Sentences with phrase «lower paid workers as»

Final salary schemes are unfair to lower paid workers as they disproportionately benefit public sector executives.

Not exact matches

Temp workers are attractive to firms because they earn lower wages (although the agency has to get paid as well) and provide the ability to scale up or down quickly without the complication of severance pay or pink slips.

Oxfam said that women workers were worst hit by global inequality as they consistently earn less than men and usually have lower paid and more insecure forms of work.

The problem is that they work as parking lot attendants and child care workers, manicurists and dishwashers — in other words, low - paying jobs that typically don't offer insurance.

Economists doubt the jobless rate can fall that low again without touching off inflation, as employers are forced to offer higher pay to attract workers from a dwindling supply of unemployed.

Not paying a living wage lowers worker productivity and creates stress on employees who should be viewed «as human beings, not just workers,» and the practice, she says, «doesn't serve the company or its brand.»

As part of our study, we gave 2,000 U.S. workers, ranging in age from 18 to 81, a list of 17 benefits and asked them how heavily they would weigh the options when deciding between a high - paying job and a lower - paying job with more perks.

That proposal was controversial because some critics view it as a way for tech companies to simply save money on labor costs by relying on lower - paid workers from overseas.

«The biggest problem I face is low unemployment - finding workers,» he said in a phone interview, adding that he is increasing pay every six months to keep staff from leaving for other jobs, and he is hiking his menu prices as well.

The U.S. financial sector found this appealing as long as consumption was financed by running into debt, not by workers earning more money or paying lower taxes.

After a year that has seen Apple's reputation tested by controversy over the way its Chinese production partners treated low - paid workers, observers said Cook might have seen an opportunity to bolster the company's image as a socially responsible and progressive force.

But economists and professors cast doubt on whether tax policy changes were the driving force behind the move by a retailing giant that for years has stood as a lightning rod for criticism over low worker pay.

In addition, U.S. workers will begin receiving more take - home pay, likely by next month, as lower tax rates for individuals under the Republican plan kick in.

It may be that the damage this recession did to the labour market — the loss of skills and the mismatch between industries where workers have experience and those where there are vacancies — is being expressed not in the form of long - term unemployment but as lasting low pay.

Is it Christlike to flood the workplace with newly legalized low skilled workers thus suppressing wages for those who are getting paid the least as it is?

The group, part of the Citizens UK charity, said if new signing Alexis Sanchez is paid # 400,000 a week, as some have reported, it will take him just 82 minutes in a game to earn the annual salary of a low - paid stadium worker.

Because of the low wages they pay workers in South Africa and Latin America, treating their financial losses as tax write offs, when labor negotiations were going on and violence threatened, the companies certainly had the upper hand; the unions accepted a substantial cut in wages and benefits.

While workers wages are falling in real terms the tax credit system - a vital lifeline that boosts income for many families - effectively acts as a government subsidy for «low pay» corporations.

Comptroller John Liu visits kitchen staffers yesterday at Open Door Senior Center, as the feds investigate his big contributions from low - paid hotel workers.

At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

While there are compelling reasons from the perspective of poorly paid (or unemployed) workers in eastern and southern Europe to relocate to higher wage economies in the west and north of Europe, there is little incentive for British workers to go to the post-2004 EU countries where the quality of life is lower and minimum wage is as low as # 1.36 per hour, if it exists at all.

In response, Labour came up with a letter of its own, signed by what it described as «a true cross-section of British society» - actors, business leaders, writers, nurses and low - paid workers, including those who work on zero - hours contracts.

As POLITICO New York has previously reported, the amendments increase the benefit offered under the governor's paid family leave proposal to the state's lowest paid workers, but keep in place a cap on benefits of just over $ 500 per week.

Miliband argued that immigration should be seen as a class issue, since the evidence shows lower - paid workers and the unskilled suffer disproportionately, especially from the impact of cheap eastern European labour.

The politicians, who represent these economic interests then use cheap labour and immigration as a means to foster racism, prejudice and division among lower paid workers themselves.

As a left winger, I would prefer to do that by pushing up the earnings (and working conditions) of low paid workers.

Cuomo, along with supporters of raising the minimum wage, argue that it will do the opposite, as the lowest paid workers have more cash to spend on food, clothing and other basic items.

Taxpayers will receive the same net benefit, but SOF spending growth appears lower.3 Other substantial changes include shifts in workers from payrolls in the general fund to those paid by capital funds, reclassifying the Sales Tax Asset Receivable Corporation (STARC) funds from a miscellaneous receipt to an offset against spending, and shifting expenses off - budget as shown in Table 3.

«While we might prefer an employment landscape where low paid and sometimes vulnerable workers were not having to grapple with confusing employment arrangements involving intermediaries, we are where we are, and our concerns are - as ever - about the practicalities.

As a result, the government has had to step - in to perform a collective bargaining role as the negotiator of last resort for workers on low paAs a result, the government has had to step - in to perform a collective bargaining role as the negotiator of last resort for workers on low paas the negotiator of last resort for workers on low pay.

Mr. Cuomo's office said the state worker wage phase - in would follow the same calendar as his fast food pay plan: taking full effect for workers in New York City by 2018 and for the rest of the state by 2020, with the lowest paid workers getting $ 10.50 an hour by the end of this year and $ 12 by the end of next.

In order to ensure rural dwellers have increased access to ICT devices such as smartphones, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has created an IT Innovation hub, which has the capacity to produce e-literate groups from low skilled or low paid workers, unemployed people, and those with disabilities who do not have access to these ICTs.

It points to five million low - paid workers, a housing market where home ownership rates have halved over the last 20 years, public spending cuts and a brutal welfare squeeze as evidence that the gulf between the well - off and the underprivileged will become permanent.

Gordon Brown's Government has neither the means, the modern philosophy nor, as we saw with his 10p tax attack on low - paid workers, the will to deliver a progressive agenda.

Why should low - paid graduates - nurses, youth workers or science researchers - pay the same as corporate lawyers and investment bankers?

As a result, some federal workers will endure forced days off, which means lower pay.

For a start you're not questioning why working class socialist labour voters went Ukip in the first place, it wasn't some guardian reading, snobbery that the working class are think, therefore are bigoted, so they must vote UKIP as they're nasty right wingers who dint like immigration, the decrease in wages among blue collar workers, due to immigration, is by the bosses seeking immigration to pay lower wages to make themselves more profits, Appeasing implies going along with something through fear of something worse, to agree with controlling immigration, because ex labour voters are going UKIP isn't appeasing it, why would us being afraid of losing is our votes to.

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»

As expected, care sector employees and employers reported a range of issues which have a negative impact on staff recruitment and retention, including low levels of pay, increasing demands placed on workers, the lack of a clear career progression paths and negative media perceptions of care work.

Under that provision, such benefits as life - insurance annuities and paid health - care plans will become taxable in January if they are found to be part of a program that discriminates against lower - paid workers.

He positioned himself as being on the side of the average and low paid worker, the disadvantaged and vulnerable.

I don't think a union supply agency is a bad idea as it already has good contacts so set up costs will be lower and they will pay more — but they will still have to charge schools for their work (and 15 % of salary for a permanent worker is about as low as you can sustainably go).

The worker is paid as little as possible, given as much work as possible and as many jobs as possible are shifted to sectors where people will work for less (off shoring jobs, or closing plants in CA and moving them to Alabama, or someplace where living costs are lower).

So authors are becoming just another third - world labor force, like the rest of the low - paid, under - employed American workers in a country that has devalued craftsmanship in as many industries as possible, all so that the jobs pay less, the top echelons get richer, the consumers get cheap, mediocre goods, and the workers get shafted.

In addition, those who will be successfully recruited in the public service sector will be forgiven after a period of 10 years, to ease their burden seeing as the workers in this sector receive significantly lower pay.

As investors discover how much more they have to pay on the actively managed mutual funds that many plans use as their only investment options, companies will feel pressure to turn to lower - cost alternatives that better preserve their workers» retirement savingAs investors discover how much more they have to pay on the actively managed mutual funds that many plans use as their only investment options, companies will feel pressure to turn to lower - cost alternatives that better preserve their workers» retirement savingas their only investment options, companies will feel pressure to turn to lower - cost alternatives that better preserve their workers» retirement savings.

CFA studies have shown that good drivers with lower credit scores pay higher premiums, as do blue collar workers, drivers without college degrees, and unmarried drivers.

We have passed out of the micro realm of investing strategy (don't go with as high a stock allocation when prices are high as you do when they are low) to the macro realm of economics (don't cause businesses to fail and workers to lose their jobs by failing to pay attention to stock prices and by failing to encourage your friends and neighbors and co-workers to do the same).

I am a 56 y.o. single white female and as you know government workers are some of the lowest paid in the nation.

The Keystone XL Pipeline will give America energy independence, if there is ever a war in the Middle East our oil supply could be cut off, and with the XL we won't have that problem, 42,000 jobs will be created, 2 Billion paid to workers will give our treasury a boost, if we don't get approval Canada will sell the oil to China, they are our trading partners and our enemy, the pipeline will be a good thing for Americans, lower prices at the gas pump, and jobs for growth where as of now, we are not growing like we have in the past, just a few are against this but we have Millions of Americans who want it and they are more important than the few.