Sentences with phrase «hours for workers»

The nuclear industry applauds the cost inflation, which means more jobs and longer work hours for workers.

The Fair Work Act's definition of ordinary hours for workers not under an award or agreement caps them at 38 hours.

Mr. Shafran added, «We think there are substantial legal issues with reducing hours for workers who are under a collectively bargained contract.»

«They will have to find ways to absorb that increase, whether it's fewer hours for workers, cutbacks in other employee benefits,» said Mozloom of the NFIB.

But McNeil says he believes that would mean fewer hours for workers.

Alaska airlines and other businesses operating near the Seattle - Tacoma International Airport, which approved a raise to $ 15 an hour for workers this winter, are also suing to stop the increase there.

They range from legislation to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour for workers not already covered under the governor's series of executive actions, to massive infrastructure projects, including the renovation of Penn Station, $ 22 billion worth of road and bridge upgrades upstate, and expansion of the Long Island Railroad.

Between 30 and 40 people turned out Wednesday at City Hall in a cold drizzle to lobby in support of a countywide living wage of $ 14.34 an hour for a worker whose employer does not offer health benefits.

The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Fiscal Policy Institute and the Human Services Council are leading a robust statewide coalition of nonprofit providers to call for Governor Cuomo to: Raise the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour for all workers in New York State, including human services workers AND Amend government human services contracts to fund the wage increase.

The governor is also pressing the State Senate to agree to pass a law to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour for workers not covered by his executive action that apply to fast food workers and state workers.

Cuomo has proposed gradually increasing the minimum wage from $ 9 an hour to $ 15 an hour for all workers in New York.

Not exact matches

Bills to raise the federal minimum wage, currently at $ 7.25 an hour, for other workers have gotten signficant pushback from lawmakers, who recently killed legislation in the Senate.

Just across the border, two hours from Buffalo, NY, and four hours from Detroit, Toronto can make you feel like you never left home, yet enjoy a much better cost of living and plenty of talented workers available for hire.

The Taipei - based manufacturer, who also does work for Dell and Hewlett - Packard, suffered a rash of worker suicides and had one worker die after a 34 - hour shift.

IT»S a constant dilemma for those working in remote and isolated mining locations; a worker identifies a hazard but it's potentially hours before anyone else is made aware of it.

Conveniently, 1099 workers (referring to the tax reporting form for freelancers) can hit the ground running and complete projects quickly in exchange for an agreed - upon compensation rate, which is usually a higher wage per hour or job.

The company supplied a room and two hours» paid time per week for the workers.

For a Harvard Business Review study, three consultants examined the Outlook calendars of multiple workers at a large company and found that one weekly executive meeting consumed 300,000 hours each year.

Squeezing more hours out of workers is a short - term fix to labour shortages for some employers.

With many modern - day workers changing careers as casually and quickly as if they were swapping smart phones, it's become less common for people to accumulate the hours to reach the rarified air of mastery.

The investigation witnessed a worker chucking a live chick in a wheelbarrow of dead and dying birds and leaving it for an hour, before coming back to empty the wheelbarrow into another bin.

Disney responded to a nationally directed labor campaign in 2014 when it agreed to a $ 10 - an - hour minimum wage for workers.

Are our strange work hours a simple reflection of tech - enabled flexibility and Americans» passion for their jobs, or a sign that bosses» sanity and workers» rights really need to be better protected?

Set a schedule for gig workers and keep everyone updated on their working hours.

For other workers like salespeople and inspectors, who spend many hours on the road, but whose primary job is not driving, AI could make them far more productive.

While some startups, such as Taskrabbit, have attempted to address some of the inequity invovled in being a contract worker, for example by setting a wage floor of $ 11.20 an hour — higher than the proposed national minimum wage of $ 10.10 — and providing some discounts for health care and transportation, contractors clearly need a lot more.

These nurses may collect a housing allowance and can have a say over their hours and choice of hospitals, which need these contract workers to fill in for staff out on maternity leave (normally for 13 weeks), or felled by a bad flu season.

The Center for Automotive Research has estimated that Mexican auto assembly workers average under $ 6 an hour, with workers in parts plants averaging less than $ 3 an hour.

And in October, named plaintiff Stan Saporito filed his own suit alleging the company doesn't provide enough labor hours to its workers for everything that needs to get done, then requires them to work off the clock to finish tasks.

It could also have a public benefit if it lessens the need for governments to build highways designed for rush - hour commuting or for workers to spend $ 100 a week or more on transportation, parking, coffee, lunches and so on.

1867: Workers who were «exhausted by 12 to 14 hours a day of work, six days a week,» call for the Illinois Legislature to limit workdays to eight hours, according to the Chicago Historical Society.

Places like New York are instituting a $ 15 an hour wage for fast food workers, which many restaurant owners say is too high and will result in either restaurant closures or staff layoffs.

After the eight months, Gap began posting workers» hours two weeks in advance and stopped scheduling them for on - call shifts.

Fasting workers go without food and water for 14 hours a day.

1926: Ford Motor issues a five - day, 40 - hour workweek for its workers in a newsworthy move by founder and business titan Henry Ford.

There are six countries where workers take home more than $ 8 an hour, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

But the dramatic economic downturn in the world economy that hurt so many workers starting in 2008 only accelerated a decades - long trend toward more precarious jobs and the unstable hours, low wages, minimal benefits and insecurity that this work means for so many.

An hour of an American worker's labour, for example, produces far more output than an hour of a Chinese worker's labour.

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

Workers in the company's dock crew, for example, are paid hourly wages for half of the hours they put in, and the rest of their paycheque is directly linked to their productive output.

Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.

A recent study by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation found that workers typically spend one hour of their workday browsing social media, rising to 1.8 hours for millennials.

That's bad news for most workers, who typically put in at least 55 hours a week, recently wrote Sara Robinson at Salon.

Workers on private sector contracts, however, will be paid by the government for only 48 hours.

Genentech 100 Best Companies rank: 11 At Genentech all exempt employees and hourly workers who put in at least 20 hours per week are eligible for the company's Long Term Incentive program and receive the grants as part of their overall compensation package.

In addition, the survey also showed that the average U.S. office worker thinks about work for 78 percent of their waking hours during a typical workday, versus 41 percent on a day off.

The world's largest retailer raised wages for its hourly workers to $ 10 per hour earlier this year, but labor groups have called the raise inadequate.

Meanwhile, Maine has become the first state to make it illegal for employers to punish workers for cannabis use during their off hours.

The company is well known for a no - vacation policy that lets workers set their own hours and time - off schedule, as long as they get their work done.

Long hours, for example, may be acceptable if workers believe the loss of leisure time is justified by the extra income.