pay freeze

English

Noun

pay freeze (plural pay freezes)

1. A period in which no wage or salary increases occur, when wages and salaries are frozen.
   • 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 62:

     Against a backdrop of economic devastation wreaked by COVID-19, from which the railway has been almost totally insulated by massive sums of public money, the RMT rail union is now calling for industrial action as a pay freeze beckons. [...] While the RMT and ScotRail bash heads over the pay freeze, RMT guards based at Glasgow Central are already walking out, with strikes planned [...] in a dispute over "abuse of disciplinary procedures".

References

• “pay freeze”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.