Employment Terms Quotes

Equality of the sexes is promoted in societal activity and working life, especially in the determination of pay and the other terms of employment.

Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission. He does not hold it by permission - but by contract, that is, by a voluntary mutual agreement. A worker can quit his job; a slave cannot.

I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to have accepted this arduous employment, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those I doubt not they will discharge, and that is all I desire.

Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.

In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

There are no employees without employers.

Workers should not be prevented from bargaining with the companies that help set their wages, benefits, schedules, and workplace conditions.

We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job.

Quite honestly, one of the unavoidable considerations in going exclusive with any company is being put on a company's medical insurance program.

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

I've written that there are some workplaces where the best thing you could have for achieving the best terms and conditions of employment will be a labor union. They play an important role.

If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.

Well, somebody's got to sing. They won't hire you unless you sing.

I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them; you can't do any film work on the side.

'Guyism' wanted a daily video series. They told me they were planning on hiring a girl and then hiring someone to write all her jokes. Then they figured it would be easier just to get me, so they offered me $750 a month to do it, which turned into an offer to move to New York and do it full-time for $30,000 a year.

Employers must make far-reaching changes to employment terms and conditions for women: Equal pay for equal, decent work.

If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America's workers.

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

We always strive to be the best in the wage package.

During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced.