Sentences with phrase «per cent of our workforce»

Cartwright is part of a growing trend of self - employed and contract workers which, according to some US figures, make up nearly 15 per cent of the workforce and is expected to climb to nearly 20 per cent by 2020.

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX: POT) cut about 18 per cent of its workforce late last year in response to the soft demand.

The defence contractor will cut 4,000 jobs, about 3.5 per cent of its workforce, amid vastly reduced government spending.

We currently employ more than 5,000 people in London and probably 20 per cent to 30 per cent of our workforce could be affected.

Currently, about 23 per cent of our workforce is comprised of visible minorities, and about ten per cent of our executive management team.

Today, Cadbury announced its plans to close 15 per cent of its manufacturing sites around the world, and cut 15 per cent of its workforce.

The company is preparing for two large redundancies tranches in a restructure which may axe slightly more than the 5 per cent of the workforce target outlined by the company last month.

Treasury Wine Estates chief executive Mike Clarke will start swinging the axe within the nation's biggest winemaker on Monday as 5 per cent of the workforce is culled in the first phase of an earnings turnaround plan.

Agriculture employs over 70 per cent of the workforce in Laos, one of the least developed countries in the world, providing approximately 27 per cent total GDP.

That's almost ten per cent of the workforce.

Take, for example, the predicament of the Ugandan Railway Corporation, which is reported to have lost 10 per cent of its workforce to AIDS in the past few years.

The Education and Training sector is officially «female - dominated», with 70.6 per cent of the workforce being women.

Between 2002 and 2015, Gonzales studied a group of young people, between the ages of eighteen and thirty - two, in California, where undocumented residents make up seven per cent of the population and nine per cent of the workforce.

Anne Milton insisted to MPs that the public sector apprenticeship target — which requires public bodies to hire 2.3 per cent of their workforce as apprentices every year — is achievable for schools, but accepted more support is needed.

The government also wants public bodies with 250 or more employees to hire 2.3 per cent of their workforce as apprentices every year.

The report revealed the number of teacher vacancies has risen from 350 (0.1 per cent of the workforce) in 2011, to 3,210 (0.9 per cent) in 2014.

The enterprise act paves the way for public sector apprenticeship targets, which are expected to require schools and trusts with 250 or more employees to employ a number of apprentices, equivalent to 2.3 per cent of their workforce.

It would seem so, although the Canadian mobile giant it still surprisingly upbeat despite revealing that the company is to slash 11 per cent of its workforce, some 2,000 employees, in a move «which is focused on eliminating... Read more

Cartwright is part of a growing trend of self - employed and contract workers which, according to some US figures, make up nearly 15 per cent of the workforce and is expected to climb to nearly 20 per cent by 2020.

Of the 10,800 full - time - equivalent (FTE) employees working directly in the sectors, the majority, or 56 per cent, are associated with large - scale onshore wind (turbine output of over 100kW), followed by 29 per cent in offshore wind, whilst 7 — 8 per cent of the workforce is employed in small - scale wind and around the same proportion in wave and tidal energy.

Only 16 per cent of Aecon employees at the manager level are women, while 38 per cent of its workforce below the manager level consists of women.

Estimations vary, but the general consensus is that around 30 to 40 per cent of the workforce is now a temporary, contractor of freelancer.

It's critical for all companies to be an employer of choice, particularly those that are trying to attract Millennials, who now make up 69 per cent of our workforce.

Not exact matches

THE use of migrant workers to bolster the workforce in Western Australia is becoming more commonplace, with a 12 per cent increase in the number of temporary visa holders in the state.

The layoffs represent less than five per cent of the more than 35,000 global workforce at Bombardier Aerospace, one of the company's two main divisions.

The company completed a 15 per cent cut to its workforce in January and February, eliminating between 500 and 700 jobs, as part of its plan to trim $ 1 billion in cumulative capital, operating and administration costs over two years.

By his estimate, that kind of workforce injection could raise the country's output by $ 30 billion per year or 1.5 per cent.

The layoffs represent close to 10 per cent of Bombardier's global workforce and are expected to take place over the next two years, the Montreal aerospace giant said.

The company recently announced a plan to cut about 40 per cent of its global workforce, or 4,500 jobs, as a way to save money.

Last week, Shell Canada Ltd. said it was cutting its workforce of 3,000 at its Albian Sands mining operation north of Fort McMurray by less than 10 per cent.

The price was above BlackBerry's recent value on public markets, following the company's announcement Friday that it will cut about 40 per cent of its global workforce, about 4,500 jobs, and record a writedown of nearly $ 1 billion.

The company had already announced 300 people were being laid off at its head office in Waterloo this week as part of a broader plan that will reduce its global workforce by about 40 per cent.

But, in relation to the size of the employed workforce, EPP membership has been declining since the late 1970s and has fallen from 46.1 per cent of paid workers in 1977 to 38.3 per cent in 2007.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk recently estimated that AI could replace 12 to 15 per cent of the global workforce in 20 years.

«Millennials are the future of the workforce and will constitute over 50 per cent of the working population in the next few years,» added Zakai.

Quebecor said in July it would cut about 360 jobs, or 8 per cent of Sun Media's workforce, to deal with falling revenue.

In 2014, there were 567,077 migrant workers employed in Canada, with migrant farm workers making up 12 per cent of Canada's agricultural workforce.

Part of Fonterra's strategy to deliver value to farmers has been slashing 500 jobs, or about 3.3 per cent of its global workforce.

He said, «The UK packaging manufacturing industry has a turnover of # 11 billion, generating 85,000 jobs, which is 3 per cent of the UK's total manufacturing workforce.

Around 90 per cent of the current workforce will still be in work in the next decade.

More than ten per cent of Gibraltar's workforce is employed in the gambling sector and it makes up around 20 % of the country's GDP, so any bill which saw this vital part of the economy eroded requires more careful consideration.

With an upsurge in the economy, the CIOB is predicting greater employment opportunities within construction, which already accounts for 10 per cent of the total workforce.

But, as you know better than I, just 15 per cent of the private sector workforce are members of trade unions.

Despite significant cost pressures on local government, our relentless pursuit of value for money has meant that we have cut council spending by # 7 million (or 4 per cent) in cash terms, cut the workforce by 18 per cent (or 950 full - time equivalent employees) and cut the council's debt by # 20 million.

Small businesses employ 58 per cent of the private sector workforce, contribute over 50 per cent of UK GDP and make up more than 99 per cent of all UK businesses.

However, the working group, set up in 2006 by the Department of Health, argues that current barriers must be defeated so the female proportion of the NHS workforce - approximately 41 per cent - can improve their career prospects and reach leadership positions.

As we hear time and time again, small businesses truly are the backbone of our economy employing 60 per cent of the private sector workforce and providing 50 per cent of UK GDP, yet they are continually burdened by regulation and ill placed policy.

36 per cent of organisations do nothing at all to improve workforce diversity.

«But it is important, as a matter of balance, to point out that the savings, rising to # 13 billion over 50 years, are the savings we set out to make; and crucially, that ten per cent of the public sector workforce is replaced each year.

But risk is a psychological phenomenon, not just a question of odds, and 2.5 per cent more of the workforce unemployed doesn't necessarily equal 2.5 per cent more fear — whatever that might mean.