A period of negotiation of salaries and pay awards.
the coming wage round could see conflict between trade unions and government
Example sentencesExamples
- In those three wage rounds, the total employment costs to business will be the same as a percentage of turnover as they are at the moment.
- Since then there have been two wage rounds.
- He sits there and smiles while the Government cynically tells people that if they behave themselves and do not have a wage round for 4 years, it will give them another week's holiday.
- In the 1997-98 wage round, review body awards were postponed and the following year increases were targeted on specific groups.
- They have calculated that the total cost of this bill is about a 3 percent increase in their payroll costs, and they have three wage rounds in which to claw that 3 percent back.
- The department will begin negotiations with the unions early next year for another wage round.
- The current salary offers are among the lowest in the current wage round.
- But the whole recent wage round in the public sector I think was handled professionally.
- We have settled the police wage round for the next 3 years.
- Their own pay may increase by ten cents an hour in a wage round.