Yunus suggests increasing the hourly wage of Bangladeshi workers – the majority of whom are women – by around $0.50.
Together with the services that supported these public-sector workers, the majority of the city's population was dependent on public-sector resources.
But rather than drop out of the workforce, many of these "pay-neutral" workers – the majority of whom are women – choose to take the hit in the hope that by continuing to work they will safeguard their future earnings.
Fujianese Chinese workers, the majority of whom get to Britain through the Snakehead gangs, are in fact left to their own devices once the organisation has got them into the country.
Mr. Bloomberg's popularity has suffered in his third term, and public criticism has escalated since last Friday, when he proposed laying off 5,400 city workers, the majority of them teachers, to balance the city's budget.
Unlike the more common kind of CKD, seen mostly in the elderly in urban areas, CKDu appears to be a rural disease, affecting farm workers, the majority of them men between their 30s and 50s.
According to the UN and human rights workers, the majority of civilian deaths have resulted from coalition airstrikes, which are backed by American logistical and intelligence assistance.
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 excluded all agricultural workers, the majority of whom at the time were African American, from minimum wage and overtime standards.
The ready-made garment industry accounts for roughly 80percentt of Bangladesh's exports, according to the country's Export Promotion Bureau, with a labor force of 3.5 million workers, the majority of them women.
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 first established minimum wage and overtime standards but excluded all agricultural workers, the majority of whom at the time were African American.
