FINANCE,HRmoney, such asnationalinsurancecontributions, that anemployermustpayfor eachpersonthat theyemploy:Today, it is still toocostlyforFrenchemployerstohiremanyworkers, because of amixof arelativelyhighminimumwageplusthesocialchargesthey mustpayontop.(Definition ofsocial chargesfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsocial charges
social chargesThe documents proposed have nothing to say about this, but repeat the tired refrain about the need to reducesocialcharges.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThis case raises other issues too: questions regarding the need for tighter monitoring of state aids, closer coordination of fiscal andsocialcharges.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThis whole scheme relies on a wave of recruitment which is meant to compensate for the reductions insocialcharges.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThe amount of undeclared work rose then, despite the fact that the labour market was made more flexible andsocialchargeswere reduced.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThere will be sharp rent increases and increases in various othersocialcharges.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I suggest that in our present classification some of the items of thesesocialchargesare very misleading.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0The figures are roughly that thesocialchargespaid by employers on the last figures which were available were 43 per cent. of wages.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I wish to quote a few statistics relating to the additional costs ofsocialchargesover and above basic wage costs.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0This results from the interaction of two different but closely overlapping causes: the opening of our frontiers without precautions and the relatively high level of our wages andsocialcharges.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/social-charges##
