| 词汇 | pay-freeze |
| 释义 | pay freeze noun[ C ] ukus(alsosalary freeze); (wage freeze) HR, WORKPLACE a situation in which a company stops increasing employees' pay because of financial difficulties: Union leaders are considering the company's proposals to change working hours, reduce overtime, or impose a pay freeze. ECONOMICS, GOVERNMENT a government policy of preventing pay increases in order, for example, to deal with inflation: The government are now proposing a pay freeze for public sector workers. Examples of pay freezepay freeze In 2010, the teacher's union and district agreed to a one year payfreeze. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The teachers declined a payfreeze for one year to head off the cuts until the economy improves. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Emergency measures included a massive sell-off of businesses, and a payfreeze. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In 2011, the administration agreed to a one-year payfreeze. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The union alleged that 231 of this deal was still owed to its members, and should not have been affected by the payfreeze. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The bill would prevent a 0.5% pay increase for all federal workers from taking effect, continuing a payfreeze that has been in effect since 2011. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Public sector workers face a two-year payfreeze, although 1.7 million of those earning less than 21,000 will get a flat pay-rise worth 250 in both years. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He also announced measures to help economic recovery, including a public sector payfreeze, a levy on bank bonuses and a package of measures to help the unemployed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It is bad luck for them that just when public opinion is in favour of their having greater remuneration, the £6 payfreeze has been introduced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must remember that this was before the payfreeze came into operation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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