Sentences with phrase «by wage labor»

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.

Not exact matches

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

This is particularly significant in the context of the labor market, considering that inflation — and, by extension, wage inflation — is arguably the most important input for the Federal Reserve as it decides how quickly to raise interest rates.

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.

This points to economic activity and a labor market still running below their potential, a point highlighted by weak wage growth for most Americans.

Lee keeps the country's labor force cheap and disciplined by setting strict guidelines for both wage increases and working conditions.

Backed by labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union, workers have landed some victories as individual cities and states have raised their minimum wage.

«We will know the labor market is getting tight when we do see a more meaningful upward move in wages,» Powell said in response to a reporter's question as to whether he was satisfied with the pace of wage growth, which remains lackluster by most accounts.

By contrast, many other independent workers are in low - wage occupations where the supply of labor is huge and turnover is constant; if someone leaves because of crummy pay or wretched working conditions, the employer can easily tap somebody else to fill the slot.

Meanwhile, the largest sellers of stocks have been managers and venture capitalists «cashing out» by selling into a market fueled mainly by labor's wage set - asides.

The higher wage would boost labor income by 1.3 percent by 2019, with just 27 percent of those gains going to low - income households.

Race to the bottom: A term for dog - eat - dog competition by which countries compete by cutting wage levels so as to produce in the cheapest market, not by raising wages and labor productivity.

Because nominal wage growth for a large fraction of workers has been held to zero, a somewhat higher rate of inflation would grease the wheels of the labor market by allowing real wages to fall (Akerlof, Dickens, and Perry 1996).

An income profile for the typical U.S. wage earner shows the degree to which the cost of living now reflects FIRE sector costs more than prices for commodities produced by labor.

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.

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

The wage and work rule standards will increase labor costs — which ultimately will be borne by consumers.

Friday's currency turmoil and stock market plunge was a case of the chickens coming home to roost from the class - war policies being waged by European and Asian industry and banking squeezing their domestic consumer markets — that is, labor's living standards — in favor of export production to the United States.

He said efforts to revise the H - 2B guest worker program have been stalled by opposition from labor groups, which have argued that companies don't try hard enough to hire Americans or pay a living wage before turning to the program.

Third, the tax giveaway includes a $ 120 billion reduction in Social Security contributions by labor — reducing the FICA wage withholding from 6.2 per cent to 4.2 per cent.

October's labor market data reverted to the relatively familiar picture of solid job creation accompanied by lackluster wage growth.

Our analysis shows that wage growth, as estimated by our composite measure of wage pressures, is beginning to accelerate; we also show that labor market indicators most closely correlated with wage growth, such as the quit rate, continue to improve.

Higher wages sparked by a tight labor market and higher minimum wage mandates in several states.

So in America (s) we have system defined by the rich get richer the poor stay in minimum wage, in China child labor is allowed, in the diamond mines in Africa abuses are allowed for the precious gift, smoking is allowed to exist (even if it kills you), etc..

According to a new report by the group Asia Floor Wage Alliance, labor violations in factories making clothes for American brands are still prevalent.

Family life, just war, contraception, a living wage, organized labor, race relations, and a host of other problems are treated in official episcopal statements or commentary by influential Catholics.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer thought that the idea of vocation had been deeply misunderstood, especially by those among his fellow Lutherans who had used the concept as a way of vindicating the status quo and validating such institutions as marriage and wage labor as preferable to all other social or economic arrangements.

The minimum wage bill is one that's supported not just by unions, but also the labor - backed Working Families Party.

Without the offset of the 18 percent wage hike included in the deal realized through health care savings negotiated by the administration with the UFT and Municipal Labor Council, which represents all city employees, this agreement «could increase future budget gaps to levels that would be more difficult for the city to deal with, especially during another downturn,» Moody's warned.

Democratic Senate candidate Todd Kaminsky is being endorsed on Wednesday by 32BJ SEIU, a politically key labor union that was part of the successful drive to increase the state's minimum wage.

After years of setbacks and declining membership nationally, labor groups were seen as being on the offensive in the last year with successful efforts in some states to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 — a major union - led effort that initially began by focusing on fast food restaurants.

A lawyer for the state's department of labor, Pico Ben - Amotz, said the wage order it issued this summer — which followed recommendations of a three - member board convened by Gov. Andrew Cuomo — would eventually impose an hourly wage rate of $ 15 on employees of any fast food chain with more than 30 locations, be they in New York or elsewhere.

And he's pushing to boost business expenses by setting a $ 15 wage floor, which will force up labor costs across the board.

Labor leader Hector Figueroa said voters will choose the candidate who can best serve New Yorkers, «not who can seize the most headlines by waging personal attacks.»

New York Acting Labor Commissioner Mario J. Musolino has agreed to several recommendations by a wage board called together last year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to study the issue.

For workers in the rest of the state, the minimum wage would increase to $ 9.70 at the end of 2016, then another.70 each year after until reaching $ 12.50 on 12/31/2020 — after which will continue to increase to $ 15 on an indexed schedule to be set by the Director of the Division of Budget in consultation with the Department of Labor.

Brown is the sole upstate resident on the board, which was convened by the state Department of Labor at the behest of Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this year to review and recommend any increases in the wage for the fast - food industry.

The lobby group's budget analysis singled out the minimum wage proposal backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Democratic lawmakers and wage and labor advocates as the «most significant new business cost» in the spending plan.

That was evident in the wake of Cuomo's latest minimum wage proposal, which was hailed by his allies in 1199 SIEU and HTC, (which happen to provide funding to the labor - backed party), but deemed not good enough in an official WFP statement.

Cuomo was joined by labor and community leaders in support of his proposed wage hike.

«We raised the minimum wage last year, and we're now in the midst of a minimum wage phase - in schedule,» Cuomo said at a news conference in Manhattan, where he was flanked by labor leaders who later praised his proposal.

The increase, which will impact an estimated 200,000 workers, was endorsed by a state wage board last month and is set to be phased in beginning at the end of the year, pending formal approval by Cuomo's labor commissioner.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Several labor unions say that more than $ 400,000 in contributions by Walmart since 2001 helped bring about the creation of an unusual taxpayer - paid subsidy last month to help employers offset a higher minimum wage in New York.

Days later, after meeting with labor groups, Clinton explained her position further by aligning herself with Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Senate's health, education and labor committee, who had introduced a $ 12 - an - hour federal wage bill.

The increase awaits formal approval by Cuomo's labor commissioner, but it was endorsed Wednesday by a wage board that Cuomo convened after attempts to raise the minimum wage across the board fell flat in the legislature.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an increase in the minimum wage on Sept. 10, the same day Acting State Labor Commissioner Mario Musolino signed an order designating a $ 15.00 per hour statewide minimum wage for fast - food workers — the level recommended by a State Department of Labor wage board over the summer, according to a press release from Cuomo's office.

The occasion this week was an increase in the minimum wage for tipped workers, announced by the state's Department of Labor.

The new minimum wage proposal in the Assembly is backed by Labor Committee Chairman Carl Heastie and Assemblyman Keith Wright, the state Democratic Party co-chairman (his other party co-chair, Syracuse's Stephanie Miner, broke with Cuomo on his pension smoothing plan that is also in the budget).

«Instead of reaching out to union leaders to gain consensus on an affordable housing program that ensures middle - class wages for workers, (de Blasio) coordinated with a lobbying group — led by billionaire developers — to run an anti-union campaign that would lead to unsafe job sites and a low - wage workforce,» The Greater New York Laborers - Employers Cooperation and Education Trust and the New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation said in a joint statement.

Construction labor unions, meanwhile, were buoyed by Cuomo's support for reviving the 421a tax abatement by using a subsidy to pay for a prevailing wage component.