Sentences with phrase «done in labor»

The most credible empirical work on evaluation is probably being done in labor economics and in education economics.

Education has traditionally been «done in a labor - intensive, inefficient way,» Raj said on a call, mentioning the paper - based products, in - person meetings, and binders filled with sign - in sheets and lists of checkboxes, that are its hallmarks.

Many blog posts have been written on how to have the best chances of achieving a VBAC from a medical standpoint, covering all of the things you should and shouldn't do in labor and the tests you should and shouldn't have late in pregnancy.

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.

Puzder named ethanol regulation, which has resulted in higher beef costs, a rising minimum wage and higher labor costs due to Obamacare as three obstacles that make doing business in the U.S. more difficult than in the past.

Indeed, the evidence I reviewed does not support the view — expounded by the new Bank of Japan management — that by buying more longer - dated securities (i.e., running printing presses a bit faster) will boost upward pressures in labor and product markets to bring stronger economic growth and an inflation rate of 2 percent.

In terms of things like mining helium - 3 — even if it does become a thing — anything that's just a task or a labor or anything that's just resource collection or acquisition, you'd just send robots.

In the words of pricing strategist Tim Williams, «Clients don't care about the labor pains; they want to see the baby.»

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.

Related: Small - Business Hiring, Sentiment Drops in November The Labor Department does not break out the data by business size.

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.

Doing the minimum required by a franchise system is not the way to make big numbers — he recommends doing as much as possible in the beginning, theorizing that if franchisees are scrimping on advertising or labor in the first year just to keep the doors open, they didn't have enough operating capital to begin Doing the minimum required by a franchise system is not the way to make big numbers — he recommends doing as much as possible in the beginning, theorizing that if franchisees are scrimping on advertising or labor in the first year just to keep the doors open, they didn't have enough operating capital to begin doing as much as possible in the beginning, theorizing that if franchisees are scrimping on advertising or labor in the first year just to keep the doors open, they didn't have enough operating capital to begin with.

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.

BigCommerce allows them to do both with little incremental gain in cost and labor.

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.

This was to be done while also addressing environmental and labor concerns (although many observers charge that the three governments have been lax in ensuring environmental and labor safeguards since the agreement went into effect).

As Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program Executive Director Sharon Block said to me in an email: «I don't think we can be limited in our thinking by what can get through Congress now — nothing can.

In another email, he compared what the group does to how environmental and labor groups have operated for decades.

While consumers may have also benefitted from the stock market's Trump rally via their holdings in mutual funds and 401 (k) s, it didn't quite translate to their paychecks: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS), U.S. workers earned a median wage of about $ 43,380.48 in 2016 — a 2.8 % raise, or $ 1,214.65.

He is aiming at no less than a revolution in how work gets done, one that would change the economics of labor.

On the Labor side, at least one in five voters have a «don't know» opinion of Bill Shorten.

«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.

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.

And in a nearly saturated labor market, employers don't want to give workers a reason to work somewhere else.

Last year, the company admitted that during the 1980s, while Kamprad was still Ikea's CEO, the company used political prisoners doing forced labor in its factories in East Germany.

They broke the adult US population up into 13 different age groups, and then projected what the overall labor force participation rate would have been if each of those age groups had the same participation rates that they did in December 2007, right before the start of the recession.

Labor costs are the main factor driving the high cost of doing business in Bean Town.

«I've got two lawsuits right now where it may cost us mid-six-figures because there's not enough labor out there to get it done,» said one contractor in the North Dallas area who declined to be identified.

But labor advocates found that Li & Fung did not interview any of the dismissed workers and conducted all employee interviews in the factory, often with managers present.

It does see gradual recovery in the US and healing labor data.

While it has some of the lowest labor costs in the developing world, Bangladesh, with rampant corruption, congested roads and frequent unrest, is a tough place to do business.

She said: «But it is my judgment that the lower level of the unemployment rate today probably does not fully capture the extent of slack remaining in the labor market — in other words, how far away we are from a full - employment economy.»

Assess the labor pool and costs of doing business in that area, including wages and taxes, to make sure they're acceptable to you.

«We will know the labor market is getting tight when we do see a more meaningful upward move in wages,» Powell said in response to a reporter's question as to whether he was satisfied with the pace of wage growth, which remains lackluster by most accounts.

The project would employ a significant number of temporary construction workers during the building phase, though pipelines generally do not require much labor to operate in the long term.

And federal labor laws to protect workers» right to join together in unions do not cover independent contractors.

After all, labor in the region is becoming less cheap these days, and manufacturers are increasingly turning to robots — just last week, the South China Morning Post reported that electronics manufacturer Foxconn managed to do away with 60,000 jobs in just one factory, through the introduction of robotic systems.

«It doesn't really appear that [the rise in the labor force participation rate] is due to workers on the sidelines coming back,» Dutta says.

This data shouldn't change the Fed's interest - rate strategy, as a rising labor force participation rate will put a lid on inflation regardless of how it's done, but it should lower our confidence that the Fed can solve the problem of a bifurcated workforce, in which a large chunk of workers are getting left behind, simply through interest rate policy.

«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.

A report released by the Labor Department in 2016, called the «Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation,» concluded that the federal government's primary job - training programs don't really work.

As did other Rust Belt states, however, it suffered a devastating decline beginning in the 1970s, when manufacturers moved to the U.S. South, Mexico and other foreign countries to take advantage of cheaper labor, lower taxes and fewer regulations.

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.

The stark responsiveness to the business cycle suggests that many college students, and especially female college students, have sufficient ability to complete more challenging majors, such as STEM fields, yet choose not to do so in periods with stronger labor market prospects.»

European rival Airbus also is automating, and industry experts say it is doing so at a faster pace than Boeing, partly driven by rigid labor laws in Europe that made it difficult to lay off workers in a downturn.

Nonetheless, when Pinnacle went bankrupt in 2012, a victim of what my CEO termed «a race to the bottom» among the regional carriers, labor became the focus of attention, just as it does in all airline bankruptcies.

Airline workers also work much harder than they did in the past; the industry had the second highest multifactor productivity growth from 1997 through 2014, according to an analysis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.