Sentences with phrase «risked the jobs of»

Iconic Australian food manufacturer Big Sister Foods has collapsed after nearly 70 years in business putting at risk the jobs of around 100 people.

The Countryside Alliance argued the ban violated human rights under article eight of the European Convention on Human Rights, and had risked the jobs of thousands of people.

Not exact matches

PwC, for example, estimates nearly 40 per cent of jobs in the U.S. are at risk due to automation, especially in the transportation, manufacturing and retail industries.

Instead, his father presented him with the kind of job every freshly minted M.B.A. dreams of: there was no pay and high risk.

The constant pressure of running an efficient business and the emotional exhaustion of time spent on the job puts entrepreneurs at risk for serious mental health issues.

And when you're an employee, your downside is always unlimited: No matter how secure your job may seem, you are always at risk of being laid off or fired.

Picking up a part - time job can make a surprisingly big difference in supplementing your savings, while life annuities will help protect you from longevity risk of outliving your savings.

Would you risk leaving your very comfortable, high - paying, well - benefited job at one of the 10 conglomerates now operating in the U.S.?

Futures markets reacted after the jobs data by pricing in the risk of three, or even more, rate rises from the Federal Reserve this year.

One of the biggest risks most entrepreneurs take is the decision to leave their jobs to pursue their dream careers.

To his point, nearly half (47 percent) of American jobs are at risk due to the threat of «computerization,» according to Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne.

People with jobs forcing them to remain in smoke environments often had no choice but to do so - and why should they be subject to the health risks of secondhand smoke?

Building a team of energetic risk takers will help you recreate a culture that values innovation and creativity over simply getting the job done.

So the risk of starting a company and losing my job or losing somebody some money, that just doesn't compute.

These entrepreneurs are agents of change, taking risks that may someday generate jobs and build communities.

She says that the risks of not communicating clearly with your employees are another year of underperformance, mediocre results, low morale, and possibly your employees quitting their jobs.

«The media has done a great job of scaring people, hackers have done a good job at hacking and there has been a good amount of activism to help people understand the risks,» says Jean Yang, co-founder of Cybersecurity Factory, an incubator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

During the 2015 blizzard that hit much of the northeast, workers at businesses that stayed open risked losing their jobs if they decided to stay away from work because of government travel warnings.

Earth is «at risk [so] we definitely have to take a better job of taking care of what we have before we put too many resources into getting to other planets.

Failure now would put thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at risk, and SpaceX has become crucial not just to the U.S. space program but also to countries and companies around the world hoping to put up satellites.

Gilles Labbe, the former head of aerospace cluster Aero Montreal and CEO of F - 35 supplier Heroux - Devtek (TSX: HRX), last year warned that thousands of jobs would be at risk if lead manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman remove work destined to be completed in Canada by members of the global supply chain.

There is a real risk of job loss due to a higher minimum wage.

«If you're not making more than you would at a job, I think you're a fool because of the additional responsibility and risk,» Green says.

An oft - cited study by Oxford University's Carl Frey and Michael Osbourne found that 47 percent of U.S. jobs are at risk of being replaced by AI technologies and computerization over the next one to two decades.

Powell in statements throughout the year, culminating with his recent Senate confirmation hearing, has been clear he sees little risk of inflation that would prompt the Fed to raise rates faster than expected, and takes weak wage growth as a sign that sidelined workers remain to be drawn into jobs.

The author of this study, Joni Hersch, finds that after controlling for other factors that determine wages, women employed in jobs with an average probability of being sexual harassed are paid a compensating differential of 25 cents per hour relative to women employed in jobs with no risk of sexual harassment.

One reason workers are willing to take on risky jobs is because they are paid a compensating wage differential when the risk of death is high.

Men employed in jobs with an average probability of being sexual harassed are paid 50 cents per hour more than men employed in jobs with no risk of harassment.

When Eric Gales emigrated to Canada from the U.K. in 2006 to take the job of VP Microsoft Canada he brought with him not just self - made management skills, but the kind of risk - taking attitude sorely lacking in Canadian business culture.

As an investor, much of Buffett's job consists of limiting exposure and minimizing risk.

THE State Government is neglecting the interests of Perth's CBD region, placing jobs and small businesses at risk.

Tens of thousands of jobs would be at risk as supply chains are torn apart and retaliatory protectionist measures crimp growth in both countries.

High interest rates, of course, can compensate purchasers for the inflation risk they face with currency - based investments — and indeed, rates in the early 1980s did that job nicely.

«If you look at the characteristics of the high and low risk jobs, some things immediately stand out,» says Mullin.

The average salary of jobs in the low - risk category is also almost double that of the high - risk,» he explains.

Millions of jobs around the world, from manual labor to finance, are also at risk.

«There are a lot of things going on right now, but body cameras are a great tool to provide the vast majority of cops who risk their lives and do a great job with a way to help restore trust.»

The project's main opponent, the local environmental group Douglas Channel Watch, maintains the risk from either a tanker accident or a pipeline breach is too high for the small number of jobs the pipeline would bring to the community.

Like Steve Jobs, they're smart, creative, and passionate risk - takers who generate an astonishing amount of jobs and revenue in the U.S.

«Technology can and will continue to create jobs in certain sections of the economy, but that will likely happen in what we've identified as the low - risk area,» admits Mullin.

In accepting the award, which was announced at the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs, California on Saturday night, Weiner said: «Let's toast the risk takers, the job creators, the engines of economic opportunity everywhere -; entrepreneurs.»

Not surprisingly, there are even more occupation - related health risks to be aware of, especially if your job involves a lot of sitting down.

And Oxford academics Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne claim that almost half of U.S. jobs are at a high risk of being computerized over the next 20 years.

Sedentary jobs put people at a higher risk of issues like obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

Elsewhere in the interview, he made clear that United Technologies intended to keep engineering jobs in the US and that these higher - skilled jobs were not at risk of being moved overseas.

One of the most obvious potential drawbacks to such a generous policy is the risk that employees will abuse it and take off weeks or even months without the risk of losing their jobs.

The risk, besides undermining their executives, is failing to do the real job of the CEO.

The former Wells Fargo Financial employee saw franchising as a chance to break free from a corporate job while minimizing the risk of opening a new business.

A recent study put out by PwC estimated that as many as 30 % of UK jobs could be «susceptible to automation by robots and AI» by the early 2030s — with 38 % in the US at risk, 35 % in Germany, and 21 % in Japan — although it believes jobs will be created elsewhere in the economy to help offset this.

«We look at things like: Is it a job in which your own life is at risk or the lives of others?»