Sentences with phrase «u.s. labor department»

Rental income as a share of sum domestic product strike an all - time high in a initial entertain of 2017, according to a U.S. Labor Department due to high direct and singular housing supply.

Consumer confidence has spiked, according to the Conference Board's consumer confidence index, as unemployment fell to its lowest level since 2000 (4.1 percent) and the economy added jobs for a record 86th consecutive month, according to November data from the U.S. Labor Department.

Rental income as a share of gross domestic product hit an all - time high in the first quarter of 2017, according to the U.S. Labor Department due to high demand and limited housing supply.

Over a lifetime, the typical college grad will earn $ 1 million more than the average high school graduate, according to the U.S. Labor Department.

Even though most practitioners wouldn't have been affected by the federal government's short - lived telecommuter policy of earlier this year, the fact that the U.S. Labor Department was even looking at home - office health and safety issues sent off alarms in real estate offices.

In 2015, the U.S. Labor Department found that 65 percent of employers anticipate an increase in the use of flexible staffing arrangements to meet their future talent needs, and consultancy Ardent Partners anticipates that 50 percent of the workforce will be contingent by 2020.

The U.S. Labor Department recently said that the average person changes careers (thats careers, not jobs) 3 - 5 times during their lifetime.

The U.S. Labor Department reported that Philadelphia workers are earning an average of $ 23.53, which amounts to being $ 1.17 more than the national average wage of $ 22.36 per hour.

More than 930,000 specific U.S. jobs have been certified by the U.S. Labor Department as lost to NAFTA outsourcing and import floods under just one narrow program called Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA).

The current inflation rate for the United States is 2.5 % for the 12 months ended April 2018, as published on May 10, 2018 by the U.S. Labor Department.

If the fees and expenses on your account are 1.5 percent, for example, your balance will be 28 percent smaller at retirement than if the fees had been 0.5 percent, according to the U.S. Labor Department.

The U.S. Labor Department said that 131,000 jobs were lost in July, more than double what economists had expected.

The study, conducted for the U.S. Labor Department, measured the abilities of a sample of the 20 million people in 1990 who had registered for unemployment insurance, applied for a job at the United States Employment Service, or enrolled in a program under the Job Training Partnership Act.

The department has been unable to account for the whereabouts of the money, given to the state by the U.S. Labor Department's employment and training office to finance a variety of job - training programs for youths.

By contrast, only 73 percent of private - sector employers provide any sick leave in addition to paid vacation, according to the U.S. Labor Department, and they offer an average of eight sick - leave days during a 12 - month work year.

According to a 2010 U.S. Labor Department study, just over 70 percent of the graduating class of 2009 enrolled in college the following fall.

Nation The U.S. Labor Department announced new regulations Wednesday under which more than 4 million more workers will become eligible for overtime pay.

The U.S. Labor Department said New York private industry employers reported about 146,000 nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2012, translating to 2.5 cases per 100 full - time workers.

The U.S. Labor Department released its official hiring and unemployment figures for November, providing the latest snapshot of the American economy and revealing that 228,000 jobs were added last month.

Trump's pick to run the U.S. Labor Department, Andrew Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants, may have another reason to further delay his overdue Senate confirmation hearing — a history of hiring undocumented help.

Some 40,000 Verizon workers across the East Coast walked off the job in April, in a bitter contract dispute that required a U.S. Labor Department arbitrator to settle.

-- The U.S. Labor Department reports that the number of families where both parents work or are headed by single parents is skyrocketing.

Maryland added more than 14,000 jobs in August, the second - highest monthly gain in seven years, as the unemployment rate dipped to a pre-recession level of 3.9 percent, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.

Maryland gained nearly 13,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Labor Department said Monday.

Wells Fargo's 401 (k) practices are the subject of a probe by the U.S. Labor Department, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

The U.S. Labor Department will implement its fiduciary rule on June 9 with no further delays, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said on Tuesday.

The company's response comes one day after the U.S. Labor Department said it found a disparity at the Alphabet unit.

Heidi Shierholz, director of policy with the Economic Policy Institute, is a former chief economist for the U.S. Labor Department.

Moynihan, at the time a sociologist and research assistant at the U.S. Labor Department, called for more government action to improve the economic prospects of black families.

The U.S. Labor Department is scheduled to release its monthly jobs report.

The U.S. Labor Department is reportedly looking into Wells Fargo's 401 (k) practices, and whether the bank is pushing its customers into more expensive plans, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Worksafe analyzed reports filed with the U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and found similarly high injury rates in 2016 at the plant.

And the U.S. Labor Department said that claims for jobless benefits declined last week by 2,000 to 326,000, which was in line with expectations.

On Thursday, the U.S. Labor Department announced that the number of new jobless claims had hit its lowest mark in five and a half years, down 19,000 to 326,000.

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According to the U.S. Department of Labor, a company with annual revenue of less than $ 500,000 is exempt from FLSA requirements.

Verizon and the two striking unions were in contract discussions with the help of the U.S. Department of Labor.

The Labor Department will release a preliminary look at the number of U.S. workers who filed new applications for unemployment benefits last week.

A change that would make Buffett hopeful for women in the workforce took place soon after: Following World War II, women's participation in the U.S. labor force rose from 32.7 percent in 1948 to 56.8 percent in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Llabor force rose from 32.7 percent in 1948 to 56.8 percent in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of LaborLabor.

The Department of Labor reports that most mass job relocations are from one U.S. state to another, rather than to a foreign location,» the report said.

Two percent of U.S. job - holders, or about 2.8 million workers, left their jobs under their own volition in September, the Labor Department said.

To stay compliant with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers need to show the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division when the changes were made, and why.

Consider yourself warned: The U.S. Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service are cracking down on companies that misclassify employees as independent contractors to avoid paying employment taxes.

On Thursday, the online retail giant announced its partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor to start an apprenticeship program that will provide paid, on - the - job training for tech careers at the company.

Meanwhile, the Labor Department is expected to report that U.S. producer prices rose 0.3 % last month, which is slightly higher than the previous month's growth, and the consumer price index also likely improved by 0.3 % in May.

Friday's report will follow the disappointing numbers released earlier this month, when the Labor Department estimated that the U.S. economy added just 142,000 new jobs, below expectations of at least 200,000.

The good news on job openings follows the Labor Department's announcement last week that the U.S. economy officially recovered all 8.7 million jobs that were lost during the recession.

The U.S. Department of Labor projects that by 2020, computing will provide 1.4 million jobs, and only 3 % will be filled by women.

This of course contrasts with the Labor Department's news yesterday that U.S. employers — of all sizes — added 120,000 jobs last month, and as a result the unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent, after a prolonged period at 9 percent.

But now the professionally challenged have a place to turn: Occupational Outlook Handbook, a resource from the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics that is available at www.bls.gov/ocohome.htm.

In total, 15 billion pages of data were stolen from at least 144 U.S. universities, 176 universities across 21 foreign countries, 47 domestic and foreign private sector companies, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the states of Hawaii and Indiana, the United Nations and the United Nations Children's Fund, the Justice Department alleged.