Sentences with phrase «by the labor department»

Twelve of the 30 Best Workplaces, or 40 %, offer a defined - benefit pension — an increasingly rare retirement plan offered by only 18 % of private employers surveyed by the Labor Department.

Drinkwater said the new investing rule announced in early April by the Labor Department may spur advisors and clients to work more closely on keeping inflation's effects at bay.

The brutally disappointing employment report released by the Labor Department Friday showed that just 74,000 new jobs were created in December, far below the 196,000 predicted by economists.

A report released by the Labor Department in 2016, called the «Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation,» concluded that the federal government's primary job - training programs don't really work.

Wells Fargo is under investigation by the Labor Department, which wants to see whether the bank has been pushing people with cheaper corporate 401 (k) plans to transfer their holdings to Wells's more expensive individual retirement plans.

The initial employment reports for August — for largely seasonal rather than fundamental factors — have a long history of coming in below the underlying trend, only to be revised upward later by the Labor Department.

A rule recently proposed by the Labor Department would be both fair and efficient.

Various inflation measures compiled by the Labor Department certainly make compelling reading.

This reflects an annual update in the seasonal factors used by the Labor Department (which is why the revisions weren't matched by similar changes in the non-seasonally adjusted data).

Labor productivity in the U.S. rose by less than expected in the first quarter, according to a report released by the Labor Department on Thursday.

A report released by the Labor Department on Thursday showed a modest decrease in first - time claims for U.S....

WASHINGTON — Initial claims U.S. state unemployment benefits rose by only 2,000 to 211,000 in the April 28 week, well below the 225,000 level expected by analysts in an MNI survey and suggesting that last week's dip to 45 - year low was not a fluke, data released by the Labor Department Thursday showed.

The unemployment rate among the insured labor force is well below that reported monthly by the Labor Department because claims are approved for the most part only for job losers, not the job leavers and labor force reentrants included in the monthly report.

The first and potentially largest exception could be made in case of «economic downturn,» as measured by three consecutive monthly declines in a «composite index of business cycle indicators» to be compiled and maintained by the Labor Department.

Then, a formula set by the Labor Department would decide future increases, but the goal would be to get those counties to $ 15 by 2023 — essentially a seven - year phase in.

The judge's review of the case was prompted by a Labor Department investigation that began more than a year ago.

The nearly 7.9 million such jobs in May, as reported by the Labor Department, shows Cuomo's claim to be true.

Disapprove Unemployment Benefit Drug Testing Rule — Vote Passed (236 - 189, 6 Not Voting) The joint resolution would disapprove the rule issued by the Labor Department on Aug. 1, 2016, that defines the occupations for which states can require individuals applying for unemployment benefits to undergo drug testing.

A wage board convened by the labor department held a public hearing in Syracuse Friday.

3) National: David Webber urges a rule change by the Labor Department to ensure that public pension trustees act in the interest of public employees, and not use pension fund money to promote outsourcingto private, for - profit companies that kill public jobs.

By The Labor Department's «fiduciary rule» is widely expected to be a boon for the exchange - traded funds industry, with low - fee index - based products seeing the bulk of what could be trillions of dollars in inflows.

A lobby group for the securities industry, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, is trying to kill the rule, which was proposed by the Labor Department.

According to new regulations issued this week by the Labor Department, financial advisors and brokers who manage individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and 401 (k) s must act in accordance with their clients» best interest by following the «fiduciary standard.»

The volume of jobs is expected to increase throughout 2011, and rates are expected to continue through 2018, which are some of the fastest occupational growth rates being projected by the Labor Department.

The figures, announced on Friday by the Labor Department, give the go - ahead to the Federal Reserve to raise rates; the Fed is gathering later this month to vote.

Known as the fiduciary rule and set by the Labor Department to take effect in April 2017 — but then delayed by the Trump administration until at least June 2017 and some parts until January 2018 — the rule simply requires people in the financial services industry to put consumers» best interests ahead of their own.

While the review will be undertaken independently by the Labor Department, the White House aide signaled that the president was expecting significant change.

It's based on a consumer expenditure survey by the Labor Department that doesn't capture where every dollar goes.

Not exact matches

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.

At Google, an audit of their pay practices by the Department of Labor found «systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,» showing, one official has said, six to seven standard deviations between pay for men and women in nearly every job category.

Many state labor departments also have listings on their websites for employers about laws they must abide by when doing business in the state and these can be helpful in determining what to include in an employee handbook.

Related: Small - Business Hiring, Sentiment Drops in November The Labor Department does not break out the data by business size.

The Labor Department said on Thursday that the claims data for Maine and Colorado were estimated, while claims - taking procedures in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands had still not returned to normal after being devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria last year.

The percentage of American workers represented by unions has dropped from 23.3 percent in 1983 to 12.5 percent last year, according to the Labor Department.

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.

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.

Garrett and other fiduciary financial advisors see the recently issued fiduciary rule passed by the Department of Labor as a major step in the right direction of controlling the costs of advice to investors.

The United States Department of Labor tackled this issue another way in April, by saddling advisers with fiduciary duty, meaning they must act in the best interests of their clients.

Complying with a request by the US Department of Labor would be too expensive and too logistically difficult, Google's lawyers reportedly argued.

A new fiduciary standard applying to financial advisors of retirement accounts, including individual retirement accounts, is expected to be finalized by the Department of Labor within the next several months.

A Department of Labor opinion written by Alfred Robinson, Jr., a deputy administrator, makes this issue very clear.

According to U.S. Department of Labor statistics, female participation in the workforce was less than 40 percent in 1960 but is predicted to reach 62 percent by the year 2015.

The final updated rules for overtime have been released by the Department of Labor and are set to take effect in December: That means a lot of employees who were previously exempt will suddenly qualify for overtime pay.

The ruling overturns an earlier determination by a lower court that the Labor Department was within its bounds in promulgating the measure.

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Labor Department overstepped its authority by creating the so - called fiduciary rule

The factors that need to be considered when calculating labor expense (LE) are the personnel requirements (P) for each department multiplied by the employee salary level (SL).

By contrast, the Labor Department's payroll survey showed a.2 % increase in hiring for the month and a 1.1 % increase on the year.

The Labor Department reported on Wednesday that consumer prices fell for the first time in 10 months in March, hampered by a decline in gasoline prices.

According to a new study for the Labor Department conducted by Sanat Monica, California - based nonprofit research firm the RAND Corporation, nearly half of U.S. employers with a minimum of 50 workers offered workplace wellness programs in 2012, while 90 percent of companies with greater than 50,000 workers offered the programs over the same period.

Legal experts say the Labor Department likely will have to undertake a formal rulemaking process in order to delay the rule's implementation — a process that can not happen overnight, and that may be further delayed by the lack of a permanent Labor Secretary.