Sentences with phrase «cut labour costs»

This is not the case for production supervisors and managers where the decline in employment, experienced over the past ten years is expected to continue into 2018 as North American manufacturers struggle to survive moving their production overseas to cut labour costs.

In addition, Danny maintains hands on role in industry projects in robotics and export development which have potential to cut labour costs for growers and expand fledgling overseas markets for produce.

For example, when a company chooses to invest in offshoring in order to cut labour costs, the impact on the home economy is unsurprisingly negative.

SEOUL, March 27 - General Motors said its loss - making South Korean operations would file for bankruptcy if its union did not agree to cut labour costs by April 20, the union said on Tuesday.

Not exact matches

In Wednesday's announcement, Canada Post noted that between 6,000 and 8,000 jobs will be cut in order to save on labour costs.

The airlines» unions agreed to combined cuts to compensation totalling close to $ 1.1 billion, or roughly 37 % of Air Canada's total labour costs.

Some mountains are trimming the cost of labour, and cutting peripheral services that do not generate adequate returns.

To help sustain profits, and to become more competitive, businesses everywhere have been vigorously cutting their costs — and especially their labour costs.

Barden said that input costs are rising on everything from commodities to labour to energy, and the six years of retail price deflation and rising labour costs the industries had undergone «continues to cut margins, placing the sector under increasing pressure».

A pre-election report from the Toronto Region Board of Trade says Ontario businesses face challenges including high labour costs and energy prices, and urges the next government to cut property taxes to help keep companies competitive.

It takes real political guts to increase spending overseas at a time of desperate cost - cutting but the coalition is doing it, from # 6.6 bn in Labour's last full year in power to a planned # 8bn this year.

Abolishing the 50p rate costs ministers political pain in the months after it was cut and by refusing to join Labour in re-introducing the 50p rate - Labour hopes this decision will cause more pain for David Cameron and George Osborne.

But no crackdown on those bosses who use cheap labour to cut costs.

Here in percentage terms (after factoring in fixed costs and manifesto pledges) are the degree to which the IFS thinks you are in the dark: you don't know 87 per cent of the cuts Labour would have to make if they stuck to their election promises, 82 per cent of the Tory cuts that would come your way, 74 per cent of the cuts the Lib Dems would have to make.

Another choice we've said we'd make differently is on taxation and tuition fees — while under the Conservative - led government banks are benefiting from a 5 per cent cut in corporation tax, — Labour thinks that money would be better used bringing down the cap on tuition fees, to help young people worried about the costs of going to university.

The latest example of this came when David Cameron told the CBI yesterday he'd ordered Sir David Higgins to cuts the costs of HS2 to placate Labour.

Imagine if he'd turned out to be an unpopular leader who had stuck to his central message that Labour needed to move to the right, entertain radical reform of public services, tackle the deficit through cuts and be avowedly pro-business, even though many commentators and many in his party thought that the cost of living crisis and pre-distribution were more important themes.

He insisted Labour's plans for extra spending on police and other public services, to be funded by an estimated # 2.7 bn in savings from reversing capital gains tax cuts, were «fully costed».

According to Labour, the Tories have pledged # 21bn of tax cuts; promised to reverse 10 Labour tax rises at a cost of # 13.3 bn; and announced 30 new spending plans costing # 11.1 bn.

But having spent nearly a decade attacking any proposed spending commitment as unaffordable - having used deficit hysteria, amplified by the media, to justify hugely damaging cuts to welfare, adult care, children's care, the NHS and plenty more besides - and having torn Labour apart for allegedly using the wrong costings, one might think the Conservatives would provide figures of their own.

According to our figures (and I keep asking you to use the figures set out in the Liberal Democrat and Labour document not the figures given by the IFS who state they got their figures from these documents but actually give different figures) to reverse the cuts to Universal Credit cost # 3.665 billion and as I pointed out above these are the reductions in the amounts a person can keep before they start to lose their benefit, which were set much higher than the old benefits, but the withdrawal rate seemed to be higher with Universal Credit (65 % [reduced to 62 %] than with Tax Credit (41 % on gross income).

Given a choice between a cost - cutting Tory government and a Labour Party who still have a large amount of Blairite MPs, it seems a clear vote for Labour would be in order.

(By the way, Labour's claim that cutting the top rate of tax will cost the Treasury # 3bn is contested.

The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».

But he sought to stress that labour's cuts would be in costs, not services.

It doesn't reject entirely spending cuts — a position that our polling indicates would be likely to cost Labour the election.

This revolutionary ingredient delivers crystal clarity, rich colours and luscious flavours to beverages — while its high efficiency cuts warehousing, shipping and labour costs.

Formulae covered: FINANCE: - Costs - Revenues - Profit - Break Even HUMAN RESOURCES - Remuneration INTERNATIONAL TRADE: - Exchange rates COST EFFECTIVE OPERATIONS AND COMPETITIVENESS: - Labour Productivity Suggested ways of using the resource: - Print out two slide to a page to then cut out and turn into flash cards - Place mats that are left on the table for students to refer to.

That means focusing on the lower - hanging fruit in terms of cutting costs - such as cutting interest rates, which are currently up to 6.1 %, and have been attacked as bafflingly high by a long line of former Conservative and Labour education ministers.

The Labour leader was asked by a delegate at the National Association of Head Teachers annual conference in Telford whether he was «brave enough» to reverse the real - terms cuts faced by schools as a result of unfunded cost pressures.

In March 2018, Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation Nasser Al Hamli issued a new Ministerial Decision to «improve flexibility in the labour market, cut costs..

From a management perspective, it is a way to cut down on labour costs and to stay afloat.

If hiring tradesmen on your own do not cut back on labour costs.