Sentences with phrase «government workers rose»

Total compensation for state & local government workers rose 0.5 % (2.1 % y / y) in Q1 after 0.6 % in Q4.

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Government data shows the number of migrant workers rose 0.4 % in 2015, the weakest increase since the global financial crisis in 2009.

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

Provincial government workers came in at a close second with a 55 % rise.

Government aid and insurance payments will assist in efforts to rebuild homes, vehicle sales are likely to rise as cars are replaced, and workers will be needed to aid in construction.

The government, at the last quarter of 2015, after a series of meetings of the National Tripartite Committee (NTC) comprising government, employers» association, organized labour and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) announced a 10 percent pay rise for public sector workers across the country.

If public sector workers are given a bigger pay rise than the 1 % promised by the Government, it will lead to «debts ever larger for our children and our grandchildren to have to pay off», a senior minister said.

However, during the winter of 1978 — 79 there were widespread strikes among lorry drivers, railway workers, car workers and local government and hospital workers in favour of higher pay - rises that caused significant disruption to everyday life.

The government currently faces a backbench rebellion over its attempts to force MPs to accept a 1.9 per cent pay rise, putting them on a par with public sector workers such as police and prison officers.

And the fact is, when this Government took office, focusing exclusively on further and faster tax rises and spending cuts, business and consumer confidence collapsed, firms postponed investments and stopped taking on workers.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

Mike Ogirima, President of the Nigerian Medical Association, said that Nigeria must rise above the present score in the health sector by government implementing all agreements reached with health workers.

However, he insisted that CGT revenues must rise to help fund a coalition government plan to raise income tax thresholds, cutting taxes for millions of low - paid workers.

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

The government risks further embarrassment this year as Mr Brown has been uncompromising in his insistence public sector workers such as nurses, police officers and prison guards must accept a 1.9 per cent pay rise to maintain inflation.

Its analysis suggests a full - time worker on the government's «national living wage» would gain up to # 250 a year from Hammond's 2p reduction in the taper rate, rising to around # 500 a year for a family earning # 30,000.

The report said the claims of agency savings would be difficult to achieve, given that government departments have held overall spending growth to 1.3 percent since the cap was begun seven years ago — including rising contractual costs for unionized workers» salaries and health insurance.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) claimed that pay freezes and below - inflation rises had left public sector workers # 2,245 worse off on average since the UK coalition government took office.

Treasury chief secretary Greg Hands said in a letter to pay review bodies that there should be «no expectation'that all workers would receive the rise, despite a government commitment in the Budget last month.

The government noted the rise in non-traditional employment relationships, the increased diversity of Ontario's workforce, and accelerating technological change, amongst other issues, and decided that it was necessary to revisit Ontario's cornerstone workplace laws to bolster protections for workers while ensuring that the province remains an attractive place for employers to do business.

The worker's death has received significant attention both because of the amount of the penalty and the rising concern for the safety of temporary help workers more generally, including greater attention from media and the Government of Ontario.

With a global workforce, contingent workers on the rise and new federal, state and local government regulations, its vital for your company to have a strong background screening policy in place.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, a growing number of aging and obsolete shopping malls are being transformed into vibrant, walkable mixed - use communities, creating more - profitable retailers and developers, property - tax - flush governments, and more content and less harried residents and workers.