wage hikes

With wage hikes and labor protests across China, some reports have begun declaring that we're witnessing the 'end of cheap Chinese labor. '

In the wake of global pressure, the company promised several series of wage hikes, but the report said those have not yet materialized.

Yet Pyongyang keeps harassing it, imposing arbitrary border restrictions and demanding absurd wage hikes.

Thus, wage hikes and promotions are not particularly accessible as rewards in the daily ebbs and flows of organizational life.

Wage hikes mean domestic demand rather than exports will become increasingly the catalyst for growth.

Slack labor markets mean wage hikes won't run much faster than productivity gains, curbing the rise in unit-labor costs.

Plans call for raising household spending power through wage hikes and subsidies to poor families.

Growing and wage hikes mean the days of Western manufacturers blindly substituting to ever-lower costs in China look to be over.

However, we are concerned about the waves of wage hikes taking place in China now.

But for high-tech manufacturers, who bore the brunt of last summer's wage hikes, the effect has been minimal.

The market will now be on the watch for another round of wage hikes.

and we've won bargaining rights and wage hikes and retirement security for our workers.

Wage hikes boost costs but might help sales.