voluntary pay

collocation in English

meaningsofvoluntaryandpay

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voluntary
adjective
uk
/ˈvɒl.ən.tər.i/us
/ˈvɑː.lən.ter.i/
done, made, or given willingly, without being forced or paid to ...
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pay
noun[U]
uk
/peɪ/us
/peɪ/
the money you receive for doing ...
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(Definition ofvoluntaryandpayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The last two years ofvoluntarypaypolicy have been highly successful in restraining both inflation and unemployment.
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We have never tried to hide the fact that to some extent those staff have been caught by the introduction of thevoluntarypaypolicy.
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The second question, if the pay review body is right, is whether we are right to acceptvoluntarypayrestraint and override the recommendations.
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They merely enable an employer to comply with avoluntarypaypolicy when a previous contract would otherwise require him to breach it.
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This clause contains powers essentially in support of avoluntarypaypolicy.
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They did not get the £6 pay increase, because their pay cycle was out of phase with the cycle ofvoluntarypaypolicy.
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That is why, for two years running, we have secured the strongest bastion of all against inflation—that is avoluntarypaypolicy.
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For the last year we have been living under a co-calledvoluntarypaypolicy, the £6 pay limit policy, which has statutory back-up to support it.
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One was to avoid unnecessary industrial strife during a period ofvoluntarypayrestraint.
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Settlements are averaging single figures, and that without either a compulsory orvoluntarypaypolicy.
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That is because it is avoluntarypaypolicy.
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These, too, like ourvoluntarypaypolicy, are attracting interest and study from other countries.
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To do so would undoubtedly have jeopardised the continuing acceptance of what was, after all, avoluntarypaypolicy.
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The first is support ofvoluntarypaypolicy.
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Thevoluntarypaypolicy has helped considerably.
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We have avoluntarypaypolicy.
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Least of all is there a relationship between avoluntarypaypolicy and a statutory profit and prices policy.
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I use the term social contract in its widest sense and am not referring simply to thevoluntarypaypolicy, important though that has been for the low-paid.
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It will look to produce a strategy for the promotion and implementation ofvoluntarypayreviews by all employers to ensure pay equality within their organisations.
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