Sentences with phrase «of good wages»

Perhaps CEO's are meant to be charitable (to their employees in the form of good wages or to others) not evangelical.

For instance... a union worker who's reaped the benefits of good wages, good health care, etc. voting for Romney and why?

Wenger picks up one of the best wages in world football, and he's under no pressure to succeed.

Not exact matches

The column, which was a response to the BBC's publication of its best - paid stars» wages, appeared in the Irish edition of the newspaper and was posted on The Times website.

This country is now the top provider of business process outsourcing to U.S. companies, and that business will do even better if the U.S. dollar and U.S. wages rise.

According to a study of 367 college students conducted by biologist Christoph Randler, early risers perform better on the job, attain greater career success, and reap higher wages than people who start their day later.

If my word isn't good enough for you, maybe you should point the Doomers to this highly recommended Daily Kos diary by Ministry of Truth from three weeks ago, the title of which is Corporate profits just hit an all time high BECAUSE wages just hit an all time low.

'' «Good» inflation is a consequence of an improved growth backdrop, leading to an increase in wages that pushes up prices and services,» it said.

The upward movement of wages was good for workers in the short term, Friedman argued.

Yet economists and policy experts say that view fails to take into account the changing realities of the workplace, where it's harder to get good - paying jobs, and where wages have been stagnant for decades.

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.

«The NAFTA trade agreement encouraged «off - shoring» or the placement of U.S. manufacturing in its neighbors due to better labor laws, cheaper exchange rates and / or lower wages,» added Darby.

At best, wages will keep pace with the cost of living.

Productivity — the ability to eke out sustained gains in wages and profits — is the thing that determines whether you have a better standard of living than your parents, whether your children live more comfortably than you.

We also looked at the cost of wages and state workers» compensation insurance, as well as rental costs for office and industrial space.

The latest U.S. proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional value threshold as well as new labor content rules requiring substantial work at hourly wages of at least $ 16.

The Fight for $ 15, a worldwide effort to raise wages and strengthen unions, has successfully led to better pay in many places since its launch in 2012, and a proposed federal minimum wage of $ 15 an hour was part of the Democratic Party platform in 2016.

The Conservatives could get away with this as long as the Canadian economy fared better than the rest of the world, with relatively low unemployment, relatively high wages and no sign of the housing market crash that doomsayers» predicted.

Instead of providing massive giveaways to the wealthy and well - connected, Trump and Congress should be taking bold steps to raise the wages of hard - working Americans whose real wages have been stagnant or in decline for decades.

He felt it was a moral imperative for companies to take care of their employees — to provide them adequate health insurance, to pay them good wages, and to look out for them when things got bad.

Attorneys for McDonald's workers have filed class action suits in three states claiming that the company was responsible for illegally withholding wages in a number of ways, including calling people in but not paying them for all the time they were required to be in stores as well as charging for the costs of uniforms.

The symbolism of turning Michigan into a right - to - work state is strong because it is the home of the U.S. auto industry and the place where autoworkers first began to demand better wages and working conditions in the assembly line automotive plants built by industrial barons such as Henry Ford in the 1920s.

By paying good wages, investing in future products, and generating reasonable (not «maximized») profits, American companies in the 1950s and 1960s created value for all of their constituencies, not just one.

An increase in the purchasing power of Canadians is a good thing, whether it comes from wages or prices.

Sorry Vern, but unless the corporation is broke and unless you have no intention of taking any pay from the corporate accounts, you better find a way to pay wages to the working principals.

The wages might have been boosted by a decline in hours worked, but frankly that's a minor detail in a splurge of good news,» said Ward McCarthy, chief financial economist at Jefferies.

The best predictor of household consumption is income growth, with wages being the most important component of income.

Out of more than 600 jobs tracked by Statistics Canada, the following 10 professions had the best combination of high wages and employment growth over the past five years.

A number of studies have linked this trait, proactivity, with better job performance, greater career success, and higher wages.

Last year, wages and salaries were just 43 % of GDP — well below the long - term average of 47 %.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

As we crafted policy in this space, we talked to worker advocates, innovative businesses, and legal experts with the goal of raising wages and standards for independent contractors broadly, providing these workers universally needed benefits as well as a say in obtaining nontraditional benefits, and ensuring that the system would be practicable for participating companies.

Wages considered were earned for services as varied as collector of customs at the Port of New York to royalties on books, as well as ownership of companies and yields from family estates.

They generally offer a wider range of employment opportunities, higher wages, and better benefits and provide greater job stability than smaller firms.

One study by economist Elaine McCrate found that any reduction in wages associated with the benefit of flexibility is modest at best and, in fact, many jobs with greater flexibility have higher wages.137 Furthermore, the volatility of earnings for many independent contractors would offset any compensating wage differentials, because workers can not compare the value of flexibility to higher earnings when they aren't able to predict their earnings as independent contractors.138

Twenty - nine states and the District of Columbia, as well as 21 cities and counties, set their minimum wages above the inadequate federal rate of $ 7.25.

Take a good look at prices, GDP, wages, jobs, and other key data below on the US Economy for the next 6 years and you may see a surprisingly positive picture, far from the dread of the recent stock market corrections.

WASHINGTON, April 30 The latest U.S. proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional value threshold as well as new labor content rules requiring substantial work at hourly wages of at least $ 16.

The effect of transfer payments to the financial sector — as well as the $ 5.3 trillion increase in U.S. Treasury debt from taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac onto the public balance sheet — is to support asset prices (above all those of the banking system), not inflate commodity prices and wages.

While modest wage inflation bodes well for the Japanese stock market on average, the sectors best positioned to benefit are those in which wages as a percentage of revenue are low, typically in the single to low - double digits.

There's a good reason we do so: The median wage actually shows the experience of workers in the middle of the distribution, whereas average wages are distorted by super-salaries paid at the very top of the income spectrum.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

For employers covered by MSPA, both employers are liable for ensuring necessary disclosures of the terms and conditions of employment, and payment of wages are made, as well as maintaining required written payroll records.

Unlike Asia, Africa has failed to develop industries that generate lots of employment and pay good wages.

(Another good question, which I won't get into, asks about regional variation in wage growth; outside of states hit by the fall in energy prices, moodys.com reports that wages have picked up in most parts of the country.)

According to my team's analysis of data via Bloomberg, «good» inflation can be viewed as price increases resulting from accelerating economic activity and a strong labor market, and thus, most likely to further support rising wages and employment.

Many international employees and freelancers have been leveraging Bitcoin through our system, not because of speculation, but because they just wanted a better way to receive their wages.

A good graph of job distress for the U.S. is here: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/not-yet-worse-than-1982/ What I find exasperating is when economists decide that unemployment is a micro problem, and blame unions for high wages, governments for providing high social wages, and the unemployed for not accepting lower wages.

Raising wages would help fight poverty and improve the well - being of workers and their families.

There are certainly areas of desperation, including unemployment among minority youth and individuals with disabilities, but at the current unemployment rate of 4.6 %, my impression is that the «jobs crisis» in this country is actually better described as an income crisis, because wages and salaries as a share of total income remain near record lows.