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The British Empire In Colour: A Tryst With Destiny

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pay

Financial reward given by employers to employees for their work. Take‐home pay or net pay is pay after income tax, national insurance contributions, and any other deductions have been taken away. Gross pay is before deductions.

The pay of manual workers is normally called their wage; white‐collar workers are usually said to receive a salary. The total pay or earnings of workers include their basic pay– that is, the pay they receive for working their basic week or month – plus overtime payments, bonus payments, and any other monies given by employers. Pay is an important motivator of individual workers.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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Breitling Jet Team - Terms and Conditions
OJ And Company: 10 Years Later
The Hillside Stranglers
The Crusades
Harper Collins
Hillsborough
'Valkyrie' Interview
2 January 1980

British steel workers call a national strike for the first time in more than fifty years in an attempt to increase their pay.

11 January 1993

British Airways is forced into an embarrassing climb-down in relation to a campaign of 'dirty tricks' it launched against rival airline Virgin Atlantic. BA is forced to pay damages to both Virgin Atlantic and its boss Richard Branson.

22 January 1979

In Britain, thousands of public sector workers stage a one day strike to protest against poor pay.

11 February 1987
In Britain, Cynthia Payne is acquitted of charges related to controlling prostitutes at her home in London.
25 February 1972

In Britain, after a seven strike, miners vote in favour of accepting a new improved pay offer.

6 March 1974
British coal workers call off a four-week strike following a 35% pay offer from the new Labour government.
8 March 1971

In Britain, after seven weeks out on strike postal workers return to work after agreeing a new pay deal.

9 March 1995
In Britain, the Queen pays a symbolic visit to Northern Ireland her first since the IRA and Loyalist ceasefires came into effect in 1994. 
4 May 1966
In Britain, the Labour government announces that pay for both doctors and dentists will increase by up to 30%.
30 May 2001
In France, former Foreign Minister Roland Dumas is jailed for six months for accepting illegal payments from an oil company during his period in office.
16 June 1982
24,000 miners bring the South Wales coalfield to a standstill after striking in support of health service workers who are demanding a pay rise.
21 June 1991
The Chairman of British Gas, Robert Evans, is attacked for accepting a pay rise ten times the rate of inflation, bringing his wage up to £370,000.
24 June 1968
Rail services across Britain are thrown into chaos as the National Union of Railwaymen refuse to work overtime as they seek a better pay deal.
26 June 1284
According to legend, the Pied Piper re-appears in the German town of Hamelin. After ridding the town of rats the townspeople refused to pay him. So he began playing his pipe and 130 children from the town followed him into a cave in Koppenburg Mountain which he then sealed.
11 July 1991
In Britain, Labour MP Terry Fields is sentenced to 60 days in prison for refusing to pay the Poll Tax.
28 July 1932
During the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover orders the U.S. Army under General Douglas MacArthur to evict by force the Bonus Marchers from Washington D.C. The marches consisted of approximately 1000 First World War veterans seeking cash payments for their veterans’ bonus certificates.
30 July 1973
Distillers Company agrees to pay more than £20 million in compensation to those born with birth defects as a result of their mothers taking the drug thalidomide during pregnancy.
12 August 2000
In England, a memorial service is held for the murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne at Guildford Cathedral.
24 October 1901
To help raise money to pay her mortgage, Mrs Ann Edson Taylor goes over Niagara Falls in a padded barrel, and survives.
30 October 2002
British television takes another move away from traditional analogue broadcasting with the introduction Freeview – a digital terrestrial service obtained by a one off payment. 
3 November 1997
French lorry drivers form blockades across the country causing havoc on the roads. The drivers were trying to negotiate a better pay deal.
6 November 1972
In Britain, the Conservative government freezes pay and prices in an attempt to and stop inflation increasing.
26 November 1992

The British government announces that the Queen will start to pay income tax.

12 December 1980
American oil tycoon Armand Hammer pays $5,126,000 at auction for a notebook containing writings by Leonardo da Vinci.
15 December 1973
Teenager John Paul Getty III is set free by his kidnappers in Italy after his grandfather, the oil tycoon, John Paul Getty, pays a ransom of $2.7 million.
18 December 1974
The British government announces that it will pay £42,000 in compensation to the families of those killed during the Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland.
29 December 1975
The Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts come into force in Britain. Both are designed to eradicate the unequal treatment of women in the work place. 
 

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