Word: wages
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...during a 29-month "transition" period. It set the official work week at 48 hours, eliminating the free Saturdays won by Solidarity. It also gave the government the right to force people who quit their jobs to take new employment for up to a year at the lowest legal wage. The Sejm had intended to draw up new regulations giving the authorities freer rein to make arrests. But Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, issued a letter of protest, reminding the authorities that a further tightening of the legal noose would run counter to the spirit...
Figueiredo made a dramatic appearance on Brazilian television Wednesday night. Admitting that "nature is being cruel to us" and that "the economy is ill," the President prescribed a shock treatment to reduce inflation. He decreed that beginning in August, cost of living wage hikes for all Brazilian workers would be limited to only 80% of increases in the consumer price index. In addition, increases in rents, mortgages and other payments tied to inflation would be subject to the same...
Even before the President's announcement, Brazilians had been anticipating wage cutbacks. Over the past two weeks, workers have staged a string of strikes, including an illegal six-day walkout by 1,350 employees at two state oil refineries. It was the first work stoppage in the crucial energy industry since a military coup ousted the last elected civilian government in 1964. In Rio de Janeiro, 30,000 protesters marched; many waved placards urging the government not to surrender the nation. After Figueiredo's speech, which seemed to confirm the public's fears, Joaquim Dos Santos Andrade...
...jobs has remained at virtually the same level since the last year of the Carter Administration, the total number of jobs created has fallen from 822,700 in fiscal 1979 to 683,000 in 1982. Two major culprits: high inflation during those years and a hike in the minimum wage from $2.90 in 1979 to $3.35 two years later. To help counter such factors, the Administration plans to spend $819.5 million for 813,000 jobs, 140,000 more positions than last year...
Most significantly, the Reagan Administration, which has lobbied unsuccessfully for a subminimum youth wage for years, has come up with a powerful way to make teen-agers attractive to business. Beginning this summer, firms hiring economically disadvantaged youths,* age 16 or 17, get a tax credit for 85% of the first $3,000 in wages paid out between May 1 and Sept. 15. "An employer can hire a young person for as little as $262 for the entire summer if he applies the tax credit," declared Albert Angrisani, Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training in the U.S. Department of Labor...