Sentences with phrase «cent of workers work»

Ridley states that today one per cent of workers work in agriculture, «24 % in industry, leaving 75 % to offer movies, restaurant meals, insurance broking...» etc..

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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..

Canadian workers» productivity, or the output produced on average per hour worked (which is measure by dividing real GDP by an estimate of total hours worked over a certain period), dipped 0.5 per cent between July and September after declining 0.6 per cent between April and June.

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.

«Now we've learned that the premier's lead proponent told the government some time ago it will hire foreign workers to fill up to 70 per cent of the late stage construction jobs, passing up British Columbians looking for work.»

The authoritarianism of the mission approach was symbolized by one mission superintendent who paid his workers only fifty cents a week for their work because, as he put it, «that is all they can handle.»

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).

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.

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.

According to different sources, transnational supply chains currently account for 30 to 60 per cent of all global trade, and depend on the work of over 100 million workers globally.

Habits by Outdoor Activity Workers A recent national sun protection survey by the Myfanwy Townsend Melanoma Research Fund, investigating sun protection habits in the UK, reveals that a quarter of those who work outdoors with children admit to a child having sunburn whilst in their care, and a worrying 40 per cent say children still turn up to outdoor sessions without any sun protection whatsoever.

According to the Foundation for Young Australian's New Work Order 2015 report, at least 50 per cent of workers will need advanced skills to configure and build systems.

The survey also found that 75 per cent of workers said they were proud to tell people they worked for Ofsted, up by five percentage points from last year.

A recent study of 3,000 UK workers found that 69 per cent are often required to work outside of office hours.

«In fact, 92 per cent of all injured workers are back to work at no loss in wages within one year of their injury.»

Temp work is becoming «the new normal», with the amount of temporary workers being hired thought to increase to 40 per cent by 2020.

According to Statistics Canada, 67 per cent of workers will have a violent issue at work.»