Sentence examples for half wages from inspiring English sources

In a ruined landscape, beside roads scored by tank treads and strewn with garbage, Niam Bakhiet, a city worker on half wages, was painstakingly trimming a hedge the other day.

"It's a massive boost for everybody," Warnock says of Leicester's title win, "because they won't be anywhere near the top half wages wise, and Rotherham will probably be the lowest next year, depending on who gets promotion.

Hatziandreu [ 8] was a trend-setter in this field, using the assumption that exercise time should be valued at full wages for those who dislike exercise, at half wages for those who are neutral, and at no cost for those who like exercise.

To help save the company, the employees offered to work for half wage, but it was not sufficient to save the line.

It is undisputed that respondent did not pay petitioners time-and-a-half wages when they worked in excess of 40 hours per week.

It is undisputed that petitioners were not paid time-and-a-half wages when they worked more than 40 hours per week.

The amount paid in time-and-a-half wages more than doubled to more than $46 million last year, from slightly more than $20 million in 1992, state officials said, and more than $191 million in the past five years.

Short-term migrants have even lower monthly wages, at 2066 thousand VND, less than one-half wages of non-migrants.

Instead of having to pay time-and-a-half wages when an hourly-paid employee works longer than the standard 40-hour work week, the employer incurs no financial cost at the time the extra hours are worked.

"They send me employees and pay half their wages until they retire," Takenaka says.

In 1990 it took an American eight and a half months' wages to pay for a car.