Sentences with phrase «wage costs»

Growth in wage costs increased in manufacturing, retail trade and property & business services.

This really leaves only one option open to businesses: Find a country that has much lower tax rates and regulations, combined with a lower wage cost.

They can raise prices, for instance, or simply lower profit forecasts, accepting higher wage costs.

The pressure on profitability reflects a combination of rising wage costs and flat selling prices, which continue to be constrained in many parts of the manufacturing sector by strong international competition.

That means the ones already successful in keeping wage costs low.

When wage costs are increased through policy rather than via market mechanisms, revenues and profits can take a hit unless businesses have the pricing power to charge customers more.

While overall wage costs remain contained at present, despite pressures in particular sectors, ongoing strength in demand would pose an increasing risk of acceleration of costs over time.

The increases granted will raise the rate of wages growth for workers on award wages, but the acceleration is quite mild and it will have only a small impact on aggregate wage costs.

It seems to me that our actual first team squad seems to be getting smaller every year, even though wage costs seem to increase!

They're turning increasingly to part time jobs to reduce wage costs and eliminate benefits.

Some confirmation that aggregate wage growth is running at around the 3 1/2 per cent mark is provided by the newly produced wage cost index.

Southwestern Ontario certainly does not have a competitive advantage in wage costs for low - skilled labour, as manufacturers from China to Mexico can always significantly undercut the region.

If the restaurant she worked at were to maintain its same staffing levels after the tip credit was eliminated, it would have to pay $ 105,000 per year in extra wage costs, she said.

«I don't believe the minimum wage costs jobs,» Cuomo said.

«I don't believe the minimum wage costs jobs,» said Cuomo.

I have an anecdote I run around sometimes about the lost wage cost of my pumping time ($ 130 / week).

But the sunk costs of training some one is low compared to their lifetime wage costs.

In any case, smaller stocks will probably be most vulnerable to earnings shortfalls in the coming year or two, stemming from either slower economic growth, rising real wage costs in excess of productivity growth, or most likely, both.

How much will that raise wage costs?

My back - of - the - envelope calculations indicate that the expected wage benefits of higher curriculum standards due to their positive effect on employment exceed the expected wage costs due to their adverse effect on graduation rates by a factor of six.

Before Singapore businesses can adapt to the rising wage costs brought about by the tight unemployment rate and the drought in business because of drop in exports, they also have to tackle the impending departure of their staff.

«While wage cost is technically franchisees» responsibility, we do not believe they could afford to fund the entire impost without some assistance from Domino's.»

Significant investment in the squad with a record level of expenditure on player acquisitions (GBP114.0 million) which has in turn resulted in a higher amortisation and higher wage costs in the profit and loss account.

And that last thing is key, if our extra wage cost is to produce a player that we would have to sign given Rooney was # 30m, Wickham went to Sunderland for # 12m it is well worth it.

Labour - intensive manufacturers that could automate did so, and firms that could not moved their operations to countries with much lower wage costs.

Arsenal football club announced today that despite the drop in revenue from losing out on the Champions League and rising wage costs, they made # 25m in profits and they now have # 160m cash on hand, # 138m of which is available...

«To put this in the context of the broader group, allowing for the earnings from the international divisions, our estimated increase in wage cost is around 23 per cent of group profitability in 2015 - 16.»

Colorado's lowest - in - the - nation unemployment is creating worker shortages, driving up wage costs and may be inhibiting hiring.

THE latest ABS national Wage Cost Index shows a sharp jump in wage costs of 1.2 per cent between the June and September quarters, the highest quarterly increase since the data series began in September 1997.

So, several companies, including Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), talked about rising commodity costs like steel and oil and several talked about higher wage costs.

But wage costs are no longer everything they were cranked up to be.

The Wage Cost Index (WCI) for total hours (excluding bonuses), an indicator of movements in average wage rates, increased by 2.8 per cent over the year to the March quarter 2000, which is close to the previous readings for this indicator (Graph 41).

Growth in the Wage Cost Index for the year to the March quarter remained low, and enterprise bargaining data for the March quarter showed no change in the average negotiated increase.

In the December quarter, the wage cost index (WCI) for total pay increased by 1.0 per cent, to be 3.7 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 72).

The wage cost index (WCI) for total pay increased by 0.9 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms, to be 3.6 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 71).

In the June quarter, the wage cost index (WCI) for total pay increased by 0.8 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms, to be 3.5 per cent higher over the year, compared with an increase of 3.6 per cent over the year to March 2003 (Graph 72).

The first two available observations for the change in wage costs, covering the December and March quarters, show increases of 0.8 and 0.9 per cent, broadly consistent with what appears to be the trend rate of growth in economy - wide AWOTE (Table 7).

In the September quarter, the wage cost index (WCI) for total pay increased by 1.0 per cent, to be 3.7 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 74).

However, despite the conceptual superiority of the wage cost index (it is, in principle, unaffected by compositional change and changes to the working week), longer experience with the index will be needed to assess its reliability.

Peabody, for its sins, imagined sensibly that one thing would flow from the other, that the freedom to change shifts as it saw fit would necessarily result in lower wage costs.

With very high wage costs and a high Aussie dollar, it is increasingly difficult for Australia to hold existing markets.

Indeed, Huddersfield became the eighth club in the last five seasons to win promotion without the aid of parachute payments, and in 2015/16 had the Championship's fourth - lowest wage costs.»

November 23 — Stoke City, the Midlands club enjoying a 10th consecutive season in the Premier League, have revealed an uptick in profits, as a jump in turnover attributable to the league's latest TV deal was not passed on in higher wage costs.

What has been offered by David Cameron and George Osbourne is another version of the 1980s supply - side strategy focused on deregulation, lowering wage costs, making labour markets more «flexible», and securing a permanently smaller state.

«If it were indeed true that women got paid less money than men, why don't businesses hire all women and cut their biggest expenses, wage costs, by 23 %?

In addition, following the outcome of the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU, whilst no - one can say with any certainty what «Brexit» will look like, it remains to be seen whether smaller employers can absorb these increased wage costs in the long term.