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The employer wishes to reduce overall wage costs by hiring new employees at a wage less than the wage of incumbent workers. [1] [2] A much less common system is the two-tier benefit system, which extends certain benefits to new employees only if they receive a promotion or are hired into the incumbent wage structure. [3] [4] [5]
The two-tier system is an attempt to break the union and create disharmony among workers, said Jane Carter, a research director for United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care ...
Zimbabwe operates on a two tier system being wages and salaries. Wages are managed by the National Employment Council (NEC). Each sector has its own NEC; i.e. agriculture, communications, mining, catering, educational institutions, etc. On the council are representatives from the unions and the employers.
The third edition of the Accord, established in March 1987, marked the end of formal wage indexation and the introduction of a two-tiered system. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] The first tier was a general wage increase of $10 per week and the second tier was an increase of up to 4%, conditional on implementing certain efficiency improvements. [ 2 ]
Tournament theory is the theory in personnel economics used to describe certain situations where wage differences are based not on marginal productivity but instead upon relative differences between the individuals. [1] This theory was invented by economists Edward Lazear and Sherwin Rosen. [2]
Time Rate System: Under this system, the worker is paid by the hour, day, week, or month. High Wage plan: Under this plan a worker is paid a wage rate which is substantially higher than the rate prevailing in the area or in the industry. In return, he is expected to maintain a very high level of performance, both quantitative and qualitative.
WAYNE, Michigan (Reuters) -Striking auto workers converged on a Ford assembly plant on the outskirts of Detroit on Friday morning to show their support for the most ambitious labor action in ...
The term "family wage jobs" has occasional contemporary use in American political rhetoric and is most associated with Catholic intellectuals, in the Catholic social teaching tradition, such as Douglas Kmiec and Allan C. Carlson. Charles Krauthammer has said there should be a two-tiered system where breadwinners have a higher minimum wage. [1]