adequate wages

People fear that if they get laid off, their next job will not provide adequate wages or benefits.

"But no labor is really menial unless you're not getting adequate wages."

Adequate wages are no panacea for burnout, but they will help agencies retain many more workers.

It even approved the formation of trade unions and reminded employers of a moral duty to pay adequate wages.

To the Editor: Any welfare reform effort must give highest priority to protecting affected children by helping their parents obtain jobs with adequate wages.

Harris alleged that Vector violated California and federal labor law by failing to pay adequate wages and illegally coercing employees into patronizing the company.

David James, a Labor Department spokesman, said the department was investigating whether the contractor failed to provide adequate wages and housing and failed to pay for transportation.

Many service providing organizations (including governmental departments) feel pulled between the need to provide shelter, food, and health-care, but also ensure that affordable housing and adequate wages are made available.

As a beginning businessman he was challenged by workers for not paying adequate wages and by customers for overcharging, during a time when he was hardly breaking even.

The old Poor Law had always provided instances of parishes making allowances to able-bodied parishioners unable to secure work or, more commonly, unable to secure work at adequate wages.

According to experts, the main causes of corruption are insufficient funding to train and equip personnel and pay them adequate wages, poor work discipline, lack of accountability, and fear of reprisals from organized criminals.

Businesses would earn "most favored company" status for their record in "creating jobs, avoiding layoffs simply to maximize profits, paying adequate wages, sharing gains, training and upgrading skills and providing decent health care and retirement benefits."

Claudio was an opponent of the Sindicatos Libre of Pedro Gerard, a Dominican who was convinced that workers must receive adequate wages, as of right, not merely subsistence wages.

Nevertheless, urban poverty especially in London, attracted more attention and alarm than that in the countryside, and poorer rural areas were last to receive adequate schooling, housing, sanitation or other services - not to mention adequate wages.

During this time the message of votes for all, improvement of working conditions, adequate wages and the right to meet to improve conditions for all was meeting stiff resistance from the Establishment, gentry, employers and industrialists.

Mr. Kennedy is drafting legislation that would set a lower corporate tax rate for companies that have what he calls above-average records in areas like creating jobs, avoiding layoffs "simply to maximize profits," paying adequate wages and providing training for their workers.

California's highest court ruled yesterday that the First Amendment did not shield Nike from a lawsuit accusing it of fraud for asserting that its overseas workers received adequate wages and that its working conditions complied with safety regulations.

The Soviet planned economy benefited the Nganasan by providing their settlements with adequate wages, machinery, consumer goods, and education, allowing the Nganasan to achieve a relatively high standard of living by the end of the 1980s.

But, she said, the Roman Catholic Church, from the Pope on down through the bishops, teaches that Government and society also have responsibilities: to help guarantee that people have "suitable employment," adequate wages and welfare benefits when jobs are unavailable.

But the debate over what constitutes adequate wages, what minimum working conditions should be required and at what age it becomes permissible for minors to work continues here and in other developing countries that have eagerly welcomed assembly plants as a source of employment for their poor.

Court Refuses to Dismiss Nike Suit The California Supreme Court has refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Nike of fraud for asserting that its overseas workers received adequate wages and that its working conditions complied with safety regulations.

A Vietnamese labor official stepped forward to defend Nike the day after California's highest court ruled that the sportswear company could be sued for asserting that overseas workers, including those in Vietnam, were paid adequate wages and that working conditions complied with safety rules.

Batswana families which employ Zimbabwean women as domestic workers at times do so without proper work permits, do not pay adequate wages, and restrict or control the movement of their employees by holding their passports or threatening to have them deported back to Zimbabwe.

It is true that our poorhouses are established at the expense of the public, to which parents who are without means or employment or adequate wages to support their children can go with their children to avoid starvation; but what parents desire to take their children to such institutions?

A central concern is that Moynihan did not consider basic rational incentives for marriage; he did not account for the possibility that women had historically engaged in marriage in part out of need for material resources, such as adequate wages, otherwise denied via cultural traditions excluding women from most jobs outside the home.