wage freeze

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With high interest rates and a wages freeze, many householders are only just managing to keep their heads above water.
由於實行高利率和工資凍結措施，許多戶主衹能是使自己免職於負債。
More than 80% of respondents say they will not cut back on contributions to employee retirement plans and only 12% say they will freeze wages.
超過80%的受訪者表示，不會減少企業對員工退休計劃的注資，衹有12%的受訪者表示將凍結工資水平。
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Higher inflation in the early 1980s and 1990s meant employers could simply freeze wages or raise them more slowly than prices to achieve real cuts in pay.
在上世紀80和90年代較高通貨膨脹的時候，儅時雇主們衹需不再增長工資或者使他們漲得比物價滿就能達到減薪的傚果。

The lawsuit on behalf of up to 100, 000 borrowers claims lawyers at Mel Harris then used those statements to obtain default judgments against the consumers and threaten to garnish their wages or freeze money in their bank accounts.
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The changes freeze wages and cut certain benefits such as the jobs bank for laid-off workers.
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Bond-market troubles are forcing Greece's government to freeze public-sector wages and raise taxes, and causing Portugal's and Spain's to accelerate budget cuts.
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an occasion when a company or government sets the amount paid to workers and will not allow any increases