Sentences with phrase «of workers trained»

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The Chamber of Minerals and Energy has fired back at union claims that the resources sector does nothing to train the state's workforce, but relies on migrants and poaching workers from other industri

The second quarter will be impacted by strikes by France's national railway workers (SNCF) which affect the transportation by train of certain products and raw materials, and thus operations at certain sites, mainly in advanced materials.

And he or she must be supported by a senior political leader who serves as a public sector catalyst to build coalitions of governments, workers and training and research institutions and help to pitch investment proposals to head office decision - makers.

The Democratic candidate for president also attacked the company for last year laying off 250 technology workers after requiring some of them to train their replacements: foreign employees hired on temporary H - 1B visas for highly skilled technical workers through an Indian outsourcing firm.

The scramble for skilled workers in the state has intensified as the economy improves and training falls short of demand.

Businesses expect prospective workers to have the necessary skills to execute their responsibilities immediately, because the onus of training has shifted from industry to higher education.

The new Canada Job Grant program will see federal and provincial governments together pick up two - thirds of training costs of up to $ 15,000 per worker.

Jobs are going unfilled, despite significant un - and underemployment, with employers blaming a lack of qualified workers (the so - called skills gap) and job seekers complaining that companies are too picky and unwilling to train.

To make sure things go smoothly, Walmart will have a pick - up department manager at each store and workers in that part of the store got specialized training to speed up the pickup process.

But it's abundantly clear that the best protection a business can offer its under - trained or under - skilled workers is a path toward the «new» collar jobs of the future.

As red tape, regulation and economic uncertainty leave firms reluctant to take on the responsibility of training new permanent staff, it has fallen to temp agencies to offer workers the chance to learn on the job.

With so many millions of American workers taking time to enjoy the tournament, the train has left the station.

If we want the kind of trained workers that will keep our economy competitive, we need to remove the social and economic stigma from vocational training.

A bakery owner, for instance, may not need to devote much of his resources to employee training, but a firm that provides electrical wiring services to commercial clients may need to implement a system of continuing education for its workers in order to remain viable.

Big corporations already use it for training, providing information to workers in the middle of their jobs, helping designers visualize ideas, and marketing.

We also fly new remote workers to one of our offices for a week of training and give them a «remote buddy» to check in with for the first six weeks.

Instead of relying on monetary policy to boost the economy, the government should help train workers to fill those gaps.

«I had more of a worker mentality before and my SBDC training made me think about overall vision, how to think about sales and marketing, about financial analysis, and about how to be a good leader.

«It was cool to bring jobs to the community, but it was hard to train workers and it wasn't really sustainable in terms of macro growth,» she says.

Regardless of whether you take advantage of a formal diversity - training program, begin opening the eyes of staffers to the value of workers with a variety of backgrounds.

When he assumed the position last June, he promised to slash costs while raising service levels, and he's moved quickly on both fronts: fewer train crews go to work each day, thousands of workers have already been turfed, and CP's remaining fleet is pulling heavier loads.

«While enhanced training of UK nationals and automation might be a solution in certain sectors if we look 10 - 20 years ahead, realistically they're unlikely to make up fully for any large reduction in EU migrant workers over the next 5 - 10 years,» said Julia Onslow - Cole, global head of immigration at PwC.

Then he spends liberally on job training, so Elyria can cement its niche of complex, high - tensile castings, which require highly trained workers to execute them.

Many states point with great pride to the quality and availability of their workers, as well as government - sponsored programs to train them.

This isn't a new argument, but it's one that's resurfaced recently: Instead of more gun control, some people believe we should give guns and gun training to teachers, office workers, and the like.

In 2005, when Kevin Hughes joined the company as vice president of sales, large companies were beginning to invest more in worker training and were increasingly willing to outsource that task.

Another player's father, a sales rep for AltiGen Communications, a maker of Internet phone systems in Fremont, Calif., told him that AltiGen could outfit those 12 workers for less than $ 20,000, including installation, training, and service.

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

Panjabi is using his $ 1 million 2017 TED Prize winnings to fulfill his wish of creating a digital health education system that can be used to «recruit the largest army of community health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect, and empower,» as he explained during his TED talk in April.

Besides providing such familiar tax incentives as a five - year income - tax exemption for coveted corporations, the government often shares the cost of training workers and even puts up part of the capital for plants and equipment.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

«The labor shortage is getting worse as demand is getting stronger,» said John Courson, chief executive of the Home Builders Institute, a national nonprofit that trains workers in the construction field.

But flex policies for older workers can make sound economic sense when you consider all the costs related to not retaining older workers, including recruitment, training and development of their replacements, says Barbara Jaworski, chief executive officer of the Workplace Institute, which helps organizations develop older - workforce strategies.

About a third of employers say they are getting the workers they need, in part because they are engaged in the training process, communicating directly with schools and students to develop course work or to the let institutions know what skills new hires need.

One of the costliest parts of running a «pick and pack» service is training new workers to navigate a large warehouse and find the one product they are searching for.

Nearly a third of older workers in the NORC study said they have brushed up their skills through job training or school during the last half decade, which could provide an income boost and help in finding late - career work.

Unions in the utility industry, health care and manufacturing industries are using knowledge and skills as the key source of worker power by expanding apprenticeship training, creating partnership with community colleges, vocational schools, and employers to fill the «middle skills» gaps that exist today or will grow as skilled baby boomers retire.

When the healthcare workers were charged $ 99 a year for an hour a week of personal training, customers went the first few months but then their usage tended to trail off.

Regulatory changes had been in the wind for some time as the evidence against the program built up, yet employers relied on the lobbying efforts of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business to maintain the program rather than taking steps to improve domestic recruitment and training efforts or adjust wages and benefits to attract workers.

On Tuesday, Uber fired 20 employees as a result of the investigation and recommended training for 31 more workers.

With flu season just around the corner, workers and employers need to make plenty of preparations in order to stay safe on planes, trains, and buses.

Some recent examples of companies using VR technology include Farmers Insurance, which is using Facebook's Oculus Rift headsets to train its claims adjusters and PG&E, which also uses the Rift headset to help train workers in inspecting electrical equipment.

To prepare for this shift in 3D printing, one that will see more companies using additive manufacturing, especially with metals, to manufacture end - use parts, companies are staffing up, training new workers, and buying more 3D printing machines, SDM's report shows that 73 % of the 700 respondents to SDM's survey said their companies plan to increase their in - house production of additively manufactured parts, a trend more pronounced in the aerospace and medical industries.

The company had argued that temporary Chinese workers were necessary because of a lack of Canadian training in their specific work.

At the time, Millennial Branding's managing partner Dan Schawbel told Inc.com that he believes the entrepreneurial life appeals to younger workers because, «they can have an impact on Day 1, whereas in a large company, they would have to go through months of training only to be stuck in a single role.»

A report by CareerBuilder states that 21 percent of workers plan to leave their current job in 2016 (up from 16 percent in 2015) and as you know, it is expensive to hire and train a new employee.

There is an opportunity to invest in training workers in some of the world's youngest, fastest - growing countries, which is what Andela, the company I lead, is doing.

Normally it is hard to find a factory willing to train workers to assemble products numbering only in the hundreds but we have solid ties with several consumer electronics manufacturers (including one factory renowned for producing brand - name housewares such as hair dryers) and they will assemble and package Pyramids for us, regardless of number of units.

But before the American workers walk out the door they often face the humiliating prospect of having to train the people taking their jobs.

Break down traditional hierarchies and cliques by training workers to do a number of jobs, from the menial to the challenging.