Sentences with phrase «labor costs down»

You can add «sweat equity» to keep labor costs down.

Major accomplishments include financial statement package, employee handbook, headcount reduction, revised commission compensation package, improved efficiencies to keep labor costs down in support center as well as restaurants.

We've arranged to produce more knowledge workers than we can employ, creating a labor - excess economy that keeps labor costs down and productivity high.

Not exact matches

«These companies are moving out of Asia and coming to Africa to save labor costs,» said Fitsum Arega, who recently stepped down as head of the Ethiopian Investment Commission to become an adviser to the new prime minister.

On its website, the company breaks down how much it costs to make all of its clothes and accessories (labor, materials, transporting the apparel, and duties).

Chemical maker DuPont is providing the resin base, and Nike's engineers say that despite the fact that the raw material costs more than rubber, it's easier and faster to use, cutting down on labor.

To drive down labor costs, a company replaces a regulated, protected class of worker (members of a union) with a non-protected worker (by relocating to non-union states or countries with a lower labor cost).

Uber uses technology to drive down the cost of labor by replacing a regulated, protected class of worker (in this case, taxi drivers) with a non-protected worker (in this case, anyone with a driver's license and decent car).

Uber, whose whole business model depends on low - cost labor, seeks to drive down labor costs even further using more technology (in this case self - driving cars).

«Franchisors will have to put into place compliance networks,» said Michael Lotito, co-chair of Littler's Workplace Policy Institute, part of global employment and labor law firm Littler Mendelson, P.C. Lotito warns compliance - related costs may eventually trickle down to consumers.

As hardware costs go down, the relative costs of labor, permitting, and taxes go up.

Doing so will enable SBP to drive down the market rate cost of contractor labor, while ensuring that more families return home sooner.

The minimum down payment is (currently) just 3.5 % of the total loan amount, and you are allowed to borrow the costs associated with remodeling the home — both labor and material.

Unlike other crisis - hit countries such as Spain and Greece, Italy has yet to implement major economic overhauls or to push down labor and other business costs to levels that would make its industries more competitive abroad.

Their self - destructive real estate bubble has loaded down their labor force with high debt service and housing costs, whilst their giveaway of public infrastructure to insiders (with no price regulation) has led to high basic living costs.

For example, General Electric shut down a profitable and stable flat iron plant in California and opened iron plants in Singapore, Mexico and Brazil, where labor costs are many times cheaper.

So, you've sat down with your doctor to discuss a discount on labor and delivery services and you've checked into how much each service costs.

And to keep costs down in a food service system such as within a school lunch system, the use of labor hours has to be justified.

«It is not an endorsement or defense of Nixon personally, but is a response to union leaders that have rolled out statements today aiming to shut down public discussion of the role that labor contracts have played in cost overruns at the MTA.»

I prefer that the costs go down like labor ect or even the commodity costs to lower our utility bills.

No doubt $ 2.60 per hour increase in labor costs spread over years 4 and 5 down the road could impact family farms, and let me say clearly I believe the slogan: No Farms, No Food.

Re: labor costs — we must resist the temptation to bring ourselves down to China's level.

Distance learning will drive down labor costs, and save taxpayers money.

A sample from 50 districts in ActPoint KPI revealed that the median cost for a district to produce a paycheck is $ 3.59, with labor costs being the number one cost driver — up or down.

Republicans like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Ohio Gov. John Kasich have battled labor groups in supporting laws they argued were necessary to bring down costs for school districts and taxpayers.

AutoMD's Fair Price estimates are calculated for both shop repair and Do - It - Yourself, and are formulated for specificity using average labor costs for each zip code, hours to complete and AutoMD's proprietary real - time market pricing data on millions of vehicle parts - down to engine size and sub-model.

Using a third party servicer also helps lenders cut down on labor costs for tracking repayments.

First, corporate profits benefited in the past seven years because of declining commodity prices and a weak jobs market that drove down the cost of labor.

«The economic reality is that they put a great deal of pressure on managers to keep labor costs and hours down,» Mr. Schlademan said.

Technology impacts every one of those three components, so if you assume for a moment that revenues are the same, if you can substitute technology for labor, your labor costs go down and profit margins go higher.

The minimum down payment is (currently) just 3.5 % of the total loan amount, and you are allowed to borrow the costs associated with remodeling the home — both labor and material.

Most economists expected the government to revise unit labor costs up and productivity down for the fourth quarter because fourth quarter readings on gross domestic product were also sharply revised down.

Although she started with the hotel just before the down economy hit the area, she has been able to maintain labor costs and exceed budgeted room revenues.

In addition to great leaps in energy efficiency still available, closing down a handful of coal - fired clunkers (which almost happened under the last Labor Government) would sharply cut our emissions in short order and at low cost.

Besides that, continuous technology improvement in manufacturing drives down the cost (labor, capital, energy) to produce stuff.

Having already narrowed the available plans down to two potential options, the Aetna Bronze Basic HMO 6500 and the Kaiser Permanente Bronze 60 HDHP HMO 4800/40 % plan, the employer looked specifically the cost associated with prenatal and postnatal care, as well as labor and delivery.

Your property may have gone down as much as 40 % in market value, but its replacement cost is likely to have gone up due to the rising cost of labor and materials.

Designed to protect you against the unexpected, these coverage options include roadside assistance if your car breaks down, towing and labor if you're stranded and rental reimbursement to cover the cost of a rental car while your vehicle is in the shop for accident - related repairs.

As an added benefit, companies can cut down on middleman costs and longer - term hiring costs by going to the open market for skill and labor.

Ovipost's goal is to start at the very beginning of the process, bringing the cost of labor down in order to get that flywheel up and running in the first place: make a lot of crickets, show they're as valuable as they say they are, and then get more visibility from researchers and buyers and get the whole process spinning up quickly.

Laboring under the delusion that one's resume must, at all costs, be contained to a single page, too many applicants make the mistake of boiling their accomplishments down to succinct, trite phases.

Habitat uses non-government donations of funding, materials, professional services and volunteer labor to build simple, decent homes which are sold to qualified low - income families for a 1 % down payment, closing costs, and a zero - equivalent interest mortgage.

A lingering shortage of construction workers is driving up labor costs and slowing down build times for apartment developers and builders.

As Britain cedes its border fluidity with the 27 other European Union countries, new tariffs will drive down U.K. exports, while domestic labor costs will slowly increase as a result of likely more restrictive immigration policies going forward.

Construction costs, particularly labor, have dropped over the last two years and will remain down for the first half of the year, but prices will head up in the second half.