Sentences with phrase «per cent of workers»

According to Statistics Canada, 67 per cent of workers will have a violent issue at work.»

Small and mid-sized establishments, with fewer than 500 employees, represent 97 per cent of all Canadian businesses and employ 56 per cent of all workers.

63 per cent of workers in Malaysia have at some point in their career rejected a counter offer from their employer to make them stay, according to recruiting experts Hays.

61 per cent of workers in Japan have at some point in their career rejected a counter offer from their employer to make them stay, according to recruiting experts Hays.

Ridley states that today one per cent of workers work in agriculture, «24 % in industry, leaving 75 % to offer movies, restaurant meals, insurance broking...» etc..

The survey also found that 75 per cent of workers said they were proud to tell people they worked for Ofsted, up by five percentage points from last year.

According to the Foundation for Young Australian's New Work Order 2015 report, at least 50 per cent of workers will need advanced skills to configure and build systems.

Despite clearly being a nation of team players, the research reveals that 56 per cent of workers believe they themselves are their biggest motivators, suggesting a personal ambition to make an impact is driving workers.

More than 40 per cent of workers in the US use a computer in their work, but they have to learn their computing skills outside formal education — only 0.2 per cent of public educational resources is spent on computers.

Judith Korb and Katharina Hoffmann of the University of Osnabrück, Germany, found that 12 per cent of workers transformed into potential breeders.

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt insists the plans would protect 99 per cent of workers from the dangers of second - hand smoke, as well as helping smokers kick the habit.

There were fears that if the ruling went against the government, it would have had to force companies to contribute far more to the Pension Protection Fund to enable it to cover 100 per cent of workers» pensions, compared to just 90 per cent now.

Today's pamphlet, Raising Lazarus: The future of organised labour, says that 62 per cent of workers support a collective voice in the workplace, but many potential union members are put of by the rhetoric of strife and struggle.

Mr Agyapong said even though he was an Akan, about 80 per cent of workers in his real estate business were from the Volta region, «because they can do the job.»

The Resolution Foundation revealed yesterday that the bottom 50 per cent of workers share only 18 per cent of pre-tax income.

Pacific NorthWest LNG, majority - owned by Petronas, told the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office that it would recruit 40 per cent of the workers required to build its terminal, and a staggering 70 per cent of the workers used during the last three years of building, from overseas.

They constitute more than 99 per cent of Canadian business and employ more than 90 per cent of workers in the private sector.

NEARLY 40 per cent of workers would accept a job following avirtual interview, a virtual tour of the workplace and viewing footage about the employer, according to a recent survey by Monster.com.au.

«About 30 per cent of all workers» compensation claims are to do with manual handling, for example back injuries,» Ms McGowan said.

A 1993 program requires employers to contribute an amount equal to 9.25 per cent of a worker's income into a retirement fund.

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.

Hiring intentions also slipped; the balance of opinion on adding workers versusus getting rid of them was 34 per cent compared with an off - the - charts 59 per cent in the previous quarter.

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.

Since 2004 the company's workers» compensation premiums dropped to 95 cents per $ 100 of payroll, down from $ 3.52.

In Ontario, the proportion of minimum wage workers who are not teenagers has risen from 45 per cent to 61 per cent in a decade.

Undies boss tripled her pay, then sacked 1,850 workers In an act that could only be described as corporate bastardry, shameless executives at Bonds owner Pacific Brands awarded themselves pay rises of up to 170 per cent while they sacked nearly 2000 workers.

In 2016, 64 per cent of minimum wage workers across Canada were not teenagers, up from 52 per cent in 2006.

The federal government announced initial changes in April, scrapping an aspect of the program that allowed employers to pay foreign workers as much as 15 per cent less than the average wage for a job.

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.

But Prime Minister Callaghan then urged that the government make further concessions to the unions, including «exemptions from the 5 per cent pay limit, tighter price controls and extension of the principle of «comparability,» under which public sector workers could expect more money.

Retirement benefits would be 25 per cent of the average pensionable earnings a worker earned in his or her lifetime.

In the case of private sector workers, the decline is even more severe from just 28 per cent with an RPP in 2000 to 24 per cent in 2010.

«In Canada for instance, 99 per cent of our factory workers are Chinese women sewers.

The negotiation of a «fair» agreement for taxpayers with Quebec's 430,000 public workers, whose payroll absorbed 59 per cent — or $ 37.3 billion — of government spending in 2013 - 14.

-- The median annual wage of the average male worker has declined 19 per cent in real terms from 1976 to 1996 (from $ 42,000 to $ 34,000), before rebounding by only two per cent from 1996 to 2010

The OECD further suggests that a halving of trade barriers across the G20 would result in a 0.3 - to 3.3 - per - cent boost in jobs for low - skilled workers (the impact varies by country) and a 0.9 - to 3.9 - per - cent expansion in higher - skilled employment opportunities.

IG Metall's campaign follows a 6.3 per cent pay increase over two years secured for 2m public sector workers last month by Ver.di, the services union, after weeks of stoppages.

Canadian workers» productivity, or the output produced on average per hour worked (which is measure by dividing real GDP by an estimate of total hours worked over a certain period), dipped 0.5 per cent between July and September after declining 0.6 per cent between April and June.

They diminish our credibility with our trading partners and limit market access opportunities for Canadian companies and workers, including the 80 - per - cent share of Canada's agricultural sector that is not subject to supply management.

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberals» focus on opening the door for temporary foreign workers and ignoring British Columbians who are hoping for LNG jobs has the premier's lead LNG proponent planning to fill up to 70 per cent of its...

Over the same period, 29 per cent of the few new jobs created in B.C. have gone to temporary foreign workers.

In spite of those gains, the unemployment rate in manufacturing jumped from 4.5 per cent to 5.1 per cent, as the sector was unable to absorb a significant influx of new workers.

A C.D. Howe Institute study shows that of all prime working - age workers in part - time positions, 50 per cent of men and 33 per cent of women would prefer full - time employment.

Nearly four in five (78 per cent) of workers and retirees with pension plans said the availability of pension benefits is a critical factor in deciding whether or not to accept a job, found a survey of 2,750 people in the United States and Canada.

But, overall, most current and retired workers — 77 per cent — said they wanted more knowledge and understanding of their retirement options.

For office workers, data from Mercer's December Quarterly Salary Review show a slight firming in the growth rate of base salaries, to around 4.3 per cent in year - ended terms, compared with slightly less than 4 per cent earlier in 2003.

«Now we've learned that the premier's lead proponent told the government some time ago it will hire foreign workers to fill up to 70 per cent of the late stage construction jobs, passing up British Columbians looking for work.»

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.

On average in the EU, taxes paid by the employer and employee sum to a total equal to nearly 70 per cent of take - home wages for low paid workers.

Our survey, however, showed that only 22 per cent of clergymen delivered sermons or sections of sermons on the farm workers» strike.