Other demands include doubling pensions for private sector and public utility employees as well as adjusting cost of living allowances to match inflation, estimated at 10 percent.
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When Airman 1st Class Steve Williams remarked that cost of living allowances are too little for some military families, Mrs . Cohen asked how the allowances are calculated.
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Thursday's report said diplomats had received a 500 percent cost of living allowance but Zimbabwean employees had been forced to settle for a 40 percent increase after a year of negotiations.
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It is practical to introduce the Special Relief Allowance and the Cost of Living Allowance now, in view of the increasing prices and the falling of the ringgit by 40 per cent.
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The clerks, who are among the lowest paid government employees, are demanding salary increases and cost of living allowances, in line with a soaring inflation rate that is officially put at 11 percent.
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Unlike Social Security, which offered Cost of Living Allowances from 1975 through 2009 and again from 2013 through 2015, TRS had not been able to provide a COLA to its annuitants since 2001.
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Threatening the cost of living allowance with the changing of the base year from 1971 to 2002 was also one of the main reasons that the Stelco Lake Erie Works employees went on lockout.
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MTUC president Zainal Rampak said the congress is calling for the revival of the Special Relief Allowance and the Cost of Living Allowance, which were introduced in the 1970s and mid-1980s to supplement workers'wages.
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The clerks, who are among the lowest paid government employees, are demanding salary increases and cost of living allowances, in line with a soaring inflation rate that is unofficially put at about 15 percent.
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Zainal, however, has called for the revival of the Special Relief Allowance and the Cost of Living Allowance, which were introduced in the 1970s and mid-1980s to supplement workers'wages, which have dropped in real value.
