Sentences with phrase «used labour costs»

Also, he had no way of calculating the price of the research to companies, so used labour costs of people engaged in R&D instead.

Not exact matches

We then use that to build out two additional scenarios: one assuming a doubling of the current minimum wage plus factoring in the cost of fire and building safety improvements based on data from the Worker Rights Consortium; and another using a «living wage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demands.

The Davis Langdon Tender Price Index — which prices a fixed basket of labour and material inputs typically used in commercial and apartment construction — confirms this trend, though there are emerging signs that costs may have peaked in some regions, particularly Melbourne (Graph 71).

The high cost of transport is an issue if they're to manufacture them here and export; however, Ashley says the posts can be manufactured in any country, using the country's recycled plastic, its timber and labour force.

He also says the costs of production are higher because organic farmers don't use synthetic chemicals to grow crops and that means farmers, like him, use manual labour to tackle pests and weeds.

The agency is also advising the use of kitchen automation such as automatic dishwashers to ease on labour costs and reliance for the back - of - house.

Profiles of resource use, and their associated unit costs, for each planned place of birth are reported in detail in appendices 1 and 2 on bmj.com.25 The total mean costs per low risk woman planning birth in the various settings at the start of care in labour were # 1631 ($ 1950, $ 2603) for an obstetric unit, # 1461 ($ 1747, $ 2332) for an alongside midwifery unit, # 1435 ($ 1715, $ 2290) for a free standing midwifery unit, and # 1067 ($ 1274, $ 1701) for the home (table 1 ⇓).

I use to do it all the time when it was bad so what did my labour council do last year remove the bins saying the Public keep using them and it's costing us money, well yes you morons because we are doing your bloody job.

The Labour leader used an article for the Sun on Sunday newspaper to accept his proposed switch in the way Labour is funded via the trade unions will «cost us money».

There are calls for labour market reform, for lower labour costs (ie lower wages), for «renewed efforts» to get school leavers into training, for better use of an existing EU jobs website to «facilitate the cross-border placement of young people».

But no crackdown on those bosses who use cheap labour to cut costs.

Another choice we've said we'd make differently is on taxation and tuition fees — while under the Conservative - led government banks are benefiting from a 5 per cent cut in corporation tax, — Labour thinks that money would be better used bringing down the cap on tuition fees, to help young people worried about the costs of going to university.

Labour says the policy would cost the taxpayer around # 1.4 bn per year and that it would stem a decline in bus use by those within the age bracket since the Conservatives came to power.

Several Labour MPs boycotted the recall of the Commons today, citing the financial cost of the exercise and concerns around the use of the occasion for party political purposes.

«Under Labour the cost of motoring has actually fallen, while the cost of using the trains has gone through the roof,» Mr Baker said.

But having spent nearly a decade attacking any proposed spending commitment as unaffordable - having used deficit hysteria, amplified by the media, to justify hugely damaging cuts to welfare, adult care, children's care, the NHS and plenty more besides - and having torn Labour apart for allegedly using the wrong costings, one might think the Conservatives would provide figures of their own.

According to our figures (and I keep asking you to use the figures set out in the Liberal Democrat and Labour document not the figures given by the IFS who state they got their figures from these documents but actually give different figures) to reverse the cuts to Universal Credit cost # 3.665 billion and as I pointed out above these are the reductions in the amounts a person can keep before they start to lose their benefit, which were set much higher than the old benefits, but the withdrawal rate seemed to be higher with Universal Credit (65 % [reduced to 62 %] than with Tax Credit (41 % on gross income).

They claim 13 Labour candidates received visits from Harriet Harman's «pink bus» but did not declare this in their local returns, with the cost instead included in the national return; that the Lib Dems used an election battlebus to transport activists to constituencies which was not included in the candidates» returns; and that the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, «used a helicopter to campaign for SNP candidates in 12 target constituencies — at a cost of # 35,000».

He pointed out that Labour and the Lib Dems appear to have declared bus expenditure as national costs and also highlighted Nicola Sturgeon's use of a helicopter to travel to battleground seats as SNP leader.

Excluding labour costs, the materials used to extract 100 mg of collagen from fish scales in the lab is just over S$ 4.

I have tried to use genuine values for costs of hire and labour, so the the results should be fairly accurate.

It also uses a traffic light system to help users make informed judgements on gritting and premises closure; knowing when to grit footpaths and roads, especially on large campuses, can reduce the annual cost of gritting materials and the labour to apply it (usually comprising overtime for unsociable hours) considerably.

Formulae covered: FINANCE: - Costs - Revenues - Profit - Break Even HUMAN RESOURCES - Remuneration INTERNATIONAL TRADE: - Exchange rates COST EFFECTIVE OPERATIONS AND COMPETITIVENESS: - Labour Productivity Suggested ways of using the resource: - Print out two slide to a page to then cut out and turn into flash cards - Place mats that are left on the table for students to refer to.

With the old Kawasaki belt system used in the 1980s they lasted maybe 50 % longer, but failed with little or no warning and cost a LOT more to replace (plus the far greater labour to change them).

The more frugal and persistent though can negate these costs: phoning breakers yards and trawling the internet in search for cheaper used parts, and using independent labour or even engaging in some DIY to fit them.

If, under normal use and maintenance, a major component requires repair or replacement during this period, the cost of parts and / or labour will be covered in full.

To get around this you can always use a floor adhesive, but this will require additional labour and materials (which means more cost), or you can opt to install vinyl by the sheet (less seams means less chance for water penetration).

Questions similar to Sierra's, concerning contemporary labour conditions, were put forward by Eichhorn by closing the gallery and then relieving the gallery's staff of their duties for the five weeks of her exhibition, using her commission to pay for the running costs during this period.

This means using software systems as well as low ‐ cost human labour to provide cheaper and more efficient legal services.

Finally, reliant as it is on volunteer labour and with only an annual meeting of all delegates, the ULCC has a rather lower budget than any «permanent» (I use the term loosely) provincial law commission, all of which have a permanent staff, however small, and the general costs of an on - going enterprise that releases full reports.

A friend of mine is adamant that a business is legally bound to not exceed a «fair» price for an item or service based on the cost of materials and hours of labour used.

Labour's Stella Creasy, who has long campaigned on consumer financial issues, has a new clause to require the new financial regulator to consider the effect of high - cost lending using credit cards on consumer protection and produce an annual assessment of any consumer detriment.