The phrase "a pay increment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an increase in salary or wages, typically in a professional or employment context.
Example: "After a year of hard work and dedication, I was pleased to receive a pay increment during my performance review."
Alternatives: "a salary increase" or "a wage raise".
We did give people we already have a hardship pay increment, but yes, it's enhanced to serve in such places.
Tamkeen will even pay a wage increment for local employees for the first year.
Last January, one of the civil servants, Mr Y, lost a two-year pay increment after he admitted using the department's database to get information on an "attractive woman".
At a meeting of the district council's negotiating committee last week, officials from 2 of the union's 56 locals voted against the agreement, complaining that it did not include a one-tenth of 1percentt pay increment that the city gave in September to another civilian union, Teamsters Local 237, which represents Housing Authority workers.
"Less than half of nursing staff at the top of their pay increment will get a paltry 1% rise, following three years of pay restraint.
If you want your pay increment, I'd like to see some more of that'".
No one imagines this will be easy, but an incremental shift would leave time to put compensating measures in place – a higher minimum wage, more training, flexible working conditions and a gradual trade-off between pay increments and working time.
Having met earlier this year with the NHS pay review body to discuss external trends in pay progression and rewards, I find the Department of Health's submission to the pay review body urging it to cancel the agreed 1% rise and remove pay increments remarkable from a number of perspectives (Hunt on collision course as he says no to NHS pay rises, 5 October).
Other chunks of the NHS are also having to be spent on the Cancer Drugs Fund (£200m), pay increments for staff (£1bn a year), extra VAT since January (£250m), and the transitional costs of the move to the new system of GP-led commissioning of healthcare (£500m).
For many charities, TOIL is as endemic a part of the working culture as equal opportunities and pay increments.
