back pay

noun

: money that is owed to a worker from an earlier time

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Discharged service members who seek to be reinstated also will receive full back pay and benefits, the order says. Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2025 Ninety percent of Professional Staff Congress members who voted approved the agreement with the CUNY administration that includes nearly two years of back pay and runs through 2027. Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025 Under the Biden administration, the United States and Mexico have used the RRM more than 30 times, benefiting more than 30,000 Mexican workers and their families and resulting in remedies that include back pay, reinstatement, and free and fair union elections. Katherine Tai, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2025 More than 50,000 current and former Disney employees are covered in the settlement, and the back pay owed to those workers from January 1, 2019, to when Disney adjusted wages last year amounts to around $105 million, according to the Los Angeles Times. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for back pay 

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“Back pay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back%20pay. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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