Sentences with phrase «sector workers earning»

3 years child benefit will remain frozen 3 sips of water drunk by George Osborne during his budget speech 2 Liberal Democrats seen flanking the chancellor on the main camera angle 2 year pay freeze for public sector workers earning over # 21,000.

Portugal has addressed its public debt problem — the deficit was 9.3 % of GDP in 2009 — with a 5 % pay cut for public sector workers earning more than $ 1,500 a month and an increase in VAT.

The peak of the public sector earnings distribution is much higher, at twenty - something dollars per hour, and there are a good number of public sector workers earning $ 40 or $ 50 an hour.

Not exact matches

Many workers in the private sector earn the minimum wage, or only slightly above minimum wage.

On average, solar installation workers — the industry's biggest sector — earn a median wage of $ 21 per hour, while solar designers earn $ 27 per hour and sales, marketing and customer service professionals earn $ 29 per hour.

The U.S. financial sector found this appealing as long as consumption was financed by running into debt, not by workers earning more money or paying lower taxes.

The Conservatives also earned the ire of public sector workers, fatigued after seven years of austerity.

A recent study by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence and the National Institute on Retirement Security finds that when such factors as education and work experience are accounted for, state and local employees earn 11 to 12 percent less than comparable private sector workers.

'' The NHF is a scheme into which Nigerian workers in the public and private sector, earning a minimum of N3, 000 per annum, contribute 2.5 per cent of their monthly income.

Looking at the government negotiating team, Unite found an average public sector worker would need to work for three working lifetimes to earn Francis Maude's pension and two for Danny Alexander's pension.

It has overseen an explosion in the wage bill of the state, to the point where the average public - sector worker now earns # 74 more per week than a private - sector employee, as well as having much better pension and other entitlements.»

Public sector workers will have pay frozen for two years - with the protection of 1.7 million earning less that # 21,000 who will receive a # 250 increase in both years.

Today the government asked public sector workers to accept a two - year pay freeze, with protection for the 1.7 million public servants earning less than # 21,000.

And while, on average, the construction workers earn more than their union brethren in the public sector, they have the rankling perception that government unions have not shared in their recent suffering.

I have said before that I thought it was right for short - term commitments to be in line with the coalition spending plans, as changes inevitably produce disturbance to business cycles, but that doesn't prevent Labour from saying that long - term they would seek to ameliorate the concerns of public sector - workers, e.g. future pay increases would be above inflation to restore the earning power that was lost through the recession.

«The Earned Income Credit is set up for a service - sector person or blue - collar worker... essentially, someone not earning a lot of money,» Barajas said.

They are typically higher in the private sector, with high earning potential for successful freelance workers on a fee and commission basis.