Sentence examples for wage offsetting from inspiring English sources

Marianne Fallon, head of corporate affairs at KPMG, said there were sound business reasons for adopting the standard including "improved motivation and performance" together with "lower leaver and absentee rates among staff in receipt of a living wage" offsetting the extra costs of paying it.

Mr King gave warning in his speech against "a self-defeating process of higher wages offset by higher prices".A majority of economists surveyed by Reuters before the minutes came out thought that the bank would raise the base rate to 5.5% by March.

The negative effects of maternity leave on wages offset some of the benefits through increased participation.

These days, Sadlier admits it would take a lot for them to move abroad again, with the financial benefit of higher wages offset by the potential drain of costly international school fees.

The only penalty is a portion of the back wages, offset by what the worker earned, and reinstatement, which is not always a good option for someone who's moved on with their lives".

Rather than cutting jobs, businesses employing low-wage workers offset wage increases in other ways, says Michael Reich, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and coauthor of one of the two studies on which the CBO primarily based its estimates.

This in turn would increase their work experience and job tenure and thereby allowing them to maintain good job matches and higher wages.2 Offsetting this direct effect narrowing the wage and employment gender gaps are several selection mechanisms.

For Scandinavian countries, Hibbs and Locking (1996) and Holden (1998) find that increases in nationally negotiated wage have little offsetting effect on wage drift.

Shiftiness is also there in the claim that the rise in the status of the minimum wage to the level of a "living wage" will offset the damaging impact of the assault on tax credits and other spending on social security.

"The government says the increase in the minimum wage will offset the losses to working families from tax credit cuts.

So in January, when the Senate Finance Committee approved $8.3 billion in tax breaks to soften the blow on small business of an increase in the minimum wage, it offset the breaks by unanimously adopting $8.3 billion in revenue raisers (such as imposing a $1 million annual cap on tax deferred compensation for executives).