Sentences with phrase «loss of government jobs»

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A panel about job loss will feature the French Digital Council, an advisory commissioned by the French government to study the future of jobs, which will discuss that country's growing momentum toward the policy.

Bank employees are attempting to minimize the scope of job losses as the government pushes for consolidation, says Sasha Riser - Kositsky of Eurasia Group.

Walter Kemmsies, managing director, economist and chief strategist at JLL Ports Airports and Global Infrastructure, notes that that many of the job losses that are popularly blamed on NAFTA would likely have taken place even in the absence of NAFTA, in part because of growing competition from China - based manufacturers, many of which have taken advantage of currency manipulation by the Chinese government that has rendered China - made products more price - competitive in the U.S. Likewise, Mauro Guillen, head of Wharton's Lauder Institute, agrees that without NAFTA, many American jobs that were lost over this period would probably have gone to China or elsewhere.

As usual, it generated some controversy, dismissed by the Government over the impact of the job losses resulting from the proposed spending reductions, but embraced by the Opposition, for acknowledging the job losses.

The sale of IXL and Taylors is likely to lead to further job losses at SPC, which has undergone significant restructuring over the last three years after receiving a $ 22 million rescue package from the Victorian government in 2014.

But in government the Coalition faces the reality of manufacturers on the brink because of the sustained high Australian dollar and cheap imports, and is battling to reconcile its determination to pare back government spending and avoid «propping up» industries unsustainable in the longer term, with every government's reluctance to preside over the loss of jobs.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions argued the government's industry policy was «achieving nothing other than massive job losses and the decimation of the local manufacturing industry».

Cutting bureaucracy has been a key theme of the coalition government so far, though a report by PwC earlier this week suggested those public sector job losses could have disastrous knock - on effects in the private sector - which the coalition hopes will lead the recovery.

«Government job losses can largely be confined to rolling back the excessive growth in administration which has accompanied the spending binge of the last decade.»

«Five years ago, New York faced daunting challenges — a lagging economy, massive job losses, yawning budget deficits and a state government mired in gridlock,» Cuomo began, in what was widely seen as implicit criticism of his two Democratic predecessors, Govs. David Paterson and Eliot Spitzer.

Members of the Climate Rush campaign group have chained themselves to Lord Mandelson's London home in protest over the job losses at Vestas, as the peer takes over the reins of government.

Pension forfeiture — as in the loss of state pensions for officials convicted of wrongdoing in their government jobs — seems to be the one area that Republicans and Democrats can agree is likely to be addressed before this year's State Legislature session ends in June.

Mr McDonnell reiterated his call for the Government to intervene in the British steel industry, which has suffered thousands of job losses in recent weeks.

Major decisions could take place during the lame duck Congress in November or December, potentially resulting in the loss of millions of jobs and massive cuts to health care, education, aid to state and local governments, and other vital programs.

But the government believes this is a relevant time to have a «fundamental rethink» of employment as job losses continue to mount.

Despite the levels of government cuts and public sector job losses in recent years, the number of strikes remains relatively low.

As Chancellor of the Exchequer, he was an ardent advocate of the Private Finance Initiative whereby government projects are contracted out to private firms such as Carillion, which collapsed last week with the potential loss of tens of thousands of jobs.

«When we're talking about cuts of this scale, over this short a timescale, we're inevitably going to be talking about job losses, which will mean rising unemployment, increased benefit payments, reduced tax revenue and a real risk of a double - dip recession,» she said The government expects to save up to # 120m this year by freezing recruitment across the board in government departments, agencies, and quangos.

He has supported all the savage cuts to local government grants — # 200 million plus for Sheffield, which is still suffering some of the loss of job opportunities caused by the last Tory government, over the lifetime of this parliament.

Policy options raised by Findlay included increasing the minimum wage, reintroduction of council house building, reduction in the use of the private sector in NHS Scotland, and allowing councils to set their own taxes to help reverse job losses within local government.

His government cut projected CSIRO funding over the next 4 years by AU$ 115 million, or 16 %, leading to hundreds of job losses and curtailment of the research agenda.

Unions have warned it could result in tens of thousands of job losses, and this week the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) told George Osborne the funding pressures were putting the government's education programme in jeopardy.

This will lead to pressure on European stocks and credits as well as peripheral bonds (e.g. Italian government debt) because of lower growth and job losses.

It's unlikely a rumour of job losses, even if it's through a government announcement if you work in the public sector, will count as notice but be aware, many grey areas exist.

So long as you are in a fiat money system, in a bailout, the job of the government is to prevent contagion and minimize loss, in that order.

• The report attributed all claimed job losses to «Australian compliance» with the Kyoto Protocol, yet most of its forecast job losses are due not to greenhouse measures in Australia but to decisions by governments overseas.

For example, the Allen Consulting report which the Government seized upon suffered from several simple but vital errors the effect of which was to ramp up the estimates of job losses from policies to cut emissions.

Other skeptics are subjected to demands that they be imprisoned, loss of jobs, and loss of government research grants.

Their plan for job growth, apparently, is to create a vast array of government programs and subsidies that help one sector of the state's economy and hope they offset job losses everywhere else.

Brad Plumer of the Washington Post has a list that includes the loss of manufacturing jobs, decades of bad government, white flight to the suburbs and more, that caused the population to go from 1,850,000 people in the 50s to around 700,000 today, with unemployment running at 18.6 %.

The Keep Ontario Working Coalition has stated that if the government implemented the change over a five - year - period, instead of the planned 18 months, it could decrease the risk of job losses by 74 percent.

The Access to Justice Campaign estimates that the government's plan will initially prevent 90 per cent of accident victims from pursuing claims with legal assistance if the small claims limited for claims is raised to # 5000 — or even at all if the government simply removes the right for people pursuing soft tissue claims following road traffic accidents which is its preferred result and that there will be approximately 60,000 job losses across the industry in law firms, barrister's chambers, medical agencies and insurers.

This can include loss of housing, loss of a job, loss of associations with family and friend, loss of government benefits, loss of rights, etc..

The Manitoba government is raising the bar by introducing groundbreaking proposed changes to the Employment Standards Code that would give victims of domestic violence the right to time off work without fear of job loss, give employees a new leave for long - term illness and injury, and extend the length of leave for compassionate care... [more]

The Manitoba government is raising the bar by introducing groundbreaking proposed changes to the Employment Standards Code that would give victims of domestic violence the right to time off work without fear of job loss, give employees a new leave for long - term illness and injury, and extend the length of leave for compassionate care.

Most of the government's initial efforts at helping home owners who were threatened with foreclosure due to problems like job loss or medical expenses came up short.