As thousands of fast-food workers prepare to strike over wages on Wednesday, much of their ire will be directed at the franchise owners who control the vast majority of the restaurants where they work.
During the recession government control over minimum wage setting has increased through the removal of the social partners from decision making over minimum wage levels (Greece, Hungary, Spain, Latvia), or by freezing (Ireland, Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic), (partially) de-indexing (Belgium, Luxembourg) or lowering (Greece) the statutory minimum wage.
Controls over rents, wages, and prices were allowed to expire, and in 1954 there was a slight tax revision.
Under a tight system of state control over factories, workshops, wages and tariffs, the city processed trade from Russia, India, China and Africa, with merchants attracted by its gold and silk commodities.
Some analysts speculate that the Islamists' strategy is to retreat to the north, wait for the French/ECOWAS forces to assert control over the land, wage an insurgency to weaken their morale, and drive them out of northern Mali.
A good example of this is civil servants' long-running, futile negotiations with the public service ministry, which is controlled by the MDC, over wages and improved working conditions.
The new approach would give the government more control over training, performance standards, wages and benefits.
This should list all the sources of income and expenditure, separated by those that you have 'no' control over, such as rent, wages, bank interest and so on, and those that you can have some control over, including supplier payments and accountants fees.
His strategy implied a very active role for the public sector in guiding the process of economic growth, calling for state control over the money supply, wages and prices, and bank credit to the private sector.
