Food production is getting more efficient, but
employing fewer workers.
Can't it be argued then that a single business that has taken all of the market away from several smaller businesses while
employing fewer workers and narrowing the choices of consumers isn't working as much for society as it is working for itself?
For example, canceling orders of Boeing aircraft (China accounts for nearly 12 percent of Boeing's sales in 2015) will have no adverse impact since Boeing
employs few workers in China and Beijing can buy from Airbus.
Amid the biggest commercial aircraft boom in its history, Boeing's airplane division
employs fewer workers per plane than during all other booms since World War II.
Different from traditional underground coal mining, mountaintop removal is highly mechanized and thus
employs fewer workers.
Online auto insurance companies tend to
employ fewer workers on average and also have to deal with lower costs of physical building maintenance.
Not exact matches
These struggles have left them with 22 %
fewer workers than they
employed a decade ago (on average), and net capital assets (such as factor floor space and machinery and equipment) that have shrunk 2.2 % per year on average.
Small business owners who
employ fewer than 50
worker are largely exempted from being required to provide coverage to their
workers.
Companies that
employ fewer than 100
workers can pay as much as 10 times more in fees than Fortune 500 companies.
Cardoza - James, which
employed up to 75 people in its heyday of the 1980s, had only a
few workers early last year.
This is important, given that the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council notes that 34.3 percent of US
workers are
employed by a business with
fewer than 100
workers.
More than half of all U.S.
workers are
employed at companies with
fewer than 50 employees.
In 1979, nearly 20 million
workers were
employed in manufacturing jobs, but by 2007
fewer than 14 million held jobs in this sector, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Her husband, an IT
worker, is still
employed, but working longer hours with
fewer staff.
For
workers in New York City
employed by small businesses (those with 10 employees or
fewer), the minimum wage would rise to $ 10.50 by the end of 2016, then another $ 1.50 each year after, reaching $ 15 on 12/31/2019.
In his straddle over the political center, Mr. Cuomo proposes to balance the minimum wage increase with a significant — indeed, almost startling — cut in corporate tax rates for businesses that
employ fewer than 100
workers and have a net annual income of less than $ 390,000.
Chinese media report Foxconn plans to
employ 300,000
workers here within a
few years, but it's still all Foxconn and Apple can do to keep up with demand.
Founded in 1954 as a collaboration of 12 European member states, CERN today
employs slightly
fewer than 3000 people, representing a wide range of skills: physicists, engineers, technicians, craftspeople, administrators, secretaries,
workers.
Communities with more self -
employed workers can better withstand economic shifts caused by imports than communities that have
fewer self -
employed people, according to Penn State economists.
And the Lou Ruvo Center
employs a social
worker who helps retired fighters, many of whom are living alone with
few resources, apply for disability or get help accessing medical care.
Indiana currently
employs fewer instructional personnel, including teachers and instructional aides, as a proportion of employment, while
employing more cafeteria
workers, bus drivers and «other» personnel than the national average for states.
Here are just a
few of the different careers Americans now hold, along with the number of people who are
employed in these jobs: • Teachers: 7.2 million • Registered Nurses: 2.8 million • Janitors and Building Cleaners: 2.1 million • Gaming Services
Workers: 111,000 • Tax Preparers: 105,000 • Service Station Attendants: 87,000
«While they have slashed their American workforce to
fewer than 150,000, GE has dramatically expanded its global presence, now
employing over 300,000
workers worldwide.»
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the number of
workers regularly
employed at the workplace is five or
fewer, unless an inspector orders otherwise.
Small and mid-sized establishments, with
fewer than 500 employees, represent 97 per cent of all Canadian businesses and
employ 56 per cent of all
workers.
Currently self -
employed workers who are trying to climb back onto the corporate treadmill have a
few strong advantages in their favor, but they also face a
few unfortunate employer biases that they may need to work hard to overcome.