Sentences with phrase «for first labors»

Actually only about 30 percent of people start labor with their water breaking and the average length for first labors is 24 hours, not 24 seconds.

She said that I was so strong during pushing, determined and an hour was really fast for my first labor.

That story is the negotiations, more than 50 sessions so far, for the first labor contract between the UC postdoc union, the nation's second, and the academic giant that employs perhaps 10 % of all the postdocs in the United States.

Not exact matches

First, they have a lot of leverage these days — contrary to some opinions, the unemployment rate for college grads is actually pretty low (2.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics).

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.

Though the failure rate for startups is often exaggerated, it's still relatively high: 20 percent of businesses fail within the first year, and about half of U.S. businesses fail within five years, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decade.

A return to robust internal debate and a party - first mentality would be a good start for a Labor Party in decline.

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich provides two compelling reasons that organizations should share financial success with their employees: First, if you want to attract and keep talent, you have to pay for it.

The Labor Department reported on Wednesday that consumer prices fell for the first time in 10 months in March, hampered by a decline in gasoline prices.

Trump has focused on an «America first» agenda when it comes to skilled labor and has proposed «extreme vetting» of immigrants from countries that the president says are known for terrorism.

On July 8, the public got its first view into how the U.S. Department of Labor will defend its fiduciary rule when it filed a cross motion for summary judgment, asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss a law suit brought by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- When two former interns at the New Yorker and W Magazine sued parent company Conde Nast Publications on Thursday, legal experts said it could be the first in a wave of lawsuits challenging companies who pay little or nothing for student labor.

Donald Falk and my colleague Eugene Volokh have done a backgrounder for WLF on Labor Department's Fiduciary Rule Tests First Amendment Limits

Copper rose for the first time in three days on expectations of more growth in the labor market of the U.S., the second - largest metals consumer.

First, although rising wages are obviously great for workers and the overall economy, they can be difficult for low - margin companies that rely on cheap labor — like retail stores.

-LRB-...) The Labor Department reported Thursday that wages and salaries for private - sector workers rose 2.8 % in the year through the first quarter, the best since 2008.

Notwithstanding the positive signals from the labor market and the pickup in sentiment, consensus estimates for US first - quarter 2017 growth showed little change, staying in the 1.5 % — 2.0 % band that has prevailed in recent years.

Though the labor market appeared to remain on track, prior indications of a sluggish start to the year by the US economy were confirmed by initial estimates for first - quarter economic growth.

Joint Base Lewis - McChord's Service Member for Life — Transition Assistance Program has coordinated with the Department of Labor and other transition organizations to bring the first American Job Center to a military installation.

A day ahead of the release of the more closely watched monthly jobs report, the Labor Department released a report on Thursday showing a modest increase in first - time claims for U.S. unemployment benefits in the week ended April 28th.

But again, what will additional QE spark in hoped for acceleration in labor markets and the general economy that the first $ 3 trillion in QE over the past five years has not already?

A report released by the Labor Department on Thursday showed a modest decrease in first - time claims for U.S....

right before Labor day and the first day of school for the kids.

First, if there are few people available for work, employers will be pushed to make their jobs more attractive in order to compete for labor.

First, human beings are understood, for purposes of economics, to aim at the acquisition of the goods and services they desire for as little labor as requisite.

The old ideas never completely died out, but gradually the term «calling» faded from common speech and with it the idea that in work one labored in the first instance for the glory of God.

In fact, Paulist Pictures» Romero may be only the first of several films about the assassinated prelate; for example, director Gillo Poncecorvo (The Battle of Algiers) reportedly has a Romero project under way (tentative title: The Devil's Bishop) But however many such films are made, none is likely to be as much a labor of love as Romero was.

And how well did that work for slaves the first 300 years, child labor exploited and coal miners and factory workers suffering horrific working conditions and safety issues in the early 1900's, women still fighting the glass ceiling that exists, etc.?

If you think that level of effort correlates to level of pay, I'd suggest first trying to work some labor - intensive job for minimum wage, and then spend a few weeks in, say, a law office or computer firm.

If you look back where I first (I think) explored the analogy of performance, in a piece titled «Performing the Scriptures» (first published in 1982, reprinted in a collection called Theology on the Way to Emmaus in 1986), you will see that I contrast the notion of interpretation as performance not with the historian's craft but with the supposition that a text (any text, although it is with scripture that I am most concerned)-- a set of black marks on white paper — tells you how to take it, without any interpretative labor on the reader's part, a labor for which the reader must take personal responsibility.

The unusual short - case justification for the first two options assumes that shifting the balance of power in favor of labor can force a redistribution of income from capitalist bad guys to worker good guys and thereby achieve a living wage for the firm's employees.

Martin Luther, the first of the Reformers to formulate a radically new understanding of the Christian idea of vocation, argued that any kind of regular and legitimate work in the world — manual labor, parenting, civic activity — could be a vocation or a calling so long as the Christian did that workout of love for Cod in service to humankind.

In the first place, the Church to which I belong shall receive the fruit of this labor, so that it may hereafter continue longer, for even if only a brief portion of time remains to me from the duties of my office, yet that, however small it may be, I have determined to devote to this kind of writing.»

Wrote a labor journalist recently in the Los Angeles Times, «For the first time in decades, many of the country's largest and strongest unions appear to be in open retreat, creating the impression that union strength has deteriorated badly.»

We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

According to food historian Waverly Root, the first recorded mention of its use in England was in 1640, where it was considered a crude food, eaten by «country people and strong laboring men... [but] too strong for tender and gentle stomachs.»

We have a gluten free guest coming for labor Day Barbecue so I thought I would try these on a run through first.

This was the last official thing I ate before giving birth to my first baby so I always make them for friends who are hoping to induce labor.

Pulling weeds by hand instead of using chemical weed killers is more labor - intensive in the first year or two — but it is better for soil health and can lower a farmer's greenhouse gas emissions and operating costs.

I would say the first trimester was rough because I had bad nausea (curable only by eating lots of white carbs, potatoes and GF crackers all day every day) and then I felt great from Months 4 - 7.5, then I started to feel HUGE and I also experienced prodromal labor for 4 weeks before delivery.

Technically, the first day of fall isn't until September 21st — but once Labor Day rolls around, it feels like time for a farewell party to summer and a welcome party for fall.

For the first time PACK EXPO Las Vegas welcomed the Department of Labor's Veterans» Employment and Training Service (VETS) to the NextGEN Networking Fair which offered a one - of - a-kind matchmaking opportunity for exhibitors and attendees to connect with the emerging workforFor the first time PACK EXPO Las Vegas welcomed the Department of Labor's Veterans» Employment and Training Service (VETS) to the NextGEN Networking Fair which offered a one - of - a-kind matchmaking opportunity for exhibitors and attendees to connect with the emerging workforfor exhibitors and attendees to connect with the emerging workforce.

Labor first proposed the idea of an inspector - general for animal welfare in 2013, but former agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce dumped it when the Coalition came to power.

While in Opposition, Labor launched a blueprint for its health policy which promised that a Rudd Government would «treat preventative health as a first order economic issue».

AFM's newest campaign, «For the Love of Guac,» will fully - charge every September celebration, from Hispanic Heritage Month and Labor Day to National Guacamole Day (Sept. 16) and the kick - off of Fall football by launching its first - ever national BOGO offer — buy one Avocado From Mexico and get one FREE!

This was all avoidable, had the MLBPA been less willing to aim for labor peace and amenities, and more willing to fight hard for everything, big or small, as Marvin Miller used to when the union was first getting off the ground.

The news is bleak, the numbers unsettling for what would be the first North American major league to lose an entire year to a labor dispute.

For the first time in a while, there's something less than absolute labor peace in Major League Baseball.

After laboring as a deckhand for years and being force - fed sailing talk in her off - hours, the wife of one skipper said recently and wearily, «I was living with my so - called husband Jack before he married his first boat.