Sentence examples for very low pay from inspiring English sources
"Unskilled workers are facing a choice between no pay and very low pay.
"Companies are definitely exploiting the situation; they're getting good-quality work for very low pay".
Workers in retail, hospitality and cleaning would benefit the most because of the prevalence of very low pay those industries.
Workers routinely work long shifts on very low pay and are exposed to harmful chemicals that can cause illnesses.
Fear over dangerous working conditions was as strong a motivation for recent strikes as very low pay.
In some sectors, employers are taking on millions of very low paid workers with little chance of progression.
"We pay over the odds, in a very low paying sector, and our staff are fantastic". Four out of five of them have degrees, two are (unusually) men, and only one role has required recruitment, albeit twice, in the last four years.
According to the Labor Department, 5 of the 10 occupations expected to add the most jobs through 2016 are "very low paying," up to a maximum of about $22,000 a year.
Sally Alexander, for instance, was a member of a women's group in Oxford, and says that the talk would focus on "the fact that women were very low paid.
If I look back to my very low paid days as an indentured apprentice on a local weekly in the 1960s, I suppose it's possible to make out a case that it wasn't unlike an internship.
