Sentence examples for usual wages from inspiring English sources

He said that he had already volunteered to work on Christmas Day, when he would earn double his usual wages.

Those affected receive 75% of their usual wages for eight months, then are either re-allocated or dismissed.

The faculty has urged a quick resolution of the strike, and staff members in one department chipped in to pay striking workers the difference between their strike pay and their usual wages.

So I just went ahead and did it.' The actors are doing this play for a fraction of their usual wages: Steve Buscemi said he would be there even if only to sweep the stage.

By Russell Maloney The New Yorker, May 22, 1943 P. 11 A New Jersey housewife advertised for a maid and offered in addition to the usual wages and prerogatives, the use of her mink coat on days off.

The costs would be split between workers and their employers, who would each contribute two-tenths of 1 percent of workers' wages to pay for insurance that would replace up to 66 percent of a worker's usual wages, subject to a cap of about $1,000 a week.

The first eight hours of overtime must be paid at 1.25 times a worker's normal wage and after that at 1.5 times the usual wage.

A sailor who boards a ship bound for Somali waters often gets double the usual wage, plus hazard pay, Mr. Santos said.

GM is also able to attract highly educated workers, because factory wages are $2.20 an hour, more than three times the usual wage at state enterprises.

GM is also able to attract highly educated workers because factory wages are $2.20 an hour, more than three times the usual wage at typical Chinese state-owned enterprises.

He calls the bosses' pay awards "provocative", fearing that Sweden may follow in the steps of next-door Norway, where big pay rises for bosses have prompted bigger-than-usual wage demands from ordinary workers, which in turn led to a general strike in April.Sweden's top firms, however, sound unconcerned.