Sentences with phrase «as high labour costs»

See Appendix A. 1 for more information * There are a number of broad Australian comparative disadvantages such as high labour costs, a dispersed and geographically isolated market and small population which impact the MTP sector.

She points out that organizations in certain parts of the sector may have legitimate reasons for spending more on administration, such as higher labour costs.

Not exact matches

Core inflation has drifted higher over the past year, as slowing productivity growth has pushed up growth in unit labour costs, albeit from a very low level.

Currently, the cost of this is as high as 5 % of a manufacturer's turnover driven by factors such as increasing labour costs.

He cited the high Australian dollar, comparatively high labour costs, and dramatically cheaper imports as factors.

It's hard to make the case that rail would be dramatically more efficient under Labour's plans for public ownership, as the party has committed to several things which would keep costs high — though could easily also result in better service.

And in exchange we will ask for your help in solving Labour's Debt Crisis by keeping the cost of public sector pay only as high as the country can responsibly afford.

Commenting on the development, Labour Analyst, Austin Gammey, cautioned that it will be challenging for employers as Ghana's economy compels businesses to offer lower wages due to high cost of operations.

According to our figures (and I keep asking you to use the figures set out in the Liberal Democrat and Labour document not the figures given by the IFS who state they got their figures from these documents but actually give different figures) to reverse the cuts to Universal Credit cost # 3.665 billion and as I pointed out above these are the reductions in the amounts a person can keep before they start to lose their benefit, which were set much higher than the old benefits, but the withdrawal rate seemed to be higher with Universal Credit (65 % [reduced to 62 %] than with Tax Credit (41 % on gross income).

Likewise, Corbyn has pledged to scrap tuition fees in England but the Welsh Labour manifesto discusses the Diamond Review into Higher Education in Wales and the Welsh government's pledge to help with the cost of living during university, as opposed to focusing on tuition fees.

That means focusing on the lower - hanging fruit in terms of cutting costs - such as cutting interest rates, which are currently up to 6.1 %, and have been attacked as bafflingly high by a long line of former Conservative and Labour education ministers.