The now bankrupt makers of some of our favorite childhood treats like Twinkies and Ho-Hos acknowledged that it used employee wages slated for their pension plans to fund company operations.

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At that point I recalled getting an unsolicited letter on 12.24.10 from Great West Retirement stating they had cut a deal with the caterer and would be attaching wages, placing them in a retirement fund which I could opt out of within a couple of days or it would become final.

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The Fund wants the government to have control over wages, ending the salary explosion.

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The court heard Ms Spence also borrowed money from murder accused Colin Coat's parents' funeral fund and she had not paid her workers any wages.

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This is trust fund money that belongs to the government and was withheld from wages.

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Mandy Thorn, of the National Care Association, said the reason wages were low in the care home sector was that government was not prepared to fund the sector properly.

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Some are now calling for the abolition of the agency and even the scrapping of the federal unemployment-insurance fund (if workers simply saved the 6.5% of gross wages that employers and employees now each contribute, that could give the newly jobless enough of a cushion to get through several months of unemployment).

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Public sector wages doubled in the period of access to the EZ in 2000 to 2010 and the state continued to fund, in fact, over fund arguably the most generous pension system in the world.

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Over the years, it has supported Ms. Quinn's controversial proposal to require developers to publicly report employees' wages and has also put forward a proposal that has become a campaign plank of hers a fund to buy distressed apartment buildings, make repairs and sell them to affordable housing developers.

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