Sentences with phrase «even as workers»

So, even as workers struggle to deal with their disabilities, they are forced to jump through a confusing series of legal hurdles thrown up by the insurer.

Even as workers continued to prepare Curran's new office, with the rug stripped out, and a lamp and a plant on a trestle outside tagged and waiting to be placed inside.

Even as workers seek ways to make their retirement savings provide income for the duration of their retirements, employers are hesitant to add annuities...

Since 1979, pay for the median worker has risen only 9 percent even as worker productivity has grown 64 percent.

Not exact matches

At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

Unfortunately, few outsourced staff members get the same treatment even though, as a former contract worker myself, I can attest to the value of a thank - you.

Make a tear - off flyer These easy - to - create flyers have become an online phenomenon as office workers attempt to develop new and inventive ways of creating tear - offs that will seek the attention of their co-workers — or even the general public.

Not satisfied with the gun industry's response to demands for help ending an epidemic of gun violence, groups representing millions of workers are pressuring what they see as an even bigger change - maker.

First, even the best social workers often lasted only three to five years before burning out, a phenomenon known as compassion fatigue.

Canada has one of the youngest populations in the G7, even as it rapidly ages as more people hit retirement age with fewer replacement workers available as a result of low birth rates.

Even our interruptions have interruptions, as office workers play with their iPhones and BlackBerrys during the very meetings that distract them from their actual work.

That is because banks, private - equity firms and institutional investors have continued to pour money into the sector even as oil companies slashed billions of dollars in spending from their budgets and laid off more than 100,000 workers.

Don't expect mass layoffs of IT workers even as the world's biggest companies move more of their workload to the cloud, said Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd.

The San Francisco Bay Area, recognized as a global hub of tech finance and innovation, may be at risk of losing top tech workers if they can't afford to live there, even on six - figure salaries.

By contrast, states such as Connecticut and California mandate that even entry - level workers receive about $ 10 an hour, while cities and, increasingly, states such as Illinois and New York are phasing in a new minimum wage of $ 15 an hour.

Remember, though, individual tax rates have generally gone down as of Jan. 1 and a new 20 percent deduction on certain income for small businesses (which includes solo workers) could reduce your tax burden even further.

Still, Trujillo stressed that Uber's «toxic culture» needs to change — even if many of the company's workers have said they supported the status quo, with more than 1,000 employees signing a petition to reinstate Kalanick as CEO.

Second, just by being around their workers and observing their work, you'll become better acquainted with their function in the company as a whole and you might even learn how to do one of their jobs.

Even if you don't go as far as Gupta, there are many measures you can take to ensure your workers are at their best.

«Andy Puzder is against unions, calls the minimum wage and overtime «restrictions» and employees «extra cost,» and even said he wants to fire workers like us and replace us with machines that can't take vacation or sue their employers when they break the law,» the nonprofit Interfaith Worker Justice quoted Rogelio Hernandez, a Carl's Jr. cook, as saying.

Even with strong communication practices, technical pitfalls continue to make life as a remote worker difficult.

Besides providing such familiar tax incentives as a five - year income - tax exemption for coveted corporations, the government often shares the cost of training workers and even puts up part of the capital for plants and equipment.

«Foreign workers applying to jobs are much more nervous about the process, and even our existing H - 1B workers are worried that they will be kicked out of the country,» she adds, noting that one employee is considering working from Europe as opposed to the U.S. — a move Phone2Action would support.

The conventional wisdom in the economics community is that the labor force participation rate would have continued to decline even if the great recession never occurred, because as the nation ages the share of retired workers would grow.

Little wonder, then, that there is some resentment in Western Canada about employment insurance and equalization programs that encourage unemployed workers to remain in the East even as the West suffers from a labour shortage.

Even so, the researchers aren't making broad pronouncements that remote work always trumps office work in terms of productivity, but rather suggest certain kinds of workers might be better suited for it, such as solitary, hourly folks whose output can be measured — call - center reps, proofreaders, developers, and the like.

Even as U.S. unemployment numbers were piling up and governments were shedding workers, the Toronto - based firm watched its fortunes soar.

Roberta Casper Watson, who recently joined The Wagner Law Group as head of its welfare benefits department, noted that employers with 50 or more FTEs can be fined $ 2,000 per full - time employee, minus the first 30 workers, if the business doesn't offer coverage to most of its full - timers and even one worker receives a federal subsidy to buy coverage on an exchange.

Because of caps and incentives in Obamacare, even with contributions from the employee, these workers would take home $ 33,908 a year, or almost the same as if they worked 40 hours.

The Fed's target is achieving full employment, the situation in which every job - seeker can easily and speedily find work, which the bank believes is consistent with 5 - 6 % unemployment (even with full - employment, goes the theory, a number of workers would be unemployed at any given time as they transition from one job to the next).

But even if you're seen as a good worker, the idea that you're a bad woman can still hurt you professionally.»

As of early Monday, Toscani's initial tweet had garnered nearly 173,000 retweets and more than half a million likes, with workers sharing their own stories and even presumably lunch - theft - immune celebrities weighing in on the drama.

It came under criticism last year from Breitbart News — the alt - right media outlet of presidential adviser Steve Bannon — for announcing a layoff of 12,000 U.S. - based workers, even as it was requesting H - 1B visas to bring in foreign professionals.

PALO ALTO — Tesla fired hundreds of workers this week, including engineers, managers and factory workers, even as the company struggles to expand its manufacturing and product line.

Even as the Great Recession slowly recedes, STEM workers at every stage of the career pipeline, from freshly minted grads to mid - and late - career Ph.D. s, still struggle to find employment as many companies, including Boeing, IBM, and Symantec, continue to lay off thousands of STEM workers.

Even with the unemployment rate at the lowest in four decades, Canada still has plenty of untapped potential, such as underemployment among youth and female workers, the governor says.

Be sure you are nominating them as regularly as co-located employees, or even create a special award initiative for remote workers.

But if the story told by the film - makers is even close to accurate, the world the workers live in is anything but sane, and they're struggling, after all, to feed their families without the help of the power - brokers who see them as mere pawns in a very high - stakes game.

That means that even when workers are laid off, they have a tendency not to show up as unemployed because they leave the labor force.

Then ask what happens as the unemployment rate rises (which is virtually inevitable, particularly with layoff announcements accelerating even while collapsing help - wanted ads signal slower hiring of displaced workers).

If Fed officials view it as a ceiling, as their statements sometimes suggest, they'll likely tighten monetary policy once they hit it even if they've been missing 2 percent for years and tightening means slowing job and wage growth that has eluded too many workers in recent recoveries.

Even as the company tests delivery by drone and ways to restock toilet paper at the push of a bathroom button, it is conducting a little - known experiment in how far it can push white - collar workers, redrawing the boundaries of what is acceptable.

Most of Houston's construction workers come from Mexico, and that has made matters even more difficult, as immigration policies tighten under the Trump administration.

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With this teaming, your reliance on your network as an independent worker is going to be even greater.

BOSTON — President Obama signed an executive order on Monday requiring federal contractors to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave a year, even as he accused Republican congressional leaders of endangering the economy and Republican presidential candidates of undercutting American workers.

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.

While a shortage of workers is pushing wages higher in the skilled trades, the financial return from a bachelor's degree is softening, even as the price — and the average debt into which it plunges students — keeps going up.

Even as we see the benefits of technology, many of us feel uneasy about what automation could mean for workers.

They save a lot of money by not having to pay for warehouses that house the products they ship, vehicle maintenance, or even benefits to their workers, who are categorized as freelancers and paid a percentage of each delivery.