Sentence examples for slash pay from inspiring English sources

So on the face of it, investors should be applauding its decision to slash pay by a fifth.

In his speech at a seminar in London on Wednesday, Sir Michael, who is also BBC chairman, outlined plans to slash pay and called for greater transparency.

If total disaster struck, he figured he could lay off 45,000 of his 233,000 employees, cease all marketing and slash pay.

"If you're trying to get people motivated to deal with a huge backlog, the last thing you would do is slash pay," said Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, who received many calls.

In one of his more significant cases, Horowitz was on an arbitration panel that was asked by Delta Air Lines during its bankruptcy in 2006 to void the company's agreement with its pilots so that it could slash pay and benefits amid threats of a strike by the union.

"I wouldn't begin to say how much money you should make on Wall Street," Mr. Feinberg said in an interview last week, as he prepared to slash pay for the top 25 earners at seven firms that received significant government aid.

Many firms cut jobs and slashed pay in 2011.

Companies are therefore thinking harder about who they reward, and why.Last year American companies slashed pay bills by simply sacking staff.

By slashing pay in the public sector, raising taxes and (hesitantly) starting to reform the labour market, the plan is to cut the budget deficit from 13.6% of GDP in 2009 to less than 3% by 2014.

By slashing pay in the public sector, raising taxes and (hesitantly) starting to reform the labour market, the plan aims to reduce the budget deficit from 13.6% of GDP in 2009 to less than 3% by 2014.

During that time it has cut its workforce, slashed pay and pensions and reduced the number of its flights, all of which helped it turn a record profit for the year ending in March.