• Sharp declines in commodity prices and demand for metals have led Kazakhstan's big mining companies to cut production and send thousands of workers on leave at half-pay.

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  • She said she had been off sick on full pay for the first six months of her illness, and it was then cut to half-pay for a further three months.

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  • Many workers are receiving only half-pay or less.

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  • It also includes reducing the six months of full sickness pay to 12 weeks and the following six months of half-sickness pay to 12 weeks, and freezing the performance related pay scheme for two of the next four years.

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  • ' But the way we have structured the bill, if the employee says I'll take it in time off instead of time-and-a-half pay, anytime the employee changes his mind after that, he can have the money.

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  • Not enough is coming into the coffers to pay half-decent wages and cover the minimum capital investments the state must make.

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  • To earn the equivalent of a DB pension worth half their final pay-cheque, they or their employer would have to contribute 55% of their salary.

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  • Hence, he says, his take-it-or-leave-it offer in September to PAL's three unions: a 20% employee stake in the company plus three seats on the 15-member board - in exchange for a commitment not to strike for 10 years and cuts in employee benefits that would add up to half of take-home pay.

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  • You would have to increase the subs two-and-a-half times - it's not just the pitches you pay for it's the umpires as well.

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  • According to the Nationwide Building Society, mortgage payments in the first year of a loan are currently around 25% of take-home pay, half the average burden in the 1980s.

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  • After 20 years in the service, retirees are entitled to a pension worth half their base pay and low-cost health insurance, but that rarely provides enough compensation for most to stop working.

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  • The strike by the union members at the Home Office and UK Border Agency had already been rescheduled from Friday to Monday after they had been told they would be docked a full day's pay for a half-day strike.

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  • He will serve a default prison sentence of two-and-a-half years if he fails to pay the amount back.

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  • He is a wage-earner, albeit a very highly paid one, and he's going to pay over one-half of his income in taxes if he stays in California.

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  • The lack of a safety net encourages everybody to work, and the employed get to keep most of what they earn due to low tax rates -- more than half of wage earners pay no tax at all.

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  • One exception was its sale in the late 1960s of a 15% stake in Daimler-Benz, to help pay duties on the death of Harald, Herbert's half-brother.

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  • Liechtenstein nearly made Wales pay on the stroke of half-time, exposing a shaky Wales back four where Collins again showed a worrying tendency to over-commit.

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  • Sometimes the spotter makes you have half-half decisions because you start the skill and then whatever happens, you don't pay attention, 100%, to the execution.

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  • To state the obvious, that means you pay half the price for a higher-ranked program.

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  • Instead of withdrawing 500 shares to pay the first half of the two-year annuity, he only has to withdraw 175.

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  • Since that would benefit only the half of French workers who have to pay income-tax, his equivalent bonbon for about 9m low-paid was to lower the rate at which they would have to pay two charges levied on all workers to help pay for health and unemployment insurance.

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  • More than half said they would help a parent pay for long-term care insurance instead of contributing to their own retirement savings.

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  • It was crowded with people from farther south, and we waited 25 minutes to pay for what we had collected from half-empty shelves.

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  • Further, each domestic partner must pay self-employment tax on her half of business earnings, a situation from which a special provision protects opposite-sex couples.

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  • And we want to pay college football players because one-half of one percent might individually be generating more revenue for their school than they receive in scholarship value?

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  • Gendarmes in the southwestern town of Samatan lowered their flag to half mast in a symbolic protest at pay, under-resourcing and what they see as inadequate support from the courts.

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  • The fourth-placed Championship club will have to pay half of the player's wages but the two clubs are not thought to have yet spoken about the intricate details of the deal.

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  • Patients might experience numbness in an area on the outside of their ankle about the size of a half-dollar, but that's a small price to pay for a healthy sex life.

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  • No one proposes applying income taxes to the half of benefits that are financed by taxes levied on employers, but some economists advocate taxing the half that is financed out of deductions from workers' pay-checks.

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  • Future Germans, for instance, may have to pay 90% more net taxes over their lifetimes than Germans born today, while future Japanese may have to pay over two-and-a-half times as much tax as Japanese born today.

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