Sentences with phrase «few workers on»

Very few workers on wind farms, who have much higher exposure to turbines than householders who complain of symtoms, have any problems.

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

Thanks to Microsoft and a few other companies that are following the software giant's lead, the spotlight on accurate worker classification is more intense than ever.

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.

A wide range of people — including software and hardware engineers, management information scientists, executives, mid-level workers, and secretaries — are just a few of the people that use office automation on a daily basis.

In September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associates.

Uber, Homejoy, Spoonrocket, and Taskrabbit are the names of just a few Silicon Valley startups that rely entirely on contract workers to make their businesses fly.

When he assumed the position last June, he promised to slash costs while raising service levels, and he's moved quickly on both fronts: fewer train crews go to work each day, thousands of workers have already been turfed, and CP's remaining fleet is pulling heavier loads.

Fewer than a third of American workers are giving it their all on the job.

«In the short - term, fewer firms will be able to bid on construction projects if they are concerned they will not have enough workers to meet demand,» he said in a statement.

However, it appears many small business owners are instead focusing on slow and steady growth, and driving up productivity to increase margins with the use of technology, fewer workers, and more hours.

Obama's executive actions on immigration don't focus on a key startup problem: Few skilled workers.

On the other hand, the investor known as the Oracle of Omaha predicted that AI and automation could create «huge problems in terms of democracy» as we know it, as people attempt to adjust to an economy that needs far fewer human workers to be just as productive.

Besides truly gorgeous office spaces, Google provides its workers with a lot of perks, and some former Googlers, and a few who are still with the company, listed their favorite benefits on Quora.

That's because the tech industry was founded by immigrants — Elon Musk, Satya Nadella and Sergey Brin are just a few prominent foreign - born CEOs — and it relies heavily on foreign workers, particularly those on H - 1B visas.

In addition to the usual benefits (health care, dental, etc.), workers at the beloved ice cream maker's South Burlington, Vt., headquarters have access to sponsored gym memberships, on - site yoga and Pilates classes, a shared community garden, and quiet rooms where they can go to sneak a few ZZZs during the day.

A narrow plurality of offerors (49 percent) say the On - Demand economy should not be regulated and companies should compete to offer workers fair pay and benefits, even if it means less security, compared to 40 percent who say the government should regulate the sharing economy to guarantee independent contractors the same benefits afforded to full - time workers, even if it means fewer jobs.

As Val Matta explains at Mashable, hiring boomerang employees is beneficial to employers because it means fewer costs associated with bringing on a new worker.

«On our reckoning, since NAFTA's enactment, fewer than 5 % of U.S. workers who have lost jobs from sizable layoffs (such as when large plants close down) can be attributed to rising imports from Mexico,» wrote its authors, PIIE senior fellow Gary Clyde Hufbauer and research analyst Cathleen Cimino - Isaacs.

It's good to be unique, but if few workers want the perks you're offering, they'll be pointless when it comes to keeping people on the job.

In that sense, the Fed has the potential to make a huge structural difference in the economic lives of blacks and other minorities by heavily weighting the full employment part of the their mandate relative to the inflation part, especially since there's still considerable slack in the job market, with lower - wage, minority workers facing the brunt of it, and — importantly — little evidence of inflationary pressure (if anything, the Fed has missed their inflation target on the low side for a few years running now).

And as coal investors have fled in droves to invest in more profitable companies and industries, coal workers have been left with pink slips and mortgages on houses with few buyers in blighted coal country.

I travel to China pretty regularly — about 3 months of the year, and based on discussions with a few locals, a lot of new developments are unaffordable, even for highly skilled workers like factory managers or engineers.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

The establishment of state - based retirement programs for workers moved a few inches closer to reality on both the federal and state levels last week.

In 2017 the maximum benefit check a retiree can get is $ 3,538, but fewer than 6 percent of workers will be eligible for that amount, just based on income.

Reuters.com — Fewer U.S. companies planning to hire; Europe looms — poll American companies are scaling back plans to hire workers and a rising share of firms feel the European debt crisis is taking a bite out of their sales, a survey showed on Monday.

They just move on for «the harvest is great and then workers are few.»

«Very few of them have ever worked on a production line themselves and they have little or no contact with their workers, whom they treat as interchangeable parts.»

But what we need is not a few sermons on work or the founding of a monthly workers» breakfast, but a radical church - wide decision to recognise that we all have a duty to consistently support our brothers and sisters at work and elsewhere.

The business world is not short on stories about manufacturers that got started in their founder's home garage, a construction worker starting with one hammer and a few nails that grew into a multimillion - dollar operation, and restaurants with concepts that were developed in their creators» kitchens.

«Whatever your ethics or religion, it's just good business to treat the workers well,» he told me, as we toured the neat, clean, well - maintained barracks that house 480 seasonal workers on the farm at harvest time, most of them very poor Nicaraguan families who come into Costa Rica for a few months each year.

Allegations of hit men turning up at night to pressure a former Caltex worker to keep his mouth shut, then sending someone to visit his family in Pakistan, some workers paid $ 12 an hour, some sleeping on mattresses to reduce travel time, some franchisees charging workers for sponsorships, are just a few of the allegations being made by workers and former workers.

Late on Tuesday, after several years of negotiations, Domino's finally proposed a new agreement that paid workers a few cents higher than the award rate and introduced three - hour minimum shifts.

But in the past few weeks the sector took a fresh round of hits when franchise group Aussie Farmers collapsed, RFG announced an $ 88 million loss and flagged up to 200 franchise - run stores would close, while pizza giant Domino's reported disappointing results on the back of franchisees complaining about a brutal business model, and Caltex announced it was ditching its franchise model days before a damning report was released by the workplace regulator that found 76 per cent of its franchised stores had payroll compliance breaches that included underpaying workers.

Every conflict has a food story to tell, and in Food Stories From Syria, a recent Food Programme on Radio 4, Dan Saladino unveiled a few of those stories, told by asylum seekers, aid workers and food writers.

At 9 a.m. on a weekend a few months ago, I shuffled past families passing handmade tortillas and night - shift workers unwinding with tacos and BYO Coronas.

After a few minutes of this, I asked the food service worker if anyone ever took the salad, and she said matter - of - factly, «On Pizza Day, no one takes anything but pizza.»

Yet most WIC workers I spoke with seemed exasperated that very few of their clients opted for breastfeeding and instead relied on the free formula they can obtain either from WIC or from food stamps.

While Ed Miliband floats around the country playing the role of a man with integrity, it's worth noting that despite «marching for the alternative» a few years ago with the people he claims to represent, he turned his back on public sector workers and those on «Workfare», whilst allowing changes to employment law to go through virtually unchallenged, allowing the coalition to force through it's anti-worker agenda.

Conducted by the Retail Action Project, a community organizing group co-founded by the union RWDSU, the survey of more than 110 people on 14 CUNY campuses — or one - quarter of all CUNY food service workers — reported numerous instances of what it says are workers being served «a steady diet of low wages, few benefits, precarious schedules and labor violations.»

The Senate leader predicts that the budget will once again be on time, and that the legislature will ultimately approve Cuomo's proposal for a new pension tier with fewer benefits for future workers.

With over 200 non-union hotels planning to open their doors in our city in the next few years we must use the resources the membership provided in the dues referendum and continue to focus all of our energy on making our union one that represents as many workers in the hotel industry as possible.

Not to be outdone, a spokesperson for the mayor shot back, «If 421 - a is simply extended as is, as some are seeking up in Albany, there will be no prevailing wage construction jobs, far fewer building service workers making prevailing wage and no progress on affordable housing for tens of thousands in desperate need.

Minimal time being spent with offenders — some of whom are being spoken to on the phone every few weeks - staff shortages, unmanageable caseloads, high staff sickness levels and workers being recruited with no probation qualifications.

Britain, one of the few countries to place no restrictions on workers from the ten countries that joined the EU in 2004, has already announced that Bulgarian and Romanian migrants will be subject to controls.

To give a few examples, apart from those from outside the European Economic Area who can not lawfully work at all, there have been restrictions on migrants from new EU members states (to self - employment for a period of seven years), those on Tier 2 visas (to a named employer), on students (who may work, but not full time or in a profession), and on domestic workers (who may not seek another employer even if abused).

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.

With just a few hours to go before President - elect Donald Trump take office, New York's Working Families Party is using what it anticipates will be «wholesale attacks on working people» by the incoming administration and its allies to highlight the plight of several hundred striking workers at Momentive Performance Materials, a chemical plant in Waterford.

In the past few months, the leaders of all the public sector unions threatened a mass strike of three million workers over pensions, while this week the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service job cuts.