Sentences with phrase «wage paid by»

Generally, a contract attorney is employed by a legal services agency to work on large - scale projects for an hourly wage paid by the agency.

Not exact matches

Sort by median salary to find the jobs with the fattest pay cheques; sort by five - year wage growth to see which fields have the fastest - growing salaries — that can indicate a shortage of qualified candidates (and opportunity for you); or sort by five - year growth in the number of people in the field — those are the places that have been on hiring sprees (but watch out; that doesn't mean they'll continue the streak).

Those jobs are already very well compensated, so this is acting as a wage subsidy to high - income workers, paid for by the general population.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

franchises moved to offset Ontario's minimum wage hike by cutting paid breaks and forcing workers to cover a bigger share of their benefits.

Uber, which allows users to book and pay for a taxi by smartphone, says its more than 30,000 London drivers enjoy the flexibility of being able to work when they choose and receive on average more than the minimum wage.

To hire a temporary foreign worker, employers must pay the «prevailing wage» for the position, an amount determined by postings on the Job Bank.

Sanders echoed his own presidential campaign's message by noting that American people are «tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low - wage countries.»

And it follows a move by McDonald's to raise its average minimum wage to more than $ 10, and to give employees with a year's service 20 hours of paid time off.

Or if you've opted to pay for the wage increase by raising your prices, you'll have to explain why your hamburger costs several dollars more than the shop down the block.

Wage growth has been scarcely better, particularly as more workers become contractors in the so - called gig economy, which offers little by way of job security, benefits, and pay.

Foxconn, meanwhile, has responded to the issue by hiking employee pay by 30 %, which the CEOs see as both an appropriate response to the company's mistreatment of its workers, and a sign of further wage pressures in China.

The crux of the act is simply this: illegal wage bias (based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability) occurs «when a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice is adopted, when a person becomes subject to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, or when a person is affected by application of a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, including each time wages, benefits, or other compensation is paid, resulting in whole or in part from such a decision or other practice.»

A recent report by the workers» rights nonprofit Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United found that 28 % of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's employees surveyed said they had worked off - the - clock and roughly 33 % reported wage theft violations, such as not receiving or overtime pay.

A Treasury spokesman told the BBC: «We are taking action to support families with the costs of living by cutting taxes for millions of working people, doubling free childcare for nearly 400,000 working parents and introducing the National Living Wage - a significant pay rise for the lowest earners.»

FireFly buys its goat milk from seven family farms near the creamery, still makes its cheeses by hand, and has made a firm commitment to paying its workers a living wage.

The entire executive team, which makes decisions by consensus, has the same paycheck, and the total cash compensation paid to any employee in a calendar year is restricted to no more than 19 times the average annual wage, including bonuses, of all full - time employees.

Last April, facing a Federal Court lawsuit launched by unions over the HD Mining workers, the federal government introduced reforms to the program, including removing a provision that allowed employers to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15 per cent less than the prevailing Canadian wage.

For instance, the federal government's Community Development Block Grants, which are dispensed by local communities for economic growth, require that contractors hired by the borrower pay the prevailing wage rate for that location.

Factors to consider may include whether a possible employer has the power to direct, control, or supervise the worker (s) or the work performed; whether a possible employer has the power to hire or fire, modify the employment conditions or determine the pay rates or the methods of wage payment for the worker (s); the degree of permanency and duration of the relationship; where the work is performed and whether the tasks performed require special skills; whether the work performed is an integral part of the overall business operation; whether a possible employer undertakes responsibilities in relation to the worker (s) which are commonly performed by employers; whose equipment is used; and who performs payroll and similar functions.

By contrast, many other independent workers are in low - wage occupations where the supply of labor is huge and turnover is constant; if someone leaves because of crummy pay or wretched working conditions, the employer can easily tap somebody else to fill the slot.

Beginning in July, the company will raise the minimum wage by $ 1 over the locally mandated minimum pay for its corporate - owned locations.

They then pay taxes at half the rate paid by Canadians busting their gut everyday for a wage.

There's a good reason we do so: The median wage actually shows the experience of workers in the middle of the distribution, whereas average wages are distorted by super-salaries paid at the very top of the income spectrum.

Total compensation per employee consists of many different elements, including not only negotiated / imposed wage settlements, bracket creep (employees moving up within their pay range), composition of employment (professional vs clerical), pay equity, pension and other future employee benefit costs driven in part by market conditions, Canada and Quebec Pension Plan contributions (which increase by the annual increase in the industrial wage), among others.

Mr. Price, who started the Seattle - based credit - card payment processing firm in 2004 at the age of 19, said he would pay for the wage increases by cutting his own salary from nearly $ 1 million to $ 70,000 and using 75 to 80 percent of the company's anticipated $ 2.2 million in profit this year.

Develop responsible contracting standards for service contracts to ensure that cafeteria workers, janitors, security officers and other onsite service workers are paid a livable wage, receive benefits equitable to those received by directly employed workers, have the right to a voice at work without fear of discrimination or retaliation, do not suffer mass layoffs when contracts change hands, and are protected from misclassification and other forms of wage theft;

The 2017 Health and Workplace Benefits Survey recently completed by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and Greenwald & Associates finds that 44 percent of employees would give up a wage increase for increased work - life balance benefits like paid time off or telecommuting.

Last weekend's Cambridge Analytica news — that the company was able to access tens of millions of users» data by paying low - wage workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to take a Facebook survey, which gave Cambridge Analytica access to Facebook's dossier on each of those turkers» Facebook friends — has hammered home two problems: first...

«The living wage can be achieved by employers paying more wages or by policy interventions that reduce expenses for people,» he said, adding a community child care plan similar to Quebec's could help further reduce the living wage by $ 3.22 an hour, making it more affordable for employers.

Gender Wage Gap Comparison — Median pay differences by gender and also job level, using controlled pay.

In fact, the proportion of part - timers in public administration was reduced by a third over that period of time, which contributes significantly to the increase in the average weekly wage over the decade, as workers were working more hours, not necessarily being paid a lot more per hour.

He said efforts to revise the H - 2B guest worker program have been stalled by opposition from labor groups, which have argued that companies don't try hard enough to hire Americans or pay a living wage before turning to the program.

By doing so, the IRS hopes to stop companies that attempt to evade minimum wage laws and avoid paying employee benefits.

They, he says, may have been «internalized» by wage negotiators, many of whom may also have been focused more on job retention than on securing higher pay.

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).

This question was raised in Russia in 1996 - 98, when IMF and U.S. advisors argued that it would be inflationary to pay wage arrears to workers unless the budget deficit were financed by borrowing an equivalent volume of dollars.

This cutback will accelerate the point at which the program moves into supposed «negative equity» — a calculation that ignores the option of restoring pension funding to the government's general budget, where it would be paid out of progressively levied income tax and hence borne mainly by the wealthy, not by lower - income wage earners as a «user fee.»

If Russia creates credit to pay wage arrears, pensions and to make other domestic payments, most such revenue will be re-spent within the Russia by its recipients, given the needy economic conditions of most workers and dependents.

NOTES BB&T also raised minimum hourly pay rate from $ 12 to $ 15, effective Jan. 1, 2018; Fifth Third Bank also boosted minimum wage to $ 15 per hour for all employees; PNC Financial also will raise minimum pay rate to $ 15 an hour by the end of 2018.

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).

For example, a job offering a salary of $ 13 / hour could be rejected by a claimant if the hourly wage normally paid for the same type of job in its region was between $ 16 - 18.

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).

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).

Typical American wage earners pay about 40 percent of their wages on housing whose price is bid up by easy mortgage credit, and another 10 to 15 percent for credit cards and other debt service.

This is the reality faced by millions of women who consider abortions each year, and the sad irony is the same pro-life politicians who want to force them to have their babies typically oppose raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid sick leave and parental leave for all American workers, and protecting the 20 million people who can finally afford health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act.

That is because the preacher makes all his money on greed by convincing people to give him 10 percent of their gross pay, even if they are minimum wage and can hardly hold it together.

Only recently, too, did Romney reveal that he indeed will be a true «mandate» POTUS (video for that too) by indicating employers be made to give automatic pay raises that are tied to inflation to all employees at the minimum wage level.

Pointing to such factors as a low minimum wage, the declining number of well - paying manufacturing jobs, and the continuing segregation of jobs by race and sex, they argue that the central issue is the availability and quality of work.

The insufficiency of work to provide self - sufficiency is behind the movement — backed by many religious groups — to ensure that all employers pay a living wage, which is generally understood to be the wage needed to support a family at or slightly above the poverty level.