Sentences with phrase «high number of workers»

A surprisingly high number of workers are hurt or even killed at work each year.

Because of the baby boom, there was, at first, a high number of workers relative to pensioners making the system easy to finance.

Not exact matches

A laid off manufacturing worker who has given up hope of ever finding another job is not counted in the unemployment statistics, so an economy with a high number of discouraged workers could have a misleadingly low unemployment rate.

That number is even higher for millennial workers: by now, 60 % of them have begun slacking at work in anticipation of holiday festivities.

A recent Deloitte survey focused on Canadian workplaces found that just over half of gen Y workers felt they were «part of a great organization,» a slightly higher number than their more jaded older colleagues.

The peak of the public sector earnings distribution is much higher, at twenty - something dollars per hour, and there are a good number of public sector workers earning $ 40 or $ 50 an hour.

Although some fields have more irritating workers than others (professionals in the healthcare and insurance industries report having the highest number of annoying coworkers), some 36 % of people have left a job that they liked because they didn't get along with their coworkers.

The company doesn't have to disclose average pay, which would probably be skewed higher by the smaller number of Amazon's highly paid tech workers.

For example, the dependency on a relatively high number of non-UK workers who may or may not be allowed to remain in the UK.

Some research shows a low number of independent workers — less than a million people to a high number — 75 million people.

Most of the increase in rents in Atlanta would be due to an increase in the number of higher - end apartments rented by Amazon workers earning far more than the current area median of $ 36,340.

The real number of discouraged workers is probably much higher.

Increasing the number of visas available for guest workers and high - tech workers while protecting employers from burdensome enforcement requirements are top priorities for retailers.

However, hikes in minimum wages in a number of states and reports that prominent companies are having to offer higher pay to attract workers may start to show up in wage statistics in the months ahead.

Other limiting factors are low wage growth, high unemployment, the large numbers of workers who have dropped out of the labor force, declining home prices, higher tax payments and a flattening out of transfer payments.

The Rubio aide was arguing for increasing the number of low - skill guest workers in the construction industry despite high unemployment among low - skill Americans and noncitizen residents.

The New York gubernatorial race has a number of colorful candidates, including Jimmy McMillan, a former postal worker running as a member of the «Rent Is 2 Damn High» party.

Each of the three that would be amended by the highest number of bills he introduced — Labor, Insurance, and Worker's Compensation — intersect with the areas handled by the Labor Committee he chairs.

PolitiFact has not looked into whether the state has also had an inordinate number of sex scandals, but two high profile cases come to mind: In 2008, New York Governor Elliot Spitzer resigned after revelations that he had hired a sex worker, and former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner is in prison for sexting a minor.

The public outcry and the criticism of social services which followed high profile cases of child abuse, such as those of Victoria Climbie and baby Peter Connelly, was reported to have resulted in increased numbers of children being taken into care as social workers erred on the side of caution.

That two million workers you speak of, although the number is higher, are not working because Obama has no clue what he's doing.

«I'm surprised at how bad and how high that number is,» said Arthur Wheaton, the director of Western New York Labor and Environmental Programs for The Worker Institute at Cornell University.

The comptroller also said that the company received a high number of complaints about its workers» «unprofessional telephone manner.»

He wants to raid a fund for workers compensation, with the promise of reforming the entire system, and raise a small number of fees, including higher fines for texting or using a cell phone while driving.

Tory MPs predicted that the crisis would end any chance of a snap election, while grassroots campaigners in marginal seats with high numbers of self - employed workers suggested the issue could be decisive.

The report advises communities hoping to increase the number of high - paid STEM workers in their areas that urging students to major in STEM is not likely to work.

The numbers of foreign - born workers in S&E increased from 14 % to 22 % from 1990 to 2000 — with increasingly higher percentages at higher degree levels, while U.S. citizens earned fewer S&E bachelor's degrees from 1985 to 2000.

The disproportionately high number of nonresident alien S&E workers effectively lowered wages and stipends, which lowered research costs and wages, according to a report by Alan Fechter and Michael Teitelbaum5 and another report by David North.3 (Fechter is president of the board of the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology and Teitelbaum is vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform.)

A lawyer who made a fortune as an early investor in the telecommunications firm Nextel and other high - tech startups, Warner has long advocated increasing the number of H - 1B skilled temporary worker visas and «stapling a green card to every Ph.D.» as ways of encouraging innovation.

Ebola has infected more than 15,000 people, the majority of them in West Africa, and a higher number of health workers than in any previous outbreak.

Farm workers have higher rates of many cancers, and increasing numbers of studies are starting to link a higher body burden of pesticides (from all sources) with Parkinson's disease.

OSHA might visit for any number of reasons, including worker complaints, a high number of reported injuries or illnesses, repeat violations, a catastrophic event or, as mentioned, a random surprise inspection.

in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs; the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons; the incidence of unemployment, especially long - term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers; their numbers are great and growing; and their employment problems grave; the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.

The Mile - High City reached third place in this study, with a solid 1.8 percent jump in the number of workers and a 1.4 percentage point drop in the unemployment rate.

If we take a low estimate of 0.25 % growth per year over 11 years, a mid-range estimate of 0.5 % and a high estimate of 0.75 %, this increases our estimated number of workers from 123,033 to a range of 126,459 - 133,573:

In fact, one aspect of this study revealed that workers with a higher number of late payments actually received higher performance ratings.

Some areas across the country are more densely populated with veterinary assistants as California has the highest number of any state with roughly 10,000 workers.

The total number of workers who will get the axe, could be as high as 160.

Now, the new tariffs enacted by the Trump Administration will reshuffle that artificially high amount, reducing the number of workers in solar installation (for example) while boosting the number of workers in solar manufacturing.

Even so, the total number of U.S. workers in «solar» is still artificially high, compared to a situation where the U.S. tax code just applied the same rate to all firms, and didn't have special credits for some domestic firms, or penalties on foreign imports.

Unions for Jobs and the Environment (UJAE), an organization of 12 national and international labor unions, including the United Mine Workers, the Teamsters and the Sheet Metal Workers, thinks the ozone revision «would lead to significant job losses across the country during a period of high unemployment, due to the significant increase in the number of counties classified as nonattainment.»

On paper, Burma supplies less than 10 percent of China's log imports, but industry workers say the numbers must be at least twice as high.

From 2007 to 2011, Texas held the record for the highest number of refinery / plant worker deaths occurring on - site with 199 fatalities during that five year period.

It attributes this discrepancy partly to «the disproportionate female to male ratio in the firm, particularly in business support teams, as well as the high numbers of part - time female workers» and says it is committed to working hard to improve these statistics.

In the UK, the Agency Workers Regulations furthermore limit the extent of pay during those periods, an option that has been used by a number of high profile UK employers but has also been criticised by some as being contrary to the spirit of the Directive.

A number of high profile UK employers engage agency workers in reliance upon the derogation and are monitoring closely developments in this area.

Their high numbers may reflect attempts to bypass legislation protecting agency workers, and the state of the economy.

«While some current and former prosecutors say they are compensated fairly, a greater number grouse privately that many of the hardest workers are not the highest earners,» reporter Stephanie Barry writes.

Many workers» compensation law firms handle a high volume of cases, at our law firm, you'll never feel like just a number.

I was always given to understand by WSIB staff that employer fraud, such as under reporting the number of employees, failing to report accidents, and fraudulently misrepresenting payroll to avoid premiums, was much higher than workers trying to make a fraudulent claim.