Sentences with phrase «of hiring more workers»

Instead of hiring more workers or raising their pay, many companies say they'll first increase dividends or buy back their own shares.

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Part of Facebook's spending will include hiring 10,000 more workers — a mixture of full - time and contract employees — to review questionable ads and other postings.

What's more, McDonald's is trying new recruitment methods in the hopes of appealing to younger workers, as more than half of the new hires are expected to be between the ages of 16 and 24, according to the New York Post.

Hiring U.S. - based workers would be more expensive, but there is no shortage of potential applicants.

«When you have workers that already possess much of what you need, it makes a lot more sense to retrain them than to go out and hire new workers — who may be more educated — and then wait a year or more for them to get up to speed with how the company operates,» explains Anthony Carnevale, director and research professor of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.

President Obama announced tax cuts for small businesses that hire new workers or raise current workers» wages, and a special tax credit of $ 4,000 for employers that hire people who have been out of work for more than six months.

Of course, they have to be careful not to hire more than 50 workers or they are penalized again.

More than half of the 243 employers in the province permitted to hire temporary foreign workers at minimum wage over a 10 - month period ended in June were in the food - service business, the Alberta Federation of Labour found recently through a freedom - of - information request.

The state's Liquor and Cannabis Board said Thursday it's paying the Washington Department of Agriculture more than $ 1 million to buy new equipment and hire two full - time workers to conduct the tests.

68 percent of companies said that ACA will have a high impact on hiring more freelance workers and as a result, 74 % will contract with more freelancers.

Following a national survey of 600 HR decision makers and 959 freelancers, we found that the Affordable Care Act is triggering companies to hire more freelance workers, especially since 2016 is when the tax penalty for uninsured workers is the highest at $ 695 per employee.

Accommodating Amazon's thousands of workers will require hiring more teachers, widening roads and building more housing.

The monthlong reprieve prolongs the state of uncertainty hanging over the global economy, making it difficult for businesses to plan and discouraging them from investing in new factories or hiring more workers.

In an interview with USA TODAY following the meeting, Jackson said he stressed the need for Uber to hire more women and underrepresented minorities at all levels of the company, from the board of directors and the executive team to rank - and - file workers.

More than five years ago, the rapidly expanding Upper Crust franchise based out of Waltham became steeped in controversy for hiring undocumented workers and underpaying their staff.

SnagAJob.com is the nation's largest online community of hourly workers and a provider of workforce management solutions that allow employers to more effectively hire and manage their hourly workforce.

This is as the use of skilled external talent increases, so does the need for more efficient ways to find, hire, and manage contingent workers as well as integrate them into a company's teams.

With the support of local - bank financing, they were all able to expand, hire more workers and buy more goods and services from other small, local businesses.

The percent of part - time workers peaked at 20.1 % in 2010 and has dropped to 17.9 %, which is still high but shrinking as employers hire more full - time workers, just as in past recoveries.

Yellen and most of her Fed colleagues believe inflation soon will rise faster as the low unemployment rate makes it increasingly harder for businesses to hire or replace workers, driving them to boost wages more sharply, which in turn would create inflationary pressures.

In a vicious circle, people who spend more hours at weekday jobs need the other days for shopping, which prompts businesses to hire more Sunday workers, who join the growing percentage of the workforce who toil long, irregular hours, some trying desperately to make ends meet, others for the sake of more shopping.

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«Our expectation is that small brewers will use their savings related to the recalibration of the federal excise tax on beer to invest in their breweries, expand their operations, create more jobs and hire more American workers.»

The office of Mayor Stephanie Miner disagreed with the notion the practice is illegal and argued using SURA to get around required civil service exams for workers allowed the city to be more nimble in hiring.

Scheduled to open later this month, RiverBend is expected to hire a minimum of 500 workers in - house and employ 1,000 more people at various Buffalo facilities.

Edward Ott, a labor expert at CUNY and former executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, said that Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York's agreement may encourage more developers to hire union workers for affordable housing projects.

Enough to persuade U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to launch a federal investigation into the awarding of contracts and for members of the city's African - American community to demand more diversity in the hiring of construction workers at the SolarCity plant at Riverbend.

Officials are looking at whether work rules can be changed to cut overtime costs, whether higher - paid, veteran workers are receiving a disproportionate amount of overtime and whether it makes sense to hire more police officers rather than paying so much overtime.

«We can get more effective reduction of [shootings] by having youth outreach workers... rather than hiring more police,» he said.

In Binghamton, where coincidentally, a key State Senate race will be held this fall, he joined leaders of a marketing company who say they will renovate a vacant industrial site and hire nearly 600 more workers.

Through Empire Zones, businesses adding workers or improving their property could qualify for a host of tax breaks lasting more than a decade, including refunds on all property taxes, rebates on sales taxes for construction costs, and tax credits for each worker hired.

«These savings will allow businesses to grow, invest and hire more workers,» said Heather Briccetti, president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State.

The push is on to hire more Social Sevice workers in Erie County following the tragic death of 5 - year - old Eian Brooks.

A reorganization of the Department of Social Services that included hiring more CPS workers took place in 2013 and increased the focus on protecting children.

The legislation allows businesses to hire veterans without having them count as full - time employees under the Affordable Care Act, currently companies with 50 or more full - time workers must provide health insurance for their employees, but Veterans already receive health benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs or Department of Defense.

The participants were then asked a series of questions designed to measure their perceptions of the job candidates and, in three of the experiments, whether they would hire these candidates for a less - than - desirable job (e.g., warehouse worker, housekeeper, customer service representative) or a more desirable job (e.g., manager, project director, IT internship).

However, others in attendance doubted whether such a skills gap actually exists — or suggested that its existence is more nuanced than a simple lack of skilled workers — and said that many companies» hiring practices may in part be to blame for their inability to find skilled workers.

The accountability provisions of the law bedevil the unions to this day, but the large increase in federal education spending ended up helping the unions» bottom line, as still more teachers and support workers were hired.

Reducing rote demands allows people to focus on what they do best and reduces the number of talented workers who need to be hired — which, in turn, allows us to pay employees more.

Your story about the absenteeism crisis in New York City public schools highlights the need for the city Department of Education to hire more attendance teachers as well as more guidance counselors and social workers.

This increase in spending partially reflects that schools must compete to hire college - educated teachers in a labor market where well - educated workers command higher and higher salaries, but it also indicates that innovation and increases in productivity have occurred faster and been more effective in the broader economy than in the field of education.

The added expenses of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, makes companies even more inclined to hire temporary workers.

This Midwestern urban center has the second - best rating on the Gallup Job Creation Index with 42.9 percent of employers hiring, more than three times the 13 percent that are letting workers go.

And that's why we've proposed new programs to help Americans upgrade their homes and businesses and plants with new, energy - efficient building materials — new lighting, new windows, new heating and cooling systems --- investments that will save consumers and business owners tens of billions of dollars a year, and free up money for investment and hiring and creating new jobs and hiring more workers and putting contractors to work as well.

In 2014, the Globe and Mail reported that in that in the first fiveyears of its registry, Manitoba investigated more than 600 registered employers who hired temporary foreign workers and found that nearly half were non-compliant.

At least according to the 2015 Millennial Majority Workforce survey, in which a majority of hiring managers said their young workers were more narcissistic and less team - oriented than Gen X-ers.

Also, new construction builders — especially those building a home as part of a larger development — can sometimes take advantage of economies of scale in hiring workers at a lower rate and more efficiently schedule workers than during reconstruction of a single home.

There are also more economic reasons — minimum wage has increased over the past few decades so companies aren't hiring as frequently for positions normally filled by high schoolers, and a tough economy saw more grown workers taking jobs they usually wouldn't — but a lot of it can be attributed to students spending their time more wisely.

However James Farrar, co-claimant in the landmark employment tribunal decision against Uber, and chair of the Independent Workers» Union of Great Britain's United Private Hire Drivers (UPHD) branch was highly critical of the regulator, saying its decision in 2012 to grant Uber a license and only now, more than five years» later, revoke it shows a «systematic failure».

The company, he added, «will conduct a full audit of any app with suspicious activity» and probably will need to hire more workers to complete the audits.