pay-to-stay

alternative pay to stay

1. uncountablebusinessThe practice where retailers charge manufacturers a slotting fee to place their products on the shelves of stores.

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   But despite improvements, Mr Baruch says some complaints persist. “Pay to stay [cash to secure shelf space] is front and centre of the complaints we receive — it’s supply chain bullying and anti-competitive. They shouldn’t try to create barriers to business — it’s fundamentally unfair, particularly at a time when small business confidence is at an all-time low.”

   2016 August 21, Paul McClean, “Supermarkets and suppliers take stock of relationships”, in Financial Times

2. USuncountableA scheme where prison inmates are charged for their accommodation (meals, clothing etc.) while in prison.
3. USuncountableA scheme where prisoners can pay to be moved to a more desirable prison.

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   In what is commonly called “pay-to-stay” or “private jail,” a constellation of small city jails — at least 26 of them in Los Angeles and Orange counties — open their doors to defendants who can afford the option. […] The region’s pay-to-stay jails took in nearly $7 million from the programs from 2011 through 2015, according to revenue figures provided by the cities.

   2017 March 9, Alysia Santo, Victoria Kim, Anna Flagg, “Upgrade your jail cell – for a price”, in Los Angeles Times

4. UKuncountableA United Kingdom government policy, due to come into effect in April 2017 but never implemented, whereby council tenants earning £30,000 (£40,000 in London) would have to pay "market or near market rents".

   Under the so-called “pay to stay” plans, families or individuals with a total annual income of £30,000 outside London or £40,000 in the capital will have to pay rents “at market or near-market levels”.

   2016 March 23, Nigel Morris, “Pay to stay: Moves to impose increases on rents paid by better-off council tenants set to be thrown out by peers”, in The Independent

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   In 1979, 42% of Britons lived in council homes. Today that figure is just under 8%. Now, by scrapping secure tenancies and bringing in a pay-to-stay scheme, the government’s new housing bill could mark the end of a century-old dream[.]

   2016 January 4, John Harris, “The end of council housing”, in The Guardian