Sentences with phrase «giving workers a wage»

But why wouldn't some firms end their programs and then poach the workers they need from their competitors who maintain the programs, giving workers a wage bump of 20 % of the training costs and keeping the 60 % after the 20 % cost of poaching workers as added profits.

Not exact matches

Uber has lost its appeal against an employment tribunal ruling in the U.K. that said it has to give its drivers workers» benefits, such as a the minimum wage and statutory holiday pay.

In contrast, the workers most subject to cuts are unable, given their wage rates, to scrape together that level of financial freedom.

Trudeau reset the benchmark in Hamburg, Germany on February 17, delivering a direct message to business leaders: «It's time to pay a living wage, to pay your taxes and to give your workers the peace of mind that comes with stable, full - time contracts.»

Some wage experts say New York's move is a positive development, as it will give many low - income workers more money to spend locally, which will create a ripple effect in the economy.

While McDonald's pretends to be «giving back,» it continues to lobby against policies to reduce junk food marketing to children and refuses to pay its workers a living wage, despite growing protests.

Different wage series show different trends, but if you mash them together, as is my wont, you find that the tightening job market has, in fact, given workers a bit more bargaining clout and nominal wage growth basically moved up from 2 to 2.5 percent.

«However, those that are created are for higher - wage workers among the lower - skilled workers, and perhaps — given that result emerges for women — among jobs less likely to involve manual or physically demanding labor.»

«It's time to pay a living wage, to pay your taxes and to give your workers the peace of mind that comes with stable, full - time contracts,» Trudeau said.

With a few exceptions where workers gave wage concessions for ownership, firms that adopt ESOPs add ownership to paying normal market levels of pay.

Last weekend's Cambridge Analytica news — that the company was able to access tens of millions of users» data by paying low - wage workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to take a Facebook survey, which gave Cambridge Analytica access to Facebook's dossier on each of those turkers» Facebook friends — has hammered home two problems: first...

Germany's biggest industrial union and employers have reached a wage deal that gives workers the equivalent of 3.5 percent annual raises over 27 months and the chance to work a 28 - hour week for up to two years.

If Russia creates credit to pay wage arrears, pensions and to make other domestic payments, most such revenue will be re-spent within the Russia by its recipients, given the needy economic conditions of most workers and dependents.

Let the execs have smaller salaries, let the workers have a bit larger wage, and give the investors larger dividends for their shares.

Nail Hobby Lobby to the wall... give your min wage workers the right to help prevent unwanted pregnancies that would lead to them losing their jobs, sliding into bankruptcy and bringing another undereducated, ill - fed, candidate for early an prison term person into the world.

There is more confusion at the end of the day, when he gives the same wage to every worker, regardless of whether a worker began at six in the morning, at noon, or even at five in the afternoon.

It's not the waiters fault, it's the restaurants fault for trying to save a few bucks and not giving the servers a decent wage which creates a hostile environment for their workers and customers alike.

An era when many parents turned their children over to subminimum - wage workers by day, and told them stories like The Giving Tree during «quality time» at night.

By rendering «denarius» as «the usual daily wage,» the translators make it clear that the owner in the parable of the workers in the vineyard is giving all his workers what they need for survival, regardless of the time they worked (Matt.

Perhaps the surprisingly low level of claims is due to the limitations Caltex has put on the fund, including allowing workers to go back only two years, despite wage fraud going on for years, and giving workers only a limited time to lodge a claim.

We gave millions of low - paid workers the decency of a National Minimum Wage.

«While the tax system theoretically gives care workers tax relief on their travel costs — even home to work travel that is not allowed by the minimum wage rules - this is probably no more than 20p for every pound spent or mile claimed.

Working on a bipartisan basis, we passed a budget giving minimum wage workers three raises over the next two - and - a-half years.

And if government is giving subsidies to these rich real estate developers, why isn't government insisting on a fair wage for the workers on the project?

Momentum is building for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage in Connecticut, at least for some workers, given the formation of a new low - wage worker advisory panel and this week's recommendation to raise pay for fast - food workers in neighboring New York, according to some state lawmakers and activists.

He talked about a buccaneering Britain, where working parents will be given 30 hours of free childcare, where workers on the minimum wage will not pay personal income tax and where the NHS will be miraculously saved by new investment.

Dan Price, the CEO of credit card company Gravity Payments, cut his salary $ 930,000 to give minimum wage workers a raise...

The tax cut was part of the minimum wage deal, and it would give a tax credit to any business that hires workers between the ages of 16 and 19.

During separate and recent evenings on the campaign trail, the candidates offered up the usual political fare: use environmental technologies to create jobs (Kessner); give teachers more time to implement the Common Core teaching standards (Stott); ensure more workers have a living wage.

We're not only giving minimum wage workers the raise they deserve — we're putting real dollars back into the pockets of families who really need it,» said Senate Majority Coalition Co-Leader Jeffrey Klein in a statement.

Cuomo instead convened a wage board at the state Department of Labor to review potential changes to the minimum wage for workers in the fast - food industry, giving a nod to a growing campaign for better wages in that sector.

The governor's office will move «in the near future» to convene a minimum - wage board to study what raise should be given to tipped workers, according to an administration source.

«He told me that Ed was going to give a talk at the region's annual fund raising dinner and that prior to the dinner he had invited the media to join him at a local coffee shop to listen to a conversation he planned to have with a minimum wage worker.

Got ta give to get back According to the agreement struck late last week, rental construction projects that total more than 300 units, and that are located south of 96th Street in Manhattan, must pay workers a wage - plus - benefits average of at least $ 60 an hour.

Mr Miliband said that while he supported wage restraint, he would have given workers a «fairer» pay deal if he was leading the government.

Cuomo said the contract includes a 17 % wage increase and worker give - backs.

It is commendable that he, as well as numerous members of the Democratic party, believe that all current workers at minimum wage and future workers be given a more conducive living wage but in practice it would cause a greater number of current workers and perspective workers to be or remain unemployed.

Mr. Stringer's office argues that the executive order does not give him authority to investigate issues surrounding that new class of workers, or to uphold the higher wage, and only maintains his responsibility as outlined in the old law — to uphold the now outdated $ 11.11 wage, and only among the workers covered in 2012.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo — joined by Vice President Biden — is expected to push today for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage for all workers statewide after the acting state labor commissioner gives final approval to a recommendation raising hourly pay for fast food workers to that amount.

«Giving minimum wage workers a small increase over three years and linking it to a business tax break that will actually encourage the creation of more minimum wage jobs is unconscionable, especially in a state that already has the most inequitable income distribution in the nation,» said Donohue.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced plans to give all state workers a minimum wage of $ 15 an hour, making New York the first state in the nation to set pay for its public - sector employees that high.

«More people take us as a credible campaign, so they're willing to give us contributions,» Hawkins said by phone, ducking out of a state board that is holding a hearing on whether or not to raise the minimum wage for workers who rely on tips.

Ultimately, the discussion about the complex system for workers injured on the job has many moving parts and may have been more than all the parties could handle — given other issues they are debating such as minimum wage and family leave.

UKIP, and trying to get them back, by admitting we were wrong in immigration, be giving into fear Surely as a socialist party we would want working class workers to get a decent wage, from, bosses, not be under cut by the employers.

The increase would give fast food workers a $ 15 minimum wage.

The proposal would extend to private sector workers the higher wage already given to government and State University of New York employees through executive actions by the governor in the past year.

The one - day strike was an attempt to give a higher profile to «Worthy Wage Day,» as May 1 has been known by child - care workers since 1991.

The deal also gave each worker a bonus of $ 1,000 ($ 1,313) and a 4 % wage hike.

Just the other day Connecticut made national headlines by voting to raise their minimum wage to $ 10.10 / hr, which gives a full time worker $ 21,000 a year in pre-tax income, in one of the most expensive states in the country.