Sentences with phrase «companies lower their labor»

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Steering consumers to pick - up and drop - off locations saves both companies money because labor and fuel costs are lower when many packages can be picked up from one place rather than retrieving packages door - to - door.

And globalization certainly has its benefits for U.S. companies — chiefly lower labor costs and greater market access.

Not only are the figures for women - owned companies very low, relative to the female fraction of the labor force, but also the growth of women's business ownership seems to be greatest among non-employer businesses, which have little economic impact.

Because many companies employing low - wage workers face too much competition to pass the increased labor cost on to customers, a higher minimum wage would mean lower small business profits or costly investment in labor saving equipment.

Yet, as this chart from Statista shows, the biggest tech companies that utilize the program aren't exactly paying low wages for that labor.

With so many U.S. corporations racing to the bottom — moving manufacturing to foreign countries for cheap labor and no environmental responsibility, taking advantage of the H1 - B Visa program to bring cheap workers in, lowering benefits and eliminating pension plans — it's refreshing to learn that some companies are taking the exact opposite approach.

For 1994 through 1996, for example, the average annual company birthrate for top - ranking Colorado was 5.5 new companies for every thousand people in the labor force while lowest - ranking Pennsylvania had 2.91.

Cyclical names and companies with relatively low labor costs may be some of the best bets, according to Goldman's David Kostin.

To drive down labor costs, a company replaces a regulated, protected class of worker (members of a union) with a non-protected worker (by relocating to non-union states or countries with a lower labor cost).

Substantially lower labor costs have enabled the company to produce cheaper cameras and counter the Japanese in most foreign markets.

As Japanese rivals grabbed business away from them, U.S. electronics companies moved production to countries with lower labor costs.

Others allege that some companies abuse the system, hiring overseas labor and paying them a lower salary, rather than paying the appropriate salary to an American worker.

(Unfortunately, recounts Kristin Spence, Wired's second hire, they ruffled some employees by forgetting to leave out the part about the company's extremely low labor costs.)

The shares got a slight boost on Tuesday, rising 1.6 percent to $ 354.25 in extended trade, after the company reported a quarterly profit that more than doubled on stronger sales, fewer giveaways and lower labor costs.

While contractors with specialized skills may be able to negotiate with a company individually in order to obtain good pay and benefits, lower - skilled contractors have little power to negotiate on their own and are not covered under the federal labor laws that allow employees to come together in unions.

That proposal was controversial because some critics view it as a way for tech companies to simply save money on labor costs by relying on lower - paid workers from overseas.

IT Outsourcing / Web development Outsourcing - Increasingly, companies are outsourcing web development to third - parties in countries where labor costs for this technical work are lower.

You have companies that are going to benefit from the tax cuts, you have lower unemployment, you have slightly greater labor participation rate.

The optimist's take on this trend is that robots help Amazon keep prices low, which means people buy more stuff, which means the company needs more people to man its warehouses even though it needs fewer human hours of labor per package.

First, although rising wages are obviously great for workers and the overall economy, they can be difficult for low - margin companies that rely on cheap labor — like retail stores.

While the deal allowed US manufacturers to lower costs and compete with Asian factories, it also led companies to move thousands of factory jobs to Mexico, where labor is cheaper.

This trend has been accelerating over the last two decades, leading to almost nomadic companies that move their factories from the US to China, then to Thailand, to Vietnam, etc., seeking ever lower labor costs.

Because of the low wages they pay workers in South Africa and Latin America, treating their financial losses as tax write offs, when labor negotiations were going on and violence threatened, the companies certainly had the upper hand; the unions accepted a substantial cut in wages and benefits.

The product repair that the company does on large foodservice equipment is still doing well, but smaller appliances — such as warmers and fryers — are oftentimes replaced rather than repaired because parts for them are more expensive when the cost of labor is included than new, low - end products manufactured overseas.

Labor advocates say they want the state of Connecticut to tax companies that pay low wages to their employees, companies like big box retail stores and fast food chains.

The nonprofit received a lot of help from corporations such as construction company Hayner Hoyt, who engaged subcontractors to provide free to low cost labor and materials.

At 3:30 p.m., UFCW Local 2013, NYC Central Labor Council, AFL - CIO and elected officials will protest sudden closing of the landmark Sweet»N Low and Sugar in The Raw Factory, Cumberland Packing Company, 2 Cumberland St., Brooklyn.

Foreign pharmaceutical companies, even those located in low - cost countries, «recognize that when it comes to drugs that can be worth a billion dollars a year, a lot more important than labor costs [is] how quickly can you get through FDA,» Finegold says.

From a business perspective, this helps companies become much leaner, removing redundancies from their processes and lowering labor costs simultaneously.

Lower labor costs and NAFTA make building cars in Mexico an attractive option for automakers, but are those companies about to face the wrath of a new president who has a clear America First agenda?

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Companies will always go where the labor is cheapest and / or where taxes are lowest.

Much of that economic output is a result of American and European companies shifting manufacturing to places where labor costs are lower.

Because of this recognized danger, oil companies and manufacturers commonly contract out the most hazardous jobs to other companies, which misleadingly lowers the federal injury and fatality rate recorded by industry safety organizations like OSHA and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Most mining companies are located in China due to the low cost of electricity and labor.

Companies are using computers to outsource jobs and using off shoring as a tool to lower labor costs.

This farming out of projects increased engineering capacity at significant savings to the company due to the lower labor rates in Armenia.

The lure of lower land costs, rail - served sites, interstate access and growing labor pools are attracting distribution companies to these outlying communities, notes Slone.