Meaning of pay-neutral | Babel Free

Definitions

Leaving no significant net income to sustain the household; only covering childcare costs, travel, and other expenses.

uncommon

Examples

“Certain neoclassical authors consider severance pay "neutral" because the employee can always be made to pay a deposit at the beginning of the wage relation which can be used as severance pay later on.”

“If implementing PM can be pay neutral, then isn't it just another way of getting people to work more without paying them more, a latter-day version of the Fame that Wwe have been playing all along? Absolutely not.”

“When it comes to single parents, the situation is even worse. Many professional women find themselves in this "pay-neutral" position, as they're often forced to take lower-paid part-time jobs to fit around their children.”

“But the rise and rise of the ‘pay neutral’ job - where there’s nothing left even of a decent salary, once the nursery standing order goes out - is finally becoming a hot political potato.”

“The cost of childcare in Northern Ireland is leaving parents 'pay neutral', with a single parent spending on average 44 per cent of their weekly income on daycare for one child, according to a new report.”

“And a 2013 Family Finances report from insurer Aviva found childcare costs and cuts to benefits have led to more people in "pay-neutral" work – where childcare and travel costs wipe out earnings. Many single parents are forced to take part-time jobs to fit around their children.”

“More people also find themselves in a ‘pay-neutral’ trap, where the income from jobs does not cover the costs of taking them, since they not only lose benefits but must also pay for childcare, transport, suitable clothes and so on.”

“Returning to work straight after having a child has, for some, been branded as ‘pay-neutral work’, whereby the costs of childcare and travel consume an entire salary and leave many women essentially working for free.”

“Justifying excesses in one part of the organization whilst providing explanations as to why expanding job roles elsewhere were apparently ‘pay-neutral’ was no easy task, and it did little to improve employee morale in an organization whose key message was “do more with less”.”

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