Thus, those who benefit most from this gender-blind legislation are non-manual male workers.
However, about 25 per cent of male non-manual workers have earnings above the contribution ceiling: they therefore pay proportionately less than anyone else.
From this point of view the middle class is held to consist of non-manual workers.
Higher professionals in particular continue to enjoy many advantages over manual workers, and, for that matter, routine non-manual workers.
In recent years, teachers' salaries have fallen behind those of other non-manual workers.
Of the remainder, only four were from homes where the head of the household was a non-manual worker.
Industrial discipline has always been harsher for manual than non-manual workers.
The only absolute increase has been in intermediate non-manual workers.
For non-manual workers the difference in earnings between women and men is even greater.
However, he also targeted non-manual workers such as teachers, clerks and city employees who had been hard-hit by profiteering during the war.