Sentences with phrase «less labor of»

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According to the U.S. Department of Labor, a company with annual revenue of less than $ 500,000 is exempt from FLSA requirements.

He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»

(A handful of states, including Alabama, Arkansas and Minnesota, mandate even less than the federal minimum wage, which was established as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and contained exemptions for some poorer states.)

At $ 22,000 each — less than the price of a minivan — it could easily pay for itself in months, saving a company $ 30,000 a year or more in labor costs per robot.

The labor market recovery so far has made up less than half of the prime - age employment lost in the recession.

We are no more - and no less - heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century.

According to U.S. Department of Labor statistics, female participation in the workforce was less than 40 percent in 1960 but is predicted to reach 62 percent by the year 2015.

He is aiming at no less than a revolution in how work gets done, one that would change the economics of labor.

The scarcity of labor also dominates industries that rely on less - skilled workers.

The unemployment rate fell to 6.7 percent, from 7 percent, but that was less about job creation than about people, fed up or unsuccessful in their job searches, dropping out of the labor force.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that productivity has only risen 1 % YOY from 2015 to 2016, much less than the typical increase experienced earlier in the decade.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

As the economy has exploded, some manufacturing has started to migrate to other parts of the world where labor is less costly.

Stores within the 365 chain will keep the prices of products down through a simpler, more consistent design that requires less labor in the store.

After all, labor in the region is becoming less cheap these days, and manufacturers are increasingly turning to robots — just last week, the South China Morning Post reported that electronics manufacturer Foxconn managed to do away with 60,000 jobs in just one factory, through the introduction of robotic systems.

On Monday, Department of Labor officials claimed Google, who is a federal contractor, systematically pays female workers less than their male colleagues.

The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating whether Google has unlawfully paid women less than men.

The reactors — six - foot - tall metal and glass boxes that glow seafoam green when at work — mimic what happens to carbon after millennia of pressure, but faster, with less human labor and a carbon - neutral footprint.

It usually requires an explanation on the order of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs are really high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we're going to replace all our human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more than they're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.

The rest is attributable to businesses having a lot less physical capital (such as machines and software) than was anticipated, and having unexpectedly low total factor productivity (the productivity of labor and capital).

One possibility, he said, is that frequent traders laboring under the «illusion of control» believe that they can respond easily to information and events during the day but can't do so as easily after hours, when there are far fewer market participants and less money, or «liquidity,» involved in trading.

Just endless rounds of downsizing, mergers creating economies of scale and less jobs, globalization, importing workers who depress wages due to country of origin standards, or because they don't have full labor rights or any labor rights (all employer sponsored based immigrants).

A loss of sanctuary status also means potentially less supply of labor for lower paying jobs.

Nothing OTE'ers wouldn't know given my emphasis on the disproportionate benefits of tight labor markets to less advantaged groups, but the Fed study provides... Read more

In particular, to the extent that the effect on inflation of further gradual tightening in labor market conditions is likely to be moderate and gradual, the case to tighten policy preemptively is less compelling.

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

The U.S. economy is facing a future of slow growth, mainly because the labor force is expanding less rapidly.

Nothing OTE'ers wouldn't know given my emphasis on the disproportionate benefits of tight labor markets to less advantaged groups, but the Fed study provides a nice, deep dive into the issue.

This potential relaxation of fiscal constraints is significant, particularly when you consider that the economy, specifically the labor market, has less slack than at any point in the post-crisis period.

In Germany, ever since the 2003 — 20 05 labor reforms that caused business profits to soar at the expense of wages, German banks have exported the gap between rising savings and declining investment — a figure that rose in less than five years to become among the largest ever recorded.

As a result, even though a tightening labor market and recently supportive levels of business, consumer, and investor confidence may bode well for the near - term outlook, the hard data currently seems considerably less encouraging than the soft data.

By Cerulli's numbers, less than 3 percent of the total advisor universe operated as an ERISA fiduciary plan specialist prior to finalization of Labor Department's fiduciary rule.

Financial frictions to geographic mobility can reduce this movement of individuals across labor markets leading to less - efficient outcomes for the economy.

In support of this hypothesis, we saw that places with less - effective labor markets for CEOs were typically associated with a greater disparity in the performance of firms run by managers, relative to firms run by leaders.

The Chicago office of the Department of Labor seems to be targeting 401 (k) plan advisers and, if one firm's experience is a guide, the office appears to be targeting large regional firms rather than less experienced advisers.

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

By now, child and foreign labor has become such a key part of the fabric of Walmart, and of the product they sell, it's hard to imagine anything less than a complete overhaul of Walmart's business methods will change that.

That may not sound particularly controversial, but some immigration and labor activists are calling out FWD.us for favoring a specific type of immigrant: White - collar tech workers whom tech world titans could pay less than their American colleagues.

Their job is less labor intensive; they buy and sell every day based strictly on the results of their computer model.

The GNC reviews the individual components and total amount of director compensation at least annually and may recommend changes in director compensation to the Board for its approval more or less frequently based on, among other factors, competitive pay data for non-employee directors of the financial services companies in the Company's Labor Market Peer Group.

Merger and acquisitions among registered investment advisors fell sharply in the third quarter as advisors see less reason to merge in the wake of an 18 - month delay of the Department of Labor fiduciary rule.

In the broadest terms, experts say, proximity to markets and skill clusters will matter more to business over time, and the nominal cost of an hour of labor will matter less.

People with disabilities demonstrate the same passion, independence and self - direction as all Americans, and given certain characteristics — including being on average older and less educated — it is not surprising that the rate of self - employment for people with disabilities in the labor force in 2011 was about 50 percent higher than the corresponding rate for people without disabilities -LSB-...]

As the information age has evolved, the number of jobs requiring manual labor has declined, making physical limitations (aging or otherwise) a less significant factor.

The results bear the fruit of my labors, although wish it were a little less time consuming to pick and choose loans to get a statistically higher rate of return, w / consistency.

These include a typically higher representation of cyclical sectors in markets outside the United States and ta generally higher level of operating leverage in these markets attributable to higher fixed costs and less flexible labor.

For example: Is our economy ruined because of immigrants coming to our country, or is it ruined because the companies who are supposed to be boosting our economy with new jobs are instead giving those jobs to cheaper labor that can be exploited for wages far less than minimum?

«Our study suggests that the less - educated are dropping out of the American religious sector, similarly to the way in which they have dropped out of the American labor market,» said W. Bradford Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, who was lead researcher on the project.

Exploring some of the lesser - known metaphors and imagery employed by biblical authors to describe God, Winner lyrically invites the reader to imagine God as clothing, laughter, flame, food, wine, and a laboring woman.

Indeed, in his personal life no less than his scholarly labors, George Williams was a coincidence of opposites.