Sentence examples for cap on wages from inspiring English sources

Before the NHL introduced a stricter cap on wages in 2005, his Colorado Avalanche team had one of the largest pay-rolls in the sport.

The likeliest revenue option would raise the cap on wages subject to payroll taxes, now $106,800.

But the price for receiving these benefits is accepting an effective cap on wages and an unrelenting work routine.

It also claims that changes in pay grades amount to an effective cap on wages for up to half the workforce.

"The government is counting on managers reading the way the wind is blowing and volunteering a cap on wages to save their bank," Otto Bernhardt, the parliamentary finance spokesman for Ms. Merkel's Christian Democrats and chairman of a joint committee reviewing manager pay, told Bloomberg News.

There are many reasonable possibilities: a modest rise in the retirement age, to reflect increases in health and longevity; a rise in the cap on wages subject to the payroll tax, which now cuts out at ninety thousand dollars a year; adding a bit to the progressivity of the benefits.

Unions are also wary because the government will almost certainly ask for a business plan that involves labor concessions or a cap on wage growth.

Earlier, leaders of the major public sector unions warned of a series of co-ordinated strikes this winter to press their case for lifting the cap on wage deals.

Unions are wary of the guarantee program in general because the government will almost certainly ask for a business plan that involves labor concessions or a cap on wage growth.

It urged the country "lock in" recent competitive gains by keeping a cap on wage growth (or "avoiding a renewed increase in unit labour cost growth", as it put it).

Rapid technological change is making jobs less secure in the United States, Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, said today, suggesting those anxieties would keep a cap on wage demands and inflation even as unemployment holds close to a 30-year low.