Word: merit
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...stickiest problems. In a surprise move, the Price Commission suspended all pending rate increases by privately owned utility firms. Its move temporarily froze prospective boosts that would have added billions of dollars annually to consumers' telephone, electric and gas bills. The Pay Board issued new rules governing merit raises, the form of pay increase that affects the vast majority of nonunion workers, including high-salaried executives and professionals...
Third Try. The Pay Board's ruling on merit increases was its third. It stated that existing provisions for merit increases, whether written into labor contracts or applied as part of a company's general salary policy, can result in pay boosts of no more than 7% annually. Moreover, most new merit contracts or plans must conform to the even lower 5.5% guideline for overall pay increases. The board's last previous position had made union merit raises exempt from the guidelines while holding nonunion employees to the 5.5% rule...
Right now, few workers are covered by contracts that lay down rules for merit raises. Such contracts may provide, for instance, that a new employee will receive a specified merit raise at some time during his first year when his boss decides that he has successfully completed a trial period. The new ruling is of greatest interest to salaried workers who bargain individually for pay raises. The board decided that in general, merit raises under old or new plans can increase the aggregate compensation of an "employee group" by 7% at the most...
...Talking, All Dancing"--is just like an enormous plastic Christmas tree, thousands of gaudy decorations obscuring a very simple trunk, the girl-gets-boyfriend plot. The girl in question, Twiggy, gets the boy friend pretty much through divine right as star of the film and through no readily apparent merit of her own. As Polly Browne, understudy cum assistant stage manager of a seedy British theater, she is called out one day to replace the aging star (Glenda Jackson) who has hurt her foot in a tram accident. Remember, credibility is not the point. Just before Polly...
Wickenden told the remaining demonstrators that they had "done nothing in here to merit any form of retaliatory action by anyone...