Sentences with phrase «created by workers»

The value created by workers and users on these platforms is, however, captured by the platforms that facilitate transactions.

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Unpaid internships depress wages by creating a pool of workers willing to work for free — and for no benefits, making them akin to the labourers brought to Canada under the much - maligned temporary foreign worker program.
It also creates cycles of unemployment as workers are shed by consolidating industries.
That places Vargas in a similar position to a rising number of Silicon Valley workers brought in by tech giants to work on third - party firm contracts, not only janitorial services and caterers that can be found in any corporate campus, but more specific roles created for contractors as projects evolve.
The union accused Canada Post of preparing to lock workers out, and creating uncertainty by warning the public to avoid the post office.
PARIS, May 3 - French President Emmanuel Macron swept into office last May on a pledge to create jobs and improve the lives of workers by rebooting the country's economy.
In the latter example, production rises because workers feel valued, and are more likely to create value in the economy by participating in innovation.
That's essentially how things remained until about 1989, the year of the unexpected victory of Poland's worker - created Solidarity Movement over that country's Bolshevik general, Wojciech Jaruzelski, quickly followed by Mikhail Gorbachev's dismantling of the USSR.
A snowmageddon such as the storm experienced by much of the United States this week isn't just a logistical nightmare for those trying to travel — it can create conflicts between workers and managers at small businesses.
Said Rep. Ed Royce, R - Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: «I am very concerned by reports of deep cuts that could damage efforts to combat terrorism, save lives, and create opportunities for American workers
Encourage them to help workers achieve their goals; help them replace vacancies created by in - house transfers.
The study said companies can create more positive and productive working environments by ensuring managers are available, willing to listen, and dedicated to getting workers involved.
It's a made - up term by people working to create companies based on part - time workers who do part - time work to make extra money.
Panjabi is using his $ 1 million 2017 TED Prize winnings to fulfill his wish of creating a digital health education system that can be used to «recruit the largest army of community health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect, and empower,» as he explained during his TED talk in April.
Created the Working Income Tax Benefit — WITB — to help ensure that low - income workers are better off by taking a job.
They might consider creating tools that address the unique challenges of 1099 workers by tracking those workers» personal spending habits and work expenses.
Two weeks earlier, a New York Times article on Amazon's white collar working conditions and subsequent stories by the e-commerce giant's past and present workers created a firestorm in some circles and a shrug in other cliques.
Unions in the utility industry, health care and manufacturing industries are using knowledge and skills as the key source of worker power by expanding apprenticeship training, creating partnership with community colleges, vocational schools, and employers to fill the «middle skills» gaps that exist today or will grow as skilled baby boomers retire.
LincolnLabs, founded last year by three young tech workers, is trying to create a sort of community for the Silicon Valley's «conservatarians,» a play on conservatives and libertarians.
To reduce Social Security's projected funding shortfall, the commission would increase the taxable wage base by 2050 to include 90 percent of earnings, to increase the full - and early - retirement ages to 69 and 64 respectively by 2075, to cover newly hired state and local workers after 2020, and to create a hardship exemption allowing those who can not work past age 62 to receive benefits early.
One constituency of «popular capitalism» was created by giving workers a stake in preserving the value of the shares they held in these enterprises.
Yet another was created by selling shares to foreign investors, so that any attempt to denationalize would have to confront not only British financial institutions and worker - shareholders, but American and other global diplomatic pressure.
In the short term, states would likely lose some tax revenue by creating a State GRA because contributions would be tax - deductible and State GRAs would likely entice some workers to save earnings that would have otherwise been taxed.
The providers of the experiences are independent workers who, according to Airbnb, «create unique experiences around your city, and earn extra money by bringing others along.»
By showing a little creativity, you can create a culture that demonstrates how much you value employees, and that will help both your workers and your business.
But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.
Kevin Werbach, a business professor who has written extensively on the subject, said that while gamification could be a force for good in the gig economy — for example, by creating bonds among workers who do not share a physical space — there was a danger of abuse.
That changed in 1986, when the H program was split into the H - 2A agricultural and H - 2B non-agricultural temporary worker programs by the Immigration Reform and Control Act, creating the categories still in use today.
«This suggests that employment prospects for some workers in higher - wage occupations are boosted by minimum wage increases, consistent with a story in which some jobs are lost to automation, while others are created.
In Bring Back the Bureaucrats, I crudely calculated that we need about one million more full - time federal workers by 2035 in order to serve the public, stop draining its purse, start improving performance, and create an actual system of national public administration.
Agricultural workers were also eligible to work legally under the temporary worker — H class visa — created by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952, although this program was primarily used for nonagricultural workers.
«For anyone driven crazy by the faux warm and fuzzy PR of the so - called sharing economy Steven Hill's Raw Deal: How the «Uber Economy» and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.»
The Department of Commerce is committed to creating the conditions for continued business and job growth by supporting advanced manufacturing, fostering innovation, increasing trade and investment, and equipping our workers with the skills and training needed to succeed in a competitive global economy.»
Gartner predicts that by 2020, 10 % of large enterprises in supply - chain - dependent industries will have created a CRO position to oversee the blending of human and robotic workers.
In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.
Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate over 320,000 MWh of electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.
LONDON (Reuters)- The number of finance jobs to be shifted out of Britain or created overseas by March 2019 due to Brexit has dropped by half compared to six months ago to 5,000 roles, firms employing the bulk of UK - based workers in international finance told Reuters.
If Russia creates credit to pay wage arrears, pensions and to make other domestic payments, most such revenue will be re-spent within the Russia by its recipients, given the needy economic conditions of most workers and dependents.
Any one of these would help address the skills gap — the inability of willing employers to find workers with the right skills and qualifications — by enabling qualified, job - creating immigrant entrepreneurs to open more U.S. businesses.
But a more over-riding reason is the awareness by its government that, as a result of its economic liberalisation, it has to create about 20 million jobs per year just to absorb the exodus of workers from the countryside.
Governments must create a more equal society by prioritizing ordinary workers and small - scale food producers instead of the rich and powerful.
Keen labels such «dis - eased» persons Homo Faber (man the fabricator, or worker)- man bent on creating his own meaning by eliminating all elements of mystery.
Every union worker is a capitalist selling his labor and attempting to increase the price he can charge for his labor by creating a larger unit of labor to bargain with.
But economists show that the capital that is increased by production methods that require fewer workers will be invested elsewhere, so that new employment opportunities are created.
While Mary may have never been called an apostle, there was an apostle Junia (Rom 16:7 — the «of note among the apostles» that the ESV and other masculinist translations try to pigeonhole this into is a modern invention, not at all supported by biblical Greek; it was only even created when the masculinists finally had to admit that there was no manuscript evidence for transforming the name into «Junias», a masculine form), and there certainly was a Priscilla who «instructed Apollos» (Acts 18) and who was lauded by Paul as a «fellow worker» (Rom 16:3), as were numerous other women, such as Phoebe the deacon (Rom 16:1).
All of us fret and kick against the steel bands of institutionalism; the teacher against the grading system, the social worker against the artificiality created by the very fact of his being a professional representative of the state commissioned to deal with human needs, the worker something of whose very life is «bought» against the employer, and the sensitive employer who buys that portion of that life against the system, the public official against the role which political necessity assigns to him.
Watching the workers create the Coconut Date Rolls by hand was unbelievable.
Ben & Jerry's has agreed to implement the Milk with Dignity (MD) Program, a multi-year plan created by Migrant Justice in 2014, which aims to improve working conditions of dairy farm workers who supply the milk for the ice cream manufacturer.
Seven Quilts are displayed, created block by block by the day workers.
Their mission is to create ultra-comfy and stylish cotton apparel and accessories that don't hurt people — all products are ethically made by workers being paid living wages, and are held to the highest environmental and social standards.
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