Sentences with phrase «many unemployed workers»

Now we have this pool of unemployed workers and so it's a lot easier for employers to overhire and then keep workers on call.»

Early discussions also include possible new forms of membership among workers who are not traditionally organized, including unemployed workers, students, workers in contract, self - employed, temporary and freelance positions.

Little wonder, then, that there is some resentment in Western Canada about employment insurance and equalization programs that encourage unemployed workers to remain in the East even as the West suffers from a labour shortage.

At 31 years old, I'm 3 classes away from my undergraduate, have run and lost a State Senate race, can debate Hayek and Keynes with economics Professors, debate Nietzsche and Schopenhauer with philosophy professors, and talk occupy politics with working class youth, unemployed workers and homeless bums on the streets of Atlanta.

It's the gap between those two that shows up as unemployed workers, and then only if they keep looking for jobs rather than leaving the labor force.

Certainly, there are significant headwinds that will not abate anytime soon, including an aging population, government austerity, the worst income inequality in nearly a century and more than four million long - term unemployed workers.

It would be far more difficult if Liaoning's unemployed workers couldn't migrate to where the jobs are, and if provinces like Fujian protected their residents by restricting immigration.

The government will tweak the employment insurance program to boost training of unemployed workers and support what a senior government official called a «nascent innovation agenda.»

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

More sustainable demand (in the form of needed infrastructure or of higher consumption by wealthier workers) will lead to more productive investment by redeploying underutilized resources, including unemployed workers.

By contrast, Jack Mintz (another opponent of greater EI accessibility) notes that in 2007 some 100,000 unemployed workers who otherwise would have qualified for EI benefits were excluded for lack of hours.

His stated goal is to provide better protection for unemployed workers and counter-cyclical -LSB-...]

This is cold comfort for the more than 40 % of unemployed workers who do not qualify for EI benefits, and for those seeking skills training funded through the EI program.

By January, that proportion was down to below 46 % (i.e. 698,800 EI beneficiaries out of 1,531,700 unemployed workers).

That initiative provides funds to train unemployed workers not eligible for employment insurance and is aimed at aboriginals, immigrants, women, youth, older workers, people with disabilities and those with low literacy levels.

An unemployment report is an economic report that shows the number of employed and unemployed workers, and may also include an unemployment rate.

For the first several years» worth of recovery, that took the form of relatively rapid job creation paired with very weak wage growth due to the large stock of unemployed workers.

With Harper government cutbacks, unemployed workers have been getting the short end of several sticks for quite a while.

During 2011 as a whole, the number of EI recipients fell by 109,350 while the number of unemployed workers declined by just 11,700.

Problem is that there are clearly — based on the new job vacancy data — many more unemployed workers than there are job vacancies.

The proportion of unemployed workers receiving benefits remained below 39 % (i.e. 544,720 beneficiaries out of 1.4 million unemployed).

This conjures up images of unemployed workers sitting around and spurning job offers amidst growing labour and skills shortages.

Doubtless true, but I'm suspecting you mean «unemployed workers».

But it seems to me that the crisis in EI is forever falling on deaf ears. Even though only 37.5 % of unemployed workers are receiving EI, pundits and politicians feel that the -LSB-...]

Consistent with Finance Minister Flaherty's view that there is no such thing as a «bad job», unemployed workers will no longer be allowed to hold out for a «good employer.»

Furthermore, some substitution of human labor for fossil fuels absorbs unemployed workers.

Those who defend the right to life of the weakest among us must be equally visible in support of the quality of life of the powerless among us: the old and the young, the hungry and the homeless, the undocumented immigrant and the unemployed worker... Consistency means we can't have it both ways» (quoted by Mark Shield on CNN.com, May 7).

The empirical reality is neither universal incorporation nor the spread of benefits; there are wealthy creditors and bankrupt debtors; super-rich spectators and impoverished unemployed workers; imperial States that direct international financial institutions and subordinate those who submit to their dictates.

Seeing an urban slum, being exposed to the vice, crime, disease, and poverty of the city, becoming aware of the plight of an underpaid or unemployed worker, the wideawake minister felt that something was wrong and expressed his feeling in moral protest.

It created a vast pool of unemployed workers.

«Looking only at OECD member countries in 1993, officially there were 37 million unemployed workers in 1996.

«With thousands more unemployed workers entering jobcentres, single parents are unlikely to get the personalised support they will need if they are to find jobs.

If today's disgruntled workers take negotiations to breaking point, they do so knowing full well that proprietors can replace them by machines or by other unemployed workers who fill the ranks of the so - called industrial reserve army.

Whether it's been attacking public employee pensions, refusing to help New York's unemployed workers, or failing to stand up to the Governor when he shut down hundreds of construction jobs, there is a long line of broken promises and actions in the Senate that have targeted the labor movement.

Mr Hoyle's bill hopes to change the formula through which the payments are made to help unemployed workers through the recession.

Iain Duncan Smith has refused to apologise after suggesting unemployed workers at Remploy just made cups of coffee.

Moreover, recently unemployed workers, especially older workers, need a way to quickly retrain and reenter the workforce at a job that pays as well or better than the one they lost.

The program, which seeks to place long - term unemployed workers who lost jobs due to the economy, can pay up to 90 % of wages for new hires during the training period, said Alice Savino, Executive Director of the WIB.

«The key for construction and the Government is to keep hold of our unemployed workers, and those coming into the industry, during the recession.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

Gordon Brown promised yesterday to launch a drive to train thousands of unemployed workers for jobs currently being filled by immigrants flocking to Britain.

Between 1997 and 2010, for every voter Labour lost from the professional classes it lost three unskilled or unemployed workers, even after taking into account the declining share of the population that pollsters classify as working - class.

Congress as well came in for criticism from a breakout panel focusing on Workforce Investment Boards, local committees of government and industry representatives established to help train unemployed workers, especially those displaced by the structural changes outlined by Groshen.

Almost entirely absent in the talks, however, were discussions about what companies could do to make the available jobs more attractive to jobseekers or to train the current crop of unemployed workers to perform STEM - related tasks.

Directors: Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker, André Zwoboda, Jean - Paul le Chanois, dit Dreyfus, Jacques Brunius, André Swoboda, Henri Cartier - Bresson, Pierre Unik, Maurice Lime Screenplay: Jean Renoir, Paul Vaillant - Couturier, Jean - Paul Dreyfus, Pierre Unik; (the content of one scene suggests that Ilya Ehrenburg, the Izvetsia correspondent in Paris throughout the 1930s, may have had an input) Photography: Louis Page, Jean - Serge Bourgoin, Jean Isnard, Alain Douarinou, Claude Renoir Jr., Nicholas Hayer (and, according to various sources, Marcel Carné and Henri Cartier - Bresson) Music: «Internationale», «Song of the Komsomols» by Shostakovitch, «Auprès de ma blonde», «La Cucaracha» sung by Chorale Populaire de Paris, directed by Suzanna Conte Sound: Robert Teisseire Editor: Marguerite Renoir Cast: Jean Dasté (teacher), Jacques Brunius (President of the Administrative Council), Pierre Unik (Marcel Cachin» s secretary), Julien Bertheau (René, a young worker), Nadia Sibirskaia (Ninette), Emile Drain (Gustave), Gaston Modot (Philippe), Charles Blavette (Tonin), Max Dalban (Foreman), Madeleine Solange (factory worker), Jacques Becker (unemployed worker), Jean Renoir, Sylvain Itkine, Jean - Paul Dreyfus, Léon Larive, Roger Blin, Vladimir Sokoloff, and (as themselves) Marcel Cachin, André Marty, Maurice Thorez, Jacques Duclos, Paul Vaillant - Couturier.

Among the book's more «robust» conclusions, to use the economists» term, is that the high Swedish expenditure on adult education (which is very well developed in Sweden, as a resource for unemployed workers and as a way of upgrading or changing one's credentials) is not warranted by its returns: But how could it be, when, we learn, «individuals received student pay [all students are paid in Sweden — part of the commitment to equality] at the level of unemployment benefits, which in Sweden replace up to 80 percent of forgone earnings.»

LOUISVILLE — The push to return unemployed workers to the nation's payrolls is hamstrung by a decades - old legacy of poor schooling that has left tens of millions of Americans without...

«Our dear little Norvelt was founded by Eleanor Roosevelt, who knew common people like us wanted equality...» The town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, one of 99 subsistence homestead communities created during the Depression for unemployed workers, is a character in Jack Gantos's Dead End in Norvelt.

With approximately 250 homes, it provided housing, work, and a community environment to unemployed workers and their families during the Great Depression.

What was so special about Norvelt was the dignity it afforded its unemployed inhabitants and the opportunity it provided for economic independence: «It was supposed to be a return to the land, where unemployed workers could become self - reliant... These homes gave families the opportunity to start over, to regain their self - confidence.»