Sentences with phrase «private sector workers about»

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More than 56 % of American workers — about 60 million — are subject to mandatory arbitration clauses that cover all kinds of claims, including sexual harassment, according to the Economic Policy Institute's survey of nonunion private - sector employers.

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.

In 2011, about 800,000 new private - sector jobs were created, but of these, 80 percent went to foreign workers.

In the United States last year, close to 20 percent of private - sector employees owned stock, and 7 percent held stock options, in the companies where they worked, while about one - third participated in some kind of cash profit - sharing and one - fourth in gain - sharing (when workers get additional compensation based on improvement on a metric other than profits, like sales or customer satisfaction).

As of 2013, only about half of private sector workers had a 401 (k) and the average account balance was just $ 18,433.

There absolutely was a trade - union and labor movement in the U.S. from 1890 to 1950, including about 34 % of private sector workers in the late 1940s.

There are particular concerns about where the private sector jobs will come from for the 490,000 public - sector workers who are expected to lose their jobs.

Cameron delivers a dribbly answer about supporting workers and ensuring more jobs in the private sector.

YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 % of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).

These data indicate that about 95 percent of union workers have access to employer - provided medical insurance in both the public and private sectors, and their participation rate is essentially the same in both sectors (78 to 79 percent).

Private - sector employers without DB pensions often use other tools to mirror the human resource effects, i.e., long tenure of skilled workers, of DB pensions, exactly because they are worried about turnover.

Research in the private sector has found that in order to affect a worker's motivation, annual bonuses need to be at least 5 to 8 percent of salary — about $ 2,000 for a typical teacher.

Teacher absenteeism was high, Riddile said, which seemed to some kids to validate their own absences (the daily absentee rate for teachers nationwide is about 5 percent, according to some studies, compared to about 1.7 percent for private - sector workers).

In the Spring 2009 issue of Ed Next, Podgursky and Bob Costrell wrote about the high cost of teacher retirement benefits compared to those of workers in the private sector.

The questions for private - sector workers are really about choices and fees, and they're much more straightforward than the decisions teachers face.

Currently only about a quarter of private sector workers have a pension, versus more than three - quarters of government workers.

Worker status has also been a key development this month with the EAT agreeing with an employment tribunal that Uber drivers are workers, a CAC decision about Deliveroo riders (which went the other way), a combined report from two House of Commons Select Committees on modern working practices, and budget announcements about IR35 reform in the private sector.

In fact, thousands of firms have eliminated pensions altogether, and only about 13 % of private sector workers are currently covered by active pension plans.

About 61 percent of private - sector workers had access to a 401 (k) plan last year, but only 43 percent participated.

And only about half of private - sector workers participate in a retirement savings plan, Bureau of Labor Statistics data show.