Sentences with phrase «as a worker at»

Nickel rose for the first time in three sessions as workers at a BHP Billiton Plc. mine in Colombia threatened to go on strike, spurring supply concerns.

Things only get worse as she starts to see her stalker appear as a worker at the hospital.

The numbers are bleaker for blue - and gray - collar workers in the Food Preparation and Serving, and Personal Care industries, as well as workers at smaller companies.

That is the very purpose of the measures dubbed as ag - gag bills — bills that criminalize taking pictures of animals on farms or the hiring of an animal advocate as a worker at a factory farm.

At trial, one of the plaintiff's witnesses testified that as a worker at the defendant company, the husband would have been exposed to dust from the product.

But this is likely to change, as workers at both ends of the skills spectrum will increasingly expect to be able to work flexibly.

As a worker at Loretta's Shoe Shop, I have been able to increase my customer service skills.

Not exact matches

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

Non-permanent workers such as freelancers have grown from 17 to 36 percent of the U.S. work force over the past 25 years and are expected to comprise 43 percent of the work force by 2020, according to Alex Chriss, vice president and general manager of Self - Employed Solutions at Intuit.

At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

It may come as a surprise that the worn and artfully ripped jeans you bought at the store likely achieved that look through the manual labor of overseas workers.

After all, conscientious, promotion - minded workers probably won't ask if they can chuck their phone in their bag and forget about it at home, as they won't want to come off as a slacker.

The jeans hanging from the line at each station serve as models for the workers to replicate.

At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

Starting off as a social worker or at an entry level position in community services is the way to get started.

Could similar resentment - busting measures at your business make burnout as rare as unicorns and fairies, or is this view of burnout only true for a select group of highly ambitious workers?

Depending on the survey you look at, as many as 70 % of workers dislike their jobs today.

Undies boss tripled her pay, then sacked 1,850 workers In an act that could only be described as corporate bastardry, shameless executives at Bonds owner Pacific Brands awarded themselves pay rises of up to 170 per cent while they sacked nearly 2000 workers.

You'll need to finish secondary school at minimum, but after that, it's a path familiar to tradespeople: a period of apprenticeship, followed by certification, and several years as a fully qualified worker.

We have always believed that the Employment Tribunal's decision from last year October was entirely correct in saying that our GMB member clients were entitled to workers» right such as the minimum wage and holiday pay,» said Nigel Mackay, employment solicitor at Leigh Day, the firm that represented the union members.

He points to the ratio of probable workers (ages 25 - 64) to probable retirees (ages 65 and over), which currently stands at four to one, as it has for the past three decades.

Still, he added, «technology is giving the consumer a much better product — much cheaper, much faster, more alternatives — but at the expense of fewer workers, and we have to find ways for companies to create jobs as well as profits.»

At benefits company Stride Health, which sells and manages healthcare benefits to «gig» workers like Uber drivers, CEO Noah Lang said that he would want to be sure that the replacement plan has tax credits available to people as they need them, rather than at the end of the year onlAt benefits company Stride Health, which sells and manages healthcare benefits to «gig» workers like Uber drivers, CEO Noah Lang said that he would want to be sure that the replacement plan has tax credits available to people as they need them, rather than at the end of the year onlat the end of the year only.

The distractions that crop up in a worker's day might be slightly different in the home (chores, television, pets, errands and children were all listed as time sucks by the telecommuters who were polled), but interruptions at work are just as common.

A white knight as well as a green one, Surace bought Republic's crippled assets out of bankruptcy and pledged to restore the factory and eventually rehire all the workers at their old pay levels.

Walt Disney Co. is finding itself in heated talks with union workers over pay and other issues as profits at the company's theme - park division soar.

In 2017, Walmart has also introduced a membership - free, two - day shipping program, a discount for customers who pick up an online order at a order rather than have it shopped, curbside grocery pickup at hundreds of stores and other novel services such as having a Walmart store worker drop off an online order on the way home after their shift.

The Four Seasons Resort Lanai, The Lodge at Koele will continue to be used as housing for construction workers laboring at the other Four Seasons, as it has been for the last several months.

Bangladeshi family members hold up portraits of missing relatives as they march demanding the wages of missing workers and the death sentence for the building owner, at the nine - storey building collapse in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka on May 14, 2013 (Photo: Munir Uz Zaman / AFP / Getty)

We also looked at the cost of wages and state workers» compensation insurance, as well as rental costs for office and industrial space.

Most of us don't think of Air Canada as a singing - and - dancing kind of brand, and the musical workers didn't look like the same angry people whose unions seem endlessly at war with the airline.

The allegations come from workers at the bank regulator known as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which maintains a database of suspicious transactions in the U.S..

«The proposition that held from the 1950s until recently is that as businesses did well, so would workers,» says Robert Shapiro, a senior policy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy and former economic adviser to President Bill Clinton.

Buildings like 7 World Trade Center and the new Goldman Sachs headquarters, along with the recent decision of Condé Nast to move about 5,000 employees to 1 World Trade Center as its anchor tenant in 2014, are ensuring there will be no ebb in the number of office workers walking the streets at lunch and after work hours, he said.

In June the Canadian government implemented a package of immigration reforms, known as the Global Skills Strategy, aimed at fast - tracking visas for skilled foreign workers — some can get processed in as little as two weeks — and providing a concierge service that will walk companies through the process of opening an office on Canadian soil.

Additionally, as the nature of work continues to change, prodded by technological advances that maximize worker efficiency at the expense of regular work schedules, more workers are seeking supplementary income.

The San Francisco Bay Area, recognized as a global hub of tech finance and innovation, may be at risk of losing top tech workers if they can't afford to live there, even on six - figure salaries.

At Google, perks such as free lunches and the 20 % rule (where workers spend 20 % of their time on personal passion projects) have helped it recruit and retain enough top talent for the company to become a global force in just 10 years.

The laptop's reign as the de facto business tool of mobile workers is at an end.

And tipped waiters and bar tenders experience poverty at rates that are more than twice as high as non-tipped workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

Support for Clinton wasn't strong as residents — many who are blue - collar workers in the petrochemical industry — were concerned whether her environmental and energy proposals would ultimately have a negative impact on their jobs, said Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston.

It points to federal interference in collective bargaining for workers at Air Canada, CP Rail and Canada Post as evidence.

They often suffer from both mental and physical health problems at a higher rate than workers in other industries as a result of their working conditions, which include operating under hard - nosed management practices and getting yelled at all day by irate customers.

Meanwhile, production at many senior companies is shrinking, as their older operations become more grade - challenged and difficult to mine, and workers agitate for larger shares of expanding profit margins.

But that's changing as more employers come to realize education debt is a problem for many of their workers, said Katie Berliner, account executive at YouDecide, a benefits firm.

On Tuesday, Japan's Asahi TV quoted a North Korean source as saying that cave - ins in tunnels at the nuclear test site caused the death of up to 200 workers.

As promised, McDonald's has reduced the number of menu items, addressing a longstanding problem at the company that hurt service as workers had to prepare too many food items, creating logjams in the kitcheAs promised, McDonald's has reduced the number of menu items, addressing a longstanding problem at the company that hurt service as workers had to prepare too many food items, creating logjams in the kitcheas workers had to prepare too many food items, creating logjams in the kitchen.

The concept here is simple: At many businesses, the need for on - site workers — bodies in the building, as it were — is urgent, especially at this time of yeaAt many businesses, the need for on - site workers — bodies in the building, as it were — is urgent, especially at this time of yeaat this time of year.

Kumar said the new moves did not reflect any major change in the company's business model, with U.S. workers being compensated at the same level as H1 - B visa professionals.

Infosys, which employs more than 200,000 workers worldwide, was under the spotlight last year as President Donald Trump targeted the American H - 1B visa program that tech companies have heavily relied upon to temporarily bring in workers from other countries at lower wages.