Sentence examples for effectively earning from inspiring English sources

They are anxious to investigate the retailer's treatment of workers following a Guardian investigation last year that revealed warehouse staff were effectively earning less than the minimum wage.

Mr Forsey, meanwhile, was forced to defend Sports Direct against claims that staff at its warehouse are effectively earning below the minimum wage because they were forced to wait for around 15 minutes after each shift to be searched by security staff.

"At the moment, there's a huge build-up of deposits, so the reserve balances of banks – the money they have left over – they deposit with the Bank of England every day," says Jim Leaviss, a bond fund manager at M&G. "At the moment, banks are effectively earning interest of 0.5 per cent for doing this.

Go back to the US pension fund assumption that they can earn 7.5-8% a year on their portfolios; with T-bills effectively earning zero, that means US pension funds are anticipating they will earn double the historic average excess return.

There is an excellent chapter about the author's hutong neighbor Recycler Wang, whom Meyer accompanies on his rounds buying plastic water bottles for one fen each ($0.0013) and selling them for 1.5 fen ($0.0020) — effectively earning 70 cents for 1,000 bottles, the cost of a bowl of noodles.

And many workers -- particularly men -- are effectively earning less than they did three decades ago, while also lacking access to health insurance and other benefits.

Benefits packages full of maternity leave, pregnancy coverage, dependent health insurance and other benefits that mean parents effectively earn more than nonparents.

Flying long haul saves you money in the short haul because a round trip to Beijing earns over 10,000 points that effectively earns a traveller a £35 return flight to Prague on British Airways, with 1000 points to spare.

If the companies manage to cut their pollution more than required, then they are allowed to raise prices to the point where they effectively earn bonuses of 0.05 to 0.1 percentage point on their rate of return.

The Guardian reported last year that workers at Sports Direct's headquarters in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, were subjected to surveillance and lengthy searches that meant they effectively earned less than the minimum wage.

The recent boom in house prices means that in two thirds of London boroughs properties effectively "earned" more than the average nurse's salary in the 2013-14 financial year, according to figures from the National Housing Federation.