LOW-PAID


Meaning of LOW-PAID in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a low-paid worker

As part-time, low-paid workers, many women earned very little.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

job

Most low-paid jobs are part-time or temporary.

Most women are forced through economic necessity to work in part-time low-paid jobs with quite a large number in the black economy.

Veterans who returned to low-paid jobs without occupational pension schemes now depend upon the state retirement pension.

Their spouses may not have been able to save much during their lives; they may have had low-paid jobs .

Many of those working in the formal care sector are women in low-paid jobs .

Questions were asked: Why do most women work in unskilled, low-paid jobs ?

worker

That would take more low-paid workers out of the tax net and encourage more part-time work.

But as part-time, low-paid workers , the women earned very little.

Moreover, this welfare-only approach ignores the opinions of low-paid workers themselves.

The wages for many teenage and low-paid workers rose correspondingly.

It will be hard on nurses, teachers and low-paid workers but at least their jobs are not at risk.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

low-paid workers

a low-paid mechanic

The jobs centre seems to list only low-paid temporary jobs.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But as part-time, low-paid workers, the women earned very little.

But the company did not want the hassle - or embarrassment - of dealing direct with its own low-paid work force.

Moreover, this welfare-only approach ignores the opinions of low-paid workers themselves.

Most low-paid jobs are part-time or temporary.

Rate for the job Brighter prospects for low-paid women workers.

Sorting rubbish is still done largely by hand, often by low-paid or immigrant labour, and is filthy and dangerous work.

They depend on larger companies for a market niche, and often provide low-paid and insecure jobs.

Veterans who returned to low-paid jobs without occupational pension schemes now depend upon the state retirement pension.

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