Sentence examples for token wage from inspiring English sources
However, Clarke has not addressed the situation in open prisons, where inmates can still have months left on their sentences, but businesses can now pay them little more than a token wage for their labour.
A company spokesman was unable to give the longest time a prisoner had been employed on token wages.
In summer, many families offer nannies a Hobson's choice: either go away with them and be trapped in some all-white resort or take token wages while they're gone.
By the same token, farm wages and manufacturing wages rather than fuel prices are noted to account for variations in the US food prices from 1970 to 2009 by Lambert and Miljkovic (2010).
By the same token, low-wage countries gain strategic advantage as they build up their industrial infrastructure and develop skilled workforces.
At the end of last year it settled for a wage rise in return for token increases in flexibility, but other reforms remain blocked.In higher education, teaching is in better shape, but research funding is inadequate and thinly spread.
In 1996, New York's City Council enacted a modest living-wage law covering only a token 1,400 workers.
By the same token, however, a devaluation is akin to a wage cut, a way of making a nation's goods more competitive in global markets.
(b) An employer whose work force primarily consists of nondisabled workers or who employs more than a token number of nondisabled workers doing similar work may use as the prevailing wage the wage rate paid to that employer's experienced nondisabled employees performing similar work.
Low-wage workers without custodial children receive only a token tax credit.
