Sentences with phrase «sector workers at»

And public sector workers, in spite of Ed Balls, have returned to Labour in droves: Lord Ashcroft's poll in January put Labour support amongst public sector workers at 51 % (up 12 %) with Tories on 20 % (down 6 %), UKIP on 10 % (up 8 %) and the Lib Dems collapsing to as few as 7 % (down to 18 %).

De Blasio's plan would allow private sector workers at businesses that have ten or more employees to automatically deduct money from their paychecks into a variety of investment benefit plans.

Not exact matches

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy has fired back at union claims that the resources sector does nothing to train the state's workforce, but relies on migrants and poaching workers from other industri

Instead of welcoming foreign talent with open arms, Canada makes it exceedingly difficult for them to come to or stay in this country, even at a time when the thriving technology sector is in dire need of skilled knowledge 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.

The basic idea is that workers in these sectors have been hurt economically by deindustrialization and have been expressing their anger at this trend by voting against politicians in office.

«While enhanced training of UK nationals and automation might be a solution in certain sectors if we look 10 - 20 years ahead, realistically they're unlikely to make up fully for any large reduction in EU migrant workers over the next 5 - 10 years,» said Julia Onslow - Cole, global head of immigration at PwC.

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.

It achieved these goals by guaranteeing a better pension to the many workers outside the formal labor market, while at the same time giving these workers incentives to get and keep formal sector jobs.

The peak of the public sector earnings distribution is much higher, at twenty - something dollars per hour, and there are a good number of public sector workers earning $ 40 or $ 50 an hour.

The result is a global steel sector at unviable profit levels and an influx of cheap steel in the global trading system adversely affecting companies, workers, and the global trading regime.

A draft presidential memorandum at the end of the document that could be used to order the review of NAFTA orders the report to pay «extra consideration to the effects such a policy change may have on the middle class, manufacturing and service sector workers, and foreign direct investment into the United States.»

A look at what sectors in the job market are adding or cutting the most workers at the county level...

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.

At the federal level, the wage premium for public sector workers was 7.8 per cent for males and 16.0 per cent for females compared to the private sector.

In my testimony before the Joint Economic Committee earlier this month, I said that tax reform should lead to $ 55 billion in additional fixed investment in manufacturing this year, with the sector adding at least 100,000 more workers.

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

There is no question that many of the franchisees at 7 - Eleven, Caltex, Pizza Hut and other sectors, hire workers from similar cultural backgrounds.

Advocate at all levels and between sectors for the needs and rights of maternity protection of workers in both the formal and informal employment sectors.

In order to win next year, Cameron needs to persuade at least some of the millions of public sector workers currently living under a one per cent pay freeze that their living standards will improve as well.

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.

Beyond the financial sector, we've seen the success of generative design in the fact that workers at firms with employee stock ownership plans in the U.S. enjoy 2.5 times the retirement assets of comparable employees at other firms.

Teachers are set to be joined by other public sector workers in a mass walkout at the end of the month.

The minister argued that there were more than five million public sector workers in the country, and pointed out that they all had loved ones, such as parents, spouses and children, who might share their frustration at government policy.

Per the validation, public sector workers are able to know whether they will be paid at the end of the month or not and by how much.

«We could not even think of abolishing the 50p rate on the rich while at the same time I am asking many of our public sector workers to accept a pay freeze to protect their jobs.

The government, at the last quarter of 2015, after a series of meetings of the National Tripartite Committee (NTC) comprising government, employers» association, organized labour and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) announced a 10 percent pay rise for public sector workers across the country.

Ethical culture overlaps with the public - service ethos: for reasons that are blandly uncontroversial (everyone wants better standards of service - quality and delivery) but also partisan and contentious (better standards in a fiscally - straightened world need to come at higher cost to public - sector workers and lower cost to tax - payers) this leads the standards agenda into highly - contested territory.

«On November 30yj, we fully expect millions of public sector workers and their supporters to show their disgust at the government's plans,» general secretary Len McCluskey said.

At various points, he recognizes the legitimacy of all four common justifications of market regulation: to protect workers from exploitation, to protect consumers, to protect third parties harmed by market transactions (through externalities), and to preserve the stability of the economy or society as a whole (e.g., through regulation of the financial 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.

At its heart, the scapegoating of public employees is an insidious way to divide public and private sector workers who share many of the same interests.

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

Mr Cameron accused the chancellor of a «craven surrender» in allowing these workers to retire at 60 - Lord Turner is expected to call for a general rise in retirement age to 67 - and argued that any pensions scheme must be equitable for private and public sector workers.

The salary - linked pensions are very generous compared with much of the private sector, for example, but not only would such a change be likely to outrage several million well - unionised workers all at once (and MPs) but it would have little short - term impact on finances as the pre-existing commitments would be unaffected.

Gov. Cuomo, backed by labor leaders including UFT President Michael Mulgrew (center), signs legislation at UFT headquarters to reduce the number of services that New York's public sector unions are obligated to provide to workers who do not pay to support those services.

«It is on record that we have never, since the inception of this administration, had any dispute with the organized labour and I will be the first to admit that the Labour Unions in Lagos State have been most responsible and while, at the same time, being dogged in their advocacy for the promotion of the interests of workers in Lagos State, both in the public and private sector groups.

The Government says it is expecting most schools to open and most public sector workers to stay at work during Thursday's industrial action.

The minister disclosed this at a meeting with the workers on Wednesday, June 08 to consider the challenges facing the sector and its workers.

Paterson pledged the state will not have «anarchy» even if legislators decide at the last minute to reverse course and choose a government shutdown over angering the public sector workers.

«We have reached an extremely difficult point where at the moment there is absolutely no sign of the Government being prepared to really take a step back on some of the changes that they are preparing to force through which are very, very damaging to millions of public sector workers,» Mr Barber said.

She was a mental health support worker before moving to the charity sector, first as an education worker and ultimately as manager of the education team at the UK's largest anti-racism charity.

Last year, President Donald Trump signed legislation revoking an Obama - era Labor Department rule designed to provide a legal safe haven for the state programs, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called «more government at the expense of the private sector and American workers.»

The number of people working in the city's home health care sector eclipsed that of of workers at its private hospitals.

Contractors, vendors, public workers, office seekers: «Their daily First Read newsletter, with the daily schedule (for government events in New York), is basically required reading for anyone with a stake in civic life,» David Galarza, communications specialist at the Civil Service Employees Association, a New York public - sector labor union, told me.

Teachers at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, have condemned the Coalition Government's attacks on the pay of public sector workers, which has seen teachers» pay cut by almost 15 %.

Looking at the government negotiating team, Unite found an average public sector worker would need to work for three working lifetimes to earn Francis Maude's pension and two for Danny Alexander's pension.

«He confirms that the government is grabbing money from public sector workers to pay down a deficit they did nothing to create, even at a time when their pay is frozen for two years and many are facing job losses,» he said.

While accusatory fingers are almost always pointed at politicians and workers in the public sector for topping the corruption chart, Rev. Kennedy Okosun, the Chairman of Krif Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, said people forgot that it was the private sector and citizens who offered or tempted public officials.