1.   Contingent workers receive lower wages, less fringes, fewer paid holidays, and must accept greater economic risks and uncertainty.

2.   Foreign workers have fewer rights and get lower wages.

3.   In practice women receive much lower wages than their male colleagues.

4.   Lower wage settlements, claimed the Treasury and the Department of Employment, would help to price people back into jobs.

5.   Some firms still paid lower wages to female workers.

6.   What justification can there be for paying women lower wages?

7.   Workers who are laid off should quickly find reemployment by offering to work for lower wages.

8.   Firms should be allowed to offer jobs to the long-term unemployed at a lower wage.

9.   Hired unskilled workers because they would work for lower wages.

10.   It is quite clear getting rid of the Wages Councils would result in lower wages, poor jobs, and a move away from equal pay.