Sentences with phrase «technical workers in»

Some Republican senators, including Jeff Sessions of Alabama, have also said they oppose the I - Squared approach, in part because they believe the United States already has an oversupply of technical workers in many fields.

Otto is one of the tens of thousands of foreign scientific and technical workers in the United States on H - 1B visas, which admit nonimmigrant skilled workers for a limited number of years.

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As such, there's a large supply of technical workers here, coming from universities such as the Royal Institute of Technology and the Chalmers University of Technology in nearby Gothenburg.

As for skilled workers in developing nations, says Barrie, «We provide technical jobs that may otherwise be unavailable to them.

To calculate how the 14 tech companies fared overall, Fortune assigned points based on how they ranked in five categories: Overall gender diversity, overall ethnic diversity, gender diversity of the leadership team, ethnic diversity of the leadership team and gender diversity among technical workers.

An advocate for both small - business owners and workers, Perry oversees efforts that have included offering more than $ 600 million in financing and technical assistance programs to promote business growth and job creation in economically depressed areas of L.A.

According to the SBA, DELTA loans of up to $ 1.25 million must be used to retain jobs of defense workers, create new jobs in impacted communities, or to make operating changes with the aim of remaining in the «national technical and industrial base.»

In fact, it's surprising how many technical workers tend to either go light and stay on the surface (in hopes that the boss will understand) or always go deep and then have to keep explaining things over and over agaiIn fact, it's surprising how many technical workers tend to either go light and stay on the surface (in hopes that the boss will understand) or always go deep and then have to keep explaining things over and over agaiin hopes that the boss will understand) or always go deep and then have to keep explaining things over and over again.

Outlook: Employment and Social Development Canada categorizes «dental hygienist» as a «technical occupation in health care,» and measures the employment outlook for this job alongside dental technologists, lab bench workers, denturists and dental therapists.

The Washington Post reports that Amazon is launching technical teams whose workers will only clock in for 30 hours a week.

Other companies started identifying this same need, and a new group of technical worker known as developer operations, or DevOps, emerged in the last decade or so.

Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India.

Living Goods has also provided technical assistance to Marie Stopes International, which was working to create a community health worker network in Kenya, 54 and to the Clinton Foundation, to help design a pilot in Peru for an entrepreneurship program.55

Manufacturing companies are automating their processes, and new workers will have to certified in the technical skills necessary to operate in these highly automated factories.

Specialized courses, which are conducted within the strict limits of a technical discipline, may be excellent preparation for the professional worker in that field; they are not likely to provide for the best use of leisure by the liberated modern man.

In 1960 the largest single group of workers was called by the census «professional, managerial, and technical people,» like me and my wife who are teachers.

The company finds an important balance between the two, offering opportunities for workers to boost their professional growth, and training is provided in areas of technical and personal development.

The Postharvest Education Foundation is involved in providing technical advice, mentoring and training activities for extension workers, change agents and small - scale farmers, traders and marketers, working with a variety of partners in support of the following projects:

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«'' So, this policy was reviewed in 2013 with technical assistance from international labour organisations and major stakeholders like employers were involved, workers» unions and this document was crystallised and this policy seeks to give decent jobs to people,.

While explaining what led to the strike, workers under the aegis of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service, Technical and Recreational Service Employees, AUPCTRE CAC, adduced it to an imbalance in staff cost, industrial disharmony, huge salary disparity, among others.

Cable said he wanted to see renewed investment in adult education, speaking of both his parents» education at night schools during his childhood, but said new technical training courses were needed to retrain middle - aged workers whose jobs were coming under threat from automation.

They also signed all the EU Directives that allowed big companies to hire agency workers on the cheap - in technical parlance, known as «The Swedish Derogation».

With many local businesses struggling to find skilled workers in technical fields, a local assemblyman is pushing legislation that would create a new graduation option for high school students in New York State.

Smith said both voters and poll workers in New York City are growing more accustomed to the quirks of the new machines, and the Board of Elections is responding to technical problems more quickly this time around.

Central to the controversy, argues computer scientist Norman Matloff of the University of California - Davis in an article in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, is the issue of temporary H - 1B visas for technical workers.

1 June 2007 In the current discussion about raising the cap on the number of foreign technical and scientific workers, the voices of the Americans most directly affected are going largely unheard.

The committee assembled a panel of expert witnesses — tech entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa of San Francisco, California; demographics researcher Michael Teitelbaum of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City; and Puneet Arora of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who is vice-president of the nonprofit organization Immigration Voice — to discuss so - called high - skill immigration, green cards, the H - 1B visa program, and other foreign - worker visa programs affecting science and technical work.

Complete statistics are not collected on how many temporary foreign scientific and technical workers are in the country, where they work, and whether they leave the country when their visas expire or, as critics suggest, move into the illegal immigrant pool.

In the current discussion about raising the cap on the number of foreign technical and scientific workers, the voices of the Americans most directly affected are going largely unheard

In 1998, these companies successfully lobbied Congress — over the objections of some unions and engineering organizations — to temporarily increase the maximum number of visas for foreign technical workers from 65,000 to 115,000 a year.

However, most in the technical community backed the act because they were convinced that shortages in many fields of science and engineering were real, that foreign workers were paid as well as anyone, and that the economy would suffer unless more foreign professionals were let into the U.S. to work.

The team found that male workers in the manufacturing sector had a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis than workers within the professional, administrative, and technical sectors (the reference group).

On the other hand, employers (especially in technical fields) complain of great difficulty finding workers, citing serious gaps between the requirements of available jobs and the skills of the workforce.

In the debate over scientific immigration, however — another symptom of the system's decay — the voices of the scientific and technical workers most affected, the Ph.D. s in precarious early - career positions and the technical workers facing competition from abroad, have scarcely been heard, Hira sayIn the debate over scientific immigration, however — another symptom of the system's decay — the voices of the scientific and technical workers most affected, the Ph.D. s in precarious early - career positions and the technical workers facing competition from abroad, have scarcely been heard, Hira sayin precarious early - career positions and the technical workers facing competition from abroad, have scarcely been heard, Hira says.

The need for more visas to bring in more scientists may be apparent to officials at companies or universities that employ large numbers of technical workers, or at universities that graduate large numbers of foreign students who wish to stay here.

The panel also called for expanding the number of visas available for highly skilled technical workers, «to provide the nation and the DOD with a substantially larger pool of extraordinary talent in areas of need.»

But the introduction yesterday of Immigration Innovation («I - Squared») Act of 2015, which mirrors legislation introduced in the previous Congress, is drawing criticism from some groups that represent technical workers.

The new law is a boon to all technical workers, including postdocs, in that it removes what were, up until recently, severe restrictions on the numbers of people who could come to work in the U.S. and eases procedures for lengthening their stays.

Created in 2002 with the goal of providing focussed service for skilled workers in technical fields, Inteqna specializes in recruitment for intermediate to executive positions from offices across the country.

(In their technical report, they present results indicating that teachers receive a 52 percent compensation and a 21.5 percent wage advantage over comparable private - sector workers.)

Workers who are often on the field need to get access to some technical terms in English that are specific to the industry.

The premium that employers pay to a college graduate compared with that to a high school graduate has soared since 1970, because of higher demand for technical and communication skills at the top of the scale and a collapse in demand for unskilled and semiskilled workers at the bottom.»

Splitting her time between Staten Island and the Rockaways, she engaged in activities that ranged from hands - on relief work — such as pumping water out of basements and clearing out debris — to more organizational and technical tasks, including the development of handbooks for team - leader training sessions that contain materials aimed to keep teams of relief workers safe and responsible in the field.

Not only must everyday workers have a set of technical skills surpassing those needed in the past, but a cadre of highly talented professionals trained to the highest level of accomplishment is needed to foster innovation and growth.

Frederick Hess, of the American Enterprise Institute, and Martin West from the Brookings Institute point out that CBAs «are vestiges of the industrial economic model that prevailed in the 1950s, when assembly - line workers and low - level managers were valued less for their knowledge or technical skills than for their longevity and willingness to serve loyally as a cog - in - a-top-down enterprise.

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The New York Times reported in 2016 that «technical workers at Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter, according to the companies» diversity reports, are on average 56 percent white, 37 percent Asian, 3 percent Hispanic and 1 percent black.»

Under this model for education, which aims to ensure that every role in the economy is filled by skilled workers, career and technical education is of great importance.

Workers in the design studio at the GM Technical Center have been busily preparing a clay model for the Freedom van so it can be exhibited Jan. 12 - 20 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, said a source who has seen the vehicle.