Sentences with phrase «restaurant workers in»

Wael Al - Delaimy, a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and his colleagues analyzed how much environmental smoke people absorb by measuring nicotine levels in the hair of 114 bar and restaurant workers in New Zealand.

Every previous attempt at unionization, including a general strike by New York City hotel and restaurant workers in 1912, had been crushed by the hotel owners.

The Midtown lawyer caught yelling racist comments at Spanish - speaking restaurant workers in a viral video was treated like a pariah by fellow attorneys at a Queens court, lawyers there told The NY Post.

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• ShiftPixy, a Wyoming - based platform for restaurants to schedule shift workers, raised $ 12 million in an offer of 2 million shares at $ 6 a piece.

Protesters briefly took over an activist investing conference in New York to call for higher wages for restaurant workers.

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 University of California, Berkeley study that focused on restaurant workers found that wages rose 1 % for every 10 % increase in the minimum wage.

Places like New York are instituting a $ 15 an hour wage for fast food workers, which many restaurant owners say is too high and will result in either restaurant closures or staff layoffs.

Throw in an uncertain economic outlook and industrywide pressures to increase the pay of fast - food workers, and restaurants have looked like an increasingly unappetizing stew to investors — making their stocks among the biggest losers in this year's market dip.

The chief executive was inspired by Eatsa, a restaurant that employs just a handful of kitchen workers while all front - of - house procedures are computerized — you can go in without seeing a single human being.

In the Chicago area, dozens of restaurants and grocery stores planned to either close or allow workers to attend the demonstrations.

Luisa Gagliardi of the University of Geneva studied more than one million housing transactions in British cities between 1995 and 2001 and found that highly educated workers» «consumption of amenities» — restaurant meals, park visits, etc. — was 10 % greater than that of less educated workers who earned the same income.

He notes that selected workers will shadow the restaurant staff, then «come back to [Rockaway] and work for the truck in a management position, and the rest of the community will see that.»

Broadly, restaurant chains and retailers have in recent years aimed to entice workers with better paying jobs and perks to lure and retain talent.

Kenney announced the moratorium on the food service industry Thursday night, after the controversial program made headlines yet again over allegations of misuse of the temporary workers at three McDonald's franchises in Victoria and a pizza restaurant in Weyburn, Sask.

The other big announcement was Employment Minister Jason Kenney's decision to place a moratorium on new approvals for restaurants to hire temporary foreign workers, in response to a myriad of complaints about abuses under the federal program.

A key component of the package is a requirement that fast food restaurants schedule their workers at least two weeks in advance or pay extra for shift changes.

Along with virtually every major retail and restaurant chain, Starbucks relies on software that choreographs workers in precise, intricate ballets, using sales patterns and other data to determine which of its 130,000 baristas are needed in its thousands of locations and exactly when.

Top precarious jobs include retail or restaurant staff; freelance or contract office temps; and temporary foreign workers in agriculture.

At what was believed to be the first such convention, workers voted to include sit - ins and restaurant occupations in future demonstrations.

On the other hand, McDonald's said its decision to raise wages and improve benefits for 90,000 workers in U.S. company - operated restaurants took a bite out of operating income.

• Convention near Chicago draws more than 1,000 workers • Delegates vote to use sit - ins and restaurant occupations

In the United States, he rolled out all - day breakfast, began switching to chicken from birds raised without important antibiotics and raised wages for workers in restaurants run by the corporatioIn the United States, he rolled out all - day breakfast, began switching to chicken from birds raised without important antibiotics and raised wages for workers in restaurants run by the corporatioin restaurants run by the corporation.

A survey by industry group Restaurants Canada found that 96 percent of its members were «very likely» to raise prices, 84 percent would cut hours and 57 percent would fire workers, in response to Ontario's policy, according to results gathered June 22 to July 5.

Maryland's crab industry is in crisis, with nearly half of the Eastern Shore businesses without any workers to pick the meat sold in restaurants and supermarkets.

Hotels and restaurants added just 4,300 workers, the fewest in six months.

Translation: Salaried restaurant workers who thought they were going to receive extra compensation for long work weeks probably won't see that extra income this holiday season, or possibly anytime in the immediate future.

The McDonald's golden arches logo on a Lynwood, Calif., restaurant worker's shirt is flipped over in honor of International Women's Day.

In Colorado, restaurants have been losing workers to cannabis retailers and producers.

«Albertans in particular will remember what it was like a few years ago to find restaurants closed because of a shortage of workers.»

In many cases, employees can earn US$ 20 to US$ 22 per hour with full benefits, which is a significant lure for restaurant workers.

So rather than a foreign investor saying he was going to open a factory and employ 15 people directly, a foreign investor could say he was investing in a construction project that would create jobs in a restaurant down the street that might serve construction workers.

But I was also thinking about the place we met for a quick lunch during that trip — it was one of those quick, assembly line restaurants that can process hundreds of hungry office workers in a lunch hour, ourselves included, and it was all about salads.

I've heard some restaurant workers say that the cheese sauce comes in a giant can that they open and pour into a warmer.

The business world is not short on stories about manufacturers that got started in their founder's home garage, a construction worker starting with one hammer and a few nails that grew into a multimillion - dollar operation, and restaurants with concepts that were developed in their creators» kitchens.

In one corner, a worker uses a hand crank to filter used restaurant grease, fuel for the company delivery truck.

She is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, and apprenticed under the worker - ownership of Three Stone Hearth in Berkeley, California, the first community supported kitchen (CSK) of its kind and has experience managing farmer's markets, working with a variety of artisan food producers, in restaurants, business management and organizations promoting urban food sustainability, local food economies and seasonality.

Maine isn't an easy place to make a living, and, although Ahearn's demeanor is relaxed, she's a tenacious worker; in the last eight years, she built a restaurant, a farm, and a cooking school in this seaside summer town.

Darden, a Fortune 500 company with restaurant sales exceeding $ 7.5 billion in 2011 and $ 7.1 billion in 2010, employs about 168,000 workers at the approximately 1,900 restaurants it owns and operates in the U.S. and Canada.

Since restaurant industry workers are known to like a shift meal and a drink, some restaurants like Tosca Café in San Francisco gear their's toward comfort food with a «pasta and a beer» deal and special cocktails that tend to involve coffee and hard alcohol.

As much as the Algeria team donating their World Cup proceeds to Gaza because «they need it more» appears to be untrue, Colombia's new superstar, James Rodriguez will donate $ 5000 (or $ 6795) to every worker of his restaurant back in Portugal.

From Southbank it is easy to take a short ferry ride to many points in the city, including Kangaroo Point Cliffs (another beautiful recreational area along the river) and Eagle Street Pier, a trendy riverside area full of bars and restaurants (although here you're more likely to encounter city workers having a drink after work than families).

If you're nervous about meeting them or don't know what to talk about, bring along your adoption worker or a third party and do it in a neutral public space such as a park or restaurant.

Mrs. Jensen was a hard worker who «didn't believe in getting sick» and who remained in charge of the restaurant until recently, her daughter said.

Sen. Jack Martins, a Long Island Republican who received nearly $ 38,000 from the catering industry, is pushing a bill to squash lawsuits from restaurant workers who claim they were cheated out of millions in tips.

Trump's Republican Party spoke to two groups of American voters: the far right base of the GOP, and to the near two - thirds of Americans who feel the country is heading in the «wrong direction» — many of these will include America's working families, steelworkers and coalminers, bridge - builders and road - pavers, retail workers and restaurant staff to whom the socio - economic forces of globalization and stagnant wages have been woefully unkind.

In the summer, workers say that bosses sacked almost the entire staff of one restaurant apparently because they were caught eating while on duty.

Workers in restaurants, nail salons and car washes rallied to kick off a campaign to push for one single minimum wage, instead of the $ 7.50 to $ 8.65 tipped workers currently take home, which is below the state's minimum wage of $ 10.40 to $ 13, depending on the area of theWorkers in restaurants, nail salons and car washes rallied to kick off a campaign to push for one single minimum wage, instead of the $ 7.50 to $ 8.65 tipped workers currently take home, which is below the state's minimum wage of $ 10.40 to $ 13, depending on the area of theworkers currently take home, which is below the state's minimum wage of $ 10.40 to $ 13, depending on the area of the state.

And tipped workers, those working in the state's huge restaurant industry, only get a raise of $ 10 per hour.

Servers and other tipped workers from around New York state will rally at SUNY - ESF on Monday to protest the end of the minimum wage tip credit in the restaurant industry.