Sentences with phrase «other than the public sector»

When it comes to unprecedented job satisfaction and security, none other than the public sector can offer highly profitable opportunities.

Not exact matches

We have over 80,000 full and part - time employees who serve more than 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 36 other countries.

China's public - sector investment, in other words, is value destroying, and because it is funded by debt, additional investment causes China's real debt servicing costs to rise faster than its real debt servicing capacity.

We have approximately 81,000 full - and part - time employees who serve more than 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 35 other countries.

We employ approximately 81,000 full - and part - time employees who serve more than 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 37 other countries.

In part, this difference reflects the higher proportion of public - sector employees covered by enterprise agreements, as enterprise agreements have generally been yielding higher wage outcomes than other wage - setting streams.

Some folks have no pensions; some have a defined contribution plan, which depends on the market; others, including most public employees and more than half of the private - sector ones have a defined benefits plan — you get a guaranteed pension based upon years of service.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

Public housing tenants are much more likely than renters in other sectors to struggle to get repair and maintenance done.

Our one - of - a-kind energy is what has been attracting innovators, freedom riders, and immigrants from every other place on Earth, what has more than 2.6 million people waking up here every day, what has young scholars selecting our schools, and what has the public and private sectors investing billions of dollars here.

Police officers contributions to their pension is amongst the highest in the sector but employer contributions to the scheme compares more than favourably when considering other public sector schemes.

We have therefore agreed that there will need to be: - a significantly accelerated reduction in the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes; - arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and - protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday directed that a template for public sector projects valuation be set up to drive down the cost of contracts in the country which he said was higher than what obtains in other parts of the world.

It has overseen an explosion in the wage bill of the state, to the point where the average public - sector worker now earns # 74 more per week than a private - sector employee, as well as having much better pension and other entitlements.»

Doctors say the changes disproportionately impact their field, as physicians will see their contributions to pension funds rise more than other public sector employees.

Cuomo has less - than - rosy relationships with other labor unions, including public - sector organized labor and the New York State United Teachers union.

However, writes Andreas T. Schmidt (University of Groningen), within an environment where private companies frequently adopt nudge strategies, public policy nudges need not have greater implications for democracy and transparency than other forms of government intervention, and can be one tool in exerting democratic control over private sector nudge tactics.

It said higher paid NHS staff already pay proportionally more for their pensions than most other public sector workers.

Meanwhile, the National Petroleum Authority, the sector regulator, has urged the two organisations to seek clarity about the situation to «ensure that the public is not misled by those who are motivated by reasons other than those of national interest.»

«It is good that research budgets are less hit than other sectors, but the prior commitments of SFI [Science Foundation Ireland, a leading public - funding body], due to multiannual funding, suggest that we are in for 2 to 3 years of very limited opportunity for new competitive funding, so some excellent work will not be funded.»

Why black workers lost public sector jobs at higher rates than other groups during the Great Recession is unclear.

«They're concentrated in a shrinking sector of the economy, and they're substantially more likely than other public sector employees to be without work.»

We employ approximately 80,000 full - and part - time employees who serve more than 15 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 49 other countries.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

The public education sector has far less employee churn than practically all other sectors of our economy.

Foot made the declaration at the school funding conference in London, acknowledging that whilst schools fared better than other parts of the public sector in the Spending Review, it faced a difficult time ahead.

«The public is losing confidence in the ability of the higher - education sector in particular to control costs,» note the authors, adding that «all of higher education has a stake in addressing this problem, including the elite institutions that are under less immediate pressure than others to alter their teaching methods.»

When 4th graders themselves were asked how often a language other than English was spoken at home, 18 percent in the public sector replied «all or most of the time» as did 12 percent in the private sector.

These firms believe that, using economies of scale as well as other tools that are more readily available to the private sector, they can build organizations that use time and resources more efficiently and effectively than public school districts, leading to higher student achievement at a similar cost.

In contrast, teachers and other public sector workers are still overwhelmingly offered defined benefit pension plans and more than four out of five teachers are enrolled in a DB plan today.

In other words, Ohanian thinks you could use job security as a means of attracting employees into the public sector even if you offered salaries roughly 10 % lower than in the private sector because the job security itself has some value.

Teachers are often lumped in with other public sector workers, but the turnover rates of the teaching profession places them in a much more volatile position than other state or local government positions.

The gender imbalance in Australian primary schools is stronger in some areas than others; differing between states and territories and between the public and private sector.

Indeed, the TUC recently reported that teachers put in more overtime than any other public sector workers and Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the NUT, has said that teachers are «manifestly overworked» and that their jobs are becoming «increasingly stressful».

Public schools are asked to be competitive and act more like private entities, but there is little comparison to the flexibility of the private sector in forcing public schools to furlough teachers based on seniority rather than performance or other important educational consideraPublic schools are asked to be competitive and act more like private entities, but there is little comparison to the flexibility of the private sector in forcing public schools to furlough teachers based on seniority rather than performance or other important educational considerapublic schools to furlough teachers based on seniority rather than performance or other important educational considerations.

As we showed last year, teachers have higher retirement costs than any other major group of workers, even other public - sector employees.

In this piece, Geller tells us: «All other sectors of the industry have consolidated in response to digital disruption — publishers, booksellers, wholesalers and public relations agencies — and yet there are still more than 300 agencies listed in The Writers» & Artists» Yearbook 2015.»

Maybe its different in the US where you seem to sue each other for no reason other than to boost the lawyers pension funds by a process of mutual self - impoverishment, but what I describe is how it is in my 30 - year IT experience in the UK — largely with large and medium sized commercial organisations — finance, banking, retail, engineering and public service sectors.

In other words, the significance of the DOI auction is really more about public sector support for offshore wind innovation rather than how many homes the leases will potentially power.

I served for years as the technical watchdog for scientists and engineers, we had partners from the public sector, and I didn't sense any particular difference in behavior, other than those of us who worked for private outfits were paid better and had a much crisper and efficient work environment.

The definition of «large organization» in the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation has been changed to say that a large organization is an organization of 50 or more employees in Ontario, other than the Government of Ontario, the Legislative Assembly or a designated public sector organization.

Sadly, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health reported in 2014 that firefighters in particular have higher rates of cancer than other public sector workers, due to the harmful exposure to chemicals and toxic materials they encounter.

Small designated public sector organizations and large organizations (with 50 or more employees in Ontario) must provide or arrange for the provision of accessible formats and communication supports for persons with disabilities, upon request, in a timely manner that takes into account the person's needs, and at a cost that is no more than the regular cost to other persons.

In light of this, we believe that Legal Aid lawyers are being treated differently than other provincial public sector lawyers,» Rogin said.

Starting pay for graduates and school leavers with A levels in the armed forces is at least on a par with that for other public sector employers and in some instances may be more generous than for first jobs in similar areas in the private sector.

The average pay for child care teachers is barely more than $ 10 per hour, lower than for most other jobs, including parking lot attendants and dog walkers.26 These low wages contribute to economic insecurity among the child care and early education workforce, with one in seven living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level.27 Currently, about half of people working in the child care sector rely on public benefit programs such as Medicaid and nutrition assistance.28 Low pay contributes to high turnover rates, which can threaten quality in early childhood programs during children's critical developmental period.

They may be aging, but they are living well and well - positioned players are going to make more money from the aging demographic than from any other sector of the buying or selling public during the next two or three decades.