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Wage Cuts Create Problems
| Investment Research Group |
29 August 2009
Increasingly, I am running into people who are taking pay cuts in one form or another in the interest of their struggling employers. I am also aware of a number of companies that have trimmed staff incomes, often by 5% - 10%.
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