Sentences with phrase «sector workers about»

He spoke last year in Melbourne to community sector workers about how hard it is, neurologically, for traumatised kids to think and learn when they live in «fight or flight» mode.

A decision by the coalition government to legislate against the unions would win support from Conservative backbenchers keen to suppress unrest among public sector workers about their employment conditions.

Not exact matches

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.

On a scale out of seven, the magazine staff rated 4.8, meaning we're about as happy as employees in the ever - downtrodden manufacturing sector and significantly less happy than the normal knowledge - based worker.

The study estimates that U.S. workers across all sectors on average were better off by about $ 431 million in 2010 when you take into account the increased productivity and innovation within the tech sector due to foreign 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.

About a quarter of U.S. workers in the technology sector, which has faced criticism for a lack of diversity, said they felt discrimination at their workplace in a survey released on Tuesday by job site Indeed.com.

About 219,000 jobs like construction worker will be added in the goods - producing sector as well.

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

There are particular questions here about the fate of union workers whose pay and benefits are set by multi-year collective bargaining agreements and public sector workers whose pay is set by law.

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.

New research published by the Business Centre Association (BCA) in collaboration with CBRE has found that the business centre sector enjoyed a 13 % increase in turnover and was home to around 11 % more workers in 2015 and 2016, despite initial fears about the impact of Brexit on the sector, and increasing competition from new entrants into the market.

Some of the discharged workers find jobs in this sector, usually at much lower pay; others — about 25 per cent — simply remain jobless.

But in the past few weeks the sector took a fresh round of hits when franchise group Aussie Farmers collapsed, RFG announced an $ 88 million loss and flagged up to 200 franchise - run stores would close, while pizza giant Domino's reported disappointing results on the back of franchisees complaining about a brutal business model, and Caltex announced it was ditching its franchise model days before a damning report was released by the workplace regulator that found 76 per cent of its franchised stores had payroll compliance breaches that included underpaying workers.

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.

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.

«This report paints a depressing picture for care workers but is an important contribution to the debate about remuneration and conditions in the care working sector.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) wants to speak to businesses in the service, manufacturing and construction sectors about their experiences of health and safety in relation to the employment of young workers (18 and under).

Ordinary voters will only be alarmed if they think Tory policy is actually more destructive rather than being worried if a few nurses and policemen lose their jobs (they're far more likely to worry about their own jobs and security than that of public sector workers).

«The party must be careful about the implications of the failure to break through in Scotland, among public sector workers and in seats with large numbers of ethnic voters Main Cameron spent # 111 getting every extra Conservative vote»

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retirement.

Ministers need to show public sector workers — and the people who rely upon those services — that they are serious about finding a way forward.

In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

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.

Noel DiGerolamo, second vice president of Suffolk's Police Benevolent Association, which has about 5,000 members, said public - sector workers are being blamed for ballooning pension costs when Wall Street investment houses are the true culprits.

A member of the Agricultural Workers Union is worried about the declining investment in the Agric sector.

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

About BFAWU: The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) is the largest independent Trade Union in the food sector in the British Isles.

Unless the government does an about - turn on its plans to force public sector workers to work longer and pay more for much less pension in retirement, this first joint strike will include 750,000 public servants.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

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).

The Pontypridd MP told the Guardian: «I was more than frustrated: I was furious that we were sitting there with a Tory Government that has imposed swingeing cuts on public services, on tax credits, on universal credit, that have smashed women and public sector workers the length and breadth of Britain, and we are taking lectures from them about social justice and economic fairness.

Asked about the government's proposals for the future of public sector pensions, the most popular option was the government's original plan to gradually increase the retirement age of public sector workers under 50 to 65, supported by 39 % of respondents.

Most of the public will not engage in arguments about the size of the state, but public sector workers (who did not cause the current crisis) will feel its effects.

And he wants about 100,000 unionized state workers to help roll back their costs like almost every other sector of the state government is doing.

Blame William Hague for his spineless comments when British jobs were on the line at the Total oil refinery, blame David Cameron for not saying he'd abandon the Lisbon Treaty, and blame George Osborne for talking about public spending cuts at a time when only public sector workers are working.

«As a result, millions of public sector workers, many of them women, such as classroom assistants, health visitors, and nursery nurses are in the firing line and face complete uncertainty about their future pension.

It was right for people, mainly public sector workers, to express how they felt about cuts to the their services, which they believe will increase social inequality in this country.

Other challenges, it said, included special schools, such as schools for the blind and the deaf, which were either closing down or about to do so, subvention not being released to the psychiatric hospital in Accra, nearly all statutory funds being in arrears and a significant number of public sector workers, including nurses and district chief executives employed by the government over a year ago not being paid.

In its jobs report issued Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the mining sector held steady in September at about 630,000 workers nationwide.

The remaining members of Lanvin's workers union are said to be concerned about Fosun's lack of experience in the luxury sector, which requires careful brand management and the patience to place and develop long - term bets.

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.

Over 6 million public sector workers are not covered by Social Security, including about 1.2 million public school teachers; in 15 states, public sector workers do not pay into or receive benefits from the system.

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).

Over 6 million public sector workers are not covered by Social Security, including about 1.2 million public school teachers.

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.

We need to get past discussions of size and start talking about the most effective ways to ensure retirement security for all public sector workers.