Sentences with phrase «foreign labor»

If there is no reason for you to be at your office in person, there's no reason your job can't be sent overseas to be done by cheap foreign labor.

In general, states try to restrict the movement of foreign labor because immigrants are seen as «taking jobs» from locals.

There are training programs for workers who lose their jobs to trade, and there is no reason to treat workers replaced by machines any differently than workers replaced by foreign labor.

We can even explain part of the suppression of domestic wages as being due to competition from cheaper foreign labor (although this explanation is partial at best).

Also, agricultural employers shifted their focus from opposition to employer sanctions to a concerted campaign to secure alternative sources of foreign labor.

After making the required concessions to defuse the attack, politely remind everyone of the realities of trying to compete with foreign labor markets.

«Import growth captures both the «true» part of productivity growth (since increased capital investment typically requires an expanding current account deficit) as well as the illusory part of productivity growth (resulting from the failure to account for foreign labor input in the productivity numbers).

It grants temporary nonimmigrant visas for specialized foreign labor.

Please see the Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification website for more information on the LCA process.

«The True Cost» (2015): This deep dive into the fashion industry not only exposes the deadly cost of cheap clothing, it shows just how little executives at some of the most successful companies capitalizing on foreign labor care about it.

Without the added foreign labor, the study concluded that domestic employment in the computer science sector would have been between 6.1 % and 10.8 % higher in 2001.

Others argue the latest proposals, including Startup Visas, are just «marketing campaigns» in an ongoing skirmish to add more foreign labor, said John Miano, founder of the Programmers Guild, a nonprofit organization of IT workers that advocates against outsourcing and H1 - B work visas.

How can U.S. labor compete with foreign labor when employees and their employers are obliged to pay such high mortgage debt for its housing, such high student debt for its education, such high medical insurance and Social Security (FICA withholding), such high credit - card debt — all this even before spending on goods and services?

Japan is a recipient country of migrant workers but most Filipino women migrate to Japan as entertainers, because the Japanese government sticks to the policy refusing to accept any unskilled foreign labor.

For ultimately proving themselves not enamored of the war in Iraq, for coming down hard on the Supreme Court's wretched call on redevelopment related eminent domain in Kelo vs. New London, and for not buying into the lie that cheap foreign labor at home or abroad is good for the country, John and Jane Q. deserve a buttery star.

The Washington - imposed economic policy of economic growth via mass - immigration shifts wealth from young people towards older people, it floods the market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue - collar and white - collar employees.

The H - 1B program offers temporary nonimmigrant visas for specialized foreign labor; it has been run since 1990 by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to fuel the growth of American businesses.

A key reason for this is because a number of China's main commercial partners in South America have strict laws, sometimes including constitutional restrictions, against importing foreign labor.

As I detailed in my November 2003 comment, titled The U.S. Productivity Miracle (Made in China), part of U.S. productivity growth actually represents the import of foreign labor by U.S. multinational companies.

The weaker ringgit has also added to the concerns surrounding the tea industry's high dependence on foreign labor.

Tourism has exploded in recent years, becoming the country's single biggest employer, and analysts at Arion Bank say one in two new jobs is being filled by foreign labor.

He is also a thought leader on human resources in the computer industry, with a focus on discrimination and diversity issues (including race - and age - based discrimination) and the use of foreign labor in the U.S. computer industry.

The bill's main purpose, critics argue, is to provide a steady supply of cheap foreign labor for U.S. firms, particularly in the information technology industry.

Earlier this month, it was revealed the number of applications for H - 1B visas — a similar, coveted program for companies to onboard specialized foreign labor — declined for the second year in a row, as the administration moves to streamline the program.

But President Elect Trump has characterized the program as a way for companies to undercut American wages with cheap foreign labor.

As Moody's warns, «Declining growth potential, coupled with an emerging aversion to open trade and foreign labor and rising global competition may cause this key source of relative strength to erode over the long term.»

I'm not sure that importing labor was more important than importing products built with foreign labor, except possibly in the farm and construction business.

Sara Blackwell: When you tell someone their real reason for getting rid of these jobs is for cheap foreign labor that should offend everyone.

It would allow any company in America to replace any worker with cheaper foreign labor.

As for other industries, I've observed before that infrastructure projects on the scale of those being discussed would actually have to be implemented with foreign labor (as many of the largest U.S. construction projects have been in recent years), since heavy construction workers represent a rather small segment of the U.S. labor force.

Cheap foreign labor has degraded the value and purpose of human labor and the meaning of life.

Many small businesses probably don't have to worry about this tip, but if you're a big business with foreign investments and foreign labor, bringing that labor back stateside could do you financial favors.

By now, child and foreign labor has become such a key part of the fabric of Walmart, and of the product they sell, it's hard to imagine anything less than a complete overhaul of Walmart's business methods will change that.

They did free trade deals to allow cheap foreign labor to replace millions of our workers.

«Millionaire Martin Babinec his company helps American companies replace jobs with cheap foreign labor,» the ad said.

The workings of the free market are further undermined by the importation of foreign labor.

In plain words, in addition to selling clothing under an eponymous label, The Factory offers clothing produced by up - and - coming and local designers, tailoring and design services, all the while employing local seamstresses (rather than outsourcing cheap foreign labor).

We have lived off of debt and cheap foreign labor and have done little of value with it.

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