Sentences with phrase «cent of its work force»

This applies to the «seventy - five per cent of the work force now employed [who] will still be working in 2000 A.D.. All will need further education and retraining if we as a nation are to achieve and prosper.

From a record 35.5 per cent of the work force in 1945, trade union membership has slipped to about 21 per cent today.

Average annual agricultural employment in Ulster County was 991 in 2017 — about two per cent of the work force — up from 938 in 2013.

There may be a few situations where only the employment standards payments are sufficient — such as for minimum wage or transient employees — but the remaining 95 per cent of the work force should not accept just the minimum.

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But the analysis says raising the work - force participation rate of women by 4.5 percentage points by 2032 would lift Canada's potential growth to about 1.9 per cent.

Today, 8 per cent of the U.S. work force is in manufacturing.

In fact, when faced with a disability, 45 per cent of working Canadians would have liked to take time off due to disability but could not because of finances, and 51 per cent said they were forced to go back to work earlier than they wanted because of their financial situation.

A study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives suggested the debt financing required could force Tim Hortons to layoff more than 700 employees — or 44 per cent of staff working outside its restaurants.

Starting from today lone parents whose children are aged 12 or over will be forced to actively seek work for a minimum of 16 hours per week or risk losing 40 per cent of their benefit.

Only 50 per cent of working age women are represented in the labour force globally, compared to 76 per cent of men.

Noting that only one - third of the Canadian work force is currently covered by a registered pension plan, and that savings rates have gone down in recent decades, a report by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce earlier this year warned that those born in the 1980s could face a 30 - per - cent drop in their standard of living upon retirement.

Forcing Quebec's Crown attorneys and government lawyers back to work with the promise of a six - per - cent raise over the next five years is about as far away from a winning formula as the Quebec government could get.

A growing working age population — forecast to increase by nearly 5 per cent between 2015 and 2020 — coupled with rising labour force participation rates means employers will have a growing pool of labour to choose from.

The survey shows that the more tech and social media savvy Generation Y demographic — comprising one - third of Canada's population and the next wave of the country's active labour force — place a greater importance on being physically in the office, with 79 per cent defining collaboration as working together in the same space in person.