Sentences with phrase «cent of the workforce»

The defence contractor will cut 4,000 jobs, about 3.5 per cent of its workforce, amid vastly reduced government spending.

Currently, about 23 per cent of our workforce is comprised of visible minorities, and about ten per cent of our executive management team.

Anne Milton insisted to MPs that the public sector apprenticeship target — which requires public bodies to hire 2.3 per cent of their workforce as apprentices every year — is achievable for schools, but accepted more support is needed.

Agriculture employs over 70 per cent of the workforce in Laos, one of the least developed countries in the world, providing approximately 27 per cent total GDP.

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX: POT) cut about 18 per cent of its workforce late last year in response to the soft demand.

The company is preparing for two large redundancies tranches in a restructure which may axe slightly more than the 5 per cent of the workforce target outlined by the company last month.

Between 2000 and 2006, 17 of Kasungu's staff died — 22 per cent of its workforce at the start of that period.

The government also wants public bodies with 250 or more employees to hire 2.3 per cent of their workforce as apprentices every year.

The recent dispute was resolved by a three - year pay deal and an agreement to keep at least 75 per cent of the workforce in fulltime employment.

Fitbit will lay off 5 to 10 per cent of its workforce as the company prepares to release a disappointing fourth quarter earnings later today.

Cartwright is part of a growing trend of self - employed and contract workers which, according to some US figures, make up nearly 15 per cent of the workforce and is expected to climb to nearly 20 per cent by 2020.

We currently employ more than 5,000 people in London and probably 20 per cent to 30 per cent of our workforce could be affected.

Today, Cadbury announced its plans to close 15 per cent of its manufacturing sites around the world, and cut 15 per cent of its workforce.

Treasury Wine Estates chief executive Mike Clarke will start swinging the axe within the nation's biggest winemaker on Monday as 5 per cent of the workforce is culled in the first phase of an earnings turnaround plan.

The proportion of engineers who are female has not significantly improved since 2008 and currently stands at just 6 per cent of the workforce.

That's almost ten per cent of the workforce.

Postwar membership peaked at the end of the 1970s - there were 12.6 million union members in Britain, the equivalent of 56 per cent of the workforce - before falling dramatically over the next ten years.

Take, for example, the predicament of the Ugandan Railway Corporation, which is reported to have lost 10 per cent of its workforce to AIDS in the past few years.

The Education and Training sector is officially «female - dominated», with 70.6 per cent of the workforce being women.

Between 2002 and 2015, Gonzales studied a group of young people, between the ages of eighteen and thirty - two, in California, where undocumented residents make up seven per cent of the population and nine per cent of the workforce.

Women now make up 73.8 per cent of the workforce — up from 72.9 per cent last year.

The report revealed the number of teacher vacancies has risen from 350 (0.1 per cent of the workforce) in 2011, to 3,210 (0.9 per cent) in 2014.

The enterprise act paves the way for public sector apprenticeship targets, which are expected to require schools and trusts with 250 or more employees to employ a number of apprentices, equivalent to 2.3 per cent of their workforce.

It would seem so, although the Canadian mobile giant it still surprisingly upbeat despite revealing that the company is to slash 11 per cent of its workforce, some 2,000 employees, in a move «which is focused on eliminating... Read more

Of the 10,800 full - time - equivalent (FTE) employees working directly in the sectors, the majority, or 56 per cent, are associated with large - scale onshore wind (turbine output of over 100kW), followed by 29 per cent in offshore wind, whilst 7 — 8 per cent of the workforce is employed in small - scale wind and around the same proportion in wave and tidal energy.

According to Forbes, in the next decade, 75 per cent of the workforce will be made up of millennials and each day 10,000 baby boomers in the U.S. retire.

In the UK, the non-government sector employs a staggering 6.5 per cent of the workforce, 1.4 million people.

Under reforms announced last June employers in Alberta were supposed to reduce the number of TFWs they have on staff to a maximum of 30 per cent of their workforces this year, 20 per cent next year, and 10 per cent the following year.

For example, if you work for a company where you are always pitching for new business, you can make the decision that x per cent of your workforce will always be temporary employees.

Estimations vary, but the general consensus is that around 30 to 40 per cent of the workforce is now a temporary, contractor of freelancer.

It's critical for all companies to be an employer of choice, particularly those that are trying to attract Millennials, who now make up 69 per cent of our workforce.