Sentences with phrase «hours are on the increase»

Clearly, average weekly earnings will rise faster than the average if the proportion of full - timers in an industry is high and rising, and if hours are on the increase.

Not exact matches

The deal is already favourable to the French: the agreed - on strike price for Hinkley C's electricity — around $ 150 per megawatt hour — is double current energy rates and could increase further if another U.K. nuclear plant currently on the drawing board is not built.

«This increase in hours worked is very good news and shows that small businesses have work to do,» says Susan Woodward, an economist who worked with Intuit on the report.

Sara Slane, vice president of public affairs at the American Gaming Association, said she believes a favorable ruling would help to increase viewership, in a world where people are no longer fond of sitting and watching an event for hours on end.

Despite the trend towards increased workplace flexibility in the form of perks like unlimited PTO, working from home and staggered hours to cut down on commute time, more Millennials are job hopping or leaving behind the security of full - time employment to join the gig economy.

The country is also second only to the U.S. in share of GDP spent on post-secondary education and closely trailed Taiwan in increased manufacturing hours during the recession recovery in 2009 and 2010.

However, it appears many small business owners are instead focusing on slow and steady growth, and driving up productivity to increase margins with the use of technology, fewer workers, and more hours.

Within hours of the presidential election, Washington politicians turned to the most urgent issue facing them: the fiscal cliff looming on Jan. 1, when more than $ 100 billion in automatic spending cuts and $ 500 billion of tax increases will be triggered.

«The evidence that I have seen is that jobs are in fact increased because there is economic activity increased and because people have a little bit of spare money, which on $ 11 an hour you never have.»

For children who use mobile every day, they are spending on average one hour and seven minutes, an increase from 2011's findings of 43 minutes.

From soaring fuel costs to lost work hours to increased greenhouse gases, transportation gridlock is like slow - drip torture on the economy, gradually sapping its productivity.

Basically went from just an employee to being charge of 15 + people in a less than 8 months increasing my work hours from 45 to 70 + per week along with 1 - 2 hours of working at home catching up on paperwork each night.

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What we have seen with the parabolic thousand point increase, and we are at a thousand points at 8:26 pm EST on November 29th, Bitcoin crossed the $ 10,000 mark and it didn't even take it 12 hours to go across the $ 11,000 dollar mark.

If the credit is based on annual instead of hourly earnings, workers might even reduce their hours to increase their after - tax income.

Unit labour costs (based on compensation per hour worked) increased by 0.9 per cent in the March quarter, to be 2.4 per cent higher over the year.

To some extent this result was boosted by differences in timing between the recent increases in output and employment growth, with the pick - up in output growth preceding that in employment (see below); it also appears to be based on implausibly low estimates of the increase in hours worked.

In comparison, British Columbia's minimum wage is currently $ 11.35 per hour, but will increase to $ 12.65 on June 1.

He told Premier's News Hour: «Over the last five years, this is a government - for the first time since the War - where living standards have decreased and not increased on their watch.

However, standard economic development theory focused on increasing productivity, that is, the amount of goods produced per hour of human labor.

It is by specialization that productivity is increased; and economic growth depends on productivity, that is, the amount produced per hour of labor.

-- On a lower speed, add eggs one at a time and vanilla until well incorporated — Increase mixing speed to high and let it go for 10 minutes — the mixture will become really pale and will almost double in size — In a medium sized bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt — When 10 minutes are up, add flour mixture slowly until just combined, about 45 - 60 seconds — Chop up and mix together all of your baking and snack ingredients in a small bowl, and fold into batter with a spatula until just incorporated — Using a medium - sized ice cream scoop, portion cookie dough on parchment paper - lined cookie sheet and wrap the entire thing tightly with plastic wrap — Refrigerate for a minimum of 1 hour and up to 1 week — Heat oven to 400F and arrange cookies on cookie sheets at least 4 ″ apart — Bake 9 - 11 minutes, until they are golden in color and slightly brown along the edges — Cool the cookies completely on the sheet pan (or just eat them immediately..On a lower speed, add eggs one at a time and vanilla until well incorporated — Increase mixing speed to high and let it go for 10 minutes — the mixture will become really pale and will almost double in size — In a medium sized bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt — When 10 minutes are up, add flour mixture slowly until just combined, about 45 - 60 seconds — Chop up and mix together all of your baking and snack ingredients in a small bowl, and fold into batter with a spatula until just incorporated — Using a medium - sized ice cream scoop, portion cookie dough on parchment paper - lined cookie sheet and wrap the entire thing tightly with plastic wrap — Refrigerate for a minimum of 1 hour and up to 1 week — Heat oven to 400F and arrange cookies on cookie sheets at least 4 ″ apart — Bake 9 - 11 minutes, until they are golden in color and slightly brown along the edges — Cool the cookies completely on the sheet pan (or just eat them immediately..on parchment paper - lined cookie sheet and wrap the entire thing tightly with plastic wrap — Refrigerate for a minimum of 1 hour and up to 1 week — Heat oven to 400F and arrange cookies on cookie sheets at least 4 ″ apart — Bake 9 - 11 minutes, until they are golden in color and slightly brown along the edges — Cool the cookies completely on the sheet pan (or just eat them immediately..on cookie sheets at least 4 ″ apart — Bake 9 - 11 minutes, until they are golden in color and slightly brown along the edges — Cool the cookies completely on the sheet pan (or just eat them immediately..on the sheet pan (or just eat them immediately...)

Airport bars in Britain could be subject to a crack down on opening hours, following a 50 % increase in drunken flyers last year.

Unfortunately you have to increase the time to nearly an hour (I made this in a loaf pan, and the bread fooled me into thinking it was done in half an hour by not leaving residue on the toothpick) and check every ten minutes after the first half.

«Increasing the number of fermenters allows us to increase our volume but the other big thing we did was we went to 24 - hour brewing in March this year so our brewing schedule starts at 7 o'clock on a Sunday night and runs 24 hours a day through to a Thursday night or Friday morning depending on how our fermenters are doing.»

Staal grewup on his family's sod farm in Thunder Bay, Ont., and like the three brothersdestined to follow him into the NHL - defenseman Marc, 19, may play for the NewYork Rangers next season; center Jordan, 17, should be drafted in the top fivethis Saturday; and 15 - year - old Jared is on track to develop into a pro-caliberwinger-he began driving the tractor at around age six, rolling sod (the pay: $ 5an hour, with yearly increases of a buck, only slightly less than a Stanley Cupshare).

«As mobile gaming expands with increased smartphone and tablet penetration, we're seeing a very broad and diverse audience develop for mobile gaming, with women comprising 68 % of mobile gamers who play on their smartphone or tablet for at least an hour each day,» said Anders Evju, the CEO of PlayPhone.

British fathers» care of infants and young children rose 800 % between 1975 and 1997, from 15 minutes to two hours on the average working day — at double the rate of mothers» (Fisher et al., 1999) despite the fact that over this period fathers» time spent at work was also increasing (Gray, 2006).

My 7 month old girl is on a 4 hour schedule, eating some solids (small quantity, trying to increase but she prefers to nurse).

Power pumping is similar to cluster pumping, but takes a bit less time as you'll only need to plan on doing this for a 1 - 2 hour block each day, after which you should see an increase in milk supply.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

She reports that prep time for each bar is only 15 minutes, and that she's never had to add additional staff or increase hours to accommodate the bars, though she does count on parent volunteers to help monitor them.

Being educated on the subject I knew the fact that I was essentially strapped to the bed and already having the intervention of Induction along with pushing for 4 hours the likelihood of the vacuum, forceps or caesarean were increasing.

Ways to increase milk supply would include having a nursing honeymoon, go to bed and spend 24 to 48 hours skin to skin and breastfeeding on demand, with your sole focus being breastfeeding.

Fever over 100.4 º F (38º C) during labor is five times more likely overall for women using an epidural; 44 this rise in temperature is more common in women having their first babies, and more marked with prolonged exposure to epidurals.45 For example, in one study, 7 percent of first - time mothers laboring with an epidural were feverish after six hours, increasing to 36 percent after 18 hours.46 Maternal fever can have a significant effect on the baby (see below).

Newborns should be nursed whenever they show signs of hunger, such as increased alertness or activity, mouthing, or rooting.85 Crying is a late indicator of hunger.86 Newborns should be nursed approximately 8 to 12 times every 24 hours until satiety, usually 10 to 15 minutes on each breast.87, 88 In the early weeks after birth, nondemanding babies should be aroused to feed if 4 hours have elapsed since the last nursing.89, 90 Appropriate initiation of breastfeeding is facilitated by continuous rooming - in.91 Formal evaluation of breastfeeding performance should be undertaken by trained observers and fully documented in the record during the first 24 to 48 hours after delivery and again at the early follow - up visit, which should occur 48 to 72 hours after discharge.

If you'd like to increase your supply by breast pumping (because remember breastfeeding on demand is easier if your baby is well enough to do it) then you might want to consider pumping every hour during the day for just a few minutes.

If you think you have low milk supply I want to help you feel more ease by telling you that your breasts are likely to increase their supply very quickly (within 24 - 48 hours) if you breastfeed on demand.

As I previously mentioned, the first seventy - two hours are extremely critical to successfully nursing your twins and having your babies at your side, ready to nurse on demand (or every two hours at least) will help to initiate that and greatly increase your chances for success.

The next day — 2 times for half an hour, and gradually increase the frequency and duration of being outside until he starts spendning the whole day on the balcony.

A balance of various nutrients especially folic acid, omega 3 fatty acids, iron and calcium are essential for the proper development of the little babyb Overeating must also be avoidede Drinking plenty of water increases the metabolism rate as well as prevents dehydration and water retentiono Regular exercise in the form of a daily swim or a half an hour walk daily are useful in keeping the expectant mother fit and flexible as well as reduces the chances of excessive weight gaini The 4 weeks pregnancy weight gain calculator is beneficial in keeping track of pregnancy weight gain and is based on weight prior to conceptiono A weight gain calculator must be used throughout the term of the pregnancy as it indicates if the expectant mother needs to put on more weight for the wellbeing of her baby or control weight gain to prevent excessive weighth Low weight gain as well as excessive weight gain can prove detrimental to the success of the pregnancyc

In fact, the little data that is available on this says that infants who are in the adult be to breastfeed and are then placed back to sleep in a safe crib are not at increased risk of SIDS (those would be the infants like my babies who bedshared in adult bed accidentally because the mother did not plan or intend to bedshare but passed out while night nursing and woke up several hours later).

Business owners say that a session that saw the minimum wage increase, to eventually $ 15 an hour in New York City and $ 12.50 upstate, along with a phased - in partial paid family leave, will be costly to smaller employers who operate on the edge in a shaky economy.

Lawmakers created a different schedule for increasing the state's minimum wage for all workers in Upstate New York than Cuomo's wage board used last year when it ordered that the minimum wage for fast food workers be gradually increased until it reaches $ 15 an hour on July 1, 2021.

He says if it were to be increased solely on the basis of inflation, it would still be under $ 8 an hour.

Speaking in a packed auditorium in the Boys and Girls and Club on Bailey Avenue near Genesee Street, Cuomo said thousands of people will benefit if the minimum wage is increased from the current $ 8.75 an hour to $ 10.50 an hour.

The current state minimum wage is $ 8 an hour, and slated to increase to $ 8.75 on Dec. 31 and $ 9 on Dec. 31, 2015.

Though she supports Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for a phased - in increase in the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, she is concerned about its impact on non-profits and small businesses.

The settlement included a wage increase on par with the rising cost of living, but in exchange, there was reform to the employees» active health insurance, retiree health insurance, paid time - off benefit package and employee work hours.

And with the increases coming in gradual steps well into the next decade before we see an actual $ 15 an hour, one would think the impact on those who are paying for that increase — including you and me — would be minimal.