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Wage Scale

The range of wages paid to employees in a certain company, organization, or locality. The relevant authority often publishes a wage scale so current and potential employees know how much they may be paid for performing certain jobs.

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The freeze means there will be no Cost of Living Allowance adjustments or annual wage scale increases for bank employees in 2012 and 2013.

Two-year wage freeze for bank staff

The changes also include wage scales for councillors, pension rights and even resettlement payments when they stand down.

Record View: Booby prize

If the airline's cost-cutting proposal is approved, pilots' wage scales will be rolled back to pre-1996 levels.

Northwest Airlines requests 20% pay cut from its pilots

Two years ago a porter at Buckingham Palace, on grade 39 of the 40 wage scales, was earning just pounds 6,810.

PALACE POOR GET 16% PAY RISE AFTER OUR CAMPAIGN

Currently, aside from the superintendents who get more, there are two levels of wage scales for buildings, which are also subclassified into A, B, and C classes, based on square-footage.

Residential contract up in April

So it is expected that the varying wage scales for new hires and vacation workers will become a significant part of the bargaining.

Owners, managers prepare for strike

Yet, as he notes elsewhere, both the national platform and the local leadership in the Isere supported uniform and equal wage scales so that husbands could support their families and women would return to their "proper" place in the home.

Industry and Politics in Rural France: Peasants of the Isere, 1870-1914

The processes that make subhuman wage scales and toleration of environmental hazards seem natural to Mexico are the same ones that make the phrase "low-wage service sector" jobs appear to express natural law because jobs in that category are associated with women and minorities.

Targets of opportunity

This counters the public perception that most overseas manufacturing investments are being made in developing nations - taking advantage of their low wage scales - when the vast majority of funding actually goes to developed nations in North America, Europe and Asia.

For Second Year in Row, Global U.S. Manufacturing Outlays Slid 37 Percent; Deloitte Research Study Suggests U.S. Firms Putting Globalization on Hold

The proposed wage scales are effective from November 1 this year.

Significant settlement at guardian health care

The first contract that matches wage scales already won by workers at another nursing home chain - a step toward industry - wide contracts.

SEIU-UHW Caregivers at Sava Nursing Homes Win Highest Standards Statewide for Resident Care, Wages, Workers' Rights

New wage scales were agreed by the city's cabinet in secret earlier this month, but now a scrutiny watchdog has rebelled and insisted the package is reconsidered.