lower-paid worker
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worker
noun[C]
uk/ˈwɜː.kər/us/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition ofworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If we want to remove the injustice to thelower-paidworker, we have to move from a flat-rate national health contribution to an earnings-related contribution.
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I am suggesting some means of meeting what we are all so worried about—the impact of the higher flat rate contribution on thelower-paidworker.
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The range of indirect taxation was such as to hit thelower-paidworkerthe hardest.
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It seems, at least, to affect thelower-paidworker.
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If we are to have pay controls, they should benefit thelower-paidworkeras much as possible.
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But they ought also to look after thelower-paidworkermuch better than happens now.
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If those who are negotiating wish thelower-paidworkerto get more, he will get it.
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It is not fair and it does not deal with thelower-paidworker.
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As the law stands the proportion of compensation is altogether wrong, inasmuch as thelower-paidworkergets a greater percentage.
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The objective of the prices and incomes policy is to protect thelower-paidworker.
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This year there have been increases affecting about 2 million workers, the majority of whom got the increase by virtue of thelower-paidworkercriteria.
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Moreover, the incidence of this contribution is increasing in its severity on thelower-paidworker.
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There are all kinds of ideas on what constitutes alower-paidworker.
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The debate seems to have centred round the question of the effect that the poll tax has on thelower-paidworker.
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This contribution bears significantly much more heavily on thelower-paidworker.
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It is regressive in the sense that it bears far more heavily on thelower-paidworkerthan on the higher-paid worker.
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Our plan redistributes in favour of thelower-paidworker.
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This legislation has been"sold"to large sections of the trade union movement on the basis that it will help thelower-paidworker.
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Most of us on this side know what alower-paidworkeris, and know what sort of wages he receives.
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