Sentences with phrase «private sector workers in»

Public and private sector workers in the northwestern U.S. have limited access for affordable housing.

Washington, DC, July 28, 2011 — Public and private sector workers in the Northeast need more affordable housing opportunities.

According to The Washington Post, 39 % of private sector workers in 1980 had a pension.

Nearly three quarters, or 74 percent, of low - income private sector workers in New York City don't have access to a retirement savings plan, Public Advocate Letitia James said Thursday.

Most private sector workers in New York City do not have any access to a retirement savings program, and low - income, immigrant, minority, and female New Yorkers are disproportionately impacted.

Currently, more than half of private sector workers in New York State have no access to a retirement savings plan at work.

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.

Not exact matches

Since that time a major effort began in Congress to amend the FLSA to liberalize comp time rules for private sector hourly workers.

That is because banks, private - equity firms and institutional investors have continued to pour money into the sector even as oil companies slashed billions of dollars in spending from their budgets and laid off more than 100,000 workers.

The British government assured employees working on the company's public - sector contracts that they'd be paid, but no such promises were made to workers on Carillion's contracts in the private sector.

«The PRPP will not do anything to help people in the private sector close the really massive gap with public - sector workers,» he says.

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.

One of the most exciting developments in Canada is the innovative, forward - looking proposal being developed by two of Canada's largest private sector unions: the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union (CEP) and the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW).

So the group committed to making that a reality — working with their Global Forum colleagues and others in the private and nonprofit sectors to fund a corps of 750,000 community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa and other underserved rural areas of the globe.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

The company said salaries paid to its workers were among the highest in the logistic sector and that it also provided some benefits such as private medical insurance or money to pay for training programs.

The most recent ADP payroll report, for instance, saw businesses with fewer than 50 employees add 84,000 workers in June, or 45 percent of the 188,000 total private - sector jobs added in the month.

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

Many workers in the private sector earn the minimum wage, or only slightly above minimum wage.

The Connecticut Retirement Security Program (currently in planning stages) will aim to offer retirement plans to private sector workers without a retirement option through their employer.

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 201In 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 201in 2000 to 24 per cent in 201in 2010.

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 satisfactionIn 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 satisfactionin 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 satisfactionin 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 satisfactionin gain - sharing (when workers get additional compensation based on improvement on a metric other than profits, like sales or customer satisfaction).

What's more, state and local employees received $ 1.17 in new benefits for every dollar per hour pay increase from 2002 to 2008, compared to 58 cents for private sector workers.

The Investment Company Institute told the California state treasurer Thursday to delay further implementation of the state's «secure choice» state - run retirement plan for private sector workers until further analysis is conducted on «unrealistic or incomplete» assumptions in a state - sponsored feasibility study.

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

Blass noted in the letter that while ICI shares «the state's objective of increasing retirement plan coverage for private - sector workers,» the goal «must be achieved in a cost - effective way that reflects the realities of the work force and retirement savings.»

Public - and private - sector workers in North America demanding greater access to retirement - planning tools through digital channels.

Further to my earlier post showing that the public / private sector pay gap is mainly due to more equal pay for women in service jobs, Â a recent piece from Canadian Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized workers and non racialized workers exists almost entirely in the private sector and not in the public sector.

Lets just say this, using the census data, controlling on 4 digit occupation (NocS), gender and age, there is less than a 2 % difference in average annual pay, between private and public sector workers working within similar occupations.

The study shows that on average, male workers actually make slightly more in the private sector than comparable occupations in the public sector.

Average hourly earnings for private - sector workers rose to $ 26.82 in March from the previous month.

Average hourly earnings for all private - sector workers rose 2.7 % in March from a year earlier — in line with annual gains in recent months.

But just one in eight private sector workers (mainly union members and senior managers) currently contribute to a traditional defined benefit plan, and almost no new plans are being established.

Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»

On top of private sector revamps, state and local governments have been shedding workers in recent years.

At least 29 states have made efforts in recent years to expand retirement savings program coverage for private sector workers, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

State workers receive a platinum - level health care plan at a heavily subsidized cost, while Illinoisans in the private sector paying for those plans see their own premiums skyrocket.

-LRB-...) The Labor Department reported Thursday that wages and salaries for private - sector workers rose 2.8 % in the year through the first quarter, the best since 2008.

Eroding pension plans by shifting risk onto vulnerable employees and retirees with limited ability to absorb income cuts is quite in keeping with the Harper government's determination to lower the boom on public sector workers and improve the profitability of their corporate friends in the private sector.

American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer.

Right now, only 12 % of U.S. workers in the private sector have access to paid family leave, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

The Nigeria Employers» Consultative Association (NECA), which is an umbrella body for private - sector workers, as well as the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) have also said they would not participate in the strike.

«Vested interests are trying to create a wedge between public and private sector workers, when in reality they have common cause on this.

Around 11,000 businesses are now owned in whole or part by their employees, involving 10 million workers — three million more than are members of private sector unions.

With thousands of construction workers out of work and interest rates at record lows, there is a growing consensus that investing now in improving our infrastructure, particularly housing, would give an immediate boost to the economy, encourage more private sector investment, and give us a long - term return as we strengthen our economy for the future.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said: «Our legal challenge against the coalition government is hugely significant for workers in both the public and private sectors.

Instead it had an impact in 2017, according to Yougov, who say the Tories had a 16 point lead over Labour with private sector workers, which flipped to May's party trailing Corbyn's by 5 points with those in the public sector.

To support private sector efforts in expanding access to housing, the Ministry of Finance will partner with banks, pension trustees and securities market players to start a process of developing and deepening the local mortgage and housing finance market to offer affordable mortgages at subsidized interest rate beginning with public sector workers.

Their goods are transported by road, their workers are educated in schools, their customers are part of sophisticated networks taking in the private sector, the public sector and charities.

Our private sector unions develop skilled workers we desperately need to make critical investments in our state's infrastructure.