underpaid, we will get additional wage increases.
  • Workers initially demanded a 24 percent wage increase which union officials lowered to 20 percent.
  • We're getting a wage increase of 40 a year, before tax. Big deal!
  • That is why there was to be no freeze at the beginning, either for prices or for incomes; that is why there was some flexibility in allowable wage increases, for example to protect "historical relationships"; that is why recognition is given to the importance of investments. Canada and the Anti-Inflation Program—One Year Later
  • Certainly, their biggest achievement was a six per cent wage increase over three years, an accomplishment which will raise their hourly wage to over $29 an hour.
  • While this was a victory and there was even a small wage increase, the Local had barely survived.
  • You have to companion it with minimum-wage increases, because otherwise firms will grab it all by pushing down wages.
  • Management and unions have struck a bargain over wage increases.
  • This has led the government to try to limit wage increases to below that level.
  • The wage increases will come into effect in June.
  • At that time, workers struck for 40 days and obtained a 3 percent wage increase for each year of a three-year contract.
  • Rampant inflation means that our wage increases soon become worth nothing.
  • If we don't get a wage increase this year, re going to strike.
  • Based on job advertisements placed prior to the proposed wage increases, junior kitchen porters and housemaids earn between £9,000 and £9,500.
  • The plantation trade unions in Sri Lanka have called off a campaign of two-hour stoppages and go-slows by 450,000 tea and rubber plantation workers who were demanding a wage increase.
  • His demagogic promises of jobs and wage increases never materialized.
  • The recent wage increases point up still further the difference between this government and the last.
  • The four-year deal called for a total of 10.5 percent in wage increases, but included an increase in workloads for pressmen who will move from a four-day to a five-day workweek.
  • The recent wage increases point up still further the difference between this government and the last.
  • By the way, American Samoa is still trying to fight the minimum wage increase that will destroy its major industry. Matthew Yglesias » Policy Implications of Non-Commercial Production
  • The railroad workers have asked for a wage increase.
  • Wage increases outpaced growth in productivity.
  • Wage increases to local bus workers, accepted by a conference of busmen yesterday, will cost the company £43,700 per year, said its general manger.
  • The plan involves agreeing a pay rise for this year and continuing negotiations over wage increases for the next two years.
  • The union had sought a wage increase and a shorter work week.
  • We bargained a new wage increase.
  • Inflation has gobbled up our wage increases.
  • The deal only provides a five percent wage increase, backdated to January, and another five percent from January next year.
  • The union had sought a wage increase and a shorter work week.
  • Rampant inflation means that our wage increases soon become worth nothing.
  • The firm promised a wage increase to the workers / promised the workers a wage increase.
  • The offer on the table at the moment is a 10% wage increase.
  • Her mammoth wage increases for her beloved descamisados resulted in overwhelming political support for her husband.
  • Local transportation union leaders in Bydgoszcz led a strike and subsequently bargained for a 63 percent wage increase. 1988, Jan. 30
  • We're getting a wage increase of 40 a year, before tax. Big deal!
  • The wage increases agreed in January are to be backdated to October last year.
  • Wage increases must be in line with inflation.
  • Rampant inflation means that our wage increases soon become worth nothing.
  • Financial analysts repeated time and again to the media that any and all wage increases were bad for the stock market.
  • They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase.
  • He was also in the vanguard of attempts to link unions to business with productivity bonuses for workers and index-linked wage increases and pension benefits.
  • Sam Nunn said Thursday that he will support a minimum wage increase and oppose a repeal of the gas tax.
  • It said building repairs and wage increases were adding to costs.
  • Like the minimum wage, the national agreement may put a floor under wage increases, but nothing more.
  • Until now, wage increases have always kept pace with inflation.
  • Thus the allocation of performance-based wage increases, piecework bonuses and other pay incentives is important in determining employee motivation.
  • Second, it is well known that the inflation index used to "deflate" wage increases, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), has a built in overstatement Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • A new round of wage increases could trigger an inflationary spiral .
  • The question of wage increases came up at the board meeting.
  • The union had sought a wage increase and a shorter work week.
  • Wage increases have cushioned us from the effects of higher prices.
  • AFTRA and the television networks reached agreement on a new three-year contract today, with the new pact featuring now-standard 2% annual wage increases and an unusually large 1% increase in employer contributions to health and retirement. Jonathan Handel: AFTRA, Networks Reach New Three Year Deal
  • At Odd Fellow and Rebekah Nursing Home, the new deal includes no pay cuts but delays wage increases for one year. Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal
  • The offer on the table at the moment is a 10% wage increase.
  • Until now, wage increases have always kept pace with inflation.
  • The two parties of labour and capital have bargained a new wage increase.
  • The money wage increases which workers won exceeded those required to generate enough scrapping to ease labour shortage.
  • At Odd Fellow and Rebekah Nursing Home, the new deal includes no pay cuts but delays wage increases for one year. Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal
  • Wage increases outpaced growth in productivity.
  • MHRSS suspending minimum wage increases, lowering compulsory insurance premium, to help struggling manufacturing sector.
  • They will react with hostility to the price rises and calls for equivalent wage increases are bound to be heard.
  • The Government has imposed a wage freeze/a freeze on wage increases.
  • Trade union Solidarity on Thursday announced that it rejected what it describes as the skimpy wage increase offer of 3 percent by Metrorex's Consolidated Murchison Mine (Consmurch) outside Phalaborwa during the first round of wage negotiations at the company. IOL: News
  • Wage increases are being kept to a minimum because of the recession.
  • Until now, wage increases have always kept pace with inflation.
  • The recent wage increases point up still further the difference between this government and the last.
  • Wage increases must be in line with inflation.
  • Labor is also insisting that its policy certainly does not mean a return to pattern bargaining or flow-on effects of wage increases in one sector leading to another.
  • Their wage increases would be offset by higher prices.
  • The railroad workers have asked for a wage increase the management is working on that.
  • The agency already faces a historic $180 million shortfall and is attempting to balance its budget by reducing noncontract staff by 20 percent, freezing wage increases and other cost-saving measures. Whittier Daily News Most Viewed
  • We're getting a wage increase of 40 a year, before tax. Big deal!
  • Doctors finally ratified a contract in 2002 that gave them an average wage increase of $50,000 each.
  • Rampant inflation means that our wage increases soon become worth nothing.
  • The Government has imposed a wage freeze/a freeze on wage increases.
  • A new round of wage increases could trigger an inflationary spiral .
  • The Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) will tomorrow lodge a submission in the state Industrial Relations Commission seeking a full flow-on from the federal wage increase of A$18 (US$10.14) per week.
  • In the services sector, which accounts for over half of India's GDP, annual wage increases of 14%—and bumps of up to 40% for headhunted staff in new jobs—are common, according to Aon Hewitt, a human-resource consultancy. India Aims to Miss the Mark, Again
  • The railroad workers have asked for a wage increase.
  • Rampant inflation means that our wage increases soon become worth nothing.
  • These were caused by the raising of prices without comparable wage increases. Twentieth Century History - Basic Facts
  • Although most strikes were still triggered by disagreements over wage increases, it was significant to note the increase in strikes over worker grievances such as multi-skilling, job grading and perceived or real discriminatory practices. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The money wage increases which workers won exceeded those required to generate enough scrapping to ease labour shortage.
  • The two parties of labour and capital have bargained a new wage increase.
  • They demanded wage increases and the preservation of easy terms of payment for communal services in rural areas.
  • Given the current militancy of the public service unions, it is possible that much additional public spending will be dissipated in wage increases.
  • The news comes as millions face pay freezes or tiny wage increases. The Sun
  • Wage increases are being kept to a minimum because of the recession.
  • To encourage employers to provide health benefits, the cost they incur could be credited toward the minimum-wage increase.
  • The news comes as millions face pay freezes or tiny wage increases. The Sun
  • Finally the company conceded wage increases to their workers.
  • For example, double-digit wage increases will be difficult. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a bid to end the dispute, NHS employers have presented a Scottish concordat that ties wage increases in with wide-sweeping changes to pay structures and working conditions.
  • We're getting a wage increase of 40 a year, before tax. Big deal!
  • Janitors, handymen and elevator operators are to receive a 9.5 percent wage increase over the course of a three-year agreement.
  • They will react with hostility to the price rises and calls for equivalent wage increases are bound to be heard.
  • The union had sought a wage increase and a shorter work week.
  • The teachers are seeking an hourly wage increase of 10.19 lempiras.

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