Sentences with phrase «pay their workers enough»

Conventional wisdom holds that if only we pay workers enough, they'll be productive.

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He said efforts to revise the H - 2B guest worker program have been stalled by opposition from labor groups, which have argued that companies don't try hard enough to hire Americans or pay a living wage before turning to the program.

The industrial orthodoxy of productivism — grow more for less... if you can't, you must not be efficient enough (if you can, what are you paying your workers, how is your soil, are your animals in sheds, and are you one of the majority of Australian farmers with off - farm income?).

But making the argument for austerity is simply not good enough for workers committed to public service who have had minimal pay rises for years.

The Paid Family Leave law spearheaded by Cuomo will start to make things a little easier on new parents — but it's still not enough, especially for lower - and middle - income restaurant workers.

«It's not enough to simply sit back and hope that businesses will start paying their workers a fair wage,» he added.

As a result, nearly every single country in EU (or Japan) found itself in a situation of rapidly rising retired demographics, with not enough young workers to pay for that retirement.

It is the Wal - Mart's of the business world who are profiting most from the low minimum wage standard and also relying on taxpayer subsidies to keep their poverty wage workers fed, housed, and health enough to work for them because these minimum wage workers are paid so low they qualify for food stamps, Section 8 and public housing rent subsidies, Medicaid, and the Earned Income Tax Credit,» Hawkins said.

Crucially, the party understands that a consumer economy can only operate with workers who are actually paid enough to buy things.

The real terrorists, which I prefer to label «greedy f# * ks, are the corporations big enough to take their operations to third world companies where they can get away with paying people 40 cents a day, can evade all responsibility for shoddy buildings collapsing and killing / injuring a thousand people, where workers have to handle toxic chemicals without any protection (or lose their jobs) etc etc etc..

TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said before the march started that workers have had enough of low pay, poor quality jobs and constant cuts to public services.

In a statement in Ado - Ekiti, the state APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, blamed the unfortunate incident on the «callousness» of the governor, who, he said, «collected more than enough» to pay workers» salary arrears but allegedly kept the money in private accounts to yield interests for personal use.

The money will pay for lifeguards and other workers to watch the water later into September, when it's often still warm enough for the beach.

It is our failures in social policy, to provide council housing, to protect workers» (and trade union) rights, and to do enough to combat low pay and job insecurity that are the root cause of public concern about immigration.

This process is bound to result in a significant increase for fast - food workers in New York because their typical pay of less than $ 9 an hour is clearly not enough to pass Wage Board muster.

Not enough employers pay attention to the individual needs of workers, and obviously if a woman is going through a difficult menopause then it's not good for her, her employers, and perhaps even her co-workers.

However, research from the Garment Worker Diaries has made me concerned that the women who make my clothes are not paid enough to afford life's necessities and support their families.

Workers are not being paid enough to live on.

Employers are willing to pay wages and salaries to workers because they expect to be able to sell the goods and services that those workers produce at prices high enough to cover the wages and salaries and all other costs of production.

According to the petition, «Amazon has more than enough money to pay its workers... Amazon is an enormously successful company.»

The workers union is trying to convince Amazon to accept collective bargaining agreements for staff under the mail order and retail industry sector as benchmarks for warehouse workers» pay at Amazon German distribution centers, but Amazon says the employees are making enough money and that they pay them the same as other distribution centers.

Construction Draw Mortgage: You get enough money to pay workers to complete a building project without a hitch.

The administration estimates, based on current conditions, that even in 2037, there will be enough money generated from current workers to pay beneficiaries $ 760 for every $ 1,000 in benefits they were supposed to get.

According to the report, because people are living longer and the birth rate is low, the ratio of workers to beneficiaries is falling, and the taxes paid by these workers will not be enough to pay the full benefit amounts currently scheduled.

They claim that senior and mid-level Greenpeace managers have formed a «Worker Elite,» and that Greenpeace's vast network of managers are paid well enough that street - level canvassers, who collect names, small - dollar donations and multi-month donation commitments from San Diego residents should be given a «fair share.»

Friedman - Rudovsky introduces you to Julia and Maria, workers in La Paz who describe the insufficient pay at the factories, strip searches, lack of masks to protect from the dust, and supervisors who yell that if they don't finish their work quickly enough: «The doors are open for you to go.»

The higher salaries, then, seem to be the least that firms can afford to pay to make sure there are enough worker bees to handle billable work.

In some cases, an injured construction worker may receive workers compensation to assist in the payment of bills and other expenses, but for many, it is not enough to pay for expensive medical and hospital bills, loss of wages, and other on the job injury - related costs.

While she was working she paid premiums into EI like any other worker and accumulated enough employment hours to make an EI claim.

In many cases, when airport workers strike there is enough advanced warning to get temporary workers as replacements and keep the airport strike from impacting paying customers too much.

Anonymous former employees told The Verge in early December that Faraday Future only had enough money left to pay its workers through the end of 2017.

But some employers of temps — the agencies themselves or the payroll - service providers the agencies work with — don't provide this data clearly enough, leaving workers confused about their take - home pay.