wage freeze

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With high interest rates and a wages freeze, many householders are only just managing to keep their heads above water.
由于实行高利率和工资冻结措施，许多户主只能是使自己免职于负债。
More than 80% of respondents say they will not cut back on contributions to employee retirement plans and only 12% say they will freeze wages.
超过80%的受访者表示，不会减少企业对员工退休计划的注资，只有12%的受访者表示将冻结工资水平。
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Higher inflation in the early 1980s and 1990s meant employers could simply freeze wages or raise them more slowly than prices to achieve real cuts in pay.
在上世纪80和90年代较高通货膨胀的时候，当时雇主们只需不再增长工资或者使他们涨得比物价满就能达到减薪的效果。

The lawsuit on behalf of up to 100, 000 borrowers claims lawyers at Mel Harris then used those statements to obtain default judgments against the consumers and threaten to garnish their wages or freeze money in their bank accounts.
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The changes freeze wages and cut certain benefits such as the jobs bank for laid-off workers.
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Bond-market troubles are forcing Greece's government to freeze public-sector wages and raise taxes, and causing Portugal's and Spain's to accelerate budget cuts.
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an occasion when a company or government sets the amount paid to workers and will not allow any increases