Sentences with phrase «service cuts over»

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Disney and other media companies have been hit by the trend of «cord - cutting» as younger viewers increasingly opt for streaming services over cable and satellite TV channels.

It's part of a push by healthcare companies to both cut costs and gain more control over the patients in need of their services.

McDonald's hopes that the cuts will speed up service and bolster sales, which, after over a year without positive same - stores sales in the U.S., could use the boost.

Ride - hailing services are angling to take over large portions of daily commutes.They're poised to become cheaper options for commuters to take advantage of, both through lower direct rates in markets where regulators are cutting fees, and through the use of pretax dollars, which could save consumers up to 30 % per ride - hailing trip.

In fact, direct access to Google's cutting - edge mobile services may be the Droid Pro's most persuasive selling point: As of late 2010, the Android Market application storefront was home to well over 80,000 apps, while rival BlackBerry App World mustered only about 10,000.

Barring a major reversal of fortunes on Wall Street that would cut earnings sharply and hold down year - end bonuses, the financial services sector is expected to be a source of strength to the region's economy over the remainder of the year, consolidation and layoffs at some banks notwithstanding.

Miguel has over 20 years of supply chain experience enabling sales growth, improving service, reducing inventory while improving availability, shortening lead - times, and cutting costs.

However, the various expenditure reduction exercises over recent years, without major cuts to programs and services, have forced departments to operate «closer to the edge», implying that the lapse at the end of the year will be lower than in previous years.

Founded in 1911, Khaitan & Co combines a rich heritage of over a hundred years with modern, cutting - edge, strategic and solution - oriented legal practices and offers full service legal solutions to its domestic and international clients.

It has cut taxes all over the place, choking the public services that Canadians rely on.

Huge cost savings are waning for U.S. shale oil companies, marking an end to the drastic price cuts on equipment and services over the past 16 months that helped them survive the worst industry downturn in six years.

Air France is cutting its Joon subsidiary's service between Paris and Tehran to the summer season only, blaming a poor economic performance over two years in operation.

A church service called the U2charist would seem like liberal Protestantism at its worst: take music from a band that was cutting - edge over two decades ago, sprinkle some religiosity on top and try to reach hip younger people.

Standard Meat Company (SMC) has recalled over 53,000 lb of raw beef sirloin cuts over concerns that some products were contaminated with Salmonella, according to the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

The 24 year old cost Real Madrid # 27m just over 18 months ago but the Bernabeu side are ready to cash - in on the talented wing - back as they look to cut costs ahead of offering their top performer new deals that help retain their services due to the massive tax hike that is to be imposed in Spain.

Finally, and to reiterate an earlier point, the way forward for this club is to stop paying below average bench players so much money and to focus the bulk of the weekly wages on establishing a dominant starting 11... this will require the club to eat some wages in order to ship some players out, get rid of any deadwood over the age of 21, develop a cutting edge scouting service and put your money where your mouth is for once... I would much rather have a starting 11 that was world - class and give some reasonably paid young blue - chippers playing time when injuries occur than have 2 or 3 world class players surrounded by a plethora of overpaid and underwhelming players... management would no longer be able to sell their half - baked plans to the fans under the guise of «winning now», which any intelligent fan knows is a crap - shoot at best, and instead create a a squad that provides hope for the present and the future... this is exactly the model that has been used by Barcelona, Real & Bayern, so it should be good enough for us... by the way, until Messi & Ronaldo re-signed just recently all 3 clubs weekly wages were on par with ours... think about that for a second or two

While social service programs and education throughout the state get cut, Illinois governor Bruce Rauner forks over as much as $ 1.26 million in tax credits to poach ConAgra from Omaha.

The problem is that in the bleak landscape of austerity, where local councils have had their budgets halved since 2010 and are looking at losing another third of their funding over the next four years, a service which isn't even used by their own residents could start to look like an easy cut to make.

Many of the budget savings will come in the form of cuts to back office functions like finance, human resources and informational technology, but cuts of over ten per cent have also been reported for front - line services like libraries and leisure centres.

Even if the recovery had been progressing as well as ministers might have hoped, we would still have seen the clashes over public sector pensions, tuition fees and cuts to public services - police, schools, the NHS - currently driving the government's popularity downwards.

In fact, we would have to lay off workers sooner than our plan of January 1, and we would probably have to have something like a one percent cut to all services across the board, which I don't know, particularly in the area of health care, where we've cut over $ 5 billion now, and education, where we've cut over $ 2 billion, that they could sustain additional cuts to that extent.»

The brunt of the cuts fell on lower civil service grades, with some losing over 30 per cent of staff (more than 60,000 posts were lost among administrative officers and assistants) while staff in top grades (Grade 7 and above) showed a small net increase.

Its practical application, and that of the Coalition's Localism Bill, can be seen to have shifted responsibility for delivering services and managing budgets onto the local and community level, while effectively withholding power through enforcing cuts and strengthening government oversight, as with Gove's current dominion over education provision.

The Senate's version of the American Health Care Act would cost New York's Medicaid program billions of dollars over the next decade, putting Albany in the position of having to choose between raising taxes or cutting services and programs for hundreds of thousands.

He also suggested consolidation of school districts and services, and he says schools superintendents, 40 % of whom make over $ 200,000 a year, should take a salary cut.

The heated debate over how government cuts have affected local councils, and campaigns to save local public services such as libraries has demonstrated how people are deeply engaged with what happens in their communities.

Fifty thousand tax workers are being balloted on a wide - ranging programme of industrial action in a dispute over job cuts, the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

«Over three million children in the UK live in poverty, a key inhibitor to educational progress, and experience every day the harsh realities of cuts to welfare, specialist services and support, education grants and the wider effects of the recession.

Over the past week I've heard the following arguments - they want to lift the poor out of tax, actually the main beneficiaries of this policy won't be the poor because they don't pay tax, but will instead be the middle class, anyway, on a point of principle we need to simplify the tax system, and we need to cut public services by # 80 billion per year, or maybe we don't.

The union yesterday (24) started balloting more than 250,000 of its members in civil and public services for a national strike over cuts to jobs, pensions and pay: www.pcs.org.uk

The Commons» defence committee said it would be better to prioritise service personnel in the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) cuts over its civilian staff, whose redundancies will only be voluntary.

In the past few months, the leaders of all the public sector unions threatened a mass strike of three million workers over pensions, while this week the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service job cuts.

Rather than crude cuts in the name of «efficiency», HMRC should be investing in service delivery and chasing over # 100 billion worth of taxes that is uncollected, avoided or evaded.»

«But we must fill this gap, and we will fill it without resorting to fare and toll increases or service cuts, because our riders have already been hit with these painful measures over the past year.»

«Over the last few years we have seen countless public sector IT contracts fail, such as the delivery of tax credits, and the level of services provided by departments reduced in the face of massive job cuts,» said general secretary Mark Serwotka.

You may have heard that Guide Dogs, along with over 40 other organisations and groups of disabled people are supporting a March, a Lobby of Parliament and a Rally on the 11th May to voice anger and concern at the cuts threatening benefits, services, jobs and rights.

Debate on the floor included criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, over $ 90 million dollars in cuts to providers of services for the developmentally disabled.

He wants another $ 350 million in cuts to human services on top of the over $ 1 billion in cuts since 2009.

We're seeing cuts in mental health services, in drug programs, the debate over Golden Hill; all these would not be issues if the state was paying its fair share.

Stony Point has struggled with the loss of big commercial taxpayers over the past decade, forcing the town residents to pay more in taxes even as the town board cut services.

The cabinet deadlocked over its response, with several influential members unwilling to support the budget cuts (in particular a cut in the rate of unemployment benefit) which were pressed by the civil service and opposition parties.

During the fight over service cuts and fare increases, some of the most vocal testimony at public hearings involved people with disabilities who need Metro Bus and Rail to get around to jobs, to homes, to health care.

The NYS Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) cut funding for any county that rolled over at least 10 percent of its prior years allotment by 40 percent of that rollover amount.

Dutchess County Government has long been a leader in shared service and consolidation efforts, having reduced the size of county government over several years and cutting the county property tax levy each year for the last three years.

Meanwhile, Ed Milliband has called for Labour to end its caution over tax, telling the Independent newspaper that the balance between public spending cuts and tax increases for the rich should be shifted in favour of public services.

Instead of competing with the Tories over cuts, Labour should be demanding a major public sector investment programme of job creation in infrastructure, housing, and service provision funded, not by any increas in public borrowing, but by taxing the 0.1 % super-rich on their # 190bn gains since the crash 4 years ago.

The row comes as domestic violence charity Women's Aid warned that over half the services helping victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence could face closure due to government cuts.

The strike starts a six - week programme of protests by the union's members working in environment and forms part of a civil service - wide campaign over the government's imposed cuts to pay, pensions, jobs and working conditions.

Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka has described the apparent climbdown over coastguard cuts as a «body blow» for the government and further evidence of what can be achieved by community campaigning.

Coming on top of the massive cut to the MTA payroll tax — a move which could cost the MTA up to $ 320 million dollars a year over time — the effective veto of the lockbox bill caps off a political deal that has threatened transit service at every turn.