Is that not a bit over the odds?
Does that not show that the taxpayer is being asked to pay over the odds for a discriminatory, two-tier service?
I do not believe that authorities that receive the area cost adjustment have to pay over the odds for their teachers or other staff.
That is what is causing the wage drift, and the "paying over the odds" to obtain labour that is so sorely needed by hard-pressed firms.
Many of the schools in this scheme can pay over the odds to attract teachers who, in effect, work longer hours.
I assure him that there are many times when the ports pay over the odds for the fish just to keep their employees at work.
They will have to pay over the odds whilst those responsible have the further surcharge and disqualification removed.
We had employers from other factories ringing up to ask whether we were paying over the odds.
