Job losses would have been that much greater if there had been no pay freeze at all.
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In a joint statement, the contractors said there would be no pay cuts or redundancies under the changes.
After nine years in Brazil, often working illegally for next to no pay, he has opened his own restaurant.
The "no budget, no pay" provision is seen by congressional insiders as a bad idea whose time has arrived.
On Friday, the White House appeared cautiously to welcome the move but withheld comment on the "no pay" condition.
He said he has been willing to work for no pay to accrue experience required for a professional engineering license.
Just no pay: and there are those who volunteer to work with the police for free on a regular basis.
If it fails to return to its earlier, clipping pace because firms can see no pay-off this could dampen future productivity growth.
The Observer spoke to children as young as 10 who said they were working 16 hours a day for no pay.
Workers on such contracts are on call to work but can be given no hours and, as a result, no pay.
Better yet, they would work these decreased hours with no pay cut.
Young people regularly work for low and even no pay in order to build their resume, learn useful skills, and make networking connections.
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As it stands today, they know their voices and opinions will be heard, so they are willing to serve at virtually no pay.
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"No Budget, No Pay" was originally proposed by No Labels, a group of Democrats, Republicans and independents dedicated to the politics of problem-solving.
The latter painfully reveals itself in two ways: More available capital means more investment, and there are no jobs and no pay without investment first.
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In West Virginia, 84 percent of elementary teachers and 57 percent of secondary teachers are women, although there is no pay difference in the state.
The changes they had introduced had allowed one trust to increase pay in one instance but there had been no pay cuts on their watch.
Is going forward with no pay-for an option you would consider?
"We have many members facing a further period of uncertainty with no pay and we also have retired public servants who haven't had their pensions, " he said.
As for the rest of us, there's nothing wrong with gargantuan pay packages as long as the recipients don't ask for our help when there's no pay at all.
Armed groups have profited from mining these metals, holding some workers at gunpoint and forcing them to work for little or no pay, according to the group Free the Slaves.
"There is certainly no pay-to-play involved, because I don't have no money, " said Burris, who returned later in the day to Illinois, where he planned to appear Thursday before the impeachment panel.
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That's because of a new "no budget, no pay" provision that says if a budget is not passed by April 15, senators' salaries will be held in escrow until a budget is approved.
Many lawyers, of course, have made heroic efforts for particular defendants for little or no pay, but the charity of lawyers can be relied on to handle only a tiny fraction of cases.
Brazilian police last year raided a number of sweatshops in the capital, Brasilia, and in Sao Paulo, where undocumented immigrants from Bolivia and Pakistan were found working in unsafe conditions for very little or no pay.
In one sensational case, wiretaps of a high profile public relations executive released last year, revealed that some top journalists were allegedly reporting as per a pre-arranged script though no pay-offs were ever proven.
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But the House GOP vote to at least extend the debt-ceiling deadline and impose a common sense measure like "No Budget, No Pay" is sign of sanity at the start of the second Obama term.
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