We were disgusted when bosses awarded themselves a massive pay rise. How can they get on the gravy train, but ask us to take a wage freeze? 看到老板为自己大幅加薪,我们感到十分气愤。他们凭什么轻轻松松捞油水却要求我们不涨工资?
Many companies have imposed a pay freeze 许多公司已经强制冻结了工资。
Some of her clients have put their own retirements at risk because 'helping to pay to freeze the eggs' proved to be 'only step one.' 她的有些客户会导致自己的退休金面临风险,因为最后发现帮助孩子支付冷冻卵子的费用只是第一步。
The unions could not take on board the idea of a pay freeze. 工会不能接纳冻结工资的意见。
That deal, aimed at staving off the need for compulsory redundancies, involves staff accepting a pay freeze on their hourly rate, a reduction in working hours, and enhanced pensions under a two-year deal. 上述协议旨在暂时避开强制性裁员的需要,内容包括职员接受计时工资冻结不再涨薪、工时减少以及增加两年期合同中的养老金。
A pay freeze is thought to be likely. 大家认为可能会停止加薪。
Though Mr Osborne has called the tax rate "very uncompetitive", he is the last man to ignore the political risks of ditching it, at least before a public-sector pay freeze ends in2013. 虽然奥斯本先生宣称这个税率毫无竞争力,但他最后一个想要冒放弃这个税率的政治风险的人,至少在2013年公用部门的支付冻结解除之前。
The plan includes a lay-off of 2,000 employees and a pay freeze for the remaining 4,000. 这项计划括及裁员两千人,并对剩余的四千名员工冻结给付。
The pay freeze proposal, which requires Congressional approval, would cancel the 1.4 per cent rise that 2m federal workers had been expecting in the 2011 fiscal year. It will apply to all civilian employees but not to military personnel. 冻结薪资的提议将取消200万名联邦雇员原本预期在2011财年得到的1.4%薪水上调,它适用于所有文职雇员,但不适用于军方人员。这项提议尚需国会批准。
The proposed pay freeze has incensed the men. 拟议中的工资冻结使工人们极为愤怒。