Sentences with phrase «lower than labor»

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Besides being a powerbroker, China is widely regarded as having lower standards than the U.S. for labor and the environment.

Steering consumers to pick - up and drop - off locations saves both companies money because labor and fuel costs are lower when many packages can be picked up from one place rather than retrieving packages door - to - door.

The labor market is tighter than it has been in decades, with unemployment near an all - time low at 4.1 % and unfilled job openings near an all - time high at about 6 million.

More than 110,000 of VW's worldwide labor force of 589,000 work at its immense headquarters in Wolfsburg and four other plants in Lower Saxony.

That puzzle continued earlier Wednesday when Labor Department data showed consumer inflation, excluding food and energy, was lower than expected at 1.7 percent in the 12 months through November.

Sure, your website may need a redesign, but rather than exploiting the intern's low cost of labor, hire a professional instead to avoid the legal headache.

The value of that box was more than $ 100, and given the low margins on food products, the labor involved with individually wrapping ingredients and the costly Styrofoam packaging with cool packs, this clearly was not a cheap giveaway.

A start - up called Desktop Metal has developed 3 - D printers that can produce metal objects safely, in smaller spaces and for a lower cost than traditional manufacturing, which requires expensive machinery, lots of floor space and risky physical labor.

Others allege that some companies abuse the system, hiring overseas labor and paying them a lower salary, rather than paying the appropriate salary to an American worker.

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.

But there are plenty of growth industries with low - capital intensity — in other words, they rely more on labor than equipment.

The shares got a slight boost on Tuesday, rising 1.6 percent to $ 354.25 in extended trade, after the company reported a quarterly profit that more than doubled on stronger sales, fewer giveaways and lower labor costs.

At the same time, we're told the labor participation rate is lower than what the experts like it to be.

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.

The rest is attributable to businesses having a lot less physical capital (such as machines and software) than was anticipated, and having unexpectedly low total factor productivity (the productivity of labor and capital).

It could be that other countries» productivity gains in steel production have been greater than ours, or their labor costs are lower, i.e., our unit labor costs are not so competitive.

Second, because consumption creates a more labor - intensive demand than investment, much lower GDP growth does not necessarily equate to much higher unemployment.

Meanwhile, business owners still profit more from lower labor costs than they lose from either lower sales or less robust productivity gains.

Furthermore, it is not clear that wages in the Russian Far East are lower than wages in northeastern China, and the declining Russian population has raised concerns over the supply of labor and the true potential of the domestic market.

Fourth quarter same — fourth quarter restaurant labor expenses were 50 basis points lower than last year on a percentage of sales basis due to increased productivity and lower restaurant manager incentive compensation expense.

Unemployment is also generally lower than the national average in this state, with July 2017 estimates at 4.3 % compared to the national rate of 4.4 %, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Meanwhile, weekly jobless claims totaled 243,000, hitting a more than one - month low, the Labor Department also said.

2) Whole industries have moved to places where wages are lower and labor laws and environmental standards less stringent than they are in the United States.

And more than insulated, they stand to benefit from lower labor costs.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2013, median clergy income was 14 percent lower than the overall median income in the U.S..

The product repair that the company does on large foodservice equipment is still doing well, but smaller appliances — such as warmers and fryers — are oftentimes replaced rather than repaired because parts for them are more expensive when the cost of labor is included than new, low - end products manufactured overseas.

We've been able to upgrade manual tasks to a modern, fully automated line, more than doubled production and lowered our overall labor costs - and it was also well in line with our budget.»

If you've had one c - section with the typical low - transverse uterine incision and are considered a good candidate for VBAC, most studies estimate the risk of rupture during labor to be less than one percent.

You skewed my words regarding «managing» my birth... the whole point of the midwife is to alert the mother of the possibility of a problem, just like an OB so then a proper course of action can be taken... I was merely saying that they don't think of birth as a medical emergency from the beginning, requiring things that are unnecessary, like constant monitoring because it's easier than intermittent monitoring, or restricting maternal intake because the doctor could get puked on, or have fecal matter excreted during delivery is selfish (and yes, I know, the mother could aspirate, but the rate of that is low too... and I'm not saying they need to eat a steak dinner... but denying a drink of water, or a popsicle during a long labor is just ridiculous, as is rushing a natural process for convenience sake.)

When this 20 % risk of death is compared to the 0.02 % rate of cord prolapse during labor at homebirth that might have a better outcome if it happened in hospital, this means that a low risk woman has a 1000 times higher chance of having a life threatening complication either to her life or her fetus / newborns life at planned hospital birth, than if she plans to have an attended homebirth with a well - trained practitioner.

Most meal programs in Vermont operate in the red, according to Horton, because government reimbursement rates are lower than the actual costs of food, labor and worker benefits.

Out - of - hospital births were also associated with a higher rate of unassisted vaginal delivery and lower rates of obstetrical interventions and NICU admission than in - hospital births, findings that corroborate the results of earlier studies.3 - 5 These associations follow logically from the more conservative approach to intervention that characterizes the midwifery model of care8, 19 and from the fact that obstetrical interventions are either rare (e.g., induction of labor) 20 or unavailable (e.g., cesarean delivery, whether at home or at a birth center) outside the hospital setting.

(For low - risk pregnancies where labor is progressing normally and not being induced, ACOG suggests that intermittent, rather than continuous, fetal monitoring may be appropriate in some cases.)

For low - risk pregnancies, mothers should be allowed to spend more time than high - risk pregnancies in labor to avoid induction and unnecessary C - sections.

I have tried everything and nothing seems to work... the only thing that I can think of that I believe helps me is by squatting as if you are peeing and I mean like getting as low to ground as possible to really open yourself up... every time I do it... my vagina starts to hurt more and more... hoping if I keep doing that my baby can naturally start my dilation process!?! Other than that I'm just about done trying to start this labor!!

This may sound counter-intuitive, but women who used epidural pain relief have less positive feelings about their birth experience than women who use no medical pain relief.7, 8 No matter what methods of pain relief a woman used, low levels of pain have not been found to be associated with high levels of enjoyment during labor.9 So what matters for a good birth experience?

One theory is that mothers who have continuous support produce lower levels of stress hormones during labor than women left alone or attended by inexperienced coaches.

If your district pays significantly lower per hour salaries, this may even out, but if the other district is paying salaries which are comparable to, or lower than, your district, your labor costs will be higher, possibly a lot higher, than theirs, to produce the kind of meals they are producing.

after more than 15 hours of hard labor with contractions coming every two minutes apart, and forbade food even though I was shaky with low blood sugar and pleaded with her for something to eat.

Planned out - of - hospital birth also had a statistically significant association with higher rates for 5 - minute Apgar scores of less than 7, neonatal seizures, neonatal ventilator support, maternal blood transfusion, and unassisted vaginal delivery but with lower rates of both admission to neonatal intensive care units and obstetrical interventions, including induction and augmentation of labor, operative vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery, and severe perineal lacerations.

A number of non-invasive, non-pharmocological solutions have been shown scientifically to be as effective as active management in lowering cesarean section rates: a companion in labor in the hospital (Thornton and Lilford 1994), midwives rather than doctors as the principle birth attendants in hospital births of women without complications (Wagner 1994), out - of - hospital birth centers (Rooks et al. 1990), and planned home birth (Wagner 1994).

Many pregnant women in week 38 notice that they have gained anymore weight nor is there a change in the size of their bellyl However if the baby has dropped further into the pelvis then the belly appears to be at a lower position than beforer Pregnancy week 38 symptoms include a swelling in the ankles of the pregnant woman and also an anxiety about the entire process of labor and birtht It is advisable that woman in pregnancy week 38 visit their birthing center to ensure that they are aware where everything is available so that there is no confusion on the day of the deliveryr Another common pregnancy week 38 symptom experienced by most women is what is commonly known as «false labor» wherein a series of contraction are experienced in the back, abdomen, pelvis and various other parts of the bodyd

Conducted by the Retail Action Project, a community organizing group co-founded by the union RWDSU, the survey of more than 110 people on 14 CUNY campuses — or one - quarter of all CUNY food service workers — reported numerous instances of what it says are workers being served «a steady diet of low wages, few benefits, precarious schedules and labor violations.»

@lowtech I'm not suggesting anything other than low - skilled workers tend to do better in economies that depend on low - skilled labor.

The proof of our success is in the reports issued by the New York State Department of Labor: the unemployment rate is the lowest in more than nine years; and we are putting in place the pieces necessary for our workforce to succeed in the high - tech and green jobs that will be coming online at Solar City and the Medical Campus.

Cuomo was very pleased with the state Department of Labor's latest jobs report, which found the state's unemployment rate dropped to 7.8 percent in April — the lowest level in more than four years.

The controversial luxury Queens waterfront project — which also includes retail and a new school — encountered considerable resistance over developer Alma Realty's initial reluctance to hire union labor and to set aside more than a quarter of the new residences for low - and middle - income tenants.

New York's labor force participation rate dropped to 60.7 percent in 2014, the lowest level in more than a decade.

«Despite today's preliminary job report, when looking over the past year, New York State's economy has added more than 84,000 private sector jobs and experienced historically low statewide unemployment rates,» said Bohdan M. Wynnyk, Director of the New York State Department of Labor's Division of Research and Statistics.

«It's no secret to anyone working in American business today that many jobs have been lost as a result of shifting activity to largely foreign areas where labor costs are lower than in this country.»