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Put simply, in lawyer’s terms the consideration for work is wages and the consideration for wages is work: no work, no pay is the rule. This, as we shall see, is subject to varying exceptions. The amount of wages to be paid will be fixed by the contract and set out in that contract or in some collective agreement which covers the terms and conditions of a particular group of employees.
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© 1973 Roderick L. Denyer
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Denyer, R.L. (1973). The Payment of Wages and the Truck Acts. In: Industrial Law and its Application in the Factory. Macmillan Handbooks in Industrial Management. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01710-2_4
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