Sentences with phrase «only low paid workers»

Based on the data from a study, not only low paid workers are applying for high - interest payday loans but also professionals in well - paid jobs, for instance, doctors, lawyers and accountants.

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If this is the case, we would observe that workers in industries where sexual harassment is pervasive — mining sees the most complaints from women, and the second-most from men behind only the information sector — are paid lower wages.

Thanks to government subsidies, low - income workers pay only 13 percent of their salaries for rent, and many are encouraged to buy the apartments with part of the otherwise untouchable savings that they are forced to put into a national retirement fund.

Little attention is paid to the much greater number of businesses, workers and consumers that not only survive but thrive and benefit from improved market access and lower costs of imported goods.

That wage will only apply to government workers, and more importantly, fast - food workers, the latter of which rank among the lowest paid workers in New York, earning $ 15,954 / year on average.

Right now, we only 13 percent of people have access to some form of paid family leave, and 5 percent of low - wage workers do.

Indeed, not only have the Tories failed to address the proliferation of zero hours contracts and insecure work, they are also making life even more difficult for those workers caught in a low pay trap.

Failure to do so would confirm the Tories are not only happy to stand by while insecurity booms, but are also happy to punish low and middle paid workers for it.

PRO: Minimum Wage Increase Makes Good Business Sense BY DARIUS ROSS When Governor Cuomo called for raising New York's minimum wage, he expressed not only his own view, but also the convictions of 80 percent of New Yorkers who agree that the state's lowest - paid workers are in urgent need of a raise.

It's even worse with low - paid workers: only 20 % of those earning between # 100 and # 200 a week are in an employer - backed scheme.

WHEREAS the federal minimum wage would now be more than $ 10 if it had kept up with inflation, but Congress has tried to raise the minimum wage only three times in the last 30 years thereby leaving lowest - paid workers with just $ 7.25 an hour or about $ 15,000 annually for persons working full - time; and

As investors discover how much more they have to pay on the actively managed mutual funds that many plans use as their only investment options, companies will feel pressure to turn to lower - cost alternatives that better preserve their workers» retirement savings.

Part - time jobs in the United States usually pay low hourly wages and tend not to offer crucial benefits such as health insurance: only 19 percent of part - time workers have access to medical care benefits.