Voorbeelden van pay rise

• Civil servants were given a major pay rise just before the 1992 elections, an action which pushed the budget into deficit.

• The issue is whether to forgo a pay rise in order to spend the money thereby saved on introducing a workplace safety measure: perhaps a guard against electrocution.

• Consider the case of the worker-owners who have to decide on whether to forego a pay rise in order to purchase a device for guarding against the danger of electrocution.

• However, many of us would receive a large pay rise, which would be totally unjustified.

• The minimum wage will give 2 million people in this country a pay rise and put a floor beneath their wages.

• That is why we have agreed the biggest real-terms pay rise for nurses for 10 years, and why we are paying it in full.

• The head of a typical secondary school will see his or her pay rise by more than £3,600 to more than £32,000.

• Some feel that they are entitled to a pay rise as of right, regardless of performance.

• The pay rise for teachers is to be warmly welcomed.

• We want more schools and more teachers, and the teachers are just awaiting a big pay rise.

• However, if the idea is to give experienced teachers a big pay rise, why link it to performance?

• But it is in no one's interest if today's pay rise threatens to become tomorrow's mortgage rise.

• That is followed by another ad hoc committee and another bump in pay rise.

• If the women concerned can prove that they meet this criterion, there is nothing to stop the implementation of a pay rise.

• One has not been allowed to give them a pay rise of more than £250 a year, and now it is to be £350 a year.