I was due for a raise when they put a freeze on wages.

我正好应当涨工资，他们却实行了工资冻结。

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It is difficult to envisage wages taking off when the public sector is shedding jobs and facing a two-year pay freeze and there are 2.5m people unemployed, close to 8% of the Labour force.

当公共部门正在减少工作岗位，面临两年的工资冻结，并有占劳动总量接近8%的250万人失业的时候，正视工资减少是困难的。

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Most CFOs in America, Europe and Asia expect to freeze hiring and wages over the next 12 months.

大多数首席财务官在北美，欧洲和亚洲预计冻结雇用和工资在未来12个月。

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The lawsuit on behalf of up to 100, 000 borrowers claims lawyers at Mel Harris then used those statements to obtain default judgments against the consumers and threaten to garnish their wages or freeze money in their bank accounts.

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The changes freeze wages and cut certain benefits such as the jobs bank for laid-off workers.

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Jan Parkinson, managing director of Local Government Employers, said the decision to freeze wages had "not been taken lightly" and councils were "facing extremely tough choices this year".

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