21.   Unions have demonstrated against it, fearing that it will freeze salaries and reverse gains in employee rights.

22.   Party chairman Ambrose Lau Hon-chuen hoped his austerity move would also influence members of the two municipal councils and district boards to freeze their salaries.

23.   Other salaries were frozen, and two of the three bus drivers were let go.

24.   A major local bank has joined the growing rank of large Hong Kong companies to freeze salaries during the economic downturn, a newspaper report said Friday.

25.   A major local bank will join the growing rank of large Hong Kong companies to freeze salaries during the economic downturn.

26.   French labor unions on Monday threatened a strike by public employees in mid-October to protest government plans to freeze salaries next year.

27.   French labor unions on Monday threatened a strike by public employees next month to protest government plans to freeze salaries next year, union sources said.

28.   Iraq last week announced plans to freeze salaries, halt printing money, impose new taxes and raise utility rates to help curb inflation and bolster its stagnant economy.

29.   Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has announced belt-tightening measures that include halting the printing of Iraqi currency, freezing salaries, imposing new taxes and hiking utility prices exponentially.

30.   Leaders of the OeTV and DAG unions are demanding that the government scrap its proposal to freeze salaries for public workers for two years.