Sentences with phrase «long labor of»

Esther Edith Photos: Esther Edith After a challenging, long labor of 40 + hours, I birthed my first daughter, Arielle, safely at home.

After a challenging, long labor of 40 + hours, I birthed my first daughter, Arielle, safely at home.

And like your upcoming new cookbook, it was a day - long labor of love.

The time was now right for a fearless renewal of the Church, precisely as the guardian of that «precious treasure» entrusted to her by Christ, and the council fathers committed themselves to the long labor of making that vision a reality.

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To make matters worse, labor strife at the ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach caused a big drop in shipments of imports from Asia.

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.

Especially if they've spent the last four or however long years studying, it's a nice signifier that they can begin to enjoy their free time, their adulthood, and hopefully the fruits of all that labor.

Indeed, the evidence I reviewed does not support the view — expounded by the new Bank of Japan management — that by buying more longer - dated securities (i.e., running printing presses a bit faster) will boost upward pressures in labor and product markets to bring stronger economic growth and an inflation rate of 2 percent.

Although it may seem as if the staffing shortage of the late 1990s is long gone, today's looser labor market is just a minor blip in what will likely be a continuing labor crunch.

The area's third - largest economy had appeared to be emerging from a long period of stagnation thanks to the European Central Bank's loose monetary policy, improvements in the balance sheet of its banks and the first fruits of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's labor market reform.

The labor force participation rate has fallen due to cyclical factors such as workers temporarily dropping out of the workforce because of discouragement over job prospects, but also due to structural forces such as the Baby Boomers reaching retirement age and younger workers staying in school longer.

In addition, the average duration of unemployment had got longer in 2013 and labor market participation had waned as people lost hope of finding a job.

Getting them to an American jewelry store often involves destructive pit mining, slave or child labor, violent militias, and a long chain of middlemen that makes it hard to connect any of those undesirable inputs to the end product.

Last August, as a tie - in for Labor Day, the company introduced a 7 - foot - long 99 - pack of its Peacemaker Anytime Ale.

Our restaurants will no longer be viable if labor costs rise above 35 percent of revenue.

Since labor is one of your biggest expenses, maintaining tight cost controls over your payroll will go a long way toward protecting your cash.

Li & Fung — the most important company that most American shoppers have never heard of — has long been on the cutting edge of globalization, chasing cheap labor to garment factories first in China, then elsewhere in Asia, including Bangladesh.

Li & Fung has long been on the cutting edge of globalization, chasing cheap labor to garment factories first in China, then elsewhere in Asia, including Bangladesh.

«We looked at transportation costs, labor costs, productivity, and it made sense,» said Allan McArtor, chief executive of Airbus Group Inc. «We will be building single aisle airplanes (in Mobile) for a long, long time.»

The project would employ a significant number of temporary construction workers during the building phase, though pipelines generally do not require much labor to operate in the long term.

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

Accordingly, the rejection of labor contracts «has not been the mechanism of last resort to save a failing business,» the Air Line Pilots Association told Congress in 2010, «but instead has often been used by employers as a business model to gain long - term economic advantage by unfairly gutting the wages and working conditions of airline and other employees.»

In the United States and the United Kingdom, the parties of the center Left, the Democrats and the Labour Party, have today lost this focus, and the labor movements in both countries are in long - term decline.

Then... this is the best part... he made it clear that a 6.5 percent unemployment rate would not necessarily be the threshold for raising rates, then went on a long discussion of the conditions under which he would NOT raise rates, including if the unemployment rate dropped mostly due to cyclical declines in the labor force participation rate rather than gains in unemployment, as well as persistently low inflation.

But in an industry where cheap labor is an essential component in providing inexpensive food, a shortage of workers is changing the equation upon which fast - food places have long relied.

It's been a long summer for Labor Leader Bill Shorten, who in eight weeks seems to have run the full gamut of Queen's greatest hits, from I Want it All to Under Pressure.

Drawing from our knowledge of debt restructuring, bankruptcy, public finance, municipal law and governance, labor law, employee benefits, tax, litigation, government contracts and more, our attorneys are adept at positioning municipalities for long - term success.

If labor and indeed government must demand some recompense for the four decade's long downward tilting teeter - totter of wealth creation, and if GDP growth itself is slowing significantly due to deleveraging in a New Normal economy, then how can stocks appreciate at 6.6 % real?

After six long years, the specter of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule has finally taken shape, although as one BD leader put it, the industry is still in a «state of flux» as it determines how to comply with all aspects of the rule.

The initial employment reports for August — for largely seasonal rather than fundamental factors — have a long history of coming in below the underlying trend, only to be revised upward later by the Labor Department.

In a ruling that fuels a long - simmering debate over some of Silicon Valley's fastest - growing technology companies and the work they are creating, the California Labor Commissioner's Office said that a driver for the ride - hailing service Uber should be classified as an employee, not an independent contractor.

Allowing wages to continue to rise should, in the longer run, boost productivity growth because businesses will be incentivized to find ways to improve the productivity of their workers in the face of tighter labor markets and higher labor costs.

This compensation data was ranked within the Labor Market Peer Group by the aggregate amount of annual salary, annual target and actual incentive awards, plus the annualized grant date value of long - term cash and equity compensation.

CBO explains that long - term growth is constrained by relatively slow labor force growth because of the ongoing retirement of the baby boomers.

Markey hailed the Labor Department rule as ushering a new era in which «entertainers like Dave Ramsey can no longer evade the pursuit of regulatory oversight.»

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.

The Labor Department's proposal now heads to the White House Office of Management and Budget for a review that could take three months or longer.

Moreover, to support a stronger economic recovery, the FOMC is purchasing long - term Treasury securities at a rate of $ 45 billion per month and agency mortgage - backed securities (MBS) at a rate of $ 40 billion per month, and will continue purchasing assets until it sees substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market, conditional on ongoing assessment of benefits and costs.

The Department of Labor's long - awaited final fiduciary rule «ensures that putting clients first is no longer a marketing slogan, it's the law,» Labor Secretary Thomas Perez told reporters on a Tuesday afternoon call to announce completion of DOL's rule to amend the definition of fiduciary on retirement advice.

Labor market tightness, on the back of previously strong gains, and the softening of corporate revenues and profits have made it hard for the jobs market to continue its long stretch of historic strength.

But we who labor in the private sector have long since learned there can be no assumption of privacy in company email.

This review was not conducted on base salary alone but also included reviews of appropriate annual incentive compensation and long - term incentive compensation for other post-TARP companies in the Labor Market Peer Group and the ongoing market and legislative challenges facing financial services companies.

For each position, this compensation data was ranked within the Labor Market Peer Group by the aggregate amount of annual salary, annual target and actual incentive awards, plus the annualized grant date value of long - term cash and equity compensation.

This graph complied from data published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics» Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey — for which there is sadly no Canadian counterpart — illustrates how and why U.S. employment fell during the recession and why it is taking so long to recover:

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

The 45 - minute meeting with Rep. Duncan touched on a number of issues: softwood lumber, labor shortages and the need for a guest worker program, the long - term renewal of the National Flood Insurance Program, housing finance reform, and local growth and development.

The delay in the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule until July 1, 2019, which had weighed down Allianz Life in the first half of this year, is no longer having a «major impact on what we are doing,» said Terzariol.

But the longer - term story in the labor market remains one of strengths: The United States is creating jobs at an average of more than 250,000 a month.

Her resourcefulness as an advocate has been significant on many issues, most recently in the long process leading to the fiduciary rule adopted by the Department of Labor.

With such obstacles minimized or eliminated, people can stay in the workforce longer, with better - educated workers having an increased likelihood of staying in the labor force, past the traditional retiring age.