Sentences with phrase «low wage working»

Low wage working parents also have less flexibility in their schedules, and many work several jobs to make ends meet.

So here we are - low wage working people, unemployed people or retired old people, not welfare recipients, camping out to get one free procedure (cleaning, extraction or filling) at a dentist's office.

Ralph sets Nicholas up with a low wage work opportunity at an oppressive boarding school in Yorkshire; meanwhile, back in London, Ralph gets Kate work as a seamstress, but also subjects the young lady to many dehumanizing situations in order to get the investment of rich, old creep Sir Hawk (Edward Fox).

You might be shocked to know noncompetes are now required of millions of Americans doing low wage work.

Not exact matches

While a lower unemployment rate is certainly better than a higher one, the rate doesn't capture workers who've quit looking for a job, part - time workers who wish to work full - time, or workers who've experienced a significant wage reduction in a new job after they lost their old one.

The remaining enterprises that rely on low - wage work will see improved productivity, less absenteeism and turnover, reducing recruitment and training costs.

In fact, at last count Canada outpaced the U.S. in the reliance on low - wage work.

And that's not just the case for those working for the big - name brands: A November Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that just 6 % of low - wage workers in the U.S. have access to paid family leave.

Sanders echoed his own presidential campaign's message by noting that American people are «tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low - wage countries.»

A Treasury spokesman told the BBC: «We are taking action to support families with the costs of living by cutting taxes for millions of working people, doubling free childcare for nearly 400,000 working parents and introducing the National Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.»

Still, he insists that not very much has changed since Trump took office; the wage minimums remain the same, which means that U.S. companies can theoretically onboard foreign employees, who generally are willing to work for lower salaries than U.S. workers.

In addition, Mulally negotiated a landmark labor agreement with the United Auto Workers in 2009 that eased onerous work rules and introduced a 50 percent lower wage for new factory hires.

By contrast, many other independent workers are in low - wage occupations where the supply of labor is huge and turnover is constant; if someone leaves because of crummy pay or wretched working conditions, the employer can easily tap somebody else to fill the slot.

First, prime - age employment remains low compared with 2007, suggesting that relatively small wage increases would be enough to draw people back into work.

The number of recent college graduates that are underemployed, or are accepting low - wage jobs or part - time work, is also increasing, Accenture found.

In terms of wage trends across the distribution, a strong theme of my own work, often with economist Dean Baker, is that as the unemployment rate falls, the tightening job market disproportionately helps lower - wage and minority workers.

Ms. Bannan is an Associate Counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF, focusing on working with low - wage Latina immigrant workers.

McDonald's and low - wage employers everywhere are making billions of dollars in profit and pushing off costs onto taxpayers, while leaving people like us — the people who do the real work — struggling to survive.

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

O'Hanlon also stressed that the deal will result in the loss of thousands of Canadian jobs as manufacturers and others move work to low - wage Vietnam.

So even though the minimum wage has been raised in Massachusetts and out West, when the minimum wage level is raised, that means the families that have been living on food stamps while they've been working at McDonald's or at other low - wage companies don't qualify anymore.

«Though we already pay # 11 billion a year to subsidise a low - wage economy because employers are not paying people enough to live on, volunteers up and down the country are providing a further # 30 million a year in «free» labour to ensure that our fellow citizens in low paid work, on zero hour contracts, or relying on a broken benefits system have enough to eat.

There are highly partisan policy debates in which I have gladly joined on the conservative side — on federal enterprise zones, on a youth opportunity wage, on educational vouchers for low - income students, on stimulating ownership among responsible public - housing tenants, on requiring work from able - bodied welfare recipients, on dealing sternly with those who violently brutalize their neighbors.

Imagine the impact on today's gross domestic product if millions of low - wage working Americans, who got short - term help from a social service program with long - range goals, started earning a few more extra dollars.

If we are to avoid job - destroying minimum wage hikes, we need to reform our tax and welfare system to make work a better deal through wage subsidies to low - earners, and making work avoidance more difficult.

Pointing to such factors as a low minimum wage, the declining number of well - paying manufacturing jobs, and the continuing segregation of jobs by race and sex, they argue that the central issue is the availability and quality of work.

In Low Wage Workers in the New Economy (Urban Institute, 2001), Richard Kazis notes that the incomes of more than 9 million working Americans are below the poverty level.

Women workers who are still employed face worsening conditions including extremely low wage, long working hours and labor accidents.

They try to navigate the complex and risky path to college, only to find themselves working low - wage service jobs in distant hope of paying off their debt.

Unionized manufacturing work gave way to low - wage, benefits - poor service jobs, and the current economic boom is lining the pockets only of those fortunate enough to be in high - tech information industries.

If the best job they can get is low - wage, then a combination of wage subsidies and a child tax credit will enable them to earn a living, provided they work.

It is Lasch's contention that when one takes all this civic activity into account, and adds the wage work of lower - class women, one has to move the appearance of full - time homemaking on a broad scale from the late nineteenth century to the post-World War II period.

Take new baby to childcare of SOME description, somewhere, with enough food to get baby through the day while mom goes and works one, two, or even three low - wage jobs.

Parents who work in low - wage jobs can face real difficulties affording quality child care — in 2013, the average cost of full - time care for an infant at a child care center was about $ 10,000 per year — higher than the average cost of in - state tuition at a public 4 - year college - and much higher in some locations.

I can't imagine telling one of my employees that I would rather move our production to a rural area, fire them, then hire others at the lowest possible wage due to the need for work.

While parents who are paid a higher hourly rate may indeed qualify for support by working a low number of hours per week, those who earn national minimum wage or national living wage will effectively have to work more hours to qualify for the same type of support - but those extra hours may not be available to them.

Two prominent studies find modest effects, in one case estimating that each 1 % increase in the share of migrants in the UK working age population leads to a 0.6 % decline in the wages of the 5 % lowest paid workers, which would mean about 3p less per hour for someone earning just over the minimum wage of # 6.19.

A new report highlights how care workers are losing out because of the confusing and unhelpful way in which their working arrangements and low pay interact with tax, welfare and minimum wage rules.

«The vast majority have children or elderly relatives at home, or they have one or two breadwinners who work in low - wage jobs,» he said.

However, I don't think it is entirely fair or accurate to project Main Line 3rd Track as a suburban issue since it is a prerequisite to the development of the reverse commute market and a critical need of lower wage people in Queens who seek work in the Burbs.

Speaker Silver, saying that no one who works hard and plays by the rules should be «poor and bereft of hope», says the proposed increase in the minimum wage would help New Yorkers» in the lowest rungs of the economic ladder survive.

For his part, Cuomo has pointed to achievements including legalizing gay marriage, tightening gun restrictions, raising the minimum wage, banning fracking and increasing investments in education — all while working to lower taxes and jumpstart the upstate economy.

Despite her cheerleading on behalf of low - income workers, Hillary Clinton has done minimal work on the minimum wage, her presidential rival's camp said Monday.

The blight of low wage labour is spreading in this country — a scatter - gun approach is hardly the appropriate response to an entrenched, national problem,» Work and Pensions Spokesperson Jonathan Bartley said.

Based on his affordable housing credentials and his apparent commitment to getting more low and middle income units built in central Brooklyn, Mr. Williams won the endorsement of the Working Families Party, which will presumably wage an intensive street effort to get their man into office.

Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Brian Higgins should join with the new president and their colleagues in Congress — including House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has also supported EITC expansion — to ensure that no working American is taxed into poverty by working to expand the EITC for low - wage workers not raising children in the home.

«And his persistent work against wage theft by employers violating laws for prevailing wage, minimum wage and overtime, has recovered millions of dollars that have made a huge difference for many low - income workers in the state.

wage law that will decimate low wage workers in due time when inflation kicks in and / or they're out of work and unemployed.

In essence, let the lower wage employees try to find a solution to this problem and have the employees of the DOB, the Governor's Office and some of the State Legislators work together to plan, prepare and implement a soultion that will be accepted by the majority of the State's workforce.

«The increase in national minimum wage and national living wage is very welcome news for those on low pay, however businesses can still do more to help those employed earn enough to escape working poverty.