Polish Wage Freeze OKd
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WARSAW — Poland’s Parliament approved legislation giving the government power to freeze wages as an emergency anti-inflation measure, the official news agency PAP reported Friday. A curb on wage increases is likely to be one of the austerity measures demanded by the International Monetary Fund as a condition for granting credits to Poland.
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