Present crew are getting no cut in basic wages.

But those workers struggling to make ends meet on basic wages of barely more than £100 a week are likely to see things very differently.

Especially if the basic wages are rather low.

To raise the basic wages of their members.

When governments inconvenience them by trying to retain minimum government rights or increase basic wages, they even use coups against them.

He introduced radical new player contracts with lower basic wages but big bonuses for points, attendance even merchandise sales, attracting media attention throughout Europe.

Pay in this context includes contractual benefits, eg bonuses and pension contributions, as well as basic wages or salary.

About half of all cleaners employed under government contracts, or over 3,500 cleaners, currently earn basic wages of at least $1,000 per month.

The wages board did not set a universal minimum wage; rather it set basic wages for 6 industries that were considered to pay low wages.

However, I note that the text, as a matter of principle, states that a reduction in working time cannot be accompanied by a drop in basic wages.

Firstly, basic wages were increased so that there would be less pressure to overfulfill quotas, and therefore less pressure to manipulate or distort results.

About three-fifths of all workers paid at or below the federal minimum wage worked in bars and restaurants, and many received tips to supplement their basic wages.

First, a system that keeps basic wages low, but allows doctors to make money from prescriptions and investigations, leads to perverse incentives and inefficiency at all levels.

There is some debate about exactly how flexible bonus payments have been and some argue that in recent years bonuses and basic wages have followed similar trends.

Last October, the U.A.W. and G.M. reached a national three-year labor agreement covering basic wages and benefits for 254,000 workers in the United States.

Basic wages over the life of the three-year contract would increase 6 percent, Nynex said: 3 percent the first year and 1.5 percent plus a cost-of-living allowance in the second and third years.

In engineering, for example, factory managers often ignored wage directives to try to encourage workers into roles that had lost much of their attraction after basic wages were cut to match pay throughout an area.

If those hurdles are cleared, the union and employers can haggle over the size of the hikes in basic wages and the conditions under which unprofitable firms can wriggle out of paying them.

Union and managment officials at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Company announced an agreement early this morning that would raise basic wages and allow the shipyard to open next Monday.

Basic wages, which average $7 an hour for waiters and others who receive tips, and $13 an hour for clerks, dishwashers, maintenance workers and others who do not receive tips, were not in dispute.

It also handles some gasoline and cigarette imports, but was set up expressly to supplement the salaries of the Bosnian Serb police, whose basic wages are still paid by the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav Government, the officials said.

While the threat of an Islamic uprising seems remote, the deep dissatisfaction with the status quo will continue as long as basic wages keep falling far behind the spiralling costs of staples such as food, fuel and building materials.

In a 90-page ruling, Associate Justice Lyle L. Richmond wrote, "Weary of endless months of fighting for their basic wages and frightened of Lee, many of the Vietnamese workers requested that they be returned to Vietnam."

By 1961, workers' basic wages had risen to an average of about 73 percent of their total earnings; piece-rate workers saw an average of 71 percent and time workers 76 percent of their earnings as their basic wage.

Despite being crafted as a result of a Royal Commission into basic wages, the C Series was only adopted by the courts as a basic wage adjusting measure in 1934 by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.

This gave rise to the legal requirement for a basic wage.

Added together, these bonuses more than double her basic wage.

And yet they don't give you a basic wage?

Present crew are getting no cut in basic wages.

The campaign to bring the war widows' pension into line with the basic wage would continue for many years.

Overtime is very much a manual worker's way of increasing his basic wage.

The basic wage system remained in place in Australia until 1967.

But those workers struggling to make ends meet on basic wages of barely more than £100 a week are likely to see things very differently.

The lump sum payments are not added to the basic wage of the union workers, which is about $14 with the raise.

Especially if the basic wages are rather low.

To raise the basic wages of their members.

As an apprentice footballer he earned a basic wage of £7 per week.

This meant that every employee would get the same basic wage, supplemented by an amount depending on the family size.

Oh, it's a basic wage but it increased to about two pounds fifty or something, because of the status of the job.

It calls, amongst other things, for the introduction of an agreement-based basic wage at European level.

A poverty line was set at $33, which was close to the basic wage plus child endowment for two children.

The subsidy decreased as their skill level increased until employers covered the full basic wage.

He said the railroad's basic wage proposal - a 19.5 percent increase over four and one-half years - was acceptable.

Some companies may seek to impose basic wage freezes, since Japan's inflation rate is near zero.

(k) The basic wage should be paid strictly in accordance with the working rule agreement.

He was paid twice the basic wage.

Someone going into a full time job on basic wage might very well be paying as much as 15 % of his income in council tax.

They acted as seconds to the Optios and were paid one and a half times the basic wage.

The notion of a "basic wage" was established in 1907 with the Harvester Judgment.

This ensured Australian workers a fair basic wage.