Sentences with phrase «from higher labour costs»

Outgoing Coles managing director John Durkan, who is set to hand the reins to Steven Cain before the demerger, still expects the retailer to return to profit growth in the June half despite a «small headwind» from higher labour costs.

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We then use that to build out two additional scenarios: one assuming a doubling of the current minimum wage plus factoring in the cost of fire and building safety improvements based on data from the Worker Rights Consortium; and another using a «living wage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demands.

Core inflation has drifted higher over the past year, as slowing productivity growth has pushed up growth in unit labour costs, albeit from a very low level.

A pre-election report from the Toronto Region Board of Trade says Ontario businesses face challenges including high labour costs and energy prices, and urges the next government to cut property taxes to help keep companies competitive.

I have to say I think this is all about the Labour Party trying to detract from the point we have been making about the deal that they would have to do with the SNP, which is going to cost people in this country a lot of money and is not something I think that we want to see - it would result in more debt, more borrowing, higher taxes.

According to our figures (and I keep asking you to use the figures set out in the Liberal Democrat and Labour document not the figures given by the IFS who state they got their figures from these documents but actually give different figures) to reverse the cuts to Universal Credit cost # 3.665 billion and as I pointed out above these are the reductions in the amounts a person can keep before they start to lose their benefit, which were set much higher than the old benefits, but the withdrawal rate seemed to be higher with Universal Credit (65 % [reduced to 62 %] than with Tax Credit (41 % on gross income).

The administrative cost is bound to be high and I know that Labour tends to like doing this because it turns more people into state dependents but Conservatives should be about freeing people from the burdens they are ill placed to bear and encouraging independence.

Each allows Canadians to profit from the high exchange rate on the loonie, plus low local labour costs, without sacrificing access to Western - style amenities.

The much awaited Labour Productivity Data was released last Tuesday, shedding a glimpse of improvement from the devastating downpour of declined productivity and hourly compensation and uncomfortably high labour costs endingLabour Productivity Data was released last Tuesday, shedding a glimpse of improvement from the devastating downpour of declined productivity and hourly compensation and uncomfortably high labour costs endinglabour costs ending 2008.

It is anticipated that a continuing tight labour market, robust income growth and high levels of consumer confidence will help to offset the dampening effect of rising mortgage carrying costs on the demand for new and existing homes in B.C. Housing starts should decline from 39,195 units in 2007 to 33,250 in 2008 and 31,700 in 2009.