Sentences with phrase «than service workers»

Well operators make less than petroleum engineers and drilling supervisors, who take home around $ 100,000 a year, but more than service workers.

Not exact matches

In 2017, Walmart has also introduced a membership - free, two - day shipping program, a discount for customers who pick up an online order at a order rather than have it shopped, curbside grocery pickup at hundreds of stores and other novel services such as having a Walmart store worker drop off an online order on the way home after their shift.

Rather than waiting to find out, the central bank opted to make it easier for unemployed oil workers to service their debts.

All SMBs can do now is focus on providing a better service quality than the worker these on - demand companies staff jobs to.

But while the raw economic benefits are clear — 74 % of Indian households earn less than US$ 2,000 per year, while the average outsourcing worker makes double that figure — Nadeem questions the deeper impact of the «emotional labour» that service work involves.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Postal Service hires fewer workers than both FedEx and UPS despite delivering more packages than those two companies combined.

Another player's father, a sales rep for AltiGen Communications, a maker of Internet phone systems in Fremont, Calif., told him that AltiGen could outfit those 12 workers for less than $ 20,000, including installation, training, and service.

The problem lies less with layers of government and excessive numbers of government workers providing services than with the generous salaries and benefits of those who are on the public payroll.

That means workers consumed nearly 10 times as much of these services in 2016 than they did 10 years ago.

More than half of the 243 employers in the province permitted to hire temporary foreign workers at minimum wage over a 10 - month period ended in June were in the food - service business, the Alberta Federation of Labour found recently through a freedom - of - information request.

Average weekly wages for airport operations workers, a category that includes baggage handlers and other support staff, fell by 14 percent from 1991 to 2011 — a growth rate that was lower even than the low - wage retail and food service industries, according to a 2013 study.

Most of the disaster - related apps that presented today mentioned the recent events of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma in their pitches, observing that tech should be able to pair victims, resources and rescue workers far better than existing services.

Mining, oil and gas only employs about 600,000 workers, while the three largest categories — education and health, government and business services — employ more than 20 million workers each.

Joshua has also led more than 50 due diligence projects for financial and corporate sponsors, including a radiation oncology provider, a hospitalist physician practice management company, a workers» compensation specialty benefits manager, a small pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), a population health management service provider, a large integrated medical group / independent practice association (IPA), a regional payer, a health insurance brokerage, an occupational health / worksite clinic provider, a skilled nursing facility (SNF) and specialty benefits managers in the workers» comp and commercial spaces.

The warehouses not only provide customers with better service, but they're less costly than stocking stores, thanks in part to advances in warehouse technology that send robots, rather than workers, to retrieve products for packing, Srinivasan said.

Put differently: The food - service industry made up 30 percent of U.S. hourly workers earning the lowest legal wage, and 65 percent of workers earning less than that.

In the space of time available to him, of course, Mr. Clinton could offer little more than a hasty outline of this proposal, but he did manage to make clear that what he was referring to was some sort of system whereby American high school (and, as it was to turn out, also college) graduates would exchange some years of service, either as policemen, environmental workers, or offerers of some form of assistance to poor children, in exchange for the government's subsequently paying their college tuition» a kind of GI Bill for non-GIs.

In many other cases resourcing has become little more than a placement service for students seeking employment as Christian education directors, youth workers or student pastors, and for local churches seeking to book a contemporary singing group for the annual youth Sunday.

Since then agriculture, which employs more than 60 percent of the country's population, has stagnated, but the services sector has grown as corporate demand has increased in Europe and America for India's software engineers and English - speaking back - office workers.!

In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

Earlier this month, for example, more than 60 companies introduced new health - oriented products to dozens of Chicago area school food - service workers at a workshop at Drury Lane in Oak Brook.

«After a disaster, one of the greatest losses — other than loss of life — is loss of control,» says Bev Clayton, a social worker and disaster services associate at the American Red Cross National Headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia.

«Under the proposed changes it will be easier for an unskilled Australian bar worker to stay in the UK for two years than a skilled Sudanese Doctor who wants to come to Britain to receive medical training that saves lives, and make a contribution to providing high quality services to patients in the UK.»

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.»

Conducted by the Retail Action Project, a community organizing group co-founded by the union RWDSU, the survey of more than 110 people on 14 CUNY campuses — or one - quarter of all CUNY food service workers — reported numerous instances of what it says are workers being served «a steady diet of low wages, few benefits, precarious schedules and labor violations.»

Less than a year after it started, the state Office for Information Technology Services has backed away from the outsourcing of its help desk, and will be once again have state workers assume many of those responsibilities.

Ms. Glen justified this measure by arguing that maintenance and service employees need prevailing wages more than construction workers.

«This practice enables the city to circumvent civil service rules, report fewer city workers than are actually working for city departments, and opens the possibility that federal grant funds could be used inappropriately to offset the cost of city operations,» the ABO report said.

«Unfortunately when the governor says everyone must share in the pain, he means the workers who provide vital services and the state's citizens who rely on them, rather than those responsible for the collapse of the state and national economy.»

«This change represents nothing more than naked raiding of public service workers» pensions to make them pay the price for the greed and recklessness of the financial sector.

It's more than just an employer - employee relationship, it's a chance for young workers to learn about what's expected every day from seasoned employees,» said Department of Social Services Commissioner Marie Cannon.

Mainly organized by 32BJ SEIU Hudson Valley, a union of property service workers with more than 163,000 members, the bilingual rally called attention to the possible anti-immigration and anti-labor policies by President Donald Trump's administration.

Developers and city officials have noted that service workers earn significantly less than most construction workers.

Mr Clegg insisted that frontline workers know more about how to improve services than management.

Head of local government Heather Wakefield said: «Local government workers have kept services running in our communities in the face of the government's harsh austerity agenda, and they deserve more than just a bare minimum pay increase.»

In the US for example, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have shown the importance of collective action — with their «Fight for $ 15» campaign having seen more than 10 million workers move towards a $ 15 minimum wage, and with 20 million workers in total having won wage increases since 2012.

«I can look you in the eye and say public service pensions will remain among the very best... much better, indeed, than for many private sector workers.

Representative Nita Lowey joined workers to deliver meals across Rockland County and argues the budget plan would jeopardize 4,000 meals, services for more than 450 homebound seniors, and more than 500 seniors at activity centers.

More than 36,000 Verizon employees have hung up and joined the picket lines, opting to go on strike on April 13 after unions for field service workers failed to reach an agreement with the company after a 10 months of negotiations between them and corporate telecommunications company led to a stalemate.

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.

«This practice enables the city to circumvent civil service rules, report fewer city workers than are actually working for city departments, and opens the possibility that federal grant funds could be used inappropriately to offset the cost of city operations,» today's ABO report states.

«Rather than finding more and more ways of attacking and penalising public service workers, time and energy should be spent on pressing the Coalition to clear up the economic mess.»

And yet this is the same government that passed an emergency budget that could put more than a million workers on the scrapheap, that jacks up a VAT that lands heaviest on those who are the most hard - up, that floats shrinking some public services by up to 40 % — that almost gleefully drops the guillotine of cuts on the necks of the poor.

The big guys might have held back in order not to offend the populace, but the numbers do not lie: Financial - services workers collected more than $ 20 billion in bonuses in 2009, the Year of the Bailout, which is 17 percent more than last year.

But endorsing someone other than Cuomo in the Democratic primary and for the Working Families Party's own line could alienate the remaining labor unions like the Communications Workers of America and local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union that make up a large part of the party's funding.

The school boards group also urges a statewide freeze on government salaries - which would save billions without laying off a single employee or cutting back a single service - and requiring all workers to pay at least 10 % of their health insurance costs, which is less than most private - sector workers shell out.

From June 2002 through June 2013, Bloomberg oversaw the loss of more jobs from the ranks of the city's uniformed services than from any other sector — including police officers, firefighters and Department of Education workers, according to a report released Tuesday by the city's Independent Budget Office.

But endorsing someone other than Cuomo in the Democratic primary and for the Working Families Party's own line could alienate the remaining labor unions like the Communications Workers of America and local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union that fund a significant portion of the party's operations, insiders say..

More than 35,000 people, including many teachers and public service workers, rallied outside the statehouse in Trenton on May 22 to tell Republican Gov. Chris Christie that «he can not balance the state's budget on the backs of the middle class.»

The facility, which employs more than 1,000 workers, may be shut down as the Postal Service struggles with a major budget crisis.