Sentences with phrase «percent of the health workers»

Fifty percent of the health workers in Africa get infected and die.

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Kelly Conklin, whose New Jersey - based architectural woodworking business, Foley - Waite Associates, employs 11 workers, currently provides health insurance to employees and pays 85 percent of the premium.

In fact, 41 percent of the on - demand workers we surveyed had faced a personal financial hardship in the past year (such as a job loss, health emergency or unexpected major expense).

Wearables are perceived to offer encouragement to work toward better health, without appearing to be a requirement, and apparently, 44 percent of U.S. workers are already wearing them to work.

Here's why: If the worker who receives a subsidy could have purchased health insurance from you at a cost of 9.5 percent or less of his wages, there's no penalty.

By contrast, the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that only 57 percent of companies with between three and 199 workers provide employee health insurance.

«Fifty - seven percent of firms offer health benefits to their workers,» the Kaiser foundation says.

«The likelihood of offering health benefits differs significantly by size of firm, with only 47 percent of employers with three - to - nine workers offering coverage, but virtually all employers with 1,000 or more workers offering coverage to at least some of their employees.»

Forty percent of American workers say their job is very or extremely stressful, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Forty percent of American workers say their job is very or extremely stressful, according to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.

A whopping 40 percent of American workers say their jobs are very or extremely stressful, according to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has for years advised shots for U.S. health care workers, but just 62 percent of workers actually get them.

Nearly 19 percent of McAllen's workers are in the health - care industry.

Research published in the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health found that open - office workers take roughly 62 percent more sick days than those in single - occupant layouts.

The new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 36 percent of firms with more than 200 workers, and 18 percent of firms over all, use financial incentives tied to health objectives like weight loss and smoking cessation.

Even more large firms — 51 percent of those with 200 workers or more — offer incentives for employees to complete health risk assessments, intended to identify health issues.

NARTH is an association of some 200 therapists, psychoanalysts, social workers, counselors, and other mental health professionals who contend, on the basis of homosexual patients with whom they work, that 25 to 30 percent are completely «cured» and many more significantly benefit from therapy.

The Kaiser Family Foundation found that only 28 percent of companies that employ a large number of workers making $ 24,000 a year or less, such as restaurants, offer health benefits.

In fact, we would have to lay off workers sooner than our plan of January 1, and we would probably have to have something like a one percent cut to all services across the board, which I don't know, particularly in the area of health care, where we've cut over $ 5 billion now, and education, where we've cut over $ 2 billion, that they could sustain additional cuts to that extent.»

In New York City, nonprofits — health and human services and cultural organizations — employ nearly 500,000 workers, just over 15 percent of the total.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

After 16 months of tense negotiations that included a two - week strike last year, unions representing 45,000 Verizon employees announced tentative new contracts that call for an 8 percent pay raise over four years while requiring workers to pay more for health coverage.

While the MRT did propose a 4 percent cap and cuts, it also put forward a wage floor for home health workers; substantial rollbacks in the governor's proposed cuts to nursing homes and personal care; and a major overhaul of the home care industry that is likely to boost the union's membership over the long term.

With both the MTA and the unions agreeing to raises totaling 17 percent and first - time employee health care contributions, the key point of contention in the impasse involves the fate of the so - called «unborn» — LIRR workers hired after a new contract is ratified.

Walker, who has only been governor for the past six weeks, is pushing a proposal that would eliminate collective bargaining rights for public workers and make them pay half the costs of their pensions and at least 12.6 percent of their health care coverage.

New workers will pay 20 percent of their health insurance.

The report said the claims of agency savings would be difficult to achieve, given that government departments have held overall spending growth to 1.3 percent since the cap was begun seven years ago — including rising contractual costs for unionized workers» salaries and health insurance.

Walker wants state workers to make a 5 percent contribution to their pensions and increase their share of health care costs to 12 percent, up from between 4 percent and 6 percent currently.

According to a study conducted in India, for example, health workers skip work 43 percent of the time.

They found that, when the health care workers wore long - sleeved coats, 25 percent of the simulations resulted in contamination of their sleeves or wrists with the virus DNA marker, compared with none when the health care workers wore short - sleeved coats.

A study conducted by the group found uranium - related health problems in 72 percent of more than 1,000 New Mexico uranium workers who had started working after the 1971 cutoff.

The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) dispatched more than 700 doctors, health care professionals and relief workers to ground zero, treating about 35 percent of all Ebola patients, starting in March 2014.

Nationally, 63 percent of health care workers were immunized against the flu in the past two years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania showed that patients who received support from community health workers (CHWs)-- trained local residents who provide tailored support to high - risk patients - had 30 percent fewer hospital admissions in one year compared to those who did not receive CHW support.

Similarly, 35 percent of mental health workers and 70 percent of the public considered people with schizophrenia to be dangerous.

Three in 10 Latino employees (30.5 percent) work for an employer who does not offer health benefits to any worker; this is twice the proportion of non-Latino white employees (13.6 percent).

Outside New York City, the cost of pensions, health insurance and others benefits for workers has been increasing about 10 percent a year since 1998, according to the State Department of Education.

De Blasio could easily have paid for the $ 340 million pre-K expansion in the program's first year, and most of the ongoing cost in subsequent years, by requiring teachers and other city workers and retirees to contribute 10 percent to their health insurance premiums (amounting to nearly $ 550 million, according to the Independent Budget Office).

Under Walker's plan, most public workers - excluding police, firefighters and state troopers - would have to pay half of their pension costs and at least 12 percent of their health - care costs.

Thankfully, a large percentage of the work force does not have to worry about paying for health insurance, as 83 percent of full - time workers are currently covered by health insurance.

The percentage of large employers providing workers with retirement health coverage has dropped from 66 percent in 1988 to 29 percent in 2013.2

All sorts of income can potentially be tax - free, including: Auto rebates; child - support payments; combat pay; damages in lawsuits for physical injury; disability payments, if you paid the premiums for the policy; dividends on a life insurance policy, up to the total of premiums paid; Education Savings Account withdrawals used for qualifying expenses; gifts; Health Savings Account withdrawals used for qualifying payments; inheritances; life insurance proceeds; municipal bond interest; policy officer survivor payments; profits from the sale of a home, up to $ 250,000 if you're single or $ 500,000 if you're married; qualified Roth IRA and Roth 401 (k) withdrawals; scholarships and fellowship grants; Social Security benefits (between 15 percent and 100 percent are tax - free); veterans benefits; and workers» compensation.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

Twenty - five percent of questionnaire participants reported that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in which they worked had no Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers.

Part - time jobs in the United States usually pay low hourly wages and tend not to offer crucial benefits such as health insurance: only 19 percent of part - time workers have access to medical care benefits.

On health care reform, the president urged lawmakers to pass a final version of the Kassebaum - Kennedy health care bill, which would ultimately increase to 80 percent the tax deduction for health insurance for self - employed workers and their families.

Only 20 percent says the same about consumer - driven health plans, and 17 percent about making workers cover a higher percentage of their medical bills.