Sentences with phrase «in labour costs if»

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But that doesn't amount to much if labour costs are less than 13 % of total costs, which Brodd and Helou say is the case for lithium battery manufacturers in the U.S.

And while GWNFA has complained that head office is not allowing franchisees to raise their price points in response to the minimum wage increase in Ontario, their biggest operating region, head office might fear that «if customer counts are down and franchisees raise their prices to cover the labour cost increase, that will drive more customers away,» Fisher said.

If labour were in short supply, there would be an economic cost to workers choosing to leave the labour market to collect EI.

«If mom was a lawyer and dropped out of the labour force for four or five years, the family gave up the opportunity cost of maybe $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 a year in order to bring that child to a point where he could enter the education system,» says Ward.

It remains to be seen if the consequent rise in unit labour costs is a precursor to greater inflationary pressures or if it will be absorbed into profit margins.

The high cost of transport is an issue if they're to manufacture them here and export; however, Ashley says the posts can be manufactured in any country, using the country's recycled plastic, its timber and labour force.

Here in percentage terms (after factoring in fixed costs and manifesto pledges) are the degree to which the IFS thinks you are in the dark: you don't know 87 per cent of the cuts Labour would have to make if they stuck to their election promises, 82 per cent of the Tory cuts that would come your way, 74 per cent of the cuts the Lib Dems would have to make.

Imagine if he'd turned out to be an unpopular leader who had stuck to his central message that Labour needed to move to the right, entertain radical reform of public services, tackle the deficit through cuts and be avowedly pro-business, even though many commentators and many in his party thought that the cost of living crisis and pre-distribution were more important themes.

Perhaps if Labour had reciprocated the cooperation shown to them by the Conservatives when Labour were in government we wouldn't have had to endure the horrors of last Thursday, the injuries to police and members of the public, or the millions in costs to repair the damage and pay for the huge policing operation.

According to our figures (and I keep asking you to use the figures set out in the Liberal Democrat and Labour document not the figures given by the IFS who state they got their figures from these documents but actually give different figures) to reverse the cuts to Universal Credit cost # 3.665 billion and as I pointed out above these are the reductions in the amounts a person can keep before they start to lose their benefit, which were set much higher than the old benefits, but the withdrawal rate seemed to be higher with Universal Credit (65 % [reduced to 62 %] than with Tax Credit (41 % on gross income).

In an agreement with the last Labour Government, workers pick up the bill if people end up living longer than expected and pension costs overshoot projections.

If, under normal use and maintenance, a major component requires repair or replacement during this period, the cost of parts and / or labour will be covered in full.

And if labour costs actually rise generally with increased productivity, the absolute cost of legal work will increase as lawyer incomes rise with productivity in other sectors [13].

But, again, even if you are a qualified lawyer in whatever low cost centre you are based, is repetitive labour that a non-qualified person could do really legal work?

«If you look at the big picture, Europe has led the way in developing advanced manufacturing processes, in part because of labour costs, while North America's industrial decline has been offset by a focus on the service sector and, latterly, consumer technology,» said Danian Zhang, Chief Representative, Baker & McKenzie Shanghai.

If Labour or a coalition are returned we might expect that the whole reform programme, at least that pulling on the public purse and its cost will be abandoned in the short term or at the very least pushed to the back burner.