Sentence examples for public wages from inspiring English sources

State benefits, public wages and pensions are being cut.

He also promised that public wages would rise in line with inflation.

Ireland, the first economy to stumble, has taken the most severe fiscal action, cutting public wages sharply.

As an example, she said the government, after pledging not to increase public wages, had recently "given a bad signal" by then granting salary demands from striking teachers.

After a recession which initially curbed private but not public wages, state employees enjoyed an unplanned pick-up in relative pay.

It has also approved some public sector reforms, removing inflation-linked reviews of public wages, prices and indices used by public administrations.

The plan, which has won the qualified backing of the European Commission, includes public wage freezes and spending cuts.

In a recent report, the IMF criticised the Swaziland government's high public wage bill of $34m a month.

The terms of a second bailout are tough, including a 10% cut in public spending, and a 33% reduction in the public wage bill.

Hence, it is expected to correlate positively with the public wage premium.

Christopoulou and Monastiriotis (2016) find that, contrary to other European countries, public wage sector premia increased during the crisis.