Sentence examples for wages straight from inspiring English sources

The couple who employed her claimed they were sending her wages straight home to her parents, and since they controlled her access to mail, both incoming and outgoing, she had no way of finding out that no money was sent.

He gave his wages straight to his cotton-weaver mother (his odd-job-man father was a jack of all trades called Jack), who gave him back a half crown to pay for the tram.

Rural youth can often earn a decent wage straight out of high school working in the oil, mining or timber industries, or on a ranch or farm.

Now we have bank cards and wages go straight there," he said.

The girls who come back and have been cheated of their wages head straight for his house, he says.

First, we seem to agree that if we just compare the straight wages paid to public sector and private sector workers, the latter do better.

Unlike garment makers in the Orient, who favor the piece-work system, they pay workers a straight hourly wage.

But an even greater outrage is how Morgan Stanley and like-minded companies finance lobbying campaigns to oppose increases in the federal minimum wage, arguing, with straight faces, that increasing a worker's pay to, say, $12,000 from $11,000 for a year of full-time work would somehow hamper their competitiveness.

As of 2006, premiums for employer-based health insurance rose more than twice as fast as overall inflation and wages for the seventh straight year [ 19].

His next film is summer's "Copland --a low-budget Miramax film for whiCopland --a reportedly earned a straight SAG wage ($50,000)--starring as a pudgy, sad-saCopland --aopposite Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel.

But workers in less developed countries tend to be less productive than Americans, so a straight comparison of wages gives an inaccurate reading of the potential savings.