"insufficient wages" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used in a variety of contexts, but it often refers to the low or inadequate amount of money a person receives for their work. Example: "The employees at the factory went on strike to protest against the insufficient wages they were receiving." In this sentence, "insufficient wages" is used to describe the inadequate amount of money the employees were being paid.
Higher, if still insufficient, wages for many African workers were the result.
Through the Association, he is trying to furnish Sherpas to expeditions, in competition with the Himalayan Club, which, he feels, pays insufficient wages.
Millions are without a job and many of those who still have work face difficulties to sustain their families due to insufficient wages and skyrocketing prices.
The goal of students across the country who are organizing around sweatshop issues is to create widespread change in an industry where insufficient wages and mandatory overtime are common.
Elitzer points out that truckers are already complaining that companies are offering insufficient wages as salaries haven't kept up with rises in living costs – even though there's a shortfall of 30,000 truck drivers in the US.
He is one of a legion of young Chinese migrants who emerge out of rural obscurity to find work in China's teeming cities, only to end up crushed by both the dullness and stress of factory jobs, insufficient wages and a steady accumulation of personal disappointments.
In fact, it can amplify differences in real economic conditions when its members experience different shocks and there is insufficient wage flexibility or labor mobility in the union.
Postdocs with dependents believe they receive an insufficient living wage.
Apart from EPL and industrial relation reforms, substantially improving the situation of the unemployed and temporary workers costs money: in the form of training for those with insufficient skills, wage subsidies, decent jobs in the public sector and adequate social protection (against unemployment and in old age).
There were councils who commissioned social care packages which simple arithmetic would have told them were insufficient to pay minimum wage salaries to the care workers.
The economy's problems — a weak labor market, stagnant wages, insufficient consumer demand, widening income inequality, intractable poverty — are not primarily the Fed's to solve.
