Sentences with phrase «labor hours worked»

Coal mining productivity: Coal mining productivity is calculated by dividing total coal production by the total direct labor hours worked by all mine employees.

Average production per miner per hour: The ratio of the total production at a mining operation to the total direct labor hours worked at the operation.

Not exact matches

Most full - time employees work about 8.6 hours, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Corporations have reaped profits off the privatization of prisons and prison labor; some prisoners have gotten paid as little as 12 cents an hour, doing work for corporations, like Victoria's Secret and Walmart.

However, even among full - time workers (those usually working 35 hours or more per week), men worked longer than women — 8.4 hours, compared with 7.8 hours, respectively, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American works 44 hours per week, or 8.8 hours per day.

He has suggested cutting the corporate tax rate from 33 percent to the E.U. average of 25 percent, for example, and wants to loosen national labor laws so companies can have more freedom to negotiate working hours and pay.

Women have less time for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.

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.

While the metrics on the white board are different, Coach Dave's words remain eternal: energy (number of hours worked of overtime), effort (percentage of new product developments and revenue streams created by non-Bauer family staff) and desperation (the proportion of our overhead to sales, or how efficient we are in utilizing our capital and labor in our hungry quest for higher profit margins) remain an integral part of the winning formula.

While no federal law requires paid breaks, the Department of Labor does say, «Breaks from 5 to 20 minutes must be counted as hours worked.

Even though they are not required by the Fair Labor Standards Act, if you permit your employees to take breaks, they must be counted as hours worked.

A report by the New York - based NGO China Labor Watch says the factories making devices and components for Samsung are guilty of a range of abuses: employees working more than 100 hours of overtime in a month; children under 16 working in factories; failure to provide safety clothing where appropriate.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has shown that working longer hours does not always make you more productive — it just makes you more tired.

Since you always have a choice of where you spend your money, even though some of us conveniently forget uncomfortable truths, Girlfriend Collective's factory uses no forced or child labor, mandates fair working hours and safe conditions, pays living wages, and allows workers to unionize.

A 30 hour work week is seen by some as a way to more evenly distribute the shrinking pool of labor among workers, and reduce the potential of automation to increase income inequality.

There is a big difference, one group live by the income they generate from working many hours per day while the other generate income from accumulate wealth over several generations and many times exploration of labor.

Labor productivity has seen a fivefold increase since the early 1980s, going from an average of 10 hours of work for each finished ton to an average of two hours in 2016, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute.

I can't possibly work longer hours than I already am, I've been killing myself for years in that department and I'm actually cutting back some to try to preserve my health, but we've been living lean for awhile now and still looking for ways to save, so I'm also looking for ways to increase my income without adding a ton of extra hours and labor.

Labor productivity, or output per hours worked, increased at a 1.9 % annual rate from July through September, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Consequently, even «best practices» that fully enforce Title VII «are insufficient to realize a labor market responsive to the needs of low - income workers for adequate wages, safe work conditions, and work hours and schedules that allow for fulfilling family and civic lives.»

-LRB-...) The CBO combines estimates of the country's labor potential — how many people are working or looking for work, and how many hours a week people are working — with estimates of the nation's capacity to produce goods and provide services.

That's great if (1) you want to lie to the government and (2) there is no paper trail otherwise of the financial fruits of your labor so no way to track you (this is why your accountant says number of hours worked doesn't matter.

Using data on hours worked and earnings, one can craft a labor income proxy that is up 1.8 percent, well below its 20 - year average of 3 percent.

Nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased 0.7 percent during the first quarter of 2018, as output increased 2.8 percent and hours worked increased 2.1 percent.

Domestic workers face a wide range of serious abuses and labor exploitation, including excessive working hours without rest, non-payment of wages, forced confinement, physical and sexual abuse, forced labor, and trafficking.

However, the presence of such a God in the daylight working hours would only disrupt our labor and embarrass our fellow workers.

Clearly, if the same number of people continue working an equal amount of time, then the total production of a country will rise when they produce more per hour of labor.

They constitute one - half of the world population and one - third of the official labor force, perform nearly tw6 - thirds of the hours worked, and receive only one - tenth of the world income and own less than one - hundredth of the world property.

Ninety percent of the food - and wood - gathering work in African families is done by women, who spend 40 billion hours per year — the equivalent of the entire French workforce's annual labor — collecting water.

The labor et virtus of our time — and surely we live in an age of intense self - discipline, long hours at work, and seemingly boundless activity — does not strive toward the founding of a new city.

You do not know about working hard as I have done both, hard labor for 16 hours a day and 16 hours day in executive management.

Women workers who are still employed face worsening conditions including extremely low wage, long working hours and labor accidents.

The entire nation embarked on a campaign in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century to control rapacious business, to clean up government, to democratize more fully our political institutions, to protect labor with better hours and pay, safer working conditions, and anti-child-labor laws.

the same thing has been said about social security, medicare, minimum wage the 40 hour work week, overtime, child labor laws you name it.

He would be a new king who was also an intensely ambitious builder and who in consequence demanded from all of Egypt's forces of labor increased hours, an increased tempo, and more bitter, harried working conditions.

... Yes, we will make them work, but in the hours free from labor we will arrange their lives like a children's game, with children's songs, choruses, and innocent dancing.

«the grueling hours and the physical labor involved is one of the main reasons that I'm permanently damaged, both physically and psychologically» I've only worked in 1 hotel, 2 bakeries after i became a baker.

According to documents filed with the state labor board, AFSCME has requested to represent «all full and part - time, non-professional (park district) employees who work over 1,000 hours» annually.

This 12 - hour hands - on workshop is designed to prepare birth doulas with the tools and skills to provide extended labor support services to home birthing families and the strategies to work cooperatively with the home birth midwifery team.

Rosa Aliberti Rosa has worked on diverse labor and employment law matters, including wage and hour cases; workplace investigations; severance, employment, and non-compete agreements; has drafted and responded to discrimination complaints before government agencies, including the U.S. EEOC and NYS Division of Human Rights; and, has assisted in federal and state court litigations.

All we ever hear about is moms being pregnant, being in labor for hours on end, giving birth, breastfeeding or bottle feeding, and either staying at home and keeping everything together or going to work and balancing a career and motherhood.

Those early hours of labor are a blur... I think it was pretty doable, but felt like real work.

But where work we always get an initial tracing to make sure baby is fine, and then if mom wants it or if it seems like it would help her labor we monitor twenty minutes out of an hour if she is out of bed walking or moving around a lot.

Nurses at the hospital work in 12 hour shifts, so depending on how long you are in labor, you may need a new copy for each nurse if it is not left in the room.

Working out really did help my pelvic floor be very strong for labor, and soaking in the bath for over three hours, also helped me expand.

I am strong because my epidural stopped working when it became time to push at 30 + plus hours, and I had all back labor with the baby posterior.

It worked for kickstarting labor, but my labor lasted 45 hours!

After hours of doing such hard work, mom doesn't want labor to slow down.

We learned a ton of really useful, practical information that made labor and birth feel way less scary and much more approachable, and it was a dedicated few hours a week where instead of having to worry about work and everything else, we got to just focus on the fact that our baby was actually coming.