Sentences with phrase «paid employment increases»

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Although higher productivity in a given industry may reduce employment in that sector, the increase in total output and income across the economy will create new, better - paying, employment opportunities elsewhere.

Cohen is also at the center of a huge debate unfolding right now about raising the minimum wage, and the low pay of service workers in the restaurant industry, where employment has increased 72 percent since 1992, compared to job growth of 22 percent in higher - paying private sector employment over the same time period.

This is both the fastest - growing occupation in Canada, with employment increasing by 85 % between 2006 and 2011, and the second - highest in pay.

No pay, no spending, no increase in business, no increase in employment, and so on and so forth.

Total compensation per employee consists of many different elements, including not only negotiated / imposed wage settlements, bracket creep (employees moving up within their pay range), composition of employment (professional vs clerical), pay equity, pension and other future employee benefit costs driven in part by market conditions, Canada and Quebec Pension Plan contributions (which increase by the annual increase in the industrial wage), among others.

This profile reflects in part the operations of the employment insurance (EI) program, with premium rates increasing to 2016 and falling thereafter, as the deficit in the EI Operating Account is «paid off».

Consequences of these reforms: increased length of employment required to qualify for EI, reduced duration of benefits as well as the amount of paid benefits and the complete exclusion from the program of people who resign or are dismissed for misconduct (see table 1).

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

The reason is that minimum wage workers tend to spend at minimum wage paying outlets, so an increase in the minimum need not reduce, and sometimes increases minimum wage employment.

However, lessons were learned from these early programmes and in 2004, the Texas Fragile Families initiative reported an increase in child support orders / paternity establishment among its participants (with a «dose» effect — the longer the young father was involved in the programme, the more likely he was to establish paternity / pay child support); and employment rates up from 50 % at the start of the programme to almost 70 % at six months and 80 % at one year (Romo et al, 2004).

Apparently «sorted» young fathers who have left education and are succeeding in employment may need help to redefine their goals: while in the short - term their employment status may sit favourably with the young mother and her family, and therefore facilitate the young father's engagement with his child, better qualifications may pay off in the longer term, not only because of the father's increased earning capacity but also because better qualifications are associated with better parenting and with couple relationship stability (Yeung, 2004).

A report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce also indicates a negative relationship between minimum wages and employment, showing secondary impacts, such as a reduction in the amount of training provided to low - income employees, which would result from increasing the minimum pay rate.

«Over the past 25 years the number of women in full - time employment has increased by more than a third and there have been many steps towards gender equality in the workplace, with flexible working and the Equal Pay Act, however, there is still a long way to go.

This would give firms that wish to grow an incentive to take on staff and help get more people into paid employment - reducing the amount paid out in benefits and increasing tax - take through income tax and employees» NICs contributions.

«Policies raising the wage floor increase the take - home pay of affected workers without hurting employment levels overall,» the economists wrote in a letter posted to the left - leaning Fiscal Policy Institute's website.

According to his letter of employment, if Kaloyeros chose to step down from his presidential role, he may return as a tenured professor of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at SUNY Poly, with his pay resuming at the same rate as when he left the role (with any increases that had been negotiated for members of the United University Professions union in the interim).

In order to solve the culture of corruption in Albany, Dadey said major ethics reforms such as severely limiting outside employment while increasing pay need to be put in place.

NEC members commented on fees for employment tribunals, privatisation, messages on child poverty and paying GPs # 55 to diagnose dementia, and requested faster increases in the national minimum wage and support for the TUC decent jobs week in December.

As a Republican legislator, Sparaco has voted against tax increases, even as the county's multimillion - dollar deficit swells; he's fought pay raises for county employees; and tried to eliminate the county's Youth Employment program.

This could increase the incentives for PIs to pay serious attention to improving their protégés» employment prospects.

«This chimeric role of employment / education affords us several concessions, including deferring student loans, increased time off... plus sick and holiday leave, decent benefits, the ability to pay into the UC retirement plan, and the flexibility of participating in lectures, seminar, conferences, and classes.»

Identifying the strategies and resources necessary to sustain people with disabilities in paid employment is the first step toward increasing the participation of this population in the workforce.

«The line on the chart for unemployment for teen - agers goes right along increasing with the increase in minimum wage,» he said in support of a proposal to pay young people $ 2.50 per hour for summer employment.

According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59

(c)(1) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to public or nonprofit REHABILITATION facilities, or to an organization or combination of such facilities, to pay the Federal share of the cost of projects to analyze, improve, and increase their professional services to handicapped individuals, their management effectiveness, or any other part of their operations affecting their capacity to provide employment and services for such individuals.

Additionally, he supports easier access to Employment Insurance to encourage workers to be more vocal in demanding pay increases.

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Canada therefore needs average employment incomes to rise, not fall behind, in order to pay for the increasing health - care costs of the baby - boomer generation, among a host of other expenses, Stewart - Patterson said.

The number of women in paid employment steadily increased starting in the 1870s, and this continued for almost a century.

To account for the additional self - employment tax, Tom could increase his withholding from his work, or Carol could begin paying estimated taxes, taking the full amount of $ 2,687.05 and dividing it by 4 and paying one - fourth each quarter (April 15, July 15, October 15, and January 15, 2016).

But, if you have other sources of income, you may be able to increase your the withholding on income from a job to account for the additional income tax and self - employment taxes you might have to pay.

A specialist employment lawyer has praised a recent judgement at the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) which upheld the decision that UBER drivers are workers and are therefore entitled to increased rights including holiday pay and a national minemployment lawyer has praised a recent judgement at the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) which upheld the decision that UBER drivers are workers and are therefore entitled to increased rights including holiday pay and a national minEmployment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) which upheld the decision that UBER drivers are workers and are therefore entitled to increased rights including holiday pay and a national minimum wage.

Without the promise of confidentiality, companies may worry that if the story gets out that they paid money to a former employee, the public will assume the employer did something wrong; they may also worry that it will create a slippery slope of ever increasing demands for settlement funds when they are required to terminate other employees» employment.

Some of the changes being proposed with respect to the Employment Standards Code include: the introduction of new unpaid, job - protected leaves, decreased eligibility thresholds for existing unpaid, job - protected leaves, increasing the rate at which overtime may be banked, changes to the eligibility and calculation of overtime in the context of compressed work weeks, the introduction of additional employee rest periods, changes to the eligibility and calculation of general holiday pay, amendments to youth employment, the introduction of additional notice requirements in the context of group termination notices, and new enforcement tools to deal with non-compliant employers, including introduction of an administrative penalEmployment Standards Code include: the introduction of new unpaid, job - protected leaves, decreased eligibility thresholds for existing unpaid, job - protected leaves, increasing the rate at which overtime may be banked, changes to the eligibility and calculation of overtime in the context of compressed work weeks, the introduction of additional employee rest periods, changes to the eligibility and calculation of general holiday pay, amendments to youth employment, the introduction of additional notice requirements in the context of group termination notices, and new enforcement tools to deal with non-compliant employers, including introduction of an administrative penalemployment, the introduction of additional notice requirements in the context of group termination notices, and new enforcement tools to deal with non-compliant employers, including introduction of an administrative penalty system.

The overhaul is intended to benefit workers by raising the minimum wage in two stages to $ 15 an hour by 2019, ensuring equal pay for part - time employees, increasing vacation entitlements and making it easier to unionize in certain sectors where employment is precarious.

If you do not take your vacation days, then you are still entitled to vacation pay or 4 % of your regular wages; this amount increases to 6 % after 5 years of service (s. 40, Employment Standards Code).

In its recent decision, Howard v Benson, the Ontario Court of Appeal has dramatically increased the potential severance liability for employers of using fixed term employment agreements by holding that the employer must pay compensation over the full balance of the term with no reduction for re-employment income earned by the employee.

Under the current Employment Standards Act, a claim for unpaid wages by an employee is limited in two ways: • There is a six - month time limit imposed on most wage claims (increased to 12 months for repeat violations and claims for unpaid vacation pay); and • There is a $ 10,000 cap imposed on the amount an employment standards officer or the Ontario Labour Relations Board can award in a wEmployment Standards Act, a claim for unpaid wages by an employee is limited in two ways: • There is a six - month time limit imposed on most wage claims (increased to 12 months for repeat violations and claims for unpaid vacation pay); and • There is a $ 10,000 cap imposed on the amount an employment standards officer or the Ontario Labour Relations Board can award in a wemployment standards officer or the Ontario Labour Relations Board can award in a wage order.

Despite the perverse tendency of the competitive job market in law teaching to create a whole nation of law faculty who mimic their mentors at the elite schools, there has also been a recent increase in differentiation and specialization among law schools, as they are forced to pay more attention to local employment markets.

In its recent decision, Howard v. Benson, the Ontario Court of Appeal dramatically increased the potential severance liability for employers using fixed term employment agreements by holding that the employer must pay compensation over the full balance of the term with no reduction for re-employment income earned by the employee.

Fresh consideration, such as pay increase, is required to support the change to the terms of employment.34

The comparator had been given a number of pay rises since the TUPE transfer and the employment tribunal felt that no meaningful thought had been given as to why the comparator was given pay increases since 2004.

A spokesman said the judgment could have wide - ranging implications for local authorities, including a significant increase in claims and potentially having to meet the argument that foster carers are «workers» with attendant employment rights such as holiday pay and sick pay.

However, the amount paid would be increased to reflect the fact that the Delivery and Installation Leaders were being paid gross, without deductions for Employment Insurance, Canada Pension Plan or income tax.

Although experience internationally shows that cartels may exist in almost any industry, there are certain industry structures and commercial activities and / or factors that may increase the risk of cartel formation, including: - customers that make regular, repetitive purchases by way of competitive tender; - competitors that know each other well through social contact, trade associations, shifting employment or other legitimate activities; - companies with immature corporate governance systems which fail to pay sufficient attention to compliance issues; - price or margin increases in a depressed market; - unexplained reluctance to compete on price and / or in particular areas and / or in respect of particular products; - unexplained reluctance to increase output; - unexplained pricing or market share stability in a previously volatile market; and - regular unexplained parallel price increases.

Jeanne Spinks, chief operating officer of the Tribunals Service which administers employment tribunals, says: «The significant reason for the increase in employment tribunal cases in 2006 — 07 is a 155 % increase in equal pay claims.

Now, don't get us wrong, we're all for moving upwards and onwards in the career track but, when it comes to employment choices, the definition of upward movement doesn't necessarily line up nicely with a pay increase.

In reality, success is individually determined, a theme that was mirrored in the Hays 2016 GCC Salary & Employment report, whereby 77 % of pay rises in 2015 were given as a result of individual's proactively seeking a salary increase.

Another great advantage is that many job employment agencies work directly with big companies, which basically means that your chances of actually getting a good paying job increase tenfold.

• First - hand experience in collecting and summarizing timekeeping information to ensure correct payroll processing activities • Track record of accurately calculating garnishments and commissions and efficiently posting them to payroll systems • Competent at handling sophisticated payroll systems and databases by following state and federal rules and regulations • Proficient in calculating and depositing payroll taxes and processing employment verifications to ensure accurate payroll procedures • Adept at maintaining payroll information by collecting, calculating and entering payroll data into predefined company systems • Competent in determining payroll discrepancies and taking effective measures to ensure that they are corrected before they have an adverse effect on the system • Qualified to prepare payroll reports by compiling summaries of earnings, taxes, deductions and nontaxable wages • Effectively able to update payroll information by recording changes such as insurance coverage, loan payments and salary increases • Proven ability to address employees» pay - related concerns and queries by remaining within the confines of company protocols • Hands - on experience in developing, maintaining and managing comprehensive payroll records by ensuring that both confidentiality and security of information is maintained