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living wage

a wage adequate to permit a wage earner to live and support a family in reasonable comfort
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If he/she rendered overtime work on a special holiday that also falls on their rest day, he/she shall be paid an additional 30 percent of his/her hourly rate on the said day [Hourly rate of the basic wage x 150 percent x 130percent x number of hours worked].
If accepted by councillors, their basic wages would have risen by almost PS800 since 2012.
For the Municipality of Balingasag, a P34 daily basic wage increase has been approved due to its reclassification from Wage Category IV to III.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed that conveyance allowance and special allowance are paid 'ordinarily, necessarily and uniformly' to all employees and, hence, it should be part of the basic wage for calculation of the EPF contribution.
The clarification circular, titled ' Splitting of wages', says the basic wage " encompasses all the payments except the specified exclusions which are mentioned as commissions.
Nani is ready to accept his basic wage stays the same while the rest is made up by bonuses.
OCS currently pay their workers significantly less than any other contractor on the Tata Steel site, and Community Union representatives have been negotiating since June 2010 in an attempt to increase the basic wage of their members.
The Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Unions has decided to withdraw any unified demands for a basic wage increase.
It's over pounds 4,000 from our basic wage. That is 20 per cent of people's income.
Under the terms of his new arrangement Terry (left) will pocket a basic wage of around pounds 170k a week.
"Despite what management is saying, our members are on a basic wage of pounds 31,800 and if they had remained working for Shell that would now be pounds 46,000.
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