21.   The court was expected to rule late Thursday whether the government must compensate workers for alleged losses incurred from four failed economic stabilization plans.

22.   The government Thursday promised that workers would be compensated if inflation overshoots the target.

23.   The unions say workers should be compensated for productivity gains, inflation and low pay increases in past years.

24.   The unions argue that workers should be compensated for higher inflation, improved productivity and wage restraint in past years.

25.   Therefore no employer is liable to compensate the worker, the court said.

26.   We need better policies than merely ensuring that the retrenched workers are appropriately compensated and more places created in institutions of higher learning.

27.   He said money also must be generated to compensate workers, many from South Asian countries, who lost their livelihoods as a result of the Gulf War.

28.   Workers are not compensated for any injuries or accidents that befall them.