Workers have also demanded a second pay hike this year at No. 2 producer Impala Platinum.
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The company skirted a big potential roadblock in July, when it agreed to a pay hike for 200, 000 of its unionized workers.
Before they started, the researchers told some of the workers that they would get a seven-euro bonus, a 20% pay hike to the promised wage.
The magic includes the launching of nine models and will finance the average 8% pay hike just given and the all-expenses-paid trek to Macau and Hong Kong that the 200 best dealers will get in July.
Ellis Chase, a career coach for three decades, says even if your employer offers to boost your compensation to persuade you to stay, you will likely lose out a year later, when your colleagues are getting raises, because you already got a pay hike.
This is a tale of two editorials today: one in Utah, lambasting a lawmaker for trying to sneak a price hike into energy bills to pay for a proposed nuclear plant, and one in Florida, demanding the repeal of just such a price hike, which has collected hundreds of millions from ratepayers for nuclear plants that may never be built.
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The large credit services company announced a 2 cent, or 11%, dividend hike and will now pay 20 cents per share.
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About 450 workers agreed to a pay increase of 9.8%, after initially demanding a hike of more than 20%.
But starting with a hike in the minimum wage will at least make these difficult jobs pay enough for women and their families to survive on.
Making people pay what they already owe under current law doesn't count as a tax hike.
However, sympathy for the low-paid healthcare workers grew when senators advocated a hike in their own salaries in March, and it was revealed that their pay package with benefits included was already well in excess of middle-class norms.
As reported on May 2 in a Forbes.com article, " Rich College Kids: Take A Tax Hike, " Congress wants children and college students who come from wealthier families to pay more taxes to offset tax breaks given to small businesses.
Bank of America told thousands of its cardholders in recent weeks--even those with good payment histories--that they faced a rate hike from 9% to as high as 28% if they didn't pay off their balances at the old rate and stop using their cards.
The company's broker has warned the law could mean a rate hike of 30% to 40%, and "that's not something I want to pay, " said Don Fornes, chief executive of Software Advice, based in Austin, Texas.
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