Such an agreement could provide the structure and pay guidelines for difficult negotiations now going on with other unions, primarily for teachers and police officers.

Such uniformity exists today in other industrial nations, among them West Germany and Sweden, where government agencies or unions set pay guidelines.

Last September, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Fed was preparing a tough set of pay guidelines for big financial firms to follow.

In the speech and in interviews afterward, Mr. Klein outlined a few ways that he hoped to change - if not eradicate - seniority, tenure and pay guidelines.

The Library's Performance Pay Guidelines were approved by SOED, and payments, backdated as necessary in accordance with national agreements, were made in November.

UNDER proposed new pay guidelines for Westchester County legislators, all extra fees for attending committee meetings would be abolished, along with stipends for some committee leaders and the minority and majority whips.

After the oil shock the NUM renewed its claim for a substantial wage increase, a claim which broke government pay guidelines, and then began industrial action in the form of an overtime ban in support of the claim.