What is not so usual is that the fall in earnings has mainly come through everyone in work being paid less - not from a relatively small fraction losing their jobs.
Viscount Colville of Culross, a former BBC producer and crossbencher, used his maiden speech to draw attention to the difficulty of finding paid work in the media.
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Some of the changes in the revised plan make sense, including more sparing use of remand, more frequent resort to well-enforced community sentences and more opportunities for paid work in prison.
But wait, getting teenagers that are juniors in high school to work in the school and get paid for it might not be a bad idea.
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Fair Trade U.S.A., a nonprofit that was founded in 1998 to audit products to make sure workers overseas are paid fair wages and work in safe conditions, is hoping to appeal to shoppers who care about where their clothing is made.
Samasource takes work orders from a U.S. tech company, breaks them down into simple tasks it has dubbed microwork, and sends it off to a partner in say, the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, where most of the other jobs are low-paid, backbreaking work in the coal mines.
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In some cases they are paid for term-time work only, in others they get at least a retainer over the holidays.
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Staying on top of this process took discipline, but in the long run it paid off handsomely in increased productivity, team work, and perhaps most importantly, morale.
In addition employers will provide paid work experience places for 11, 387 students and new graduates.
When he realizes those options he will in effect be paid for his work building Facebook.
In the past, most immigrants were temporary workers who entered countries such as France or Spain to do low-paid seasonal work in agriculture.
All across this country, I meet folks who grew up with a faith that in America, hard work paid off and responsibility was rewarded, and anybody could make it if they tried -- no matter where you came from, no matter what you looked like, no matter how you started out.
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The federal investigators appear to be interested in Mr Rowland's cottage because among those who paid for the work are several key figures in a widening federal grand-jury investigation of corruption in the state's capital, Hartford.
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Campaigners like Alison Garnham argue that the public attitudes have been influenced by tabloid caricatures of benefit scroungers when, in fact, the amount paid to out-of-work people had gone down, in real terms, over the past 40 years.
This is often contracted out to private firms who get paid for placing people in work.
But neither she nor the firm has done any paid financial planning work in years.
Push said opportunities for paid work for students in Wales "appear to have dried up".
But Matthew is keen to point out that, while he was relieved to leave the private sector to work in "well-paid quality provision where standards are usually consistently high", the vast majority of his former colleagues were "in it for the love of the job".
You need to share the details of how you came to play such an important role to the organization, how budget was allocated elsewhere (perhaps all labor was unpaid or this was an unusual turnaround situation), and why you stayed in a volunteer capacity rather than seek paid work.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that shorter hours at the office are paid for in fewer coffee breaks and smarter work habits.
Beyond his paid work, Easton constantly plugged in and gave back in ways that were fun and made him feel useful.
He would then send an end-of-day report on the work he paid a company in Shenyang, China, to do for him.
This will be paid to people both in and out of work, replacing child tax credit, working tax credit, housing benefit and income support, among others.
Businesses participating in the zones may be paid fees for consultancy work but the teaching unions have wrung from ministers a promise that no firm will profit from providing state-financed teaching.
Are any of the people who were on the intelligence team, which you said is now no longer doing that work, are any of those people still paid by the department and perhaps in other parts of your organization basically doing that same work on other topics?
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The study also found a correlation between hours spent on paid work and the frequency of sex in marriage.
The paid work we go out and do in the marketplace and the unpaid work that we do in household production.
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