Platinum-producer Lonmin recently agreed to a new wage contract with striking workers at its Marikana mine, but friction between an upstart mining union and the established mining union has led to clashes at several platinum mines in South Africa.
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The future is already here and it brings with it low-wage temporary or contract work as a way of life.
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The rhetoric between executives of unions representing television and movie writers and those at studios has grown intensely heated amid fears that writers may wage a strike when their contract expires in couple of weeks.
Sutiin, a 29-year-old from East Java, has signed a contract testifying that she receives the minimum wage.
The data clearly shows that there is a Super Bowl wage premium, presuming that you sign a new contract or negotiate an extension shortly thereafter.
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Holland has three years left on his contract and is one of Ipswich's highest wage earners.
In Italy and Spain, wage growth is picking up even as unemployment rises, because of contract clauses allowing workers to be compensated for higher-than-expected inflation.
In return, under a voluntary contract, the farmer would receive a small annual payment or wage.
Mr Miliband said the initiative was different from the government's Youth Contract in that it guaranteed a paid job on the minimum wage and on-the-job training, saying one of the government's work experience scheme was "the only work programme in history which does not guarantee work".
For the freelance writer who wants to be making a living wage by the end of his second year of business, one milestone could be the first paid contract.
The contract between the parties expired June 1, and one issue still to be resolved is what wage increases the new deal will grant.
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