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wage determination

British

noun

the process of setting wage rates or establishing wage structures in particular situations

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The National Guard Bureau says it did not ask the Labor Department to issue a wage determination specifically for these jobs and left it up to companies to decide what occupations applied.

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2017

A diminishing reliance on collective bargaining for wage determination gives an increasingly important role to minimum wages, social protection tools and other in-work benefits, incentives and additional earnings.

From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2010

It brings the living wage determination into direct relation with—or makes it relative to—the productive capacity of the industrial system at the time and place in question.

From The Settlement of Wage Disputes by Feis, Herbert

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