Sentences with phrase «by the workers on»

As the ceasefire entered its third day, the human rights organisation published a series of disturbing testimonials by workers on the ground strongly suggesting Israeli forces broke the Fourth Geneva Convention.

These advances had to be paid back by the workers on their return to the village.

Not exact matches

On Sunday, 80 employees arrived from Austin, Texas capital far from the danger zone, to stock stores in Corpus Christi, a coastal city hit by the storm and by Tuesday more workers from San Antonio were moving to Victoria, another affected city.

Although these calculators are plentiful on the internet, only 4 in 10 workers report that they or their spouse have ever tried to estimate how much money they'll need, a recent study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found.

On Tuesday, grocery - delivery service Instacart, which is also being sued by some of its independent contractors, said it would allow some of its workers to become part - time employees.

Companies such as Uber and Instacart stand to save a ton of money on labor costs — up to 40 percent, according to one study — by continuing to classify their workers as independent contractors rather than as employees.

Data on Tuesday showed that U.S. factory activity slowed for a second straight month in April, weighed down by shortages of skilled workers and rising capacity constraints.

By paying workers as independent contractors when they should be paid as employees, federal, state and local governments potentially miss out on tax revenue they would otherwise collect; this tax gap was the focus of a special report to Congress in 2011 and continues to be an area of focus today.

The researchers analyzed the psychological impact of different office layouts on workers and found differing dynamics by gender.

Each worker on the assembly line could scan their identification card, which is then verified by multiple sources such as government agencies and third - party auditors, ensuring the workers are not underage or overworked.

Intuit and Emergent Research estimate that 7.6 million U.S. workers will be working regularly in the on - demand economy by 2020, a doubling of the current 3.2 million workers.

An analysis of data on how plugged in, mobile workers are coping with work demands by Dr. Carolyn Axtell of the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield offers advice for companies hoping to help workers avoid burnout.

«It would be a great gesture of goodwill for the prime minister to make ahead of negotiations but equally it's good for our businesses... This is what I hear about day in, day out,» he added, noting that the U.K. government could offer this to EU workers unilaterally despite having been rebuked earlier by the trading bloc in an attempt to agree a deal on this issue ahead of full Brexit negotiations.

One of the benefits which is most wanted by workers is the ability to work from home on a regular basis.

According to a report from telecommunications market research firm IDC, for example, 75 % of workers in the United States will rely solely on mobile communications, whether cellular or internet - enabled, by 2020.

Provincial instructors focused on two main areas: document use, aimed at helping workers better understand specialized blueprints, and numeracy, aimed at reducing the measurement errors caused by metric - trained employees working in an imperial - measurement environment.

Changes to the country's immigration rules implemented by the federal government last year could help replenish the pool of workers available to employers, with a new emphasis on skills and youth.

Ben Dutton, president and CEO of the Casman Group of companies, said about half of the 200 workers employed by his Fort McMurray - based general construction firm are already back in town and working on restoring heating - ventilation and other systems for commercial and industrial customers.

The icing on the cake is that G. Neil employs no minimum - wage workers of its own, so its payroll is unaffected by the law.

(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).

Author Kelly Shue, of the University of Chicago, says boards» apparent mistake is a common one, highlighted by years of research in the field of behavioral economics, and much like the way workers get confused about the effect of inflation on the real value of their paychecks.

The solution: Replace the one - size - fits employer coverage by transfering what companies are paying on behalf of their workers directly to the workers themselves, also tax free.

The CWA said on Saturday that Verizon has not budged from its original proposal which they have said would increase workers» healthcare costs by thousands of dollars, eliminate job security and remove any restrictions on the company's right to contract out or offshore union jobs.

In reality, a scene set on farmers» fields across the country should show that a great deal of agricultural work in Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workers.

In September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associates.

Some bearish investors argued that Silicon Valley has become increasingly dependent on immigrant workers, with seven of the most well - known tech firms helmed by immigrants or their children.

A recent report by WorldatWork indicated that workers on average will receive a 3.1 % pay raise in 2014 as compared to 2.9 % in 2013.

I think we may soon see increasing efforts by companies to keep experienced workers on staff.

To hire a temporary foreign worker, employers must pay the «prevailing wage» for the position, an amount determined by postings on the Job Bank.

That places Vargas in a similar position to a rising number of Silicon Valley workers brought in by tech giants to work on third - party firm contracts, not only janitorial services and caterers that can be found in any corporate campus, but more specific roles created for contractors as projects evolve.

Over the past decade, employment of skilled technology workers in BC has grown 27 %, driven partly by U.S. companies frustrated with their own government's limit on visas for skilled workers.

Relations between worker and employer are governed by a welter of state and federal laws and regulations drafted in the first half of the 20th century to prevent child labor and other abuses in factories and on farms.

They think it will put pressure on companies by drawing attention to the growing inequality between compensation for workers at the top of the company hierarchy and those at the bottom.

By imposing a penalty on medium - sized businesses — the smallest businesses are exempt from the health insurance requirement — that do not offer employee health insurance, policymakers hope to encourage more business owners to provide this benefit to workers.

These nurses may collect a housing allowance and can have a say over their hours and choice of hospitals, which need these contract workers to fill in for staff out on maternity leave (normally for 13 weeks), or felled by a bad flu season.

The study estimates that U.S. workers across all sectors on average were better off by about $ 431 million in 2010 when you take into account the increased productivity and innovation within the tech sector due to foreign workers.

Regardless, the data, which was earlier reported on by Apple - tracking site 9to5Mac, provides some insight into the feelings tech company workers might have about this year's election.

GA largely focuses on recruiting workers and re-training them in coding - specific career paths, often at an expedited pace with the goal of getting them hired by outside companies quickly.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll ™ among 1087 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the average amount of vacation time given to employed workers is about 4 weeks (3.7), while the self - employed take a similar amount of time off (4.0 weeks, on average).

That is, «by razing anything that still stands and by mercilessly targeting fighters, civilians, humanitarian workers, hospitals, and ambulances alike — as it does on a daily basis in Aleppo now.»

By the end of the first three working days of the year, the U.K.'s top bosses will each have earned on average as much as a typical worker will take home in all of 2018, according to a report.

The latest calculations were based on an earlier finding by the groups that earnings for CEOs in the U.K.'s benchmark FTSE 100 dropped by a fifth in 2016 to 4.5 million pounds ($ 5.4 million) annually and another showing a CEO - to - worker pay ratio of 120 to 1.

«Canada's media and cultural industries are being severely damaged by the tax loopholes that benefit foreign digital companies and platforms at the expense of Canadian producers and workers and that cost the federal government at least $ 1 billion in revenues,» the union wrote in a statement on its website.

By contrast, measures that come down hard on public sector workers — a primarily Conservative preoccupation — took up almost an entire page.

Already by 2001, when Health Canada conducted a massive survey of 31,571 workers on the subject of work - life balance, a third of respondents said they enjoyed high flexibility in working hours and location, and another 39 %, moderate flexibility.

PARIS, May 3 - French President Emmanuel Macron swept into office last May on a pledge to create jobs and improve the lives of workers by rebooting the country's economy.

Post-election indications that Julia Gillard is prepared to look at population needs on a state - by - state basis are good news for WA, where skilled workers are needed.

On the whole, though, workers view that as a net benefit, says Ondrack, who recently conducted a study into attitudes to portable work tools sponsored by a telecommunications company.

More than one - quarter of a worker's day on average is spent answering and reading emails, according to research released in 2012 by the McKinsey Global Institute.

According to Young's Supreme Court petition, her manager told her that UPS offered light duty to workers who sustained on - the - job injuries, employees with ailments covered by the Americans With Disabilities Act, and those who had lost Department of Transportation certification because of physical aliments like sleep apnea; not — the manager said — to pregnant workers.