pay discrimination

collocation in English

meaningsofpayanddiscrimination

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pay
noun[U]
uk
/peɪ/us
/peɪ/
the money you receive for doing ...
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discrimination
noun[U]
uk
/dɪˌskrɪm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/dɪˌskrɪm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their race, gender, ...
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(Definition ofpayanddiscriminationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpay discrimination

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There is also compelling evidence that employerpaydiscriminationis a contributing factor influencing unequal pay.
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A regional breakdown ofpaydiscriminationcases could be produced only at disproportionate cost.
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Paydiscriminationis sometimes stark and obvious, but it is often much more subtle.
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This will end the existingpaydiscriminationbetween administrative, professional, technical and scientific grades.
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I have talked about the various facets ofpaydiscrimination, but another major difficulty is occupational segregation.
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It has been effective in providing legal protection againstpaydiscriminationbut also in challenging the culture of undervaluing women.
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I hope that she will take note of the matters arising from the issue of pay audit andpaydiscrimination.
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It is thus clear that improving the existing legislation will not be sufficient to solve thepaydiscrimination.
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He is also critical of genderpaydiscrimination.
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If her pay is a technical matter, what signal is going out to women who go to the tribunal overpaydiscriminationin the workplace?
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Unions also try to reduce or eliminatepaydiscriminationand low wages.
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This law, signed in early 2009, increases employees' ability to fightpaydiscrimination.
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Will she say something further about crudepaydiscrimination: unequal pay for exactly comparable work—a phenomenon hat she has recently helped to highlight—in the public domain?
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It is essential that public sector and government pay reviews should be repeated, in order to ensure thatpaydiscriminationdoes not creep back into the system.
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She argued against applying the 180-day limit topaydiscrimination, because discrimination often occurs in small increments over large periods of time.
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In 2002, the lawsuit was settled when the university acknowledged that many of its female professors had suffered from gender barriers andpaydiscriminationduring their careers.
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One cause of the gender pay gap may be due to occupational segregation, which pushes men and women towards gender-specific forms of employment, rather thanpaydiscrimination.
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The new act states that the 180-day statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay lawsuit regardingpaydiscriminationresets with each new paycheck affected by that discriminatory action.
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