Sentences with phrase «cent of workers in»

63 per cent of workers in Malaysia have at some point in their career rejected a counter offer from their employer to make them stay, according to recruiting experts Hays.

61 per cent of workers in Japan have at some point in their career rejected a counter offer from their employer to make them stay, according to recruiting experts Hays.

More than 40 per cent of workers in the US use a computer in their work, but they have to learn their computing skills outside formal education — only 0.2 per cent of public educational resources is spent on computers.

Mr Agyapong said even though he was an Akan, about 80 per cent of workers in his real estate business were from the Volta region, «because they can do the job.»

They constitute more than 99 per cent of Canadian business and employ more than 90 per cent of workers in the private sector.

Not exact matches

THE use of migrant workers to bolster the workforce in Western Australia is becoming more commonplace, with a 12 per cent increase in the number of temporary visa holders in the state.

Hiring intentions also slipped; the balance of opinion on adding workers versusus getting rid of them was 34 per cent compared with an off - the - charts 59 per cent in the previous quarter.

In Ontario, the proportion of minimum wage workers who are not teenagers has risen from 45 per cent to 61 per cent in a decadIn Ontario, the proportion of minimum wage workers who are not teenagers has risen from 45 per cent to 61 per cent in a decadin a decade.

Undies boss tripled her pay, then sacked 1,850 workers In an act that could only be described as corporate bastardry, shameless executives at Bonds owner Pacific Brands awarded themselves pay rises of up to 170 per cent while they sacked nearly 2000 workers.

In 2016, 64 per cent of minimum wage workers across Canada were not teenagers, up from 52 per cent in 200In 2016, 64 per cent of minimum wage workers across Canada were not teenagers, up from 52 per cent in 200in 2006.

Comparing full - time, year - round workers, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J..

Now workers in Shake Shack's New York City locations have a starting hourly wage of $ 12.50, which is 50 cents more than the city's fast food minimum wage of $ 12.

The federal government announced initial changes in April, scrapping an aspect of the program that allowed employers to pay foreign workers as much as 15 per cent less than the average wage for a job.

But, in relation to the size of the employed workforce, EPP membership has been declining since the late 1970s and has fallen from 46.1 per cent of paid workers in 1977 to 38.3 per cent in 2007.

Retirement benefits would be 25 per cent of the average pensionable earnings a worker earned in his or her lifetime.

In the case of private sector workers, the decline is even more severe from just 28 per cent with an RPP in 2000 to 24 per cent in 201In the case of private sector workers, the decline is even more severe from just 28 per cent with an RPP in 2000 to 24 per cent in 201in 2000 to 24 per cent in 201in 2010.

«In Canada for instance, 99 per cent of our factory workers are Chinese women sewers.

The negotiation of a «fair» agreement for taxpayers with Quebec's 430,000 public workers, whose payroll absorbed 59 per cent — or $ 37.3 billion — of government spending in 2013 - 14.

-- The median annual wage of the average male worker has declined 19 per cent in real terms from 1976 to 1996 (from $ 42,000 to $ 34,000), before rebounding by only two per cent from 1996 to 2010

The numbers show slight upticks in manufacturing employment, the average length of the workweek, and even a 7 - cent rise in average hourly pay for workers.

The OECD further suggests that a halving of trade barriers across the G20 would result in a 0.3 - to 3.3 - per - cent boost in jobs for low - skilled workers (the impact varies by country) and a 0.9 - to 3.9 - per - cent expansion in higher - skilled employment opportunities.

Fisher does not mention the not awe - inspiring 21 cent an hour wages paid to garment factory workers in Bangladesh, 112 of whom just died a fiery death in the Tazreen Fashions factory outside of Dhaka because there were no outside fire escapes.

Over the same period, 29 per cent of the few new jobs created in B.C. have gone to temporary foreign workers.

In spite of those gains, the unemployment rate in manufacturing jumped from 4.5 per cent to 5.1 per cent, as the sector was unable to absorb a significant influx of new workerIn spite of those gains, the unemployment rate in manufacturing jumped from 4.5 per cent to 5.1 per cent, as the sector was unable to absorb a significant influx of new workerin manufacturing jumped from 4.5 per cent to 5.1 per cent, as the sector was unable to absorb a significant influx of new workers.

A C.D. Howe Institute study shows that of all prime working - age workers in part - time positions, 50 per cent of men and 33 per cent of women would prefer full - time employment.

Nearly four in five (78 per cent) of workers and retirees with pension plans said the availability of pension benefits is a critical factor in deciding whether or not to accept a job, found a survey of 2,750 people in the United States and Canada.

The situation is much worse at parts suppliers, where workers earn about 70 cents for every dollar earned by auto parts workers in Michigan, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

For office workers, data from Mercer's December Quarterly Salary Review show a slight firming in the growth rate of base salaries, to around 4.3 per cent in year - ended terms, compared with slightly less than 4 per cent earlier in 2003.

In 2014, there were 567,077 migrant workers employed in Canada, with migrant farm workers making up 12 per cent of Canada's agricultural workforcIn 2014, there were 567,077 migrant workers employed in Canada, with migrant farm workers making up 12 per cent of Canada's agricultural workforcin Canada, with migrant farm workers making up 12 per cent of Canada's agricultural workforce.

On average in the EU, taxes paid by the employer and employee sum to a total equal to nearly 70 per cent of take - home wages for low paid workers.

Two - thirds of the minimum wage workers, who are earning an average across this country of five dollars and fifty cents an hour (they're in this hotel today, and you'll pass them in the hall over and over again), are single mothers with three children.

Some of the discharged workers find jobs in this sector, usually at much lower pay; others — about 25 per cent — simply remain jobless.

The terms of the EA mean that Boom's Wheatstone workers, who are helping to build an liquefied natural gas project for Chevron, will earn around 25 per cent more in September 2017 than they do right now.

But in the past few weeks the sector took a fresh round of hits when franchise group Aussie Farmers collapsed, RFG announced an $ 88 million loss and flagged up to 200 franchise - run stores would close, while pizza giant Domino's reported disappointing results on the back of franchisees complaining about a brutal business model, and Caltex announced it was ditching its franchise model days before a damning report was released by the workplace regulator that found 76 per cent of its franchised stores had payroll compliance breaches that included underpaying workers.

Thirty - six of these are in Africa, which has just three per cent of global health workers but bears 24 per cent of the global burden of disease.

In order to win next year, Cameron needs to persuade at least some of the millions of public sector workers currently living under a one per cent pay freeze that their living standards will improve as well.

Productivity has indeed risen sharply (see Figure 1 below), measured not only as GDP per worker (11 per cent since the onset of the crisis, the highest of any of the euro zone countries), but also in terms of GDP per hour worked (8 per cent since 2008).

'' On the basis of their consistency in the contribution, Nigerian workers become eligible for mortgage loans at a concessionary interest rate of six per cent,» he said.

Today's pamphlet, Raising Lazarus: The future of organised labour, says that 62 per cent of workers support a collective voice in the workplace, but many potential union members are put of by the rhetoric of strife and struggle.

'' The NHF is a scheme into which Nigerian workers in the public and private sector, earning a minimum of N3, 000 per annum, contribute 2.5 per cent of their monthly income.

Only 46 per cent of this group agree that the proposed cuts are «necessary and unavoidable» — well below the average for all voters (63 per cent) and lower even than among public sector workers in the seat (59 per cent).

«It has to be seen in the context of the decision to limit public sector workers» pay increases to one per cent and the fact that some private sector workers have had their pay cut.»

In his survey of 100 migrant sex workers, he found only «six per cent of female interviewees felt that they had been deceived and forced into selling sex in circumstances within which they had no share of control or consent»In his survey of 100 migrant sex workers, he found only «six per cent of female interviewees felt that they had been deceived and forced into selling sex in circumstances within which they had no share of control or consent»in circumstances within which they had no share of control or consent».

Mr Osborne announced an increase in the threshold before workers start paying income tax to # 8,105, financial support for first - time home buyers, a two per cent cut to corporation tax this year, a tax on private jets, a clampdown on non-doms, the introduction of # 140 flat - rate state pension, a review into a merger of national insurance and income tax and a fair fuel stabiliser, including a 1p cut on fuel duty.

Findings show just a five per cent increase in degrees among children of routine and manual workers.

Some highlights of the budget include a 45 cent increase in the cigarette tax, a 25 cent fee on ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft, and a reduction of the state's earned income tax credit for low - income workers.

A generation later John Flanagan carved the Maverick Horse with an axe, in just two days, at «the worker's rate» of fifty cents an hour.

However, a Home Office spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying that 97 per cent of registered workers were in full - time work and therefore were contributing to the UK economy, not putting extra strain on public services.

A survey of 500 Poles in Britain for Newsnight suggests that just 64 per cent had signed the workers» register, which the government uses to monitor the number of people coming from the ten new European Union member states to work in Britain.

Wages have been depressed, with the Bank of England saying the semi and unskilled services sector has seen two per cent pay falls for every 10 per cent increase in immigrant workers.