We can't decide exactly what we want to
do for Labor Day, but having the extra time and not knowing what to do with it..
So, the next time you try to think of something you can
do for labor pain, try to remember that the answer is not epidural or nothing.
What are
you doing for Labor Day and will you be making anything special to celebrate?
Not exact matches
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential
for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences
for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals
for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from
labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand
for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price
for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate
for our additional capital needs or
for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions
for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of
doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
Corporations have reaped profits off the privatization of prisons and prison
labor; some prisoners have gotten paid as little as 12 cents an hour,
doing work
for corporations, like Victoria's Secret and Walmart.
Federal
Labor has effectively committed to end live sheep exports with its agriculture spokesman, Joel Fitzgibbon, telling an Adelaide radio station the party
does not believe there is a future
for the sector.
When Olayan first sought to integrate OFC in 2001, there was no playbook
for a company like hers to hire women — and plenty of obstacles to
doing so, since
labor law and social customs left a lot of room
for interpretation and confusion.
Many state
labor departments also have listings on their websites
for employers about laws they must abide by when
doing business in the state and these can be helpful in determining what to include in an employee handbook.
Women have less time
for on - the - job
labor because they spend more time
doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau
for Economic Research study.
For creating a new source of diamonds that doesn't involve environmentally destructive mining and exploitative
labor practices.
And in October, named plaintiff Stan Saporito filed his own suit alleging the company doesn't provide enough
labor hours to its workers
for everything that needs to get
done, then requires them to work off the clock to finish tasks.
While the book is stuffed with helpful big picture observations, it doesn't offer much in the way of specific on - the - ground ideas — though Keen
does call
for reforms to data privacy and gig economy
labor laws, and
for a serious discussion of a universal basic income.
Despite seeing off Ben Wyatt's «challenge»
for the top job, WA
Labor leader Eric Ripper still has plenty to
do if he wants to lead the party to the next election.
In another email, he compared what the group
does to how environmental and
labor groups have operated
for decades.
Business owners can also choose to outsource
labor they struggle with or don't have time
for.
What's more, if the GDP accounted
for unpaid
labor, (which is currently
does not), the economic impact of all women refraining from all work on Wednesday would be far greater.
«I don't see raising the target range
for the fed funds rate above its current low level in 2015 as being consistent with the pursuit of the kind of
labor market outcomes that we are charged with delivering,» he said.
For instance, women in the U.S. spend 150 % more time on housework than men
do, according to Bureau of
Labor Statistics data, which the study notes.
SEOUL, March 27 - General Motors said its loss - making South Korean operations would file
for bankruptcy if its union
did not agree to cut
labor costs by April 20, heaping pressure on workers and the South Korean government to swiftly agree a rescue plan.
While Reese says he doesn't know the exact reason, people have
labored over the intricacies of language
for millennia and usually consider themselves experts in their native tongue.
Numbers like these — not uncommon at established ESOP companies —
do wonders
for recruitment and retention, and mitigate conventional
labor - management tension.
Seeing the fruits of the
labor they
do often leads everyone working
for nonprofits to find gratification that goes well beyond the salaries they're paid.
«Li & Fung claims to be monitoring factory conditions, but they don't publicly release their investigation reports or even the full list of the factories they use, so it's impossible
for independent organizations to assess the effectiveness of their monitoring,» said Tim Connor, a former
labor rights advocacy coordinator
for Oxfam.
Because Ahrens didn't want to re-create Amazon.com, that
labor wasn't necessary
for Zetet.com.
Meantime, retailers like Walmart who are raising minimum wages are more likely
doing so because the
labor market is tightening, meaning it's more competitive to fight
for the low - salaried workers that retailers generally employ.
«I actually thought, «Oh, that's gonna be a major plot
for the season,»» Banks said about the fictional startup in Silicon Valley laying off its new sales team — and mostly failing to follow
labor laws in
doing so.
Last year, the figure was 333,000, of which 184,000 came from the E.U. Even if you accept, as most
do, that immigration has expanded the tax base and kept the price of both food and services down, the influx —
for which there is no end in sight — is changing the face of the country too fast
for the population to stomach, and the E.U.'s rules on free movement of
labor are an easy target.
And when the pace of technological change is outrunning the skills of workers, companies don't have time to continually swap out their
labor force
for new, skilled workers.
But when workers sue over
labor issues — discrimination,
for example, or wrongful termination — companies sometimes find that the contractor designation, which they thought would protect them from liability, doesn't hold up in court.
So, the message is clear: Instead of our paying
for someone else's
labor — or paying with our own sweat equity — we can let machines
do the hard work
for us.
Entrepreneurs are faced with a unique opportunity to not only build innovative products but also to build companies that break the cycle and
do not play off of fear, false superiority, or treating work as simply an exchange of
labor for money.
The four - tiered wage floor system also rebuts the familiar refrain from supporters of H - 1B that Congress
did not intend the visa to be used
for cheap
labor.
Another is to simply note that even if the economy
does not face a chronic shortage of demand overall, it
does face a shortage of demand
for certain types of
labor and policies that address this shortfall are other things equal desirable.
It would simply mean conceding that Europe
does not yet have the institutions needed
for the currency union to survive, and that the capital,
labor, banking and fiscal frictions that remain in place ensure that the flexibility eliminated by currency union will re-emerge in more destructive ways.
However, despite continued pushback from the broker - dealer and insurance industries on the controversial rulemaking — and delays — Saxon told ThinkAdvisor that he doesn't believe that Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary of
labor for DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, the main architect of the fiduciary rule, «is ever going to give up» on making sure the fiduciary redraft sees the light of day.
On
Labor Day, Scott Gerber, president and founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), hopes to tap into precisely this brand of technology, scale and openness to change the way startup mentorship is
done, with the launch of StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program
for young entrepreneurs.
Almost everyone I've seen as an in house
labor and employment attorney has
done similar work
for a law firm but most have not focused on this aspect of law in school or have a theoretical grounding in
labor and employment issues.
Another related issue that impacts both wages and inflation: Despite a tight
labor market and high consumer confidence, many companies don't feel they can retain market share if they raise prices
for consumers.
«If the outlook
for the
labor market
does not improve substantially, the committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage - backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability,» the Fed's announcement stated.
The FOMC's annoucement after their meeting on Wednesday affirmed the Fed's QE3 policy, offering no changes, while stating, «If the outlook
for the
labor market
does not improve substantially, the Committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage - backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability.»
«If D.C.
does get chosen, we have some real issues with how Amazon
does business, in terms of fair
labor, equitable hiring, and equitable practices
for people of color and women in particular,» Sneed said.
This arguably affirms one of the major criticisms of the program, which holds that companies don't always sufficiently attempt to fill open positions using domestic
labor before applying
for temporary foreign visas.
Donald Falk and my colleague Eugene Volokh have
done a backgrounder
for WLF on
Labor Department's Fiduciary Rule Tests First Amendment Limits
Referring to the wild swings in the stock market that occurred earlier this month, Powell said the Fed
does «not see these developments as weighing heavily on the outlook
for economic activity, the
labor market and inflation.»
In making its case
for KORUS, the Obama Administration argues it will challenge violations of
labor rights related to trade, as it may
do with Guatemala.
MH: The problem of inadequate consumer demand to fuel an economic recovery
does not lie with the cost of
labor so much as with the fact that it is now normal
for families to pay a quarter or even a third of their income
for debt service.
The Obama Administration has made
labor enforcement a top priority
for trade policymaking and in so
doing, has built trust with union leaders and members of Congress.
«Key to our brand is authenticity — and to maintain that, we draw key
labor from Brazil
for the U.S. — in order to be able to
do that under the visa and immigration system, you need to own those operations,» points out Johnson.
But: This free
labor does have drawbacks: some hashtags like #photooftheday or #tbt — short
for throwback Thursday — don't describe what's in the image and can confuse the algorithm.
He doesn't deny that automated technology will make some
labor obsolete — he just focuses on the long - term, big - picture opportunity
for potential benefits.