Word: back-pay
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Even a cursory reading of the Russian press quickly convinced the Americans that virtually the entire nation was furious about the salaries government workers had been owed for months on end. When Yeltsin's aides explained that the President had already promised to correct the back-pay problem, the droopy-eyed Dresner shook his head in disbelief. "You can't just promise these things," he told Dyachenko. "You have to do them. And then you have to make sure the people know what you've done...
...University settled with Melhorn in November1987, awarding him back-pay up to the time of thehearing and accepting his resignation instead offiring him, Melhorn says...
...goes well," he said, "employees will receive their back-pay checks before Thanksgiving...
Procedures for issuing retroactive wages to those teaching fellows appointed at the higher wage are still under consideration, Steiner said. If Congress does not pass back-pay legislation, the 'University plans to appeal to the Pay Board for new guidelines on retroactivity. Steiner said professors' salaries took effect July 1, and therefore were not affected by the freeze regulations...
...amount of back pay that the U.S. might owe him: he reached more than $30,000, then quit figuring. In fact, he was considerably short-changing himself because he assumed that he was still a first lieutenant, not realizing that his promotion schedule rolled on in absentia. His back-pay total will thus probably come closer to $50,000. "I just couldn't believe that I was a first lieutenant and now I wake up a major, like a modern Rip Van Winkle," said Rowe, now 30. Presumably the $20,000 in extra pay will provide some consolation...