Sentence examples for wage benchmarks from inspiring English sources

And Labour Behind the Label and Clean Clothes Campaign report that several companies have recently adopted credible living wage benchmarks.

Over the past year we introduced new living wage benchmarks, piloted community-based approaches to prevent child labour, supported local trade unions to negotiate with employers… And this is only half-way through delivering on the bold new strategy we announced last year".

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But the absence of a living wage benchmark and outdated factory inspection systems lack what is needed to facilitate change.

"The findings make clear that the living wage benchmark in the capital is going to have to rise in the years ahead if people are to be able to get by.

San Francisco, Los Angeles and the state of New York are all in the process of phasing in the new living wage benchmark.

Although these pay benchmarks have increased annually, and the minimum wage has risen by an average 4% since its introduction in 1999, overall pay has fallen since the 2008 financial crisis as nominal increases have been outstripped by inflation.

Nominal increases of the base (minimum) wage are benchmarked to an independent 3-year-ahead forecast of inflation net of imported energetic goods.

Using the 1968 minimum wage as benchmark, if minimum wage grew at same rate as worker productivity it would have reached $21.72 per hour.

Increases in the minimum wage — a critical benchmark used to index wages, pensions and a host of prices — were extremely popular.

8In the benchmark wage equations in Section 4.1, we instead used average wage growth.