Sentences with phrase «very few workers»

Very few workers on wind farms, who have much higher exposure to turbines than householders who complain of symtoms, have any problems.

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SHARON EPPERSON, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: Few American workers are very confident in their ability to retire comfortably, and most say preparing for retirement makes them feel stressed.

«Very few of them have ever worked on a production line themselves and they have little or no contact with their workers, whom they treat as interchangeable parts.»

Teens used to be discipled by people with ordinary jobs in the ordinary world, now they are increasingly being discipled by church - paid workers in jobs that very few of them will do.

«Whatever your ethics or religion, it's just good business to treat the workers well,» he told me, as we toured the neat, clean, well - maintained barracks that house 480 seasonal workers on the farm at harvest time, most of them very poor Nicaraguan families who come into Costa Rica for a few months each year.

Yet most WIC workers I spoke with seemed exasperated that very few of their clients opted for breastfeeding and instead relied on the free formula they can obtain either from WIC or from food stamps.

However, they've stuck around, in part, because LIRR workers have been willing to make concessions that are more valuable to management — such as contributing to health care — in order to protect work rules that benefit fewer workers, but can be very lucrative, he said.

«The reality is that migrants from other EU countries are very beneficial to the UK's economy, notably because they help to address skills shortages and pay more tax and social security contributions per head, and get fewer benefits, than UK workers; that free movement of workers is a key part of the EU's single market; that hundreds of thousands of UK nationals work in other EU countries.»

«Very few candidates in memory have done more to undermine American workers than Altschuler, whose life's work was promoting and profiting from outsourcing U.S. jobs.»

He says in testimony held in four hearings around the state, many workers said they were often working fewer hours per week than they would like to, and their schedules are very unpredictable.

With fewer inexperienced workers in the lab, it is very possible that the average productivity per person will actually increase.»

If all healthcare workers were trained to give brief advice to their patients on stopping smoking, as part of their everyday work, lasting no more than a few minutes, it could save thousands of lives at very little cost.

But then I learned that a few months before I started my job, a social worker who had worked at the very center where I worked had died as a result of a tonsillectomy.

If a poor country is poor because of lack of skills, as Stanford's Paul Romer points out, the few skilled workers must be earning very high salaries.

Very few of us were prepared to do something like this to teachers, state workers, and university employees unless we were prepared to do it to ourselves as well.

It's a small dealership with just a few workers there, so the atmosphere is very low - key and friendly.

Very few public K - 12 school systems offer any type of 403 (b) match to workers.

Workers were paid very poorly in the early 1900's, around $ 12 a month plus a few rations.

There are, however, a few very hard workers who manage to get the pass levels required for Uni entrance and these ones seem generally to be better at their vocation.

Virtually all employers in the state of New York are required to provide their employees with workers» compensation insurance — with very few exceptions — so you should not hesitate to take advantage of the benefits that this coverage can offer.

Mr. McCarty has tried thousands of workers» compensation appeals, and he is one of very few attorneys in the state to have represented the interests of injured workers as well as employers, third - party administrators, and insurance companies.

Trade Unions are ambivalent about this; very few temporary workers join unions, so they don't have members» interests to protect.

Though the risks in each of these areas might differ, the legal implications of an injury on the job are the same: a worker who gets hurt is entitled to relief under the law with very few exceptions.

When it comes to workers» compensation there are very few reasons as to why a claim may be denied.

If a major corporation cheats a thousand of its workers out of a thousand dollars each, very few of them will decide it is worth the hassle and expense of a major lawsuit, and virtually no lawyer will be willing to take such a low dollar case on a contingency fee basis — meaning that the plaintiffs will have to pay more for legal counsel than they are likely to win in the end.

Examples of tribunals established under provincial legislation include landlord - tenant boards, human rights tribunals, securities commissions, environmental review tribunals, workers» compensation tribunals, labour relations boards, and criminal injury compensations boards — to name just a very few.

In the dock worker position, it is very common to get promoted after a few years, because workers with many years of experience are very important to the company.

Very few mothers were small employers / own account workers when their child was two years old (only 6 %, compared to 13 % of fathers in this class).

The workers at Elizabeth Hoffman House, a crisis accommodation service for Indigenous women located in Melbourne said that Aboriginal women being released from prison have very few options.