Sentences with phrase «higher staffing costs»

Ipsa blamed the increase on higher staffing costs and said it had helped save the taxpayer # 35 million since its establishment.

While the current owner may run the building «rich» with high staffing costs, market leading advertising and promotion and an expensive repair and maintenance program, the buyer may intend to run the building «lean» when they step in to the owner's shoes.

Not exact matches

Public and private colleges and universities expanded their payrolls by 28 percent between 2000 and 2012, more than 50 percent faster than the previous decade, according to an analysis of higher education staffing by the Delta Cost Project.

In the article, Swinson herself explains that «[l] ast year my staffing costs were significantly higher than usual due to the need to provide cover for three members of staff who were on maternity leave.

The yearly allowance cap (i.e. the maximum an MP can spend) for office costs and staffing is by far the highest among the three budget categories and varies significantly between different MP groups for two main reasons: First, the allowance cap for London MPs is nearly # 10,000 higher than for MPs outside the capital (# 171,400 instead of # 161,850)[3].

In Nassau, officials attributed the historically high overtime costs to staffing needs after a wave of officers retired in recent years and were not immediately replaced as the county negotiated new labor contracts following a three - year wage freeze.

But the proposal worries some local officials who say it could lead to sharply higher costs for juvenile detention and staffing.

«New York's cost is exceptionally high because... the state combines the nation's highest average teacher's salary and relatively high staffing levels (reflected in a well - below - average average pupil - teacher ratio),» the report notes.

Leaders of a high - cost speech therapy program, for example, are driven to explore technologies that enable remote speech therapy and decrease staffing costs.

Superintendent Conley, who has a daughter at the high school, says she is «absolutely in favor» of later starting times for teens but that there are «lots of moving parts» including bus schedules, staffing, athletics, clubs, and transportation costs.

As part of their research, the authors also found that the cost for a 9 - to - 5 school day is somewhere around $ 4 to $ 5 per student per hour, though often much higher, depending on staffing and other factors.

Applications are dropping and costs are up as independent schools wage a facilities arms race and try to deal with escalating technology and staffing costs — at Catholic schools, because the number of nuns is down 72 percent since the mid 1960s, and they have gone from comprising most of the teachers to fewer than 2 percent of them, requiring the hiring of higher - paid lay teachers.

As most of the increased need to spend relates to the cost of employing staff, schools spending a higher than average proportion of their budget on staffing are likely to find it more difficult to manage.

When you consider that the bulk of the cost pressures are related to employment costs, it is fairly evident that schools which spend a higher proportion of their total budget on staffing than average could see unfunded cost increases at a much higher level.

For students to experience lasting benefits from attending summer programs, the report recommends that districts: run programs for at least five weeks; promote high attendance; include sufficient instructional time and protect it; invest in instructional quality; and factor in attendance and likely no - show rates when staffing the programs in order to lower per - student costs.

Are there any issues which incur unusual or unusually high costs such as site issues, staffing issues or any legacy / historical issue?

There are two reasons for this, says Hayler: first, because the cost of rent and staffing are higher in urban centres, and second, because there's a larger customer base willing to pay vast sums of money to dine out — especially in financial and business districts, were meals are often expensed.

Higher prices should reflect proper care (i.e. veterinary costs, quality food and shelter, appropriate levels of staffing for exercising and socialization, vaccinations, microchipping, etc.) but disreputable breeders:

To generate high profits, some commercial breeding facilities cut operational costs, such as staffing levels, veterinarian expenses and shelter conditions.

Rees Morrison: «Weed - whacking litigation costs: Arbitration clauses, staffing and digesting transcripts: Vincent DiCarlo posted a short piece entitled «how to reduce the high cost of litigation»... All the advice mows down the weeds of excess litigation costs, but a few seemed especially cutting edge...»

Profit squeeze: Mid-size law firms will continue to be affected by a «profit squeeze» resulting from (a) increased overhead due to higher associate and staff salaries and benefits; (b) higher automation costs, professional liability insurance and marketing expenses; (c) partners» unwillingness / inability to increase hourly fee rates for «commodity» type work to off - set higher overhead; (d) enhanced client scrutiny of hourly rates, hours to produce work and lawyer and paralegal staffing of work assignments; (e) pressure by corporate counsel for law firms to absorb more of the «soft costs;» (f) slower paying clients, that affect cash flow and hence the availability of distributable dollars for partners; and (g) a great many mid-size law firms are burdened with higher debt.

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