Example sentences of "employer ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers ' contributions were similiarly arranged , though with a further jump to 10.45 per cent on all pay-packets of over £165 a week . |
| 2 | The IFS argues that a similar change now needs to be made to employers ' contributions . |
| 3 | But there is one change on the employers ' side that needs to be mirrored for employees : the abolition of the ceiling . |
| 4 | The leaked federation document , from Ian Hughes , its director in Yorkshire and Humberside , shows the employers ' strategy as agreed by the federation management board three weeks ago . |
| 5 | Ian Thompson , economic adviser to the Engineering Employers ' Federation , which has 5,200 member firms , warned : ‘ The basic message is that the UK economy is heading for recession , with reduction in investment , domestic demand and jobs . ’ |
| 6 | POOR standards of schooling are a frequent employers ' complaint . |
| 7 | When you , as an employer , first take on an employee , you must tell the Inspector of Taxes , who then sets a Pay As You Earn ( PAYE ) scheme and sends you an ‘ Employers ' Starter Pack ’ . |
| 8 | To do this , apply the exact percentages ( employees ' and employers ' ) to your employee 's gross pay . |
| 9 | Under some pressure from the Liberals , he agreed to accept amendments to reduce the standard rate of income tax in his Finance Bill , but his alternative scheme of including a 2 per cent surcharge on employers ' National Insurance contributions was much attacked in the City . |
| 10 | The corporate ascendancy of the trade unions and employers ' groups , with their many offshoots in the world of the quangos , was dismantled after the 1970s . |
| 11 | The employers ' initiative had ‘ opened the door for a new and fruitful phase in the council 's activities ’ ; the unions must now decide ‘ whether to keep the door open , let it swing , or slam it shut ’ ; the employers ' action was ‘ momentous in itself for British industry ’ , it was ‘ nothing less than a confrontation ’ — the word had become indispensable for all of us , from French planners to Indonesian terrorists . |
| 12 | The employers ' initiative had ‘ opened the door for a new and fruitful phase in the council 's activities ’ ; the unions must now decide ‘ whether to keep the door open , let it swing , or slam it shut ’ ; the employers ' action was ‘ momentous in itself for British industry ’ , it was ‘ nothing less than a confrontation ’ — the word had become indispensable for all of us , from French planners to Indonesian terrorists . |
| 13 | Basically , it was a late surviving example of 19th century employers ' attitudes towards their staff : checking up on them all the time or they 'd have their hands in the till , It was straight out of H.G. Wells ' Mr Kipps . |
| 14 | Less ‘ visible ’ increases in VAT and employers ' national insurance contributions offset the well-publicized cuts in income tax . |
| 15 | They are subject to a work permit system which ties them to one job and makes them dependent on their employers ' goodwill to continue their stay in Britain . |
| 16 | Natfhe also rejected the interim pay offer from the Polytechnic and Colleges Employers ' Forum for polytechnic and higher education college lecturers . |
| 17 | This reflects a Thatcherite judgment that the CSA , an employers ' association representing over 300 companies , has more clout than a chartered professional institute with 30,000 registered members . |
| 18 | A shy man from a conservative Catholic family ( his father , ex-President Antonio Segni , belonged to the right wing of the Christian Democrats ) , he has rallied a wide range of supporters to his reform campaign : free-thinking radicals , communists , a Catholic bishop , trade unionists , the influential Rome daily La Repubblica and the top ranks of Confindustria , Italy 's employers ' association , as well as Mr Orlando himself . |
| 19 | In the mid-1980s the government tried , disastrously , to deal with the labour shortage by increasing employers ' contributions to the Central Provident Fund ( the compulsory government-run pension scheme ) . |
| 20 | In 1986 the government reversed itself and cut employers ' contributions to the fund ( though they have since been allowed to rise again ) . |
| 21 | The Engineering Employers ' Federation ( EEF ) reckons the industry , which employs 45% of Britain 's manufacturing workers , will shed around 100,000 jobs this year . |
| 22 | WHAT should Britain do about an examination attacked by the country 's employers ' organisation , by the heads of four-fifths of its secondary schools , by its university vice-chancellors and even by the Prince of Wales ? |
| 23 | Presumptious as this was , the feeling was abroad that government policy , as well as the employers ' stand , had been defeated : |
| 24 | During the General Strike , the League collaborated with other employers ' organizations , such as the FBI , to provide information to the government on coal stocks and shortages , the availability of transport and the organization of strike-breaking operations . |
| 25 | By January 1928 the preparatory negotiations were going on between the TUC and the Confederation of Employers Organizations and the Federation of British Industries , the two main employers ' organisations . |
| 26 | There would be an MP from each of the three parties , a token Welsh and Scottish member , an employers ' representative and one from the trade unions , an economist , a social worker ( ‘ preferably a woman ’ ) , a local authority representative and two members nominated by the Commonwealth and colonial secretaries . |
| 27 | Also present at these meetings in various London clubs and restaurants were representatives from employers ' organizations , who recognized that to influence the Policy Unit was to influence the Prime Minister : if a minister proved unavailable , unsympathetic or intractable , they could outmanoeuvre him by enlisting Policy Unit support . |
| 28 | The swift rejection by the interior ministry , which leads public employers in wage negotiations , pre-empted a meeting between union and employers ' negotiators on Monday . |
| 29 | The Confederation of British Industry estimates that the move could add more than £40 billion to employers ' pension costs . |
| 30 | But the employers ' organisation says the rate of manufacturing pay rises is overstated because of the number of pay freezes . |