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The phrase "a half wages" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct expression would be "half wages" or "half of the wages."
Example: "Due to the budget cuts, employees will now receive half wages for the next month."
Alternatives: "partial pay" or "reduced salary."
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It is undisputed that respondent did not pay petitioners time-and-a-half wages when they worked in excess of 40 hours per week.
It is undisputed that petitioners were not paid time-and-a-half wages when they worked more than 40 hours per week.
The amount paid in time-and-a-half wages more than doubled to more than $46 million last year, from slightly more than $20 million in 1992, state officials said, and more than $191 million in the past five years.
Instead of having to pay time-and-a-half wages when an hourly-paid employee works longer than the standard 40-hour work week, the employer incurs no financial cost at the time the extra hours are worked.
In a ruined landscape, beside roads scored by tank treads and strewn with garbage, Niam Bakhiet, a city worker on half wages, was painstakingly trimming a hedge the other day.
In 1990 it took an American eight and a half months' wages to pay for a car.
Noel Cintron, 59, who said he served as Trump's driver for more than 20 years, alleges that Trump did not pay him the time-and-a-half overtime wages required under New York state law.
Workers who earn up to $50,440 a year would be eligible for time-and-a-half overtime wages when they work more than 40 hours per week.
Many articles calculate how long a worker would have to labor to buy the item coming off his production line; an entry-level worker on an iPhone assembly line, for example, would have to shell out two and a half months' wages for one.
The president of the association, Michael F. Adams, said the proposed pact included $20 million in union concessions, including a one-and-a-half-year wage freeze, the elimination of Flag Day as a holiday and a pay cut for beginning officers.
For a decade and a half my wage was in construction, high-rise, and plenty of injuries happen on jobsites.
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