Word: waging
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...Works Wage earners must contribute 10% of their pay to one of several government-approved private funds. Those accounts replaced the old state pensions, but the government still pays a base sum to poor retirees. At first, employers were required to raise wages so workers could afford...
...church virtually disappeared after the war. It aided the civil rights movement, but its numbers didn't rebound until the 1980s, as Yankees flocked to the Sunbelt's technology and service industries, and as Mexicans and Central American migrants moved northward for poultry-processing and other low-wage jobs. From 1980 to 2000, the region's Catholic population had doubled, to more than 12 million...
...Iraq but to Europeans back home. "The total number involved in recruitment or as fighters in Iraq is small," says one French counterterrorism official. "But it holds a truly terrible potential if it were allowed to grow. If these people manage to get to Iraq and learn how to wage jihad, we risk seeing them return to continue in Europe." Police suspect the two men nabbed in Germany were preparing to stage a fatal car accident in Egypt so one of them could collect on life insurance policies worth just over j830,000. German federal prosecutor Kay Nehm said...
...Price indexing for benefits Today Social Security benefits are adjusted each year to reflect rising wage rates, so that seniors who made $100 a week in the 1950s still get a decent payout in retirement. Several plans for reform would instead link benefits to prices. Though benefits would keep up with inflation, price indexing would effectively be a cut, given that wages tend to rise faster than prices. Promised benefits would be smaller than currently expected...
...disgruntled employees as easily as they once could; wildcat strikes can cripple output for days or weeks. Almost imperceptibly, workers are starting to win concessions. As many as 3,000 employees at Shenzhen-based electronics manufacturer Haiyan staged a walkout in October to protest salaries that were below minimum wage; they were enticed back to the factory floor by a raise and the promise of back pay. A month later, 1,000 employees of the Shanlin electronics factory in the nearby city of Panyu returned to work after a two-day strike that secured them an increase in overtime...