Other proposals he said would likely be rejected are : non-payment of a three percent wage adjustment to compensate for inflation over the past 12 months; and a reduction in meal, transportation and medical benefits.
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The increase was limited to this year rather than for each of the next three years because " wage adjustments should be related to contemporaneous information about the state of the economy, " the commission said.
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He said Singapore's economy will slow down considerably this year, with only moderate trade and investment, and " depending on how the regional situation unfolds, workers must be prepared for more severe wage adjustments this year ."
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Employers may be very concerned about the slower productivity increase this year, but chances are they will still have to pay the 8 per cent or 10 per cent wage adjustment they promised to pay under their collective agreements.
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About 4, 200 of the tiremaker's workers walked off the job in July 1994, when the company insisted on linking cost-of-living wage adjustments to productivity, operating its plants seven days a week and having union members contribute to health-care costs.
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President Fidel V . Ramos has reiterated his instruction for the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards to complete hearings on petitions for wage adjustments even as Labor Secretary Leonardo A . Quisumbing reported the completion of wage orders in seven regions.
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"In an effort to avoid the filing of unfair labor practice charges and ` vote buying'allegations by the union, a decision was made not to proceed with a decision regarding any wage adjustments " at the plant, AutoZone argued in a court brief.
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Even if there was a one off shock to the money supply, with Taylor contracts it will set of a process of wage adjustment that will take time to react during which output ( GDP ) and employment can differ from the long-run equilibrium.
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And last month Linda Robertson, an assistant treasury secretary, wrote to Congress that the proposed legislation would preclude the Internal Revenue Service from making wage adjustments for tax withholding rates on employee wages because states and local governments would be affected as employers subject to withholding rates.
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In addition to the add-on payment adjustment, which applies nationally, the composite rate is adjusted up or down by a geographic wage adjustment . ( All beneficiaries at a given unit would have the same geographic wage adjustment . ) The final adjustment is for case mix; certain beneficiary characteristics trigger composite rate adjustments.
