Not exact matches
Dig Deeper: The Case for Self - Insurance Health Care Reform and Small Business: If You Have 50 Employees Starting now, companies that are growing or which are already hovering around 50 employees should
make sure they can document exactly how they count employees versus contract
workers, temps, and full -
time equivalents.
, Schultz
made a commitment to offer health insurance to eligible full - and part -
time workers, including all domestic partners of employees.
Back in the 1950s, GE - like many companies at the
time —
made explicit the primacy of
workers over shareholders.
CEO pay has kept on climbing, to a recent high of more than 300
times what the average
worker makes.
In a study of 16 countries, Americans had the greatest disconnect on the income gap, believing that top executives
make about 30
times more than average
workers.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the typical CEO
made about 58
times the average
worker in 1989.
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.
CEOs now
make 271
times what the typical
worker earns.
Wages in Gildan's factories are still higher than those paid in Chinese factories: the average wage of a garment
worker in Honduras is about $ 100 a week — four
times what a Chinese
worker makes.
Last year, big - company CEOs were paid an average of 343
times what their
workers made.
Valleywag points out that this whole situation is really weird: «So, our elected officials, in their effort to find a scapegoat for crimes against sex
workers like the murder of Julissa Brisman, have taken a site that never
made a dime from the hookups it helped set up, and turned it into a full -
time, for - profit sex money machine.»
Of course, that adds a whole new round of evaluation duties to the demands already
made on company managers, who spend a lot of
time with
workers in one - on - one conferences.
While sales reps
make sense for some young companies, going it alone paid off for Schneider, who employs just one part -
time worker.
It's a
made - up term by people working to create companies based on part -
time workers who do part -
time work to
make extra money.
Among the things that such firms must
make determinations about and document, Plakans says, is if they qualify as exempt employers, whether their
workers are considered full -
time employees, and if so, whether the plans they offer adhere to the cost formulas prescribed by the government.
Today, she has five full -
time employees, several contract
workers and is
making more than a million dollars in sales.
While most
workers change jobs multiple
times throughout their careers, job - hopping too frequently can
make you look impulsive to other employers.
Another paid attention to which patients seemed to have few visitors or none at all, and would
make sure to double back to spend some
time with them... What these
workers were doing, Wrzesniewski came to realize, was quietly creating the work that they wanted to do out of the work that they had been assigned — work they found meaningful and worthwhile.
The study did show
workers facing more of a
time crunch as they entered their thirties, but the pressures on them were
made much worse by another factor.
Some entrepreneurs are glorified in the media for
making the leap from full -
time worker to business owner.
Rosser says in a good year, the business — which Jenkins founded in 1976, after years of scrimping and saving as a union sheet metal
worker —
made about $ 750,000 in revenue at the
time.
This 139,025 figure should not be used directly as an estimate of people
making less than $ 15 hour, as it does not cover all federally regulated
workers and many of the part -
time workers in this category
made more than $ 15 an hour.
Will the company need to bring in temporary or part -
time workers to
make it through the next few weeks or months?
In fact, more employers with 50 or more full -
time equivalent
workers who offer coverage say they shifted or plan to shift
workers» hours from part -
time to full -
time status to
make them eligible for health benefits (7 %) than say they shifted or plan to shift
workers from full -
time to part -
time status to
make them ineligible (2 %).
Canada's 100 highest paid CEOs
made 195
times more than the average Canadian
worker and 237
times the average Canadian woman.
The exact size and growth of this workforce is debated, but
workers employed under precarious work conditions
make up a significant portion of the larger workforce, with estimates that 4 out of every 10
workers are now employed in precarious situations.49 These
workers typically face higher income volatility than
workers in traditional employment relationships because they spend more
time unemployed or underemployed and some have low earnings.50
Make some face
time for your remote
workers through the magic of videoconferencing tools like Skype or Hangouts.
At the same
time, they have openly encouraged lawmakers to
make it harder for consulting companies in India and elsewhere to provide foreign
workers temporarily to this country.
Over the past few years, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC, formerly CIC) and Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) have streamlined the process of hiring
workers from abroad and
made it increasingly
time - efficient.
The resulting higher level of
worker productivity
makes it easier to justify additional infrastructure that saves the
time and labor of productive
workers.
Make sure that construction contractors enter into project labor agreements that will help ensure
workers have protections on the job and can guarantee that construction will be completed on
time using skilled hands;
This is also true for the cohort of young
workers who are stuck in jobs for which they are overqualified and who are having trouble securing the professional experience that would
make them increasingly productive over
time.
The
Times went further, saying that the island's total financial collapse will only
make things worse: «Government
workers will forgo pension money, public health and infrastructure projects will go wanting, and the «brain drain'the island has been suffering as professionals move to the mainland could intensify.»
It is
time to
make sure that free trade benefits everyone, whether they are a consumer, a corporate professional or even a manufacturing
worker.
Economists like Stanley, who expects the corporate tax cut to lift wages over
time, think it will happen indirectly as companies channel their tax savings into machinery, computers and software,
making workers productive and leading to higher pay.
As Navillus
makes its way through bankruptcy, the concrete company is going after one of its general contractors for allegedly stiffing its
workers on one of the biggest construction projects in
Times Square.
«And the thousands of volunteers in our country who will give up their
time to
make someone else's Christmas that little bit better: from faith inspired projects like the Churches Together initiative in my own constituency - to aid
workers helping those in war - torn parts of the world.
If I place dynamite under a pile of bricks no matter how many
times it blows up it will never
make a house for that I need architects, engineers and construction
workers.
The effect of Jesus» call was not to
make Andrew, Peter, James, and John full -
time Christian
workers, nor was it to
make daily work a sacrament.
Speaking to The New York
Times about conditions in Bangladesh factories, the executive director of the
Worker Rights Consortium said, «There have been substantial safety renovations in factories that have unquestionably
made those factories substantially safer.
Mark Greene, executive director of the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity (LICC) tells a story about an office
worker who took the
time to find out what kind of tea people liked to drink, and when she next
made the tea she produced bags of each kind of tea.
Workers shouldn't have to fear losing health care coverage if they lose their job and have to
make - do with a series of part -
time jobs that do not offer health insurance benefits.
Does a CEO
making 400 or 500
times more than the average employee not consider fellow
workers to be neighbors?
The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic
worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every
time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would
make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.
Meanwhile, corporate executives, whose 1960 earnings averaged 41
times that of
workers, now earn 209
times what
workers make, even in
times of brutal layoffs in the name of economic efficiency.
By rendering «denarius» as «the usual daily wage,» the translators
make it clear that the owner in the parable of the
workers in the vineyard is giving all his
workers what they need for survival, regardless of the
time they worked (Matt.
That's the3 philosophy that helps CEOs rest easier when they're
making 272
times the average
workers salaries, or handing themselves bonuses while they do layoffs, because they can honeslty feel like they're worth it (all evidence to the contrary).
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.
She was suggesting that a working mother with a part -
time job should actually be
making more money than a full -
time worker because her need was the greater.
Every
time we went through a drive through and Cricket would get a Milkbone from an eager drive - through window
worker, she would turn up her nose is disdain, and I would have try to
make up some excuse of why my dog is acting like such a snob.