Sentences with phrase «than private sector work»

Not exact matches

According to Industry Canada, SMEs employ about 90 % of working Canadians and account for more than 30 % of private - sector gross domestic product.

But nowcasts might offer a check on the work of Bay Street and Wall Street economists; Bartlett said research suggests nowcasting produces better predictions than calculating the consensus view of private - sector analysts.

More than one - third of private - sector workers do not have a single paid sick day, and only 13 percent of private - sector workers have paid family and medical leave.7 Furthermore, it is often the workers who can least afford unpaid time off from work who do not have access to these policies.

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).

Having spent more than 20 years as a business economist working in the private sector before joining the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2007, I feel right at home here today.

Lets just say this, using the census data, controlling on 4 digit occupation (NocS), gender and age, there is less than a 2 % difference in average annual pay, between private and public sector workers working within similar occupations.

When Mr Soapbox worked for the municipal government years ago, he was told that the reason why he was paid less than the private sector was because a government job was secure and had less risk... then they laid off 40 % of his department.

Unifor is Canada's newest union and largest in the private sector, with more than 305,000 members across the country, working in every major sector of the Canadian economy.

The climate change risk assessment is the result of more than three years of work, involving hundreds of leading scientists, and experts from both the public and private sectors.

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

A recent study by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence and the National Institute on Retirement Security finds that when such factors as education and work experience are accounted for, state and local employees earn 11 to 12 percent less than comparable private sector workers.

A report by Policy Exchange published last week claimed that public sector workers are better off than their private sector counterparts in terms of hours worked, retirement age and pension quality.

Working class (DE) voters in the South are more likely to vote Conservative than middle class (AB) voters in the North (page 5) but there is an important public / private sector split to this.

Cuomo's prescriptions in his 2016 State of the State speech included closing a legal loophole that lets campaign donors funnel unlimited sums to candidates through limited - liability companies; requiring office holders to report campaign contributions every 60 days instead of twice a year; allowing lawmakers to earn no more than 15 percent of their legislative salaries in private - sector work; and adopting a system of voluntary public campaign financing similar to what New York City has.

Despite being appointed by the Government to champion business in the UK, Lord Sugar seems to have no grasp of the hard work small businesses do and the role they play in employing six in 10 of the country's private sector workforce and contributing to more than half of UK GDP.

Some Conservatives also seem to think that a job in the private sector somehow has more merit than someone working as a nurse or a teacher.

«This wicked bedroom tax is going to rip neighbour from neighbour, force vulnerable people to food banks and loan sharks, and end up costing Britain more than it saves as tenants are forced to go homeless or move into the expensive private rented sector,» shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne said.

Elsewhere in the interview, Mr Smith, who has come under fire for his work at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, said he wanted to «go further» than putting a cap on the amount of private sector provision in the NHS.

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).

And we will continue to open up acute care with, from the spring, the choice of hospitals trusts across private and public sectors in England extending to over 300 - including more than 150 private sector hospitals working as part of the NHS and at NHS cost and standards of quality.

They are more akin to benefits, and indeed there is a direct link between how public sector pensions and benefits are uprated with inflation, that people become entitled to by working in the public sector than the sort of claim someone has on a private sector pension fund.

She says she was drawn toward bench work in industry rather than at a university because the private sector work seemed more directly transferrable to creating medicine and helping human health.

Joint work with the private sector has resulted in the installation of more than 300 dryers across the country, benefiting about 35,000 farmers with better - quality grains that command higher market prices.

Because part - time workers are less likely than full - time workers to have health insurance from their employers, we adjust the private - sector comparison data to match the percentage of teachers who work full time.

As respected economist Michael Podgursky has shown (in «Fringe Benefits: There Is More to Compensation than a Teacher's Salary»), teacher salaries resemble those in the private sector only if you ignore their tenure privileges, their 2 - 3 month summer break, their shortened work day, and their lengthy vacations in bleak December and verdant spring alike.

It's true that teachers work about 40 fewer days per year than private - sector employees.

Smarter Balanced was created by assessment professionals in state education agencies who determined that by pooling their experience and expertise — and by taking advantage of the federal funds offered by the Department of Education and working in partnership with private sector firms — they could build more sophisticated and accurate assessments of student learning than any individual state could offer on its own.

In education's public sector, by contrast, the work is actually less interesting than it is in private schools, where teachers enjoy more control over the curriculum and more autonomy in the classroom.

Nonetheless, as Figure 3 also indicates, a larger share of school employees who were working in 2008 were still on the job in 2012 than the share of workers still employed in the private sector in 2012.

To put it another way, most teachers are getting less from their employer than if they worked for a private - sector company where workers got Social Security and a 5 percent match on 401k contributions.

The baby boomers of the 1960s are heading for retirement and the improving economy and private sector may be more appealing to top graduates than working all hours in a school, only to be continually told that you are not good enough.

According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59

The plan started in 1993 as a way to target borrowers interested in working in the public sector, which at the time paid significantly lower salaries than the private sector.

• Differences with the private sector: Higher - education faculty members tend to be older, more educated, and have higher incomes than the working population as a whole, and the structural pension plan design differences in the higher - education sector also make a significant contribution to the better retirement outcomes expected by faculty.

If graduates work in the public or non-profit sectors rather than the private sector, debt forgiveness kicks in at 10 years instead.

So to answer the question in the lede, I think private sector experiments should focus on collecting data rather than changing the environment, because human - produced changes never work out like we thought and often have major unforseen problems (we're NOT that clever, folks).

Curry says the private sector is a better place for scientists to work rather than the «politicized field» at universities and in government.

I served for years as the technical watchdog for scientists and engineers, we had partners from the public sector, and I didn't sense any particular difference in behavior, other than those of us who worked for private outfits were paid better and had a much crisper and efficient work environment.

The code also stipulated that private sector providers of outsourced services had to employ transferring employees on their existing terms and conditions (including protection in relation to pension benefits) and that new personnel who were required to work on a local authority contract alongside staff transferred from the local authority should be employed on terms «overall no less favourable» than those enjoyed by the transferred staff.

More generally, this Report reflects many of the principles that the LCO intends to apply to its work: it considered and addressed the needs of diverse communities, rejecting a «one size fits all» solution; it recognized that there will always, or at least for some considerable time to come, be individuals who prefer to use cheque cashing businesses rather than banks, even though it means that they will pay a fee; the recommendations are directed not only to government, but also to semi-public and private sector actors; and the Report is informed by consultation with a wide variety of individuals, groups and organizations with an interest in the issue of paying fees to cash government cheques.

She has worked in law for more than 30 years, in public and corporate sector roles and in private practice as a solicitor.

Robert has more than 15 years legal experience (9 years NZ PQE), practising law in Germany, Australia and New Zealand, working as in - house counsel in the private and public sector, as sole practitioner and community lawyer.

In 2013, more than 20 percent of private - sector worker fatalities in the United States took place on a construction site, which means those who work in the industry have a fairly high likelihood of being injured or killed on the job.

The vast majority of Administrative Patent Judges working in the PTAB are former patent attorneys with more than a decade of experience in the private sector, most of them with patent litigation experience.

ACC Europe, with more than 2400 members, promotes the common professional and business interests of in - house counsel who work for corporations, associations and other private - sector organisations though information, education, networking opportunities and advocacy initiatives.

Hugo Stephens has worked in the social housing sector for more than 25 years — with particular focus on funding for housing associations (public bonds, private placements, loans and derivative transactions); major projects (ALMOs, solar projects, joint ventures and public / private partnerships); group structures; and constitutional, corporate and governance work.

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Soil scientists operating in the private sector and working for commercial environmental consultancies typically earn more than their counterparts employed by public sector bodies or voluntary organisations.

«Applying to work for the federal government is different than in the private sector and much more mysterious for most people,» noted Kathryn Troutman, who is leading the Federal Career Training Institute team doing the training.

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