wage freeze

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

With high interest rates and a wages freeze, many householders are only just managing to keep their heads above water.
由于實(shí)行高利率和工資凍結(jié)措施，許多戶(hù)主只能是使自己免職于負(fù)債。
More than 80% of respondents say they will not cut back on contributions to employee retirement plans and only 12% say they will freeze wages.
超過(guò)80%的受訪(fǎng)者表示，不會(huì)減少企業(yè)對(duì)員工退休計(jì)劃的注資，只有12%的受訪(fǎng)者表示將凍結(jié)工資水平。
blog.sina.com.cn
Higher inflation in the early 1980s and 1990s meant employers could simply freeze wages or raise them more slowly than prices to achieve real cuts in pay.
在上世紀(jì)80和90年代較高通貨膨脹的時(shí)候，當(dāng)時(shí)雇主們只需不再增長(zhǎng)工資或者使他們漲得比物價(jià)滿(mǎn)就能達(dá)到減薪的效果。

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.
FORBES: Judge Allows RICO Suit Over Debt-Collection Tactics To Proceed
The changes freeze wages and cut certain benefits such as the jobs bank for laid-off workers.
FORBES: Magazine Article
Bond-market troubles are forcing Greece's government to freeze public-sector wages and raise taxes, and causing Portugal's and Spain's to accelerate budget cuts.
ECONOMIST: Tightening economic policy

an occasion when a company or government sets the amount paid to workers and will not allow any increases