He lured sales managers with hefty pay increases and dangled signing bonuses to others.
Dr Chisholm said GPs also expected pay increases in line with those promised to consultants.
The economists said pay increases would have to be limited to minimise job losses.
In their last negotiations, Verizon's unions won annual pay increases of 4%, 3%, and 5%.
With the economy struggling, unions believe there is a compelling case for pay increases for workers.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has made repeated calls for federal judges to receive pay increases.
Negotiations about pay increases are not due to be completed before the end of the financial year.
Relying on 3 percent pay increases every year throughout your career is not a way to build wealth.
However, health service managers have warned the government not to use the extra cash to fund large pay increases.
Many civil service contracts require annual pay increases for staff, in line with their seniority and length of service.
When she took office, she was faced with a potential strike of nurses whose union was demanding huge pay increases.
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It relented eventually and announced some pay increases over fear of losing key staff to rival Wipro ( WIT).
Some industries will show higher pay increases than others, and some will be subject to unique competitive forces for talent.
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Those who choose instead to be paid solely on seniority would retain their job security but receive much smaller pay increases.
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But it is Mr Pennington who has secured pay increases for his 1, 200 officers of 36-69% over the past three years.
Firefighters must be prepared to modernise working practices in return for pay increases, according to the Bain review into the fire service.
He backed that up with a tough sounding commitment to cap pay increases in the public sector in those two years at 1%.
The Liberal Democrats say the expected increase in council tax sits uncomfortably alongside the government's insistence on limiting public sector pay increases to 2%.
The above-inflation pay increases that Cosatu has claimed over the past five years have swelled government expenditure and crowded out spending on worthier causes.
The pay disparity is accounted for by women holding lower-pay jobs and women being paid less than men in the same jobs and getting lower pay increases.
The EEF manufacturers' organisation said the rises struck a delicate balance between the need for pay increases and the limitations employers faced in awarding rises.
It likewise underscores the persistent challenge facing the entire business community, which is to explain all major pay increases as cogently and powerfully as possible.
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Ponder that for a moment: judges decreeing pay increases for themselves.
The union called for a number of changes including the reduction of workloads and administration duties and guarantees that staff would receive promised pay increases.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said the pay increases were part of a "something for nothing" culture, since the stock market had not risen to match them.
Hitachi and Matsushita, another big consumer-electronics firm, are proposing to end automatic seniority-based pay increases after workers reach a certain age, and to shift to performance-based pay structures instead.
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The latest wave of trouble started last summer when pilots at United Airlines in America won pay increases of around 24%, followed by their colleagues at Delta Air Lines.
Receiving pay increases that match or barely beat inflation is better than nothing, but there should be no pride in comparing a pay raise with the rate of inflation.
Schedule monthly updates with your supervisor to keep her apprised of your achievements so there is no question about whether the work you performed can justify above-average pay increases.
Now, that it's over, I can mention several of them: one was with the bowling firm, then there were several banks that we were successful in getting to negotiate pay increases, Sears, Roebuck Company.
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