Sentences with phrase «increasing labour costs»

Currently, the cost of this is as high as 5 % of a manufacturer's turnover driven by factors such as increasing labour costs.

Taking your historical financial data and re-forecasting your expenses with the increased labour costs your business will experience when the minimum wage increase is fully implemented will help you understand the impact the minimum wage increase will have on your cash flow.

Also the increasing labour cost of about 10 - 15 percent has led a 15 - 20 percent rise in the premium.

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Businesses have been sounding the alarm for some time, warning that higher labour costs will lead to price increases, layoffs and reduced hours for the people who can least afford it.

Perhaps most important, an increased focus on innovation could also counter the relatively high cost of Canadian labour and the impact of the more valuable dollar on export levels.

The company has warned that it expects to experience pressure on food and labour costs this year, with unstable cheese prices and increased payroll taxes looming.

Food is a restaurant's most expensive cost after labour, said Rilett, who anticipates another bump in prices when the minimum wage impact ripples into the price of food as farmers, processors and others also face increased costs.

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.

The economy is operating at a high level of capacity utilisation, the labour market is relatively tight, and there have been some large increases in raw materials costs.

But if that innovation itself requires labour to think up the new idea, test it, and implement it, then high wages increase the costs of innovation too.

These increases can partly be attributed to rising costs for skilled labour and materials such as steel.

These prices continue to rise more rapidly than building - materials prices, suggesting that profit margins and / or labour costs in the residential construction sector have increased in response to the recent strength in demand for residential construction work and the rise in prices of established houses.

As a result, there has been no increase in the cost of labour required to produce a unit of output.

Thus, the employer's total cost of hiring labour should not be significantly increased after all of the economic adjustments have taken place.»

A number of provincial governments are understandably reluctant to do anything that might significantly increase the cost of labour and therefore weaken an already - fragile economy.

House purchase costs increased by 2 per cent in the June quarter and by 5 1/4 per cent over the year, as ongoing strength in the construction sector resulted in rising costs of materials and labour.

Overall, unit labour costs are expected to increase at an average rate of between 2 1/2 and 3 per cent over the next couple of years.

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.

Non-tradables price inflation continues to be affected by strength in house purchase costs, which increased by 5 1/2 per cent over the year; this increase is the result of rising costs of skilled labour and materials.

This increase was largely attributable to house purchase costs — which rose by 1 per cent in the quarter, to be 6.4 per cent higher over the year — in turn reflecting higher costs of labour and materials.

Price pressures in the construction industry were stronger, amid reports of increasing labour and material input costs, in particular for steel and cement.

The latest NAB business survey shows total labour costs increasing at close to their fastest pace of the past five years, although still considerably slower than in the mid 1990s.

Their growth was accelerated by a rapid increase in exports to industrialised countries with whom they successfully competed thanks to low labour costs.

Barden said that input costs are rising on everything from commodities to labour to energy, and the six years of retail price deflation and rising labour costs the industries had undergone «continues to cut margins, placing the sector under increasing pressure».

Healthy Farm's CEO Mr Evgeny Sergeevich Narukov: «With previous Meyn projects, we already dramatically reduced labour costs and increased the quality of our final product.

Coles says its «preliminary analysis» is that the proposed order could increase transport costs by about 25 per cent or $ 300 million a year, but does not break this down between labour and rules costs.

The report further details the importance of access to skilled and unskilled labour to avoid an increase in operating costs and impact on margins.

Earnings in Indonesia were also expected to fall this year because of increased competition from new rivals such as Big Cola, rising labour and fuel costs and currency depreciation.

The evidence that is available about food production and processing, but not included in the Green Paper, is that the sector's businesses are in the main under considerable financial pressure as a result of falling real commodity prices, rising input costs, increased government regulations, rising labour costs, and lower retail margins.

Tonight it was three natural at any cost mothers, along with midwives insisting that epis slow down labour and increase the liklihood of instrumental deliveries.

«Our analysis — modelled on the default scenario that the UK withdraws completely from the EU and fails to reach trade and customs agreements with remaining EU member states — opens the door to the possibility that Scottish businesses and taxpayers will face a range of additional financial burdens in the form of increased trading and labour costs.

Outsourcing and increasing the role of the private sector in public service provision is at the heart of both Labour and Conservative plans for reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

Labour says the increased tuition fee charges will cost the taxpayer because of the subsidy paid on student loans.

It takes real political guts to increase spending overseas at a time of desperate cost - cutting but the coalition is doing it, from # 6.6 bn in Labour's last full year in power to a planned # 8bn this year.

In Copeland Tory support increased by no less than 8.5 points — the biggest increase in support for a government party since Harold Wilson's Labour government won the Hull North byelection in January 1966 (at the cost, incidentally, of a promise to build the Humber Bridge).

In the real world the cost of Labour's equality and diversity agenda is the increasing number of passengers carried by organisations both private and public.

Stronger In's polling is crystal clear: what Labour and the rest of the pro-Remain forces need to do is increase the salience of the economic costs of quitting the single market, in the words of one senior source, «remind Labour voters they have the most to lose from a recession».

«Labour is committed to reforming standards, driving down costs and increasing security in the private rented sector».

There had been reports that an increasing number of Labour MPs and members of the NEC had been attempting to get the election for the position of deputy leader abandoned in order to save the # 2,000,000 it was estimated that the contest would cost.

87 % of house builders believe that Welsh Labour Government regulation has significantly increased their costs, according to a recent survey conducted by the Welsh Liberal Democrats.

The cost of electricity for the site increased by # 90,800 from 2010 - 11 to 2011 - 12, according to a parliamentary answer obtained by Labour MP Luciana Berger.

The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».

In his main television interview of the Labour conference, Miliband dismissed recent poor opinion polls as he said he would be focusing on the increasing costs of living.

He estimated that Labour's planned increase in NI contributions would cost the NHS, the country's largest employer, # 200m.

Similarly, I've argued that Labour should focus on growth as well as the cost of living; in other words, making the economic pie bigger, in addition to sharing it more equitably; being a party of increased production, not simply fairer distribution.

This system also helps meet other green criteria like the Eco-School and Ofsted awards, and doesn't incur significant additional costs or increase the time and labour taken to manage the process.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

which showed that unit labour costs in the U.K. increased by 3.5 % in Q1 2017, which is much better than the original estimate of +2.1 % and is the strongest reading in four years to boot.

And as it turns out, to ONS did release a revised labour productivity report which showed that unit labour costs in the U.K. increased by 3.5 % in Q1 2017, which is much better than the original estimate of +2.1 % and is the strongest reading in four years to boot.

From 1st April 2017, «businesses with limited costs, such as many labour - only businesses» will have their VAT flat rate percentage increased to 16.5 %.