The phrase "a wage cut" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a reduction in an employee's salary or hourly pay.
Example: "Due to the company's financial struggles, management announced a wage cut for all employees starting next month."
Alternatives: "salary reduction" or "pay decrease."
Some workers lost their jobs after opposing a wage cut.
So in such models you could say that other things equal a wage cut would be expansionary.
Workers who experienced a wage cut typically lose £290, more than the average monthly grocery bill, the report found.
In a supplementary exercise, we document that workers are willing to pay to punish anonymous laborers who have accepted a wage cut.
By the same token, however, a devaluation is akin to a wage cut, a way of making a nation's goods more competitive in global markets.
One of his biggest accomplishments, a 17-week strike at a Mott's applesauce plant, prevented a wage cut but brought few new benefits to workers.
Meatpackers voted today to accept a wage cut and end a bitter strike at the Swift Independent Corporation plant here, union officials announced.
Three months before the congressman's visit, in fact, 800 women walked off the job to protest a wage cut — the first of many bitter strikes in Lowell's history.
The poorest men have had even sharper financial and romantic declines: men in the bottom quartile of earnings have had a wage cut of 60 percent, and a contemporaneous drop in marriage rates to about 50 percent, from 86 percent.
If you have a general strike and the trade unions don't agree, what do you do?" Moreover, a wage cut of around 20 percent in the private sector was required, he argued.
I offered her a wage cut to come and work with me but I promised her, if you do it you'll be back on your wage in two years and on more than that afterwards.
