Sentences with phrase «lower number of workers»

The higher the score, the lower number of workers there are available to join the workforce, giving less scope to boost overall participation rates.

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It can mask weakness in the market if there are large numbers of discouraged workers, as in the U.S. which now has a lower jobless rate than Canada despite a poor job creation record.

A laid off manufacturing worker who has given up hope of ever finding another job is not counted in the unemployment statistics, so an economy with a high number of discouraged workers could have a misleadingly low unemployment rate.

But even providing good jobs for all these potential workers wouldn't solve the labour market's problems, because the workforce is shrinking: the number of millennials poised to enter the labour pool is lower than the number of baby boomers set to retire.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC), which represents nearly 6 million British workers, said that the growing number of low - paid, self - employed workers who work irregular hours earn significantly less than conventional employees and therefore pay less tax and national insurance.

It's also worth noting that while USCIS says it saw a drop in the total number of H - 1B applications this year, it has also warned against filing multiple petitions for a single worker, which could explain the lower number.

But as Neil Dutta, Chief Economist with Renaissance Macro Research points out, if you look at the actual flow data showing the number of people each month entering and exiting the labor force, the rate at which workers are entering the labor force is actually lower today than at any point over the last two years.

For example, while a number of communities are debating how to provide benefits to gig economy workers, without policies that ensure a baseline wage threshold or that grant workers a voice in determining their wages and benefits, low - road companies could respond to requirements to contribute to benefits with commensurate decreases in pay.

Some research shows a low number of independent workers — less than a million people to a high number — 75 million people.

Little attention is paid to the much greater number of businesses, workers and consumers that not only survive but thrive and benefit from improved market access and lower costs of imported goods.

Other limiting factors are low wage growth, high unemployment, the large numbers of workers who have dropped out of the labor force, declining home prices, higher tax payments and a flattening out of transfer payments.

The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev John Sentamu, has called on the government to cut the number of low - paid workers by one million.

The Rubio aide was arguing for increasing the number of low - skill guest workers in the construction industry despite high unemployment among low - skill Americans and noncitizen residents.

The cause that prompted him to speak at the Cambridge Union and at other universities, for example, was the campaign for the Living Wage, a wage meant to cover the costs of life that the current minimum wage does not and one which the Cambridge newspaper «Varsity» recently revealed was not being extended to large numbers of low - earning workers within our multi-billion pound University.

He wants the government to make it a «goal» to cut the number of low paid workers by one million by 2020.

The expected approval of the $ 15 wage — which will be phased in over a number of years on a different timetable in New York City and elsewhere in the state — is expected to bring a more concerted legislative effort next year to impact low - wage workers across the board.

GOP senators want a number of issues to be part of any minimum wage package, including lowering workers compensation and unemployment expenses for business, providing tax breaks for small companies and excluding some kinds of employers from the wage increase mandates, said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

The budget office found the payment could not offset a lower - than - expected number of public sewer system workers hired by the firm or moving to other county jobs.

There's also a greater number of what's termed «underutilized workers», people who have lost jobs in their profession and have had to take lower paying or part time work.

«It amounts to throwing in the towel on immigration control and giving carte blanche to employers to bring in any number of low - paid workers regardless of their impact on the lives of hard - working people.

There's also a greater number of what's termed «underutilized workers,» people who have lost jobs in their profession and have had to take lower paying or part - time work.

First, there have been significant increases both in the extent of low - paid work as well as the number of people moving from low benefit income into low - paid jobs and being parked there; second, cuts have been imposed upon benefits and tax credits claimed by this same group of low - paid workers»

The disproportionately high number of nonresident alien S&E workers effectively lowered wages and stipends, which lowered research costs and wages, according to a report by Alan Fechter and Michael Teitelbaum5 and another report by David North.3 (Fechter is president of the board of the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology and Teitelbaum is vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform.)

Nearly 400 health - care workers were infected in Hong Kong, but my hospital, one of the two big teaching hospitals in the city, had only two infections — by far the lowest number of any staff.

The number of school counselors, nurses, social workers, and psychologists must increase dramatically to serve Chicago's population of low - income students.

If we take a low estimate of 0.25 % growth per year over 11 years, a mid-range estimate of 0.5 % and a high estimate of 0.75 %, this increases our estimated number of workers from 123,033 to a range of 126,459 - 133,573:

(For younger workers, the contribution limit is lower, because the calculation is based on the number of years until retirement.

Despite the commitment of shelter workers to the animal in their care, the conventional belief was that little could be done to lower that terrible number.

This is would reduce the number of unemployed workers by 6 percent, and the lower the overall unemployment rate from 10 percent to 9.4 percent.

According to the Sun, he blames biological differences between sexes for the low number of female workers in leadership positions.

Despite the increase in assaults, the number of workers reporting such events remains low, with only one third of workplace assaults being formally reported.

Moore Blatch personal injury expert, Ciaran McCabe, who deals with these types of claims says that whilst national figures are lower, there continues to be a small number of organisations that are still complacent about safety, which can have serious consequences for workers.

Furthermore, the exemption to «caps» in low - wage seasonal industries means further exploitation and precarity for migrant workers in sectors such as fisheries where an unlimited number of migrant workers are only hired for 6 months on a non-renewable permit.

«The evidence shows immigration does not reduce the number of jobs available to British born workers, and it doesn't lower wages, but the big worry for many people is that as a member of the EU, the UK has been unable to set its own rules.

However, given the economic landscape and the low number of unemployed workers, the expectations around minimum wage careers are shifting.

Promoted workers safety awareness, resulting in lower workers compensation claims and decreased annual workers compensation premiums and average number of recordable injuries.Key Accomplishments: Created and designed company first Employee Handbook, Policy and Procedures Manuals.

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While that sounds like good news, some companies only want to hire workers overseas at lower hourly rates, reducing the number of available jobs domestically.

Home visitors working in close collaboration with PCPs providing 2 to 4 home visits per month for the first year of life resulted in higher numbers of well - child visits at 12 months and lower likelihood of being seen for injuries and ingestions.40 The REACH - Futures program in Chicago, which uses registered nurses from a community clinic who are teamed with public health trained community health workers for an infant HV program, resulted in improved immunization rates and retention in the primary care clinic.41

[12] This plan would address the deleterious effects of the long - term, secular decline in earnings that has so decimated low - wage workers and has contributed, to some extent, to the high rates of incarceration, low marriage rates, and the large number of children growing up in poor, single - parent families.

The loss of visual privacy is the second most common complaint from employees in offices with low or no partitions between desks (noise is number one), according to a 2013 study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology of more than 42,700 workers in U.S. office buildings.