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And that 16 per cent tends to be concentrated in the lower levels of the profession: about 61 per cent are in low-paid, low-skill jobs.

Needless to say, it must be higher than the CSSA payment, or low-paid workers would be encouraged to stop working and go on CSSA.

The alternative of a low-paid part-time position is not always an attractive option.

But the main reason that women cluster in low-paid fields, the bank argues, is that they do not control their own time.

Many single parents find it simply unaffordable, when low-paid jobs are often the only ones on offer to the less qualified.

No one much complains about the minimum wage today; it has improved the meagre lot of hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers.

For many it makes no economic sense to work, particularly when low-paid jobs are frequently the only ones on offer to lone parents.

She started at a low-paid entry-level job at her company and advanced quickly up the ladder.

They are an entry point into the modern economy for unskilled people for whom the alternative to a low-paid job is no job.

But GM has not had to concede any increase in basic pay (apart from a modest rise for the low-paid tier twos).

Currently people with low-paid jobs can keep part of the benefit, which ought to encourage work, but the settings are skewed.

Poorly motivated, low-paid government staff are frequently a major constraint to strengthening technical and institutional capacities.

"It is not the low paid who are most likely to say they are bullied, " the survey said.

She should be a supervisor or manager of commerical printing companies not a low paid worker.

About a third of its workers are low-paid, serving the tourists who flock to the city in the summer.

Will Massachusetts's new Democratic governor, Deval Patrick, really risk levying heavy fines on low-paid workers without health insurance?

These armies of low-paid PhD researchers and postdocs boost universities', and therefore countries', research capacity.

These armies of low-paid PhD researchers and post docs boost universities', and therefore countries', research capacity.

"The very fact that Foxconn needs to raise wages by 70% to stabilise its workforce, shows how low paid the workers were there, " he says.

A majority of MPs approved the measures that include an introduction of income tax for low-paid workers and pay cuts for civil servants.

As a flat sum, the credit would have represented a bigger subsidy to low-paid workers.

The staff occupied the office in protest at the low paid offer .

From the south, those public-sector workers feel more like victims, whose low-paid jobs are just compensation for past ills.

Lest year more than one million Filipinos worked abroad as servants, nurses, sailors and in other difficult but low paid jobs.

Those who don't live close, or cant' afford to, won't access internships and low-paid jobs needed to enter these careers.

These workers are not distinguished by pink-colored blouses, but by low-paid jobs that often require shift work.

Claimants entering typically low-paid jobs would keep more of their benefits than before.

Other taxes went up this month (though the low-paid were spared the worst) and public-spending cuts began in earnest.

Other states, however, are concentrating on the much larger problem: low-paid workers in small firms.

Results: Contract nurses were low-paid and floating, influencing the safety of patients.

The BNDES transfers money from low-paid workers to the balance-sheets of Brazil's large companies.

Some of them have ended up with low-paid jobs ranging from janitors to masseurs.

what do you think people will choose : a low paid job one likes, or a boring well-paid job?

That can mean taking a step back and working on a low-paid project or at an internship to gain experience.

But the interest rate would fall to zero in real terms if the graduate lost his job or entered low-paid work.

Low-paid pilots who try to earn more through overtime face heavy taxes.

So most women are forced to take low-paid irregular or part-time jobs after having children.

Among a long list of proposals, he advocates tax credits for companies employing low-paid workers.

For low-paid parents the calculation becomes even more unattractive.

"The rise in unemployment we are seeing is probably being seen in low-paid service sector jobs, " Mr Price said.

In the meantime they do low-paid work and are susceptible to unemployment during recessions in the economy.

Force today requiring people out of work for more than 13 weeks to accept low-paid jobs or risk losing their benefit.

All they had to offer was some low-paid unskilled monotonous work.

Many Europeans suspect these of being precarious and low-paid.

Tax credits subsidised low-paid families more generously than ever before.

Low-paid workers will fare well under this government.

These women were forced into accepting low-paid jobs.

In the game Make a Living, everyone has a low-paid job.

Of the 670, 000 foreigners working in Singapore, 87 per cent are employed in low-paid jobs as construction workers or domestic maids.

Thousands of final-year degree students are preparing to accept low-paid work in bars, supermarkets and call centres, according to figures.

Migrant workers in cities often end up with undesirable and low-paid jobs, such as housekeeping and street cleaning.

they are older , retired or having low paid manual work.

Miners were low paid and generally lived in towns owned and operated by the mine owner.

But, in practice, millions of illegal migrants from central Asia and the Caucasus work in low-paid jobs.

If you don't own your own home, you have failed. If you have a low-paid job, you're a loser.

While Hong Kong remains open to foreigners, the foreign presence - excluding low-paid domestic servants from Southeast Asia - has declined.

Instead the government is advocating a voluntary wage scheme for employers of Hong Kong's low-paid cleaners and security guards.

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