Sentence examples for wages raised from inspiring English sources

In recent years anti-discrimination and unfair-dismissal rules have been tightened, and minimum wages raised, in many rich countries.

"A hundred thousand low-wage workers in Seattle will be seeing their wages raised to $15 an hour over the next 10 years.

If this is true, they can't simply be won over by getting median wages raised or by bringing the local factory back from Mexico.

In addition, as employers reacted to the new law, many folks who currently earn a bit more than the minimum wage would also see their wages raised.

The Fiscal Policy Institute, a liberal research group, estimated that 612,000 workers in New York earn less than $6.75 an hour and would have their wages raised by the bill.

The editor would take us on as indentured journalists on the National Council for the Training of Journalists scheme and get rid of anyone who was dogged enough to last three years to qualify and have their wages raised according to the national industry pay schedule.

The bailout requires Greece to cut wages, raise taxes, fire state employees, sell off state assets and restructure labour laws.

Already the government has felt obliged to squeeze wages, raise utility prices and put up taxes and import barriers.

He contributed to the "natural rate hypothesis", that efforts to push employment above an economy's limits simply bid up wages, raising inflation.

Overall, the evidence indicated that living wages raise wages at the bottom of the wage distribution.

Now, more and more cities and states are increasing their minimum wages, raising pay for millions of workers and showing that social change can happen very rapidly.