«Health is across all three areas», Mundine said, but admitted he had yet to meet with Health Minister Peter Dutton and was not clear on the status of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health plan, launched
by the Labor Government shortly before it lost office.
Author Dr Henry Cutler from Macquarie's Centre for the Health Economy says: «The 2017 - 18 Budget has firmed up the coalition party flank against future health care attacks
by the Labor government, after the Medi - Scare campaign nearly lost it an election.
Not exact matches
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment
by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders
by their customers or from
labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending
by the U.S. and other
governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign
government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
«
Government officials will engage in the negotiations over the weekend in an effort to help reach a tentative
labor agreement between the company and the union
by 5 p.m. Monday,» GM said in a statement.
SEOUL, March 27 - General Motors said its loss - making South Korean operations would file for bankruptcy if its union did not agree to cut
labor costs
by April 20, heaping pressure on workers and the South Korean
government to swiftly agree a rescue plan.
Government figures cited
by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm
labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.
The U.S. and Papua New Guinea are the only countries among 185 nations and territories that hadn't imposed
government - mandated laws requiring employers to pay mothers while on leave with their babies, according to a study released last year
by the United Nations» International
Labor Organization.
Wal - Mart's critics — including a group of its workers backed
by labor unions - say the retailer pays its hourly workers too little, forcing some to seek
government assistance that effectively provides the company with an indirect taxpayer subsidy.
Significant capital underspend was a feature of Western Power management under the
Labor governments led
by premiers Gallop and Carpenter.
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.
Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion
by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in
labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least,
government personnel costs.
On the broadest social level, the ostensible «free market» lobbying effort sponsored
by banks to shift the property tax onto
labor and industry has become a campaign against
government itself.
«Some of the regulatory issues that have been put in
by state and local
governments, some of the capital constraints that the independent builders are facing, the
labor shortages in a lot of markets, have all conspired to make this a very difficult recovery for new - home builders,» said Rick Sharga, chief marketing officer at Ten - X, a real estate auction company.
An alternative
government source of statistics on residential home values is published
by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS).
But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the
government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually
by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more
labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.
A lower tax on land rents leaves more to be capitalized into bank loans, and hence inflates the price of housing — while
government revenue is balanced
by burdening
labor and industry with income and sales taxes.
At the same time,
government agencies are increasing their scrutiny of employee misclassification due to a growing number of complaints about abusive
labor practices
by sharing economy companies.
The Chicago - style monetary plan described efforts to privatize industry, reign in
government spending to lower inflation, and to create a more active stock market financed
by labor's own forced savings in order to increase stock prices.
Looking ahead, the
government maintained its outlook that the economy will continue «recovering,» supported
by an improvement in
labor and income conditions and the effects of fiscal spending.
When German institutions —
government, businesses and
labor unions — negotiated among themselves at the turn of the century a sharp reduction in wage growth for its workers, they were obviously attempting to reduce German's high domestic unemployment
by gaining trade competitiveness.
It would mean that German industrialists and their
government allies, who have attempted to grow not
by investing in productivity but
by forcing German workers and their European partners to subsidize their unit
labor costs, after having caused huge damage to peripheral Europe's balance sheets and European workers everywhere, including in Germany, will now pass the cost onto the rest of the world.
But as NISA's website notes, Australia's
government is in caretaker mode pending the outcome of the July 2 federal election, in which a Liberal / National coalition led
by Turnbull faces the
Labor party led
by Bill Shorten.
The
Labor Party's promise to ban live sheep exports is being slammed
by the Federal
Government.
In Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, Infosys ranked first with 6,269 H - 1B petitions approved
by the
government, and Tata ranked second with 6,193... these leading offshore outsourcing firms use the H - 1B program to replace American workers and to facilitate the offshoring of American jobs... they don't use the H - 1B visa as a way to alleviate a shortage of STEM - educated U.S. workers; they use it primarily to cut
labor costs.»
Moreover, in Europe, Italy's new Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has taken a different tack than his French neighbors
by acknowledging that sustainable growth does not come from
government spending programs but rather from policies such as
labor market flexibility, job training and simplification of Italy's archaic civil justice system.
Despite the fact that all the central banks have been woefully wrong about nearly every single forecast they have made on GDP growth, inflation and
labor markets for decades, they enjoy an aura of infallibility which would be the envy of any medieval Pope because they succeeded in doing what
governments by themselves were unable to do in 2008 - 9, namely stop and reverse the financial crisis.
The Fixed Annuity Consumer Choice Campaign (FACC Campaign) is organized to protect fixed annuities in connection with the Department of
Labor (DOL) fiduciary rule deliberations and any other deliberations
by other
government agencies and organizations.
People keep forgetting that most
government spending is transfer payments, but it is only purchases of
labor and goods that go directly into the GDP calculations, and it is these accounts that will get smacked
by the sequester of discretionary defense and non-defense budgets.
Kimberly - Clark's plant in Venezuela will be taken over and re-activated
by the
government, according to the country's
labor minister.
«Although the French
government has introduced or announced a number of measures intended to address these competitiveness and growth issues, the implementation and efficacy of these policy initiatives are complicated
by the persistence of long - standing rigidities in
labor, goods and services markets as well as the social and political tensions the
government is facing,» Moody's said.
A report on Puerto Rico's financial problems
by former International Monetary Fund economists, published
by the territory's
Government Development Bank on June 29, suggested the U.S. territory reform its
labor markets and other areas to improve competitiveness and potentially restructure its debts.
Because the decline is being driven
by unusual
labor - force flows — aging workers retiring, the lure of
government disability payments, discouraged workers and other factors — the jobless rate is a perplexing indicator of job - market slack and vigor.
August 4, 1942 — the Mexican Farm
Labor Program Agreement is signed
by the
governments of Mexico and the United States, the first establishing the legalization and control of Mexican migrant workers along America's southern border area
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of
governments erected on the simple principles of nature; It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or
laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these
governments were contrived merely
by the use of reason and the senses.
It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next
government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the
Labor Party headed
by two - time loser Shimon Peres.
When colonial
governments in Africa found that natives were reluctant to work on plantations or roads, they required them to pay taxes in cash, which they could obtain only
by wage
labor.
The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap
labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from
government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated
by the IMF and the World Bank.
By the same token, the former East Germany, whose loss of citizens to West Germany proceeded with alacrity until the construction of the Berlin Wall, would have been an overpopulated country, its
government's constant complaints about
labor shortages notwithstanding.
It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or
laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these
governments were contrived merely
by the use of reason and the senses.
Moreover, if, as is usually the case, mechanization is part of the whole development scheme, these large landowners will be able to reduce
labor costs considerably
by converting to machines, usually purchased cheaply because of
government subsidies.
Moreover, it rings true to the entrepreneurial experience of many fundamentalist ministers, whose independent churches succeed
by dint of their own
labor, God's grace and the direct contributions of those in the pews or in front of the television set, unsupported
by national denominations analogous to big
government.
Today the most intense competition in the globally integrated market is not between the gigantic Transnational Corporations, but it is between
governments that find themselves competing with one another for investors
by offering the cheapest and most compliant
labor; the weakest environmental, health, and safety standards, the lowest taxes; and the most fully developed infrastructure.
ESCAS was introduced into Australia's live animal export markets following the controversial 2011 Indonesian live cattle export ban
by the former
Labor government.
SA's Liberal
government will continue the planning reforms set in place
by the previous
Labor government to curb urban sprawl.
«Along with many Australians, I can't help but wonder how many customers were ripped off
by this kind of misconduct in the two years it took the
government to relent and agree to
Labor's calls for a royal commission,» he wrote.
The industry nearly collapsed following the ban on live exports
by the previous federal
Labor government, he said.
A trial of «traffic - light» food labels was recommended
by a respected former
Labor health minister, Neal Blewett, officially appointed to head an inquiry into the matter after years of
government prevarication.
The number of independent contractors in Australia has fallen in recent years — 1.11 million contractors in 2010 to 986,000
by 2013 — which the Abbott
government has blamed on a «concerted attack»
by the Tax Office and the Fair Work building and construction taskforce under the previous
Labor government to push people into more union - friendly arrangements.
The South Australian Liberals adopted the 10 - year moratorium as a policy cornerstone in late 2016, and aren't budging after a win in the March 17 state election
by Mr Marshall ended 16 years of
Labor government.
The federal
Labor Party responded to the program
by calling on the Abbott
government to investigate exploitation in the 417 holiday visa program.