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assignment
compare preference wage assignment : an assignment by an employee by which an amount of his or her wages are transferred to another party (as a creditor) before the wages are paid to the employee compare garnishment
index
or indicator (as of inflation or economic performance) see also consumer price index vt : to link (as wages, rates, or investments) to an index [under the contract wages were ed to inflation]
Average
harvest. In Kent it is called gratten, and in other parts roughings. (5) means the average of the wages payable to a workman--(i) in the case of monthly paid workman, in the three complete calendar months, (ii)
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Master and servant
from Michaelmas to Michaelmas, and this is an entire hiring for a year; and, unless otherwise stipulated, no wages are payable until the end of the year. Consult Burn's Justice, tit. 'Servants.' 2nd Servants in particular trades.
Cost of living index number
living index number, in relation to employees in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed, means the index number ascertained and declared by the competent authority by notification in the
Domestics
upon the hiring. In this country it is usual to engage domestic servants at a fixed amount of wages per annum. But there is generally no express stipulation as to the time that the service is to
Employer
direct a worker under an express or implied contract of hire and who pays the workers salary or wages, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. (a) in relation to contract labour, the principal employer, and (b) in relation
Hosiery manufacture
manufacture. The Hosiery Manufacture (Wages) Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 48), provides for the payment of wages without certain stoppages theretofore customary.
Housing of the working classes
a person belonging to the working classes, and 'working class 'includes mechanics, artisans, labourers and others working for wages, hawkers, costar-mongers and persons not working for wages, but working at some trade or handicraft without employing others
Partners of a firm
a partner who belongs to the class of employer cannot rank as employee because he also works for wages for the partnership. In common parlance the status of a partner qua the firm is thus different from
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