Sentences with phrase «of life of workers»

Ownership of the factories by the government instead of by capitalists was tried, but the quality of life of workers was not greatly improved and the quality and quantity of production was less.

Schindler leaves it to «his» Jews, and particularly to his accountant Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), to understand the unsayable: that Schindler is using his factory as a con game to cheat the Nazis of the lives of his workers.

I was fascinated by the story of the building of the [Brooklyn] bridge and the back story of the lives of the workers who built it.

Not exact matches

«Experts are clearly favoring Atlanta,» noted Bert Sperling, the firm's founder and CEO, in a recent statement, nodding to the city's comparatively low cost of living, international air hub and potential ability to absorb tens of thousands of new workers.

To help determine whether it will result in a real improvement in the lives of garment workers or in business results, Levi's has enlisted Harvard's School of Public Health to rigorously measure and study the initiative.

Just across the border, two hours from Buffalo, NY, and four hours from Detroit, Toronto can make you feel like you never left home, yet enjoy a much better cost of living and plenty of talented workers available for hire.

Participating factories had registered positive outcomes for workers, who enjoyed improved quality of life, and their businesses — which tallied declines in absenteeism and increased productivity.

And Steam Whistle has plenty of workers who live and breathe their jobs — the «Good Beer Folks,» as the company fondly refers to all of its employees.

«If your company can transform the way it operates to match the way these new workers think, live, and work, you will reap the rewards,» writes Brian Halligan, CEO of cofounder of HubSpot in his massively popular Inc. column on the subject.

If they wish to ship this offshore and make thousands of Aussies out of work, then support the workers in Australia, do not purchase these brands, they are destroying Australian jobs and life.

Former rustbelts trying to lure in high - tech companies need to focus on creating the kind of cities where knowledge workers actually want to live

Therein lies the irony: employers that embrace naps typically already subscribe to the work - life - balance mantra, and their workers are least in need of daytime rest.

In the scenario suggested, we have a construction worker who will have a wage differential of approximately $ 2,264 per month and would clear about $ 280 a month after living expenses.

A senior European Union official echoed Bains» words, suggesting the G7 needed to encourage use of artificial intelligence to improve daily lives while affirming the importance of privacy and accountability to maintain trust with workers.

Workers whose offices had windows received more natural sunlight («white light») slept longer, obtained better quality sleep and had a superior quality of life, compared with those who had little natural sunlight exposure.

Trudeau reset the benchmark in Hamburg, Germany on February 17, delivering a direct message to business leaders: «It's time to pay a living wage, to pay your taxes and to give your workers the peace of mind that comes with stable, full - time contracts.»

We then use that to build out two additional scenarios: one assuming a doubling of the current minimum wage plus factoring in the cost of fire and building safety improvements based on data from the Worker Rights Consortium; and another using a «living wage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demands.

I can certainly understand the need for surgeons, emergency workers and in fact anyone on standby where a call may literally mean the difference between life and death, needing to keep their phone on, but how many of us are really in that space?

El Faro has 40 full - time employees, most of whom live on the grounds with their families, and 200 part - time workers.

In an annual survey of expats around the globe, some 9,000 workers in over 100 countries were asked to score 43 aspects of their lives abroad, from commuting and ease of setting up utilities to the cost of education and the ease of making friends — for both expats and their children.

The investigation witnessed a worker chucking a live chick in a wheelbarrow of dead and dying birds and leaving it for an hour, before coming back to empty the wheelbarrow into another bin.

Third - party contracting firm benefits aren't only less generous, but the exorbitant Silicon Valley housing prices and rents make life as a contractor so difficult workers from contract companies often can't afford to elect a benefits package, because doing so will take too much out of their paycheck.

The hard workers in life, void of entitlement, are the people who succeed at the highest levels.

In Turkey, Zughbi is preparing for a lifetime of exile, but says conditions are not much better, as he struggles to make a living still as a medical aid worker.

Nearly one in eight of the world's workers believe they will never be able to afford to retire fully while millions of people are not financially prepared for life after work, according to international research by HSBC.

A FlexJobs survey reported nearly 90 percent of workers felt flexible hours would reduce stress and improve general quality of life.

A 2013 study by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine found 49 daytime workers experienced a better quality of life after exposure to more daylight in the office.

The Brisbane Baylands project has received sharp criticism from people living in Brisbane, who don't want to see an influx of tech workers change the character of their neighborhoods.

People might not even think of this, but there are people who work in tech but are low - paid, like cafeteria workers and custodial staff, and a lot of them also live out of their cars because they just can't afford being in housing.

The San Francisco Bay Area, recognized as a global hub of tech finance and innovation, may be at risk of losing top tech workers if they can't afford to live there, even on six - figure salaries.

Their Money Diary (M. is agender, and uses gender - neutral pronouns) was one of our most popular in recent months, providing a unique lens into the Silicon Valley tech lifestyle and tech workers who live in their vans.

Since having time for life outside the office is an increasingly high priority to workers in every industry, other company founders would be wise to take a page from the vacation non-policy book of Branson and other pioneers of this approach (which according to Businessweek comprise only around 1 percent of all companies).

She added, «But in the context of relative privilege, when you talk about work - life balance, the moms who don't have health care aren't called hard workers.

Undocumented tech workers say they are shocked and living in fear following the election of Donald Trump earlier this week.

Already by 2001, when Health Canada conducted a massive survey of 31,571 workers on the subject of work - life balance, a third of respondents said they enjoyed high flexibility in working hours and location, and another 39 %, moderate flexibility.

PARIS, May 3 - French President Emmanuel Macron swept into office last May on a pledge to create jobs and improve the lives of workers by rebooting the country's economy.

The chief executive of Bridgetown Natural Foods, in Portland, Oregon, Klock thinks it's critical to pay workers a living wage, and provide them with benefits like health care, dental care, and a 401 (k).

Thanks in large part to that same mobile technology, workers with marketable skills have more freedom than ever before to strike their own balance between the demands of their job and the rest of their lives.

Another way progressive employers are making life easier for their call - centre workers is by investing in technology that can improve the experience of both the call - centre worker and the consumer.

We explore JPMorgan Chase's bold and urgent campaign to revive one of America's iconic industrial cities and Levi Strauss's effort to make life better for some of the 300,000 garment workers who make its jeans.

Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.

Roberts and his family took dramatic personal action to combat the ill effects of his life as a modern knowledge worker.

Said Rep. Ed Royce, R - Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: «I am very concerned by reports of deep cuts that could damage efforts to combat terrorism, save lives, and create opportunities for American workers.»

Joining a picket line of the telecom company's striking workers, Sanders told them that Verizon is «just another major American corporation trying to destroy the lives of working Americans.»

«I gave more than 20 years of my life to CKE, and Mr. Puzder took a company that I loved and turned it into a business that makes money by stealing from its workers,» Laura McDonald, a former Carl's Jr. general manager, said in a recent forum hosted by Senate Democrats.

Canada trains lots of highly skilled workers and it boasts the sorts of livable cities in which those highly skilled people like to live.

Chances are you haven't given much thought to the inner life of the garment worker — the seamstress halfway around the world who made your clothes.

Describing himself as «not a big free - marketer in the macro sense,» Butterfield said issues of workers being able to afford where they live can't be pinned solely on systemic failings.

TIME spoke to aid workers familiar with Aleppo to discover what daily life is like for thousands in the war - torn, eastern part of the city:

It's this building block of trust, in Jobs» case, that crystallized his relationships with his knowledge workers that helped launch the Apple products we can't live without today.