Sentences with phrase «retail workers in»

«Retail workers in New York City earn a median of $ 9.50 an hour...» Best case scenario, 40 hours a week and no time off, that works out to $ 19,760.

The statewide regulations, set to take effect in January after a 45 - day public comment period, supersede rules enacted by New York City this year ending on - call scheduling for retail workers in the city and requiring two weeks» scheduling notice for fast - food workers.

Many of these practices were in place when researchers began an eight - month pretest at Gap to study the effects of more stable schedules for retail workers in three of the chain's stores.

Not exact matches

Workers were restocking, pushing to have all stores open in the next few days, said Rick Neudorff, the retailer's emergency command center operations manager.

As 1 World Trade Center starts to claim a place on the Lower Manhattan skyline, the area's retail scene is beginning to revive, with landlords raising rents in anticipation of thousands of new office workers, tourists and residents, commercial real estate experts said.

The retailer has so far spent $ 2.7 billion on raises to make sure workers are motivated to better serve customers and to do work that is more complex now, given how much tech is changing in - store shopping.

«This is a growing problem for young workers in their 20s and 30s who make up a significant chunk of retail and service workers.

Last year, the retail giant said it would spend about $ 2.7 billion on higher wages for hundreds of thousands of workers at its U.S. stores in 2015 and 2016.

Starbucks needed to satisfy employees — it has workers» organizations including the Black Partners Network, the Pride Alliance Network, and the Latino Hora del Café Partner Network — and CEO Howard Schultz, an atypically political executive in the retail industry.

In a study that looked at U.S. regions where at least 80 percent of workers commute, Goldman found uneven results: Improving labor markets and declines in mortgage delinquency, but not enough to translate to substantial retail spending gains on a national leveIn a study that looked at U.S. regions where at least 80 percent of workers commute, Goldman found uneven results: Improving labor markets and declines in mortgage delinquency, but not enough to translate to substantial retail spending gains on a national levein mortgage delinquency, but not enough to translate to substantial retail spending gains on a national level.

Not only are his 200 workers likely to stick around longer, he says, they're more productive, and they do a better job, which is important to Klock, whose company provides high - end all - natural food to some of the biggest organic retailers in the country.

TD Economics says that workers aged 60 and over «have begun to increase their footprint» in retail, meaning tougher competition for teenagers with short CVs.

As the world's largest sourcing and logistics company, Li & Fung plays matchmaker between poor countries» factories and affluent countries» vendors, finding the lowest - cost workers, haggling over prices and handling the logistics for roughly a third of the retailers found in the typical American shopping mall, including Sears, Macy's, JCPenney and Kohl's.

The two unions represent over 300,000 workers in industries that run the gamut of Canada's economy, from carmaking to fisheries, phones, TV stations, casinos, retailers, life insurance, even freelance writers.

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

The GMB union, which represents workers in the retail sector, expressed indignation.

And, he says, Hunter and his army of retail investors did nothing that hasn't been repeatedly done by investment bankers, bondholders and hedge funds during other CCAAs, such as the restructuring of Hamilton steelmaker Stelco, where self - serving parties threatened the future of thousands of workers in order to turn a profit after buying voting power from scared creditors.

Similar scheduling measures for fast food, retail or other workers have been introduced in several states and are pending in Connecticut, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Texas, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Big - box retailers or mall clothing chains are now capable of bringing in more hands in anticipation of a delivery truck pulling in or the weather changing, and sending workers home when real - time analyses show sales are slowing.

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.

According to NRF, retailers are expected to hire between 700,000 and 750,000 seasonal workers this holiday season, in line with last year's 714,000 new holiday positions.

Amazon will add 2,000 workers in Boston; new tariffs on China would hurt U.S. workers; plus more need - to - know news from the world of retail.

Also in the retail bot orbit: U.K. online supermarket Ocado is testing a prototype robot engineered to assist human warehouse workers.

JD.com Chief Executive Richard Liu is predicting that robots will eventually supplant human workers in the retail industry.

«Over the next 10 years, we estimate ~ $ 740 billion in ETF flows resulting from 1) DC assets rolling off into IRAs as workers retire (est. $ 6.3 tn, adding $ 440bn in ETFs), 2) retail assets moving from wirehouses to independent advisors (est. $ 2.7 tn, adding $ 300bn in ETFs), and 3) increasing regulatory scrutiny on management fees on retirement assets under advisory,» notes Goldman.

The New York Times has famously called Amazon the worst place to work, a Death Star of e-tailing leaving in its wake thousands of unhappy workers, hollowed - out shopping malls and dying brick - and - mortar retailers which used to be the bedrock of their communities.

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

While traditionally in lower - profit and lower - value industries such as food, retail, and other services, worker cooperatives are now on the upswing in high - tech and other business sectors (http://www.isthmuseng.com/inWisconsin) and are converting existing small businesses to this model (http://institute.coop/workers-owners and http://institute.coop/resources/successful-cooperative-ownership-transitions-case-studies-conversion-privately-held).

Retailers also need a workable program for obtaining visas for guest workers, reform of the H1B visa system for high - tech workers, and a mechanism to provide earned legalization for undocumented workers already in the country.

If a whole lot of minimum wage workers in tourist or retail industries lose their jobs, whereas nurses, doctors and teachers keep their jobs, average wages will go up.

Where were workers hired faster in service industries, which include education, medical, logistics and white - collar office work to retail, hospitality and government?

Sewing has won plaudits for successfully negotiating job cuts in the German retail unit with the influential workers» councils, implementing the agreement on schedule and without a strong media backlash.

With its announcement on Thursday, Walmart didn't mention the great difficulty employers are having finding and retaining workers in the retail industry.

The retail giant has announcedThursday it plans to boost the starting pay for hourly workers to $ 11 and pay up to $ 1,000 in a one - time cash bonus to eligible associates based on seniority.

Industrial robots have replaced human workers in the manufacturing sector, self - service checkouts have replaced retail employees, and pretty soon more traditional white - collar workers will find themselves under pressure from technology.

Workers in construction, transportation, retail, banks, hotels, utilities and other professionals would «clearly lose» in a tariff war, the economists say, adding farmers would be doubly hurt — paying higher prices for imported goods and seeing export options curtailed.

Activists rose up and retailers pledged to make the lives of the workers in their supply chains better.

The dramatic inadequacy of part - time wages is particularly troubling given that, compared to other U.S. workers, retail employees are disproportionately likely to be involuntarily employed part time.6 In other words, many parttime retail workers want to be working full time but are relegated to part - time hours and grossly inadequate part - time pay.

And just as the retail workers at Target are left in the lurch, our small congregations were often left to scatter in the aftermath, trying to find healing as best they could.

Work in retail and see how customers treat workers... like slaves.

I am reminded of the time when, as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, I got an angry e-mail from a woman who assumed that because I had referred to «holiday season workers» in an article I wrote about college students taking on extra retail jobs between Thanksgiving and New Year's that I had a clear, «anti-Christian» bias.

The Transport Workers» Union is pushing for new work rules and pay scales in retailing that Coles calls a «wages grab» that could add $ 300 million to its transport costs and increase grocery bills.

The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal — a new body associated with the Fair Work Commission — is considering a proposed comprehensive order that would set rules and pay scales for transport workers in the retail sector.

This is the Turnbull government that's stood by and done absolutely nothing when it comes to ensuring that workers» penalty rates for working on Sundays in retail and hospitality industries are protected.

Ahead of the BDA Work Ready Programme - enabling dietitians to work with employers to bring about positive health benefits for their workforces - a new review from the BDA identifies how healthier eating and drinking can help workers in the food manufacturing, foodservice and retail sectors.

«I probably watch more YouTube than TV — and what I love especially about the pregnancy and birth videos are the fact they come across as so «real», says Emily, a retail worker who lives with fiancé Jack, 22, a nursery manager in Kent.

The report, which will be welcomed by the government as proof it is offering public sector workers a fair deal in difficult economic times, highlights the change from retail price index to consumer price index inflation as the most substantial change for public sector workers.

Since this tragic incident, described as the worst in the garment industry, there have been a number of initiatives, including joint - retailers» agreements — the Accord on Fire and Safety in Bangladesh and the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety.

«I am a former retail worker and a former labor organizer, and I understand the need to make our voices heard when it comes to improving conditions, payment, benefits and security in the workplace,» she said.