low-paid worker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofworker
These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withworker.
worker
noun[C]
uk/ˈwɜː.kər/us/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
See more atworker
(Definition ofworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflow-paid worker
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Finally, on the issue of fairness, there is one glaring omission—that is thelow-paidworker.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It will not mitigate family income surtax when eventually it falls, as it will if thelow-paidworkerbecomes better off.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It is thelow-paidworker, we are told, who has suffered from the standstill.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I will give an example of what alow-paidworkeris.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The agreement reached at the beginning was to help thelow-paidworker, and the proposals that we put forward clearly do that.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
How would he deal with thelow-paidworkerwho finds it difficult to save any money at all?
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Not everylow-paidworkeris covered by wages councils.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It amounts to little more than a confidence trick on thelow-paidworker, since all his anticipated rise is swallowed up in later price increases.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The idea that free collective bargaining is a panacea or a help to thelow-paidworkeris not at all borne out by past experience.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The fact that pay increases are to be negotiated within a flat-rate limit will rightly give preference to thelow-paidworker.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
One still finds the readiness to propose an increase for thelow-paidworker, but no readiness to accept any consequential narrowing of the differential.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
This, taken with the fourth, can be considered as thelow-paidworkercriterion.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
But it is not the moderate,low-paidworkeron strike who is taking more than his fair share.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We hear a great deal these days about thelow-paidworker.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Surely there is merit in the argument of alow-paidworkerknowing a little ahead that he will have a deduction or a payment.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Now we have these three matters relating to those on low incomes—the self-employed, the non-employed and thelow-paidworkerover the age of 18.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
No one slips a piece of contraceptive advice into the pay-packet of alow-paidworkerafter he has had seven or eight children.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
They will help thelow-paidworkerwho will not benefit from tax relief.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Thelow-paidworkercollects nothing like the same amount, and in many cases it is nothing at all.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
As under the present state second pension scheme, thelow-paidworkerwould receive a flat-rate rebate.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofworker
See other collocations withworker