Sentences with phrase «many big employers»

Some of the state's biggest employers have made significant progress lately in terms of workplace gender equality.

The Russian steelmaker is a big employer in the Saskatchewan capital, and has operations in half a dozen other communities in Western Canada, where it is an important manufacturer of the pipe used in oil and gas pipelines.

Feintechnik was Eisfeld's biggest employer.

Coverage of infertility treatments is becoming more common among big employers, according to the benefits consultant Mercer.

IBM, one of the biggest employers in the Fortune 500, has joined the ranks of corporations reaching out to employees about the ban.

Politically, however, the creation of a middle category of worker would be a hard sell, with labor unions likely to oppose it, says Brishen Rogers, a professor of labor law at Temple University, out of fear that it might tempt many big employers to eliminate fuller - benefit jobs.

Because regulations make it difficult for big employers to shift to freelancers as much as they, or their employees, might like.

«Amazon so dominates Seattle that it has as much office space as the city's next 40 biggest employers combined.

CVS - Aetna deal will change the way many big employers buy employee health - care benefits.

Breweries have been some of the biggest employers in the city, but today Miller Brewing Company is the only major brewing company left.

The biggest employers are Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing.

One interesting aside here is that Nissan's biggest factory in Europe is in Sunderland, and is one of the biggest employers in the region.

But because of automated assembly lines, automakers and other manufacturers aren't the big employers they used to be.

As one of the biggest employers of such workers, McDonald's has become a lightning rod for the movement, which continues to build steam around the world.

The Grand Junction VA Medical center is one of the biggest employers in the area, employing almost 1 of every 100 Grand Junction residents.

Why it matters: The company is one of Scotland's biggest employers, with 5,000 people — nearly half its global workforce — based there.

However, Amazon's epic ramp - up is quickly taking over Seattle, and the company now has as much office space there as the city's next 40 biggest employers combined.

These banks are under intense pressure from provincial political bosses to keep lending and help sustain big employers like state - owned enterprises, at a time when the entire country's economy is slowing.

The McDonald's announcement comes as other big employers have raised starting wages amid a tightening job market.

Some big employers who've been workforce leaders of the movement to embrace telecommuting include Oracle, JetBlue, and Apple, among others.

Together with Manulife Financial Centre, Manulife Tower has made our company one of the biggest employers in Kowloon east.

The e-commerce giant is celebrated by many in Seattle for being the city's biggest employer and adding tremendous wealth to the area.

Alex LaBeau, president of the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry, a trade group that represents many of the state's biggest employers, countered: «This is about companies protecting their assets in a competitive marketplace.»

Many businesses near Schlitterbahn benefitted when the waterpark opened, and the attraction is also a big employer on Padre Island.

Part of the Des Moines metropolitan area, West Des Moines» biggest employers include Hy - Vee and Wells Fargo.

The first one is to really understand how big hospitals and big insurance carriers and big employers are all feeding on one another to make the system worse and worse and worse.

Tourism has exploded in recent years, becoming the country's single biggest employer, and analysts at Arion Bank say one in two new jobs is being filled by foreign labor.

After you've contributed enough to get the biggest employer match possible, you can either continue contributing to your 401 (k) or contribute to an IRA.

Hoffmeyer suggests there are many use cases for blockchain in treasury functions and capital structures, where companies can move secure tokens instead of using real funds.IBM, now the world's biggest employer of blockchain engineers, says more than 400 of its customers — including blue - chip names Walmart, Nestlé, Kroger, JD.com, Unilever, Maersk, DuPont and Dow Chemical — are currently running blockchain - based projects.

And Tier 1 and Tier 2 industry suppliers, also big employers in Ontario, have already globalized and understand the importance of CP - TPP.

Fifty years ago in our country the biggest employer was General Motors, and guys on the assembly line made the equivalent of $ 50 an hour today with job security and excellent benefits.

Today our biggest employer is Walmart, where the compensation average $ 10 an hour with minimal or no benefits and no real job security.

Being one of London's biggest employers, there is a «constant churn» of staff, requiring the message to be constantly reinforced.

It is the company's biggest earner, accounting for about 60 per cent of earnings, and biggest employer.

There were grave concerns around the small town of Inglewood in southern Queensland that its biggest employer, the organic chicken farm, would close down.

The facility is one of the biggest employers in the region, with an extremely loyal and dedicated workforce; over 34 employees of 285 have marked over 25 years of service.

Three miles down the road from the high school is another Marysville big employer, the Ohio Reformatory for Women prison, opened in 1916 and home to about 2,000 women, including Donna Roberts, the only women on Ohio's death row for having her husband murdered in 2001.

He's seeking a third way, of sorts: looking beyond the classic dichotomy of the gold standard final - salary pension schemes offered by some of the bigger employers, and the more miserable defined contribution schemes where a percentage of the salary is simply put into the pot.

It is of particular interest in Syracuse, where the biggest employers are already the tax exempt hospitals and institutes of higher education.

I travel to Port Talbot where Tata Steel continues to be the area's biggest employer, somehow managing to survive in the face of immense global pressures.

«In many counties, take Lewis County, one of our biggest employers is our rural hospitals.»

Bombardier, based in the heart of Derby, is the UK's last train manufacture and one of our City's biggest employers.

For too long politicians have over-looked the vital contribution of this sector which is now the country's third biggest employer.

The government's «complete lack of clarity» over its future trade relationship with the EU means some big employers could leave the UK, warns Labour's leader.

«These are stories of people who once had good middle class jobs, like my parents had, but lost ground when big employers like GE and IBM left the area,» Delgado said.

«Then I learned it wasn't the job destroyer they wanted to keep away from their conference, it was one of Britain's biggest employers.

Brian Foley (D - Blue Point), whose support for the MTA payroll tax has made him a prime target for Republicans, nearly brought the budget process to a standstill last week by holding out for greater autonomy for Stony Brook University, his district's biggest employer.

The constituency's biggest employer is the Sellafield nuclear commissioning site.

If you're a poor Buffalo resident and want to get to some of the biggest employers in Erie County, prepare to spend a lot of time on the bus.

It is the city's biggest employer, with more than 2,000 workers — 7 percent of them from Richmond.