Sentences with phrase «of paid labor»

Another, much smaller group of feminists is made up of socialists who link feminism with fundamental changes in the economic relation of home and work, and the class structure of paid labor.

Not exact matches

Even if you're not a McDonald's franchisee, you need to pay attention to that move, because it signals that the cost of labor, even for entry - level workers, is going up.

Corporations have reaped profits off the privatization of prisons and prison labor; some prisoners have gotten paid as little as 12 cents an hour, doing work for corporations, like Victoria's Secret and Walmart.

That is, the Bureau of Labor Statistics bases its job figures on the week or pay period that includes the 12th.

He has suggested cutting the corporate tax rate from 33 percent to the E.U. average of 25 percent, for example, and wants to loosen national labor laws so companies can have more freedom to negotiate working hours and pay.

And that's not just the case for those working for the big - name brands: A November Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that just 6 % of low - wage workers in the U.S. have access to paid family leave.

The occupations listed below are the 25 best paying, according to U.S. News & World Report and data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

At Google, an audit of their pay practices by the Department of Labor found «systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,» showing, one official has said, six to seven standard deviations between pay for men and women in nearly every job category.

Consider yourself warned: The U.S. Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service are cracking down on companies that misclassify employees as independent contractors to avoid paying employment taxes.

Then there's the thorny of labor issues — benefits, appropriate pay, and so on.

On Thursday, the online retail giant announced its partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor to start an apprenticeship program that will provide paid, on - the - job training for tech careers at the company.

According to the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, these are the 25 highest - paying jobs that you don't need a four - year degree to pursue.

The Fair Labor Standards Act, passed in 1938 as part of the New Deal, ushered in such innovations as the 40 - hour workweek, overtime pay, and the minimum wage.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

At $ 22,000 each — less than the price of a minivan — it could easily pay for itself in months, saving a company $ 30,000 a year or more in labor costs per robot.

A group of companies that spend the least on employee pay has outpaced a basket of high - labor cost stocks by 13 percentage points over the past year, according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs.

The final updated rules for overtime have been released by the Department of Labor and are set to take effect in December: That means a lot of employees who were previously exempt will suddenly qualify for overtime pay.

If you're considering getting more education, the U.S. Department of Labor has helpful information, including which master's degrees pay off best, certificate programs that lead to good jobs and data on the fastest - growing occupations.

While no federal law requires paid breaks, the Department of Labor does say, «Breaks from 5 to 20 minutes must be counted as hours worked.

The United States is one of just two developed nations — along with New Guinea — to not provide paid benefits to women on maternity leave, according to the International Labor Organization.

The pay increase at its company - operated U.S. restaurants threatens to complicate an ongoing labor dispute that turns on whether McDonald's can be held responsible for the labor violations of its fran...

According to Bob Bland, another co-chair of the Women's March, March 8 is also intended to spotlight the «role that women not only have in paid labor, but also in unseen labor.»

Seeing the fruits of the labor they do often leads everyone working for nonprofits to find gratification that goes well beyond the salaries they're paid.

Read more: America's Least Stressful Jobs 2012 By Cindy Perman Posted 3 Jan 2012 Source: To calculate average income, CareerCast.com used a variety of sources, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, trade associations and pay surveys.

The Department of Labor's proposed rule would only apply to businesses that paid employees at least the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 an hour.

While the Obama - era rule declared that tips belonged to the workers who collected them, the Department of Labor argued the rule contributed to pay disparities between servers and other staff like dishwashers.

Wal - Mart's critics — including a group of its workers backed by labor unions - say the retailer pays its hourly workers too little, forcing some to seek government assistance that effectively provides the company with an indirect taxpayer subsidy.

Did they prescribe that your labor had to be paid a minimum of this?

This comes just nine months after the Labor Department sued Google for not handing over 19 years of pay data on 21,000 Google employees for a routine audit into the company's pay methods, as part of that department's attempt to show whether Google's hiring discriminates on the basis of race, religion, gender, or other factors.

On Monday, Department of Labor officials claimed Google, who is a federal contractor, systematically pays female workers less than their male colleagues.

SAN FRANCISCO — A Northern California company that federal officials say violated salary requirements of the country's foreign - worker visa program will pay a total of $ 173,044 to 12 workers, the U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday.

Residents in Seattle, on average, are spending 40.2 percent of pay for a three - bedroom rental, according to ATTOM Data Solutions research based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Department of Housing and Urban Development data.

Since you always have a choice of where you spend your money, even though some of us conveniently forget uncomfortable truths, Girlfriend Collective's factory uses no forced or child labor, mandates fair working hours and safe conditions, pays living wages, and allows workers to unionize.

The story, published on Mobile Vaani's network, reached the director of the state's Department of Labor, who prompted his government to pay the young widow the compensation she was due.

So, the message is clear: Instead of our paying for someone else's labor — or paying with our own sweat equity — we can let machines do the hard work for us.

The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating whether Google has unlawfully paid women less than men.

Costs would be the cost of hosting (and additional web - builders if we got to the point where we would need more labor than just myself) and revenue would come in from the doctor offices paying their start - up and monthly fees...

By contrast, many other independent workers are in low - wage occupations where the supply of labor is huge and turnover is constant; if someone leaves because of crummy pay or wretched working conditions, the employer can easily tap somebody else to fill the slot.

There was also an account of my elaborate academic sponsorship plan so I could afford to attend Yale — some corporation would pay for a year of education in exchange for labor or repayment down the line.

Now, after years of benefiting from low - cost labor, many employers are starting to pay more.

Untaxed land value is paid to banks, which in turn lend their mortgage receipts out to bid up property prices all the more — while obliging the government to tax labor and sales, raising the cost of labor and the price of goods and services.

Third, given more and better capital, workers could produce more for each hour of labor — a force that would allow companies to pay more without raising prices.

Financial Services Minister Kelly O'Dwyer has criticised Labor for wanting to tie more of workers» pay up in superannuation.

And unemployment means no pricing power for labor, no wages to pay off debts accrued during the bubble, a potential wage of foreclosures and a resulting set off layoffs in the service sector.

More than paying it, in fact — they estimate that labor pays 2,200 percent of the tax's burden, a really extraordinary estimate.

A loss of sanctuary status also means potentially less supply of labor for lower paying jobs.

Most other models find that capital, not labor, pays the bulk of corporate taxes.

The paid leave order is the latest move by Mr. Obama to use his power over federal contracts to institute changes on a small slice of the labor market when he can not persuade Congress to enact those measures for the whole country.

The 2002 law, usually called McCain - Feingold, banned the broadcast, cable or satellite transmission of «electioneering communications» paid for by corporations or labor unions from their general funds in the 30 days before a presidential primary and in the 60 days before the general elections.

Capital's share of national income has risen, while labor's share has fallen — even though it includes lavish compensation of executives who are paid disproportionately through stock grants, options and bonuses.