The employer is obliged to pay workers the same pay for work of equal value.

Without fanfare, German workers accepted longer hours without increases in pay.

In too many conflicts civilians continue to pay the price, as do humanitarian workers.

A labor policy favorable to workers and unions revived Wage Councils for setting pay.

To hire and retain skilled workers, many foreign invested enterprises routinely pay above the minimum wage.

British Airways, for example, has asked workers to work for an entire month without pay.

Their leaders make the point that, at current pay levels, workers cannot feed themselves or their families.

Two weeks ago there were strikes and violent demonstrations by Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait, protesting low pay and poor working conditions. Following the demonstrations, more than 200 workers were deported.

These workers are demanding some improvement of their precarious conditions and monthly wages instead of getting daily pay.

Advocates of faster European population growth worry that there won't be enough young workers to pay for public pensions.

Workers on strike demanded a raise in pay from the current 1500 renminbi ( 234.00) to 2000 2500 renminbi ( 373.13) per month.

May Day, or Labour Day, or International Workers' Day is recognised as a public holiday in many Arab countries, and demonstrations and rallies are held by unions and political parties to pay tribute to the role of workers and to call for workers' rights.

Temporary female salaried employees and female daily rated workers are also entitled to 12 weeks maternity leave but on half pay.

As a result, the generational contract looks less and less viable, because we can no longer rely on today s workers to pay for today s pensioners.

The Big 10 are also not taking sufficient responsibility to ensure that their larger scale farm suppliers pay a decent living wage to their workers.

Porter and Rivkin are not calling on businesses simply to pay their workers more. Instead, they are urging businesses to engage in a strategic, collaborative push to improve education and training to raise the skill levels of their workers.

Ms. O'Higgins (Ireland) said that in the area of pay and conditions domestic workers came under the National Minimum Wage Act and the Organization of Working Time Act.

Even though the pools of workers may be somewhat segmented, there is enough overlap that it forces service intensive industries to pay higher wages, at least in the long run.

This nation is doomed by a president who lies and makes false promises while the workers and unemployed pay every day the price of this injustice and lies of the president

One problem is that workers have fixed costs, such as transportation to work or a health plan, that do not decline when hours (and thus pay) are cut.

Workers on strike demanded a raise in pay from the current 1500 renminbi ( 234.00) to 2000 2500 renminbi ( 373.13) per month. Clearly, Chinese factories can no longer offer dirt cheap prices.

Working longer for the same pay is a useful way of making Europe more competitive, and, when compared to reducing wages, it imposes a much lighter burden on workers and employees.

Or they may hire informal workers who have no rights, or pay inspectors to look the other way (a related point could be made about workplace safety in Bangladesh s garment factories).

In other words, an amount equivalent to all donor support to the PA plus half of workers' remittances is channelled to the Israeli economy to pay for Palestinian net imports from Israel.

But, looking at the affluent German middle class from the US, where a quarter of jobs pay wages that place workers at or below the poverty line, Reich s recommendations seem worth fighting for.

The program would at least partly pay for itself, with additional payments to workers on short hours offset by lower unemployment (and thus lower payments to those who are completely without work).

PEI has the lowest male female wage gap in Canada for several reasons, one of which is the number of workers who are covered by federal or provincial public sector pay equity initiatives.

Foreign workers enjoyed the same rights as Mauritian workers.

Mr. Idohou (Benin) (spoke in French) I would like at the outset to pay tribute to the humanitarian aid workers for their inestimable efforts to halt the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and elsewhere in Africa.

Women continue to suffer discrimination their pay is between 30 and 60 per cent less than men, and they make up the majority of workers in the harsh conditions of the world's export processing zones.

(ii) Rights of migrant workers including domestic workers

Also, she wondered why the Government, having commendably regularized contracts for domestic work, had not at the same time done something to eliminate the discriminatory pay scale and the length of the working day for domestic workers.

Temporary female salaried employees and female daily rated workers are also entitled to 12 weeks maternity leave but on half pay and again, the maternity leave must commence 6 weeks before confinement certified by the doctor.

China s low paid, reasonably productive manufacturing workers and high quality infrastructure (roads, power, ports, and communications) has set the standard for competitiveness globally. As a result, low skilled workers in Egypt, the US, and other countries must either raise their productivity enough to compete at a decent wage, or accept extremely low pay or outright unemployment.

The majority of workers were self employed or unpaid family workers (predominately women).

Consider another example military pay versus pay in civilian firms.

Forced and bonded labour Rights of migrant workers, including domestic workers

The workers are exhausted.

Workers Paradise?

Sex workers

Students, white collar workers and teachers joined the workers in the streets and at public meetings.

The target groups include, for instance, workers in the agricultural, fisheries and forestry sectors, household workers and self employed persons such as drivers, farmers, and home workers.

I'll pay the bill.

I'll pay the bill.

I'll pay the bill.