Sentence examples for accepted wages from inspiring English sources

Another 17.2 percent also accepted wages that were less than those for their previous jobs, but the pay demotions were not quite as severe.

As the pie chart below shows, 26.6 percent of those who found new full-time jobs accepted wages that were at least 20 percent less than their old jobs paid.

Hence, they accepted wages below their current opportunity level in order to cover the costs of their training.

This second group of parameters is calibrated to reproduce the average age-profiles of re-entry and retirement rates and the accepted wages of individuals re-entering employment.24 Exceptionally, the discount factor, β=1/(1+r), and the degree of risk aversion, η, are set to the standard values found elsewhere in the literature (see Table 2).

The union has also allegedly accepted wage settlements that tied workers into years of meagre increases.

He said that many government employees already contributed heavily toward their health and pension costs, and that many had accepted wage freezes to help cut budget deficits.

Tens of thousands of workers have accepted wage cuts pressed on them by embattled employers, cuts that in many cases pushed their wages below middle-class levels.

He is closely linked to recent Dutch success, including at Wassenaar in 1982, when he was the union leader who accepted wage restraint, and he was finance minister in the 1989-94 Lubbers government.

Pilots and other employees had accepted wage cuts of around 15%, and a six-year pay freeze, in return for shares, which led to the airline being 55%-owned by its staff.

I'm fighting even harder now for spots in ever more popular classes, sitting at my laptop at the very moment when online reservations are accepted, waging mouse-click wars against all comers.

Not quite as undomesticated as he had promised, he led the new union into support for the 1977 Moncloa pacts, in which both the commissions and the party accepted wage cuts.