Quotes About Compensation

There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts.

Unlike the victims of 9/11, who received plenty of relief aid compensation from the government and charitable institutions, those who suffered hate crimes were given very little. As tax-paying citizens of the country, they too deserved similar compensation.

When the federal government settles a case, the settlement dollars should go to the victims or the Treasury - period.

Most people see a job offer from Google as a victory, and I should have seen it that way. I should have at least seen the salary that way.

The BP settlement is a victory for Alabama: not only for the amount of compensation we were able to secure, but also for avoiding many more years of litigation.

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.

There was a time when all the actors were saying, 'We should get residuals on videogames.' I just kept going, 'You don't have any idea what goes into making a game, do you?'

Severin is infinitely more experienced at business. However, I tried to compensate with pure stubbornness.

What happened to Owen was ultimately Luna's fault. Luna accepted blame and would pay off the tab. There was one problem with this unspoken contract: The two parties had very different ideas about the size of the debt.

these always paid less than men's jobs did.

Schoolteachers were smart, educated, accustomed to hard work, unused to high pay, simultaneously youthful and mature, and

Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.

Or if I sued you in civil court, as I still can do, especially with this evidence now, I reckon that given what you did to me, how you destroyed my physical health, threatened my parents, the ensuing mental trauma, the stress, the loss of my own education and a chance for me to earn a more lucrative living, I'd get more than nine hundred K. Plus you'd incur legal costs. And there would be the press. So much press.

Ten years ago, foster parents typically earned only 80-cents per hour (Time magazine, 10-8-90, p.44). In 2010, the range was $446 to $667 per child per month. For the difficult challenge of fostering a child needing "specialized care" there is an incremental increase of $84 or $169 per month (subsidy determined by the child's social worker).

I owe you, remember? How am I ever going to make things up to you if you won't let me do stuff?

Can anyone calculate the dollar amount that has been spent to put duct tape over women's mouths in comparison to the amount these companies have paid women to write or direct? I want to compare the money spent on quieting every unspoken truth against every unsold screenplay, unpublished article, and rejected application.

what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money.

A whaleman was not paid a wage but a "lay," which was a share of the outcome of the voyage, calculated after the ship had arrived home. First, the oil was gauged, and then it was valued, according to the prevailing market. After that, the costs of the voyage, plus the owners' half of the profits, were subtracted from the gross amount, and the remainder shared out according to the whalemen's lays.

But people often wanted payment for what they only wished they'd done.

What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.

Give the labourer his wage before his perspiration be dry.