Sentences with phrase «for lower paid workers»

An exclusion of the 3 % second home surcharge from affordable private rental housing would encourage the provision of affordable housing for lower paid workers.

Mr Smith will also emphasise the importance for lower paid workers in Wales of Labour's proposal to increase the minimum wage.

B.C. also recently announced plans to lift wages for its lowest paid workers.

On average in the EU, taxes paid by the employer and employee sum to a total equal to nearly 70 per cent of take - home wages for low paid workers.

Responding to the Government's proposal to outlaw «exclusivity» in zero hour contracts and increase transparency, the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) have argued that the proposals fail to grasp what is actually needed to bring sustainable protection for low paid workers on zero hour contracts.

Lead author Professor Marian Rizov from Lincoln International Business School at the University of Lincoln, said: «Our findings offer compelling evidence that increasing wages for the lowest paid workers improves productivity, and that this effect applies in companies of all sizes and across most low - paying sectors.

Not exact matches

And that's not just the case for those working for the big - name brands: A November Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that just 6 % of low - wage workers in the U.S. have access to paid family leave.

Was it coincidence that Walmart, that paragon of parsimony, coughed up raises for its lowest - paid workers?

Therefore, to avoid offering employee health insurance and the penalties for non-provision of insurance, some employers are paying contractors to assist their low - wage workers with Medicaid signups, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Another reason for the growing firm - to - firm pay gap, according to the authors of the study, could be that in the modern economy companies have become so specialized and lean that some attract high - skilled workers and others mostly lower skilled ones.

For instance, if a firm believes that publishing high CEO pay to worker pay ratio would be embarrassing, that may encourage firms simply to outsource low - paid jobs to contractors.

In an era of small businesses and startups, however, benefits packages are considered extras, with workers sometimes forced to choose between higher pay and costly health insurance premiums or lower pay for the ability to provide great medical insurance for their families.

Additionally, when low - wage workers are paid more, they tend to immediately spend extra wages locally, says James Parrott, deputy director and chief economist for the Fiscal Policy Institute in New York.

Lower - paid employees qualified for subsidies, while higher - paid workers could afford plans or went on their spouses» plans, he said.

Thanks to government subsidies, low - income workers pay only 13 percent of their salaries for rent, and many are encouraged to buy the apartments with part of the otherwise untouchable savings that they are forced to put into a national retirement fund.

For example, while a number of communities are debating how to provide benefits to gig economy workers, without policies that ensure a baseline wage threshold or that grant workers a voice in determining their wages and benefits, low - road companies could respond to requirements to contribute to benefits with commensurate decreases in pay.

That proposal was controversial because some critics view it as a way for tech companies to simply save money on labor costs by relying on lower - paid workers from overseas.

«The biggest problem I face is low unemployment - finding workers,» he said in a phone interview, adding that he is increasing pay every six months to keep staff from leaving for other jobs, and he is hiking his menu prices as well.

They will do little to help former factory workers who have had to take lower - paying jobs — which is one reason that calling for new investments doesn't bring nearly the cheers on the campaign trail that denouncing Nafta does.

When companies pay workers more, it usually means lower profits for shareholders.

The pullback in government support was often justified by the idea that employee stock ownership may be a risky substitute for fixed worker pay, but almost all the studies indicate that employee stock ownership in the form of ESOPs does not come at the expense of workers taking lower wages or other forms of compensation.

But economists and professors cast doubt on whether tax policy changes were the driving force behind the move by a retailing giant that for years has stood as a lightning rod for criticism over low worker pay.

Lowering working standards — The B.C. Liberals have deliberately made it harder for workers to enforce their rights, leading to more low - paying and insecure employment.

(Note that low - income workers, who qualified for Obama's expiring Making Work Pay tax credit, will suffer a reduction in their take - home pPay tax credit, will suffer a reduction in their take - home paypay.

In addition, U.S. workers will begin receiving more take - home pay, likely by next month, as lower tax rates for individuals under the Republican plan kick in.

If those who make $ 14 per hour are eligible for tax relief, but workers who make $ 15 per hour are subject to the status quo, workers will be better off with the lower - paying job.

In an op - ed piece for The New York Times in May, he wrote: «More than 600 economists, including seven Nobel Prize laureates, have affirmed the growing consensus that raising wages for the lowest - paid workers doesn't hurt the economy.

And when Mexican workers complain of their low pay, they are reminded that Haitians and Central Americans will work for even less.

The reasons are often that the factory is unionized and the workers are well paid, whereas in South Carolina a more docile labor force is willing to work for lower wages.

For the Republican Washington political class, anything seems preferable to paying higher wages to low - skill workers when the economy improves.

Is it Christlike to flood the workplace with newly legalized low skilled workers thus suppressing wages for those who are getting paid the least as it is?

Importing farm workers from Mexico, legally and illegally, also ensures competition for low - paying work.

These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

It means making immigration work for working families of all races and ethnicities even if it means that some businesses will end up paying higher wages to lower - skill workers.

Most ministry places pay their workers low wages; to the extent that $ 250 is considered a really good pay for even skilled workers like IT people etc..

They might have to pay more, but it is no tragedy for our current population of low - skill workers to see larger wage gains during the good times.

Manchester Citizens will hand in a letter on Thursday to the club, urging it to take a «community - first business approach» to ensure the cost of living is met for low - paid workers.

While workers wages are falling in real terms the tax credit system - a vital lifeline that boosts income for many families - effectively acts as a government subsidy for «low pay» corporations.

(I understand that there are steps I can take to lower my income tax - marriage is rewarded that way in my country, for instance) So in some sense, the employer pays both «my taxes» and my net earnings, because if they don't, they don't get a worker.

«When workers are stuck in low - paid jobs with little access to training, they can struggle to gain the confidence and skills they need to allow them to move into positions where they can start not just to make more of a contribution to society in the form of higher taxes, but are also more able to provide for their families.»

Two prominent studies find modest effects, in one case estimating that each 1 % increase in the share of migrants in the UK working age population leads to a 0.6 % decline in the wages of the 5 % lowest paid workers, which would mean about 3p less per hour for someone earning just over the minimum wage of # 6.19.

And if you are in the lowest paid kind of work then, unlike everyone else, you may well be in competition for wages with some migrant workers.

The Paid Family Leave law spearheaded by Cuomo will start to make things a little easier on new parents — but it's still not enough, especially for lower - and middle - income restaurant workers.

Port Authority staff recommended that the agency raise the minimum wage for more than 40,000 NYC - area airport workers to $ 19 an hour by the fall of 2023 — an increase of more than 80 percent in about five years for the lowest - paid workers at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the three major airports operated by the authority.

At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

Same low pay, and low interest rates for savers well below inflation; government users workers and savers to reduce it's debt, bail out bankers, and fund unnecessary housing boom.

«It is far too easy for employers in Britain to undercut wages and working conditions by recruiting temporary workers from elsewhere in Europe on very low pay and with no job security, knowing that the benefit system will top up their income.

While there are compelling reasons from the perspective of poorly paid (or unemployed) workers in eastern and southern Europe to relocate to higher wage economies in the west and north of Europe, there is little incentive for British workers to go to the post-2004 EU countries where the quality of life is lower and minimum wage is as low as # 1.36 per hour, if it exists at all.

Cuomo, in an animated speech, said fast food chains make huge profits while relying on taxpayer subsidies, like food stamps, to make up for the low pay they give their workers.

In the July Budget, Osborne also planned to cut tax credits, which top up pay for low - income workers, prompting claims that this represented a breach of promises made by colleagues before the general election in May.