Translation of "Ohne lohnausgleich" in English

Without fanfare, German workers accepted longer hours without increases in pay.

If we are seriously trying to combat unemployment we must encourage more people to become self-employed.

The difference between the two countries is that, in Germany, working times were increased without compensating pay increases.

In Germany, public employers have been trying to reduce personnel costs, e.g. by negotiating working time reductions without compensating payments for overstaffed services or by cutting additional benefits for employees and officials.

The Commission admits that current economic change is likely to generate uneven redistributive effects and that new categories of people may find themselves at risk (for instance, workers with fixed-term or temporary contracts who will experience periods of unemployment with no income support, women, poorly-qualified older workers, single-parent families, single-income families and people with disabilities).

That is why the Commission is also proposing a 5% reduction of staff in all institutions and agencies, an increase in the minimum working week to 40 hours without compensatory wage adjustments, an increase of the normal retirement age from 63 to 65, a significant restriction of early retirement rules as well as measures related to rules on careers, like a significant lowering of salaries for certain functions.

The employers have so far flatly refused to consider shortening the working week with compensation for lost earnings, although without such compensation they regard it as conceivable, at least in individual cases.

Collective agreements therefore include wage restraint arrangements, together with various options at company level (flexible working hours) and shorter working time without wage compensation in order to safeguard jobs.

It is not only because they increase employers' disposition over the use of labour resources that the experiments in Great Britain and Germany have not been greeted with any great en thusiasm by the trade unions, but also because they perceive them as efforts to undermine their demands for a redistribution of employment opportunities based upon a more general reduction of working time, with or without wage compensation.

Additionally the parents may shorten their work time without wage adjustment over up to two hours daily, until the child is eight years old.

Equal treatment in case of special payments – a question of the wording If employees accept their employer's offer to waive additional payments for a limited term or to accept longer working hours without wage compensation therefor, then this is frequently linked to a promise of the employer to remunerate the employee in future with other benefits such as wage increases or special payments in return for their cooperation during the time of crisis.

A revolutionary workers' party would put forward a program that addresses the growing inequity in American society with demands for raising wages and ending unemployment through a massive investment in public infrastructure and shortening the workweek from 40 to 30 hours with no loss in pay.

In June the IG Metall board signed an amended wage agreement with the company leaders of the mobile phone factory Siemens in Kamp-Lintfort and Bocholt. This agreement was basically an increase in work time to 40 hours a week without an equivalent wage increase and the cancellation of the Christmas bonus and holiday bonus.

During our visit, about a month ago, we have found that also in Switzerland they try to use similar methods to drive the exploitation of the workers to the extremes, for example by extending the working hours with no extra pay.

A general reduction in working hours without full compensation is also conceivable, which would ultimately lead to less consumption, less growth and thus less CO2 emissions, which is desirable to many people in Austria according to studies.

Everyone knows that ZZM is does not getting any more orders from its main customer in Austria and that in exchange for job guarantees, Solidarity had alreadys agreed to a shorter working week with wage cuts already inlast December.

When, in the following summer and autumn, leading international corporations subsequently tried to revise the results of the contract agreements and to extort from the workforces the prolongation of the workweek without wage compensation, plus other concessions, there began a series of corporation-wide struggles, among others at Bosch, Siemens and DaimlerChrysler.

One way to increase the competitiveness of German jobs without endangering earnings is to extend working hours without pay adjustments.

The chief of the chemical workers' and miners' union Schmoldt - following an article of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (FAZ) from 24 December 2008 - obediently proposed the readiness for shortening working hours without wage compensation, further wage cuts of about 10 per cent, cuts in Christmas benefits, etc.

A revolutionary workers’ party would put forward a program that addresses the growing inequity in American society with demands for raising wages and ending unemployment through a massive investment in public infrastructure and shortening the workweek from 40 to 30 hours with no loss in pay.

For example, in response to mass unemployment and plummeting wages, such a leadership would fight for jobs for all with no loss in pay and the indexing of wages to inflation.