How To Use Wages In A Sentence

I stuck some in once when we were a bit short and the old bat threatened to stop it out of my wages.
Because the joint ventures pay very low wages, and do not have to pay GST and local taxes, they are able to pay for quota at a level that is unsustainable or uneconomic for our local fishermen.
The faces he recognized were those of the laziest and most incapable workmen in the town -- men whose weekly wages were habitually docked for drunkenness, late hours, and botchy work. The Bread-winners A Social Study
NHS penpusher boom: Wages bill is up £78m as 'costly' drugs are vetoed Home | Mail Online
It is best to set out all the circumstances that may lead to a deduction from wages and put these in the documentation you provide to employees. Times, Sunday Times

If we do not increase their wages and salaries, then they will pack their bags and go.
And workers 'wages barely budged, meaning consumers will probably stay somewhat cautious in the months ahead. Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
That reduces the risk of big swings in relative prices and wages. Times, Sunday Times
Are wages keeping up with inflation?
Its practice of paying the men their cash wages only once a month—a violation of Nevada law, which mandated semimonthly pay envelopes—guaranteed that the demand for scrip would remain robust and thus that the company store would continue to do “exceptionally good business with very gratifying profits,” as the Big Six board was informed that summer. Colossus
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.
In such a model, given some flexibility of prices and money wages, the self-adjusting mechanism would return the economy to full employment after a demand shock that was not too large.
An agreement to restrain wages on the part of the central labour federation might not extend to the population of non-union workers.
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) arbitrators get to write first contracts (for a two-year period) covering wages, benefits, and work rules. Obama's War on Labor
Market forces were such that there was a shortage of train drivers and people were prepared to pay higher wages to find them.
The government has set a wages and prices ceiling of 10%.
Such profits are endangered by the strike by about 500 United Auto Worker members who are demanding a contract with higher wages.
Wages are pinned to the floor, housing costs are ludicrous and student debts linger for decades. Times, Sunday Times
The wages of sin is death.
He said the mens' weekly wages were given to them by the side of a roadway or in the woods where they may be working.
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.
Think of the good done - the minimum wages, the new deals and other sops to middle class consciences, they plead.
Tax and insurance are deducted from your wages.
Average wages are growing almost three times as fast. The Sun
During a 60 day strike, you would missout on $10,820 of lost wages. KAKE - HomePage - Headlines
Another contributor is the vast pool of unskilled immigrants (Mexico being the largest source of them) that has flooded our labor market, displacing poor citizens and driving wages and benefits down. Letters
That is partly because they struggle to compete with rivals in India and China that spend less on wages. Times, Sunday Times
The club struggled to ship them out as no one else would match their whopping wages. The Sun
Their official wages were not that far divorced from those of clerical staff. Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
She said there were chances to make big wages there, because forewomen and draping hands were wanted more and girls who had anything in them had a better show than in a little place. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
The government managed to control inflation by the fixing of wages and prices.
I am satisfied the judgment of the country favors the policy of aid to our merchant marine, which will broaden our commerce and markets and upbuild our sea-carrying capacity for the products of agriculture and manufacture; which, with the increase of our Navy, mean more work and wages to our countrymen, as well as a safeguard to State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
But it's worth remembering that, barely a century ago, the great male fear was not of alpha females with intimidatingly large salaries but their polar opposite: women were seen, rather like immigrant labour now, as dangerously liable to undercut men's wages by doing the same work for less. Young women are now earning more than men – that's not sexist, just fair | Gaby Hinsliff
Free trade does not lower wages or cause persistent unemployment There is nothing new in the current hullabaloo about free trade, jobs, and trade deficits.
I used to work in a restaurant as a teenager and I would have been docked a week's wages had I tried to use that many prawns on a starter.
If workers believe inflation is likely to accelerate, they will demand high enough wages to compensate for expected increases in prices.
Fixed wages and lack of promotion act as a disincentive to employees.
In other comparable countries real wages increased much more rapidly.
Cost cuts gave companies more money to pass on to employees in the form of higher wages and bonuses, economists said.
Although threats to sack refusenik players who will not defer their wages have now been withdrawn, negotiations with the PFA are expected to continue for at least a fortnight. Business as usual for suspended Confederation of African Football pair
The balance of the wages was devoted to new books on flower culture.
Illegal workers have to accept terribly low wages, miserable working conditions, and essentially no benefits.
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.
Under this sequence, the capitalist expends a sum of money M in buying materials and machinery and in paying wages.
Jobs range from horticulture to graphic design and wages average 170 per week. The Sun
The way a devaluation works is to cut real wages (by raising import prices) while keeping nominal wages constant. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, the Free Family of Olema chose this mode of existence, while even those among Boydston's subjects who engaged in waged work could not avoid this strategy, because the purchasing power of prevailing wages could not replace the unwaged labor power that women and children provided to the household economy. back Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
Wages for the lowest paid rose almost three times faster than those of higher earners last year, official figures show. The Sun
The reform program has brought unacceptably high unemployment and falling wages.
As production becomes rationalized and routinized over time, the skills and hence high wages of the city labor force become unnecessary.
By holding down your wages, corporations fatten their profits, stock prices rise, and Wall Street's high-rolling investors rejoice.
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.
But stagnant wages mean income tax receipts are flat at best. The Sun
The court awarded the women $100 000 each to recompense them for nine years of lost wages.
Workers said yesterday that they were entitled to these wages because of the hazardous nature of their jobs.
Prostitution among dressmakers and milliners was notorious, due to the seasonal nature of the work and the lack of wages for up to eight months of the year, as Henry Mayhew reported in his 1851 series on needlewomen in the Morning Chronicle.
Robins is clearly annoyed by the wages package at a time when the Sky Blues are making heavy losses.
They can claim for such things as staff wages, office space, stationery, travel costs and accommodation.
For example, in Burundi, she says "even though public sector wages are well below average for the region, the IMF used its influence to ensure the government reduce its spending on public sector wages – having hiring freezes and cutting subsidies for fuel and reinstate a 20 percent fuel tax affecting the poorest. Increased Support for Developing Countries Urged from the International Monetary Fund
Currently fish drying is carried out in the unorganised sector by women in rural areas who work for local agents on piece rates or on daily wages.
Faculty sponsors pay 30 percent of students' wages; the college work-study program pays 70 percent.
Most economists expect inflation to exceed growth in wages next year and possibly for longer. Times, Sunday Times
So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages.
In this way, those on low wages can get a sniff of the high life. Times, Sunday Times
The loss of full-timers who are loyal to their position because they receive living wages and benefits is a threat to bus safety and quality of service.
He sweetened the pill by increasing wages, although by slightly less than he raised prices.
But United pay his weekly wages so Keane is careful not to tread on the precious egos of anybody still at the club.
It could also lead to top teachers being offered big wages to work in the worst schools. The Sun
Unemployment reached the highest levels since the 1930s. Wages fell by the greatest amount in a century.
Richards Bay Minerals in the KwaZulu/Natal are to be balloted on stk i over wages and working conditions, the union said in a statement on Tuesday. ANC Daily News Briefing
Under the wage assumption outlined in subsection 3.1, the short-run movement in prices relative to wages is muted.
The smaller shops pay very low wages.
Look around you for pictures that you really like, and in buying which you can help some genius yet unperished -- that is the best atonement you can make to the one you have neglected -- and give to the living and struggling painter at once wages, and testimonial. A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
In 2002, unemployment levels reached historic highs of 23 percent, real wages plummeted and the peso was severely devalued.
The union has already raised concerns that some workers have had the costs of their safety equipment docked from wages.
Worker exploitation and unfair wages are no laughing matter.
This language carries to the human mind, with irresistible force, the idea of _two distinct states_ -- one a state of _freedom_, the other a state of _bondage_: in one of which, a person is serving with his consent for wages; in the other of which a person is serving without his _consent_, according to his master's pleasure. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
Various factors were decisive here: more food for better performance, the widespread introduction of piecework wages, and the constant expansion of the plant-internal system of surveillance and punishment.
Economists and historians regard a reduction in real wages as one of the distinguishing features of the modern period.
The majority work long hours for low wages, with no insurance coverage or legal protection.
They sailed for nominal wages and primage, or five per cent of the gross freight paid the vessel. Modern American Prose Selections
Economists hoped that higher wages would encourage companies to rely less on cheap labour and lift investment to fix the productivity problem. Times, Sunday Times
In recent months the Clyde has been a popular place to fish and most boats have always managed to scrape a fairly decent week's wages.
People earning low wages will find it difficult to pay for childcare.
This was true of fair wages agreements dating back to the last century introduced to combat sweated labour.
And because pensions are a form of deferred wages, Labour is really forcing through a giant wage cut.
They keep back 30 % of their wages for a special fund.
Too much opposition was set up against the government's plan to control wages and prices, so that they had to cease it.
You would hope that any increase in real wages is natural rather than artificial. Times, Sunday Times
The Spring Festival comes, SMS reports; New Year greetings, wish you smile; life is happy, good luck over; double wages, have both fame and wealth, opportunities around; health need; a text message, all is well.
The figures are appalling: 1,800,000 people in London live on the poverty line and below it, and 1,000,000 live with one week's wages between them and pauperism. THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF LIFE
This often means they pay workers low wages and charge customers high prices.
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.
As a result they have traditionally commanded higher wages than most other manual workers.
Chris kind of waffled on a question concerning unpaid wages and lawsuits. Archive 2009-10-01
The president praised teachers for their meritorious service in educating students, but declined to touch on teachers' complaints about their meager wages and poor living conditions.
But the increasing number of low-income dole recipients shows that wages have generally stayed low and that its economy is not likely to fully recover in the short term.
Giving “insiders”—workers and managers—too much control is often thought to slow restructuring and prompt excessive wages and overstaffing. The Return
I cover the mortgage, bills and food with my wages but have very little left over. The Sun
His wages are barely enough to keep body and soul together.
People earning low wages will find it difficult to pay for childcare.
Nominal wages increase in the more agglomerated region because, as a result of the additional firm's entry, there is greater aggregate production and thus greater demand for labor.
Good, as goodness might be measured in their particular class, hard-working for meagre wages and scorning the sale of self for easier ways, nervously desirous for some small pinch of happiness in the desert of existence, and facing a future that was a gamble between the ugliness of unending toil and the black pit of more terrible wretchedness, the way whereto being briefer though better paid. Chapter 6
They earn wages below the decency threshold set by the EU.
There were those who profited from the event, none more so than the tilers, bricklayers and glaziers whose wages trebled.
You would hope that any increase in real wages is natural rather than artificial. Times, Sunday Times
My employer deducted a pound from my wages this week.
From this gross _Diallælos_ (as the logicians call it), or see-saw, we are now liberated; for the first step, as we are now aware, is false: the value of commodities is _not_ determined by wages; since wages express the value of labor; and it has been demonstrated that not the _value_ but the _quantity_ of labor determines the value of its products. Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2
This demands a solution to the frightening statistics on infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education, analphabetism, wages insufficient to sustain life. Rigoberta Menchú Tum - Acceptance and Nobel Lecture
Instead he goes rogue and wages his own personal battle in this entertaining western. Times, Sunday Times
According to the hypothesis of some economists, increased wages may give rist to the high cost of living.
Wages, the drain demanding so much cash support from Mansour, further compound City's difficulties. Sheikh Mansour takes spending at Manchester City past half-billion mark
With 20% unemployment (real numbers) the economy in the tank, wages cut, businesses lost, foreclosures at record numbers, and personal income almost nill, the working class is not making enough money to be taxed. Obama touts tax credits
In addition, poor wages not only offset women's increased access to the job market, but occupational segregation, as a result of women's access, helped to lower the status of certain jobs and create pink-collar ghettos.
They abruptly slashed welfare rates by 22 percent, used workfare and other regulatory changes to drive people off benefits, froze minimum wages and stopped building social housing.
These measures are held to be necessary to discipline labour, to get more productivity and in return give workers insecurity of tenure, lower real wages and poorer working conditions.
Labor shortages were not going to be driving up wages for a long time to come.
Breaking Bad has a way of investing everyday objects — a teakettle, a box cutter, a local car wash — with ominous significance, reminders in a bleak sun-blasted Albuquerque landscape that the wages of sin are messy and a corrupted soul can't be easily cleansed. Roush Review: Breaking Bad and Other Weekend Picks
The unpalatable fact is that China and India are already competing both with very low wages and in high tech as well. Times, Sunday Times
Contingencies such as unrecoverable medical or dental expenses, hospital expenses and loss of wages are also provided for.
Must rising wages and expanding production hit a brick wall, leading to layoffs and falling output?
The freed slaves were held in ‘debt bondage,’ with the landlord forcing them to work for no wages and with no days off to repay the purchase of tools.
Your gallant battle-hosts and work-hosts, as the others did, will need to be made loyally yours; they must and will be regulated, methodically secured in their just share of conquest under you; -- joined with you in veritable brotherhood, sonhood, by quite other and deeper ties than those of temporary day's wages! Past and Present
All the cynicism about his abilities, all the sniping about his wages have vanished. The Sun
That lower living standard will be brought about either by lower average money wages than would otherwise prevail or by higher average living costs, or by a combination of both.
The cost to an employer of employing his workers includes government levies of 11.45% of wages paid.
Traditionally, miners commanded higher wages than other workers.
On coming ashore their crews came across another English crew who boasted about their unusually high wages. Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
Average hourly wages climbed by 0.4 per cent, above forecasts. Times, Sunday Times
The first thing the dice told me to do was raise wages across the board thirty percent and write commending personal letters to everyone. THE DICE MAN
The real culprit is the private sector, far too dependent on low wages in the place of investment.
Another monograph discussing voltammetric analysis methods in electroplating (8.108.5002) presents 77 methods for determining a range of components in galvanic baths and sewages. Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news
Very little of this cash has gone into improvements to retirement payouts for workers whose ‘deferred wages’ swelled the coffers of the pension funds.
Couple that with the fact that wages rose to record high level in real terms in the closing decade of the twentieth century , and you have the makings of a real estate boom .
During those periods, there were sharp reductions in bank deposits, bank notes, wages, and prices.
The average employer contribution to salary-based pensions is 11 percent of wages.
They steelworker is going to squeak a lot over reduced wages or loss of job. Against MRV, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Whereas on this continent the unskilled labourer is paid fifty to sixty percent of the wages of skilled labour, in South Africa his wages are less than twenty per cent of that of skilled labour. A Canadian Looks at South Africa
Negotiations have stalled on more than 30 issues, including fair wages and an end to discrimination and favoritism in hiring and promotions.
The workers are demanding increases to wages and pension benefits, having received none since 1997.
It's the idea that basically, the increment to wages that a worker requires to leave him indifferent between performing two tasks -- one which is more unpleasant than the other -- that's what you call a compensating differential. Steven Levitt analyzes crack economics
Thanks to low wages and high rents, young people are relatively poor in real terms. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Leterme said that Belgium already has mechanisms in its laws to prevent wages from rising faster than those in Germany, France and the Netherlands — part of biannual negotiations between unions and business groups that are ongoing. Belgium's Leterme Pushes Back Against Germany
It then seemed to the classicists that the real wages, or means of subsistence, had to be advanced to the laborers.
The difference between your wages and mine is negligible.
My wages were four shillings and sixpence per week. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
Real wages increased by 44 percent and there were other gains in the form of food subsidies, shorter working hours and social insurance, financed by steep progressive taxation.
All the cynicism about his abilities, all the sniping about his wages have vanished. The Sun
Most arrivals will work for employers happy to use them for low wages. The Sun
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.
The Spring Festival comes, SMS reports; New Year greetings, wish you smile; life is happy, good luck over; double wages, have both fame and wealth, opportunities around; health need; a text message, all is well.
Wages could also be higher than elsewhere in the economy as the bloodsucking, parasitic capitalist is not there demanding his piece of the action.
Strong demand is allowing businesses to bolster payrolls - and wages
People earning low wages will find it difficult to pay for childcare.
Wages in the Czech Republic are about a fifth to a quarter of the wages paid in Germany.
The management decided to economize by cutting the dead wood from the workforce,thus reducing the wages bill.
Direct Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to compare pay scales in job categories held mostly by women or mostly by men, and then enforce wage control to equalize wages according to the feminists 'subjective definition of what they call comparable worth. ChronWatch - Articles
However, the plantations are unattractive to local people, not because the people are 'choosy' but because they can't live on the pittances offered as wages. Malaysia independent news
How can people come to work there as nurses, teachers, dustmen, waiters, shop assistants and the thousand other necessary trades when flats or houses cost ten years' wages?
Company annually according to the employee's work performance periodically examine each employee's wages combine appropriate adjustment.
The party, though, was non-committal on restoring the wages and benefits of the hospital workers.
He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.
The only major item that is controlled in the Celtic tiger economy is wages.
The security van that brings our wages always varies its route.
Women continue to be denied fringe benefits and wages equivalent to those received by men.
They argue that relatively low wages in Germany mean that they face unfair competition. Times, Sunday Times
His wages would match those of some of the league's highest earners and Madrid would certainly want a hefty fee. Times, Sunday Times
The fund's value increases each year in line with the average growth in wages.
High wages, high taxes, and high-priced land, necessitate high farming; and by high farming, I mean growing large crops every year, and on every portion of the farm; but high wages and _low-priced land_ do not necessarily demand high farming. Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject
Under these circumstances, the wages of many different types of labour are determined by the process of collective bargaining.
Despite the boom, high-school dropouts -- in other words, the working poor -- saw their wages fall 5 percent during the 1990s, partly because of a greater supply of cheap labor. Crossing The Next Frontier
For one, wages tend to be lower in authoritarian regimes than in democracies, giving businesses in dictatorships a monetary advantage in selling exports abroad.
Thus, our productivity, wages and standards of living, our money and our wealth, are continually at risk.
Meanwhile, their rather toothless union, typical of the Third World, cannot press for minimum wages or maximum hours.
The staff don't mind the new work schedule but they would jib at taking a cut in wages.
But we have to pay our wages at the end of the month. The Sun
They disclaim, however, all desire of employing compulsory measures for that purpose, but recommended every mode of encouragement, and particularly by augmented wages, "_in order to induce manufacturers of wrought silk to quit that branch and take to the winding of raw silk_. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)
Official statistics show real wages declining by 24%.
The wages for many teenage and low-paid workers rose correspondingly.
THE only way to punish and stop footballers using abusive language is for their clubs to suspend them and stop their wages. The Sun
She shook her head, baffled that something happening in France could have the effect of taking away her wages. Burning Bright
Those workers earned less money because of deductions for medical insurance from their wages.
By this point, local agents of the tax inspectorate, police, security service, and procuracy had been coopted by the governors, who supplemented their wages, found them housing, and in practice had a say in local appointments. The Return
This tax relief is restricted to income from wages and winnings and is back-dated to April 1990.
Therefore, on any given project, a manageable chunk will be completed to secure enough cash for wages.
Deepening poverty exacerbated by rising prices and pegged wages will lead to growing anti-government hostility.
If workfare replaces welfare, wages will become more flexible enabling EU labor markets to absorb immigrants more efficiently.
Inflation helps the economy deal with sticky wages and prices.
Farm workers receive the lowest wages of any sector in the country.
Most of the players were on Premiership wages and hid when the going got tough.
The Ontario government and other anti-poverty agencies confirm that low wages is a key factor to families living in deepening poverty. The Privileged and the Impoverished: Now One and the Same? : Law is Cool
Meanwhile there was a strike at food delivery business Deliveroo last year when it tried to move its couriers from hourly wages. Times, Sunday Times
In an era of sharply higher inflation and sluggish wages, those price increases will go down like a lead balloon. Times, Sunday Times
They swell the ranks of the unemployed, reduce the wages of those who keep their jobs, and hurt an already struggling economy by further crimping consumer and corporate spending.
Supermarkets all over the country have been lowering wages and decimating workers' health plans.
Meshach kept him respectably dressed, but paid him no wages; the negro had what he wanted, but wanted little; on more than one occasion the court had imposed penalties on Samson's breaches of the peace, and he lay in jail, unsolicitous and proud, until Meshach Milburn paid the fine, which he did grudgingly; for money was Meshach's sole pursuit, and he spent nothing upon himself. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
That happens either through lower wages and higher unemployment or higher inflation. Times, Sunday Times
She'd laid aside a few pounds each week from her wages.
But he questions whether wage indexation is in fact even feasible in the long run. indexing future retirement benefits to wages is analytically equivalent to indexing them to the overall returns experienced by the owners of capital ... the government faces a massive quandary if it tries to guarantee relative living standards via wage indexation while funding the program with less risky investments like short - or intermediate-term government bonds. Social Security and Indexing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
This requires real wages and other remuneration to rise more slowly than productivity.

How To Use Wages In A Sentence

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