Sentences with phrase «rising labour costs»

Rising labour costs are a factor, too.

Commission an independent inquiry to reform business rates before 2022 and implement a targeted Employment Allowance uprating to # 4,000 to help with rising labour costs.

The evidence that is available about food production and processing, but not included in the Green Paper, is that the sector's businesses are in the main under considerable financial pressure as a result of falling real commodity prices, rising input costs, increased government regulations, rising labour costs, and lower retail margins.

At Anuga Food Tec 2018, we demonstrated how we can automate this weighing task with APRIL Robotics, overcoming rising labour costs and improving the long - term health of employees.

Barden said that input costs are rising on everything from commodities to labour to energy, and the six years of retail price deflation and rising labour costs the industries had undergone «continues to cut margins, placing the sector under increasing pressure».

Not exact matches

As jet fuel costs rise in accordance with oil prices — and already fuel has overtaken labour as airlines» biggest expense — air travel could risk becoming unaffordable for the average person.

With the cost of fuel rising, and the cost of labour rising in China as well, not everything made in China is that cheap anymore.

Employment growth has been firm, yet both wages and unit labour costs have risen only slowly, supporting the view that the amount of excess capacity could be greater than the midpoint of the range of estimates.

Unit labour costs have been rising quickly as the economy moves up the value chain.

Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.

The figure shows clearly that the cash cost of a residential property in terms of weeks of labour time remained roughly constant all the way from 1970 to 1986, at which point housing prices in Canada (and in particular in the Toronto area) rose drastically during the next three years.

Labour costs are rising, according to an estimate from Dean Haskell, a partner at National Retail Concept Partners, a restaurant and retail consulting firm in Denver.

Looking at the figures for each recession, it's notable that (a) the proportionate rise in the level of unemployment, once the fall in GDP is taken into account, bears some relation to the rise in real wages; (b) there is no consistent difference between supply - side and demand - side recessions; (c) given the long - term costs of unemployment, a flexible labour market becomes extremely important in a recession.

Growth in the all - important US services sector slowed for a third straight month in April, according to a closely watched survey, as optimism over the state of the American economy is tempered by concerns over labour shortage and rising input costs.

Similarly, unit labour costs (based on compensation per hour worked) picked up a little in the December quarter, rising by 1.4 per cent to be 2.3 per cent higher than a year ago.

These increases can partly be attributed to rising costs for skilled labour and materials such as steel.

These prices continue to rise more rapidly than building - materials prices, suggesting that profit margins and / or labour costs in the residential construction sector have increased in response to the recent strength in demand for residential construction work and the rise in prices of established houses.

U.S. softwood lumber production is on the rise, with more Canadian - owned sawmills located in the U.S. than in Canada due to lower labour costs, higher timber availability, and higher demand.

House purchase costs increased by 2 per cent in the June quarter and by 5 1/4 per cent over the year, as ongoing strength in the construction sector resulted in rising costs of materials and labour.

So far, however, this has failed to translate into rising consumer price inflation, because the strength of the US dollar and falling prices for raw materials have offset higher labour costs.

Non-tradables price inflation continues to be affected by strength in house purchase costs, which increased by 5 1/2 per cent over the year; this increase is the result of rising costs of skilled labour and materials.

This increase was largely attributable to house purchase costs — which rose by 1 per cent in the quarter, to be 6.4 per cent higher over the year — in turn reflecting higher costs of labour and materials.

It remains to be seen if the consequent rise in unit labour costs is a precursor to greater inflationary pressures or if it will be absorbed into profit margins.

Earnings in Indonesia were also expected to fall this year because of increased competition from new rivals such as Big Cola, rising labour and fuel costs and currency depreciation.

High health care costs, a lack of interest in repetitive manual labour and rising worker wages has led to an explosion of automated machinery, according to Intelligrated.

To set out Labour's alternative plan to create jobs, make work pay and tackle the rising cost of living.

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Labour meanwhile point out that costs are rising fast in the Lords.

Don't Labour [and Polly Toynbee] understand the irony of bleating for another windfall tax, at the same time that it was announced that the New Deal has cost # 3.6 bn, and yet youth unemployment has actually risen since 1997.

Public Sector Workers pay freeze, many I know in the civil service earn just over the 20K mark and with rising costs etc will be worse off, and their pay has been frozen for sometime under Labour too.

As wages failed to match rising prices, people were being «driven up the wall», Clarke mused, adding ammunition to Labour's «cost of living» dossier

The impact of tougher labour market conditions not reflected in the unemployment figures is being made worse by the rising cost of living, SDLP MP Margaret Ritchie told Politics.co.uk.

According to Labour, the Tories have pledged # 21bn of tax cuts; promised to reverse 10 Labour tax rises at a cost of # 13.3 bn; and announced 30 new spending plans costing # 11.1 bn.

Conservatives are also wary of Labour's cost - of - living agenda and privately admit that soaring economic results are having little impact on people's wages, which are still rising slower than inflation.

Labour may have already pitched itself as the party to fight the rising cost of living, but the Liberal Democrats have joined the battleground.

The cost of providing official cars for Labour ministers rose by nearly # 500,000 last year as the country suffered through recession, with Lord Mandelson's huge former Department for Business, Innovation and Skills incurring the biggest bill for ferrying ministers around.

Miliband is focusing the Labour conference on the crisis of the growing cost of living after figures showed that in 37 of the 38 months the coalition has been in office, inflation has outstripped pay rises.

«The expectation that rising manufacturing labour cost in China may present opportunities to West Africa and that of the Sub-Saharan Africa in light manufacturing is yet to be realised,» he added.

As demand for school places continues to rise, the versatility and immediacy of modular buildings is delivering cost savings to the education sector through shortened supply chains and a reduction in labour costs.

Remove that many workers from the labour pool and you create a labour shortage, which could prompt businesses to contract and slow down in order to fend - off the quickly rising cost of wages.

You make other arguments about rising natural gas prices and rising labour and capital costs, which I alluded to in my original article.

Investors are obliged to weigh any number of unknowns: will Venezuela increase production and keep heavy oil differentials high; will the price of natural gas rapidly rise; will climate change suddenly force governments to introduce carbon taxes; can the companies control their labour and construction costs; will global demand continue to rise?

And if labour costs actually rise generally with increased productivity, the absolute cost of legal work will increase as lawyer incomes rise with productivity in other sectors [13].

Also the increasing labour cost of about 10 - 15 percent has led a 15 - 20 percent rise in the premium.

Notably though, the real GDP has experienced slight improvement, growing 1.7 % in the first quarter and the labour costs per unit of production, for Canadian businesses, rose by 0.8 % (in Canadian dollars).

Madder says Realtors regret the rise in provincial education property tax and the suspension of the Graduate Retention Program — First Home Plan, and recognize that ending PST exemption on construction labour will increase costs in new housing.

It is anticipated that a continuing tight labour market, robust income growth and high levels of consumer confidence will help to offset the dampening effect of rising mortgage carrying costs on the demand for new and existing homes in B.C. Housing starts should decline from 39,195 units in 2007 to 33,250 in 2008 and 31,700 in 2009.

A tight labour market and robust income growth will partially offset the dampening effect of rising mortgage carrying costs on the demand for new and existing homes, says CMHC.