Sentences with phrase «local labor costs»

The company claims that its system can reduce the time needed for solar rooftop installation by more than half, greatly reducing costs (labor costs alone are about 30 % of the total cost of a solar rooftop system — how much you save depends on local labor costs).

The cost to grow and serve more students differs as well, with facility, transportation, and local labor costs varying greatly across our 31 communities.

Not exact matches

That includes the cost of labor, panels — which will be imported until local production capacity is up to speed — and an unprecedented network of batteries that will be able to store this energy for measured distribution over the Saudi grid.

The study ranked urban centers — excluding the larger metro areas — using three factors: local business environment (length of the average workweek, revenue growth, industry variety), access to resources (financing and the amount of venture capital investment made per capita), and costs (office space affordability, labor costs, corporate taxes, and cost of living).

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It would jeopardize hundreds of billions of dollars each year in new debt financing, and would push more construction and labor costs onto local taxpayers.

The impact will be much broader, as soaring transport prices encourage higher - cost local production to replace sourcing from cheap labor markets halfway around the world.

As labor accounts for about the same amount as the typical school district pays for food (about 44 % of the budget for the program), it is impossible to determine if other schools or other districts could try to do a similar program with a local restaurant, or even just with their own chef and cooking facilities, unless they know the labor costs.

The Team, chaired by Senior Advisor to the Governor Larry Schwartz, includes representatives from private industry, education, labor, and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

The Team, chaired by Senior Advisor to the Governor Larry Schwartz, will include representatives from private industry, education, labor, and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

But because the parking lot was tied to a hotel, ESD told the developers they would need to reach a «labor peace agreement» with a local union — a negotiation that could have significantly boosted the cost of the project.

Andy Reynolds, spokesperson for the Coalition for Economic Justice, an association of local labor and community groups, said: «The cost per job is so high that it is extremely unlikely that the public will really see a return on its investment.»

Martha Keating, Labor Relations Consultant for the Rochester Teachers Association, says a new scoring system is in place where teachers can accumulate up to 100 points, «Never before has there been a prescribed rating that the observation evaluation counts this much and the state tests count this much and if there was local testing it would cost this much, but the law imposed that on all of the districts in NY State.»

Amazon buys 3000 copies of a book your local may only buy 3 copies of — and since Amazon doesn't have a showroom, they don't have the labor cost of a trained, knowledgeable bookseller or the concerns about what to do if they don't sell all of their copies.

With lumber prices skyrocketing, skilled labor in short supply and new limits on state and local tax deductions already raising the effective cost of homeownership, a rise in short - term interest rates will force even more potential buyers to the sidelines.

Bitcoin miners were drawn to China for the same reasons as traditional manufacturers: low cost of energy, cheap labor and local chip production.

Stephen Miller who writes for the Society of Human Resources management (SHRM) notes, «Increasingly, employers are shifting toward variable pay based on performance and away from cost of living raises — although pay ranges may be adjusted due to general industry pay trends, as positions become more or less in demand in the local labor market.»

Enhanced and maintained relationships with local colleges and universities to obtain pharmacy technician students with a tributary result of decreased labor costs and enriched educational opportunities.

The sluggish recovery in housing starts is impacted by construction costs rising faster than inflation, labor shortages in the building trades, and the difficulty for small local home builders to obtain construction loans.

The appraiser uses information on local building costs, labor rates and other factors to determine how much it would cost to construct a property similar to the one being appraised.

Talk with your contractor or other local real estate investors to see what the costs are for materials are in your area, along with labor costs.