Translation of "Niedriglöhne" in English

They may face unemployment or lower salaries.

Low wages are a symptom of a systemic and endemic crisis.

Discounters and low salaries make the offered goods cheaper, but also threaten the existing structures.

Low wages will not solve the problem of unemployment and will not eradicate poverty.

That would then bring about a rise in lower salaries in the long term.

Moreover, the directive could become a charter for low pay and unsatisfactory job conditions.

Where Member States pursue tax cuts, priority should be given to reducing the tax burden on low-wage earners.

Security Guard - Usually easy to find, but often has long hours for low pay.

Whole areas disappear, people are expelled; low wages and miserable working conditions are further problems.

Women are especially affected – through low wages, poverty in old age, violence, sexism and oppression.

It is not only the face of poverty which continues to be female, but also the face of illiteracy, unemployment and low wage rates.

Here I shall quote the Chairman of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, Martin Schulz: 'Europe cannot successfully compete with other regions of the world on low wages and social standards, but on technological innovations, higher quality of work and the competence and knowledge of its people.'

Such a policy does, however, lead to the erosion of low wages, and most certainly to an undermining of the standard of living of the people.

Sadly, Turkey wants to join the European Union because they will have their hands out in the hope of having them filled with lots of European taxpayers' money in subsidies, and they see the opportunity of offloading millions of their poor and unemployed excess population by exporting them to Western countries like Britain, where they will either work for low wages or go on the benefits system.

It is well known that he has constantly called for wage moderation in a country in which low wages abound and which has jarring social inequalities.

What is unacceptable is that insecure employment, enforced part-time work and low salaries are allowed to exist.

The fact that these are common problems is clear from the workers' demonstrations being held in most countries against the cost of living, unemployment, low wages, redundancies, the privatisation of the health, education and welfare sectors, longer working times, insecurity and uncertainty about the future.

What worries the rapporteur most, however, is not the situation of the drivers, their excessively low wages or unacceptable working conditions, but the resulting 'distortions of competition' .

Our competitiveness must not be based on low wages or factors of scale, but on the growth of innovation, science and development, as well as on skills development, or, to use the jargon, the development of what is termed ‘human capital’.

While employment growth still remains the most effective means of reducing poverty, there appears to be a growing number of employed and underemployed persons, particularly women, with little employment security, low wages and low levels of social protection.

Ever since China rejoined the global economy three decades ago, its trading partners have been snapping up its manufacturing exports, because low Chinese wages made them super-competitive.

While this may require the introduction of new instruments, significant improvement can occur just by reviewing existing policies with the aim of eliminating provisions in present benefits and tax schemes that have a negative impact on people's willingness or availability to take up a job or remain in work and reduce the tax burden on low-paid workers.

Immigration pull, on the other hand, would probably be restricted either to specific skills or to normal characteristics such as low wages and unsocial "flexible" jobs (seasonal workers, domestic workers, temporary/part-time/shift workers).