Sentences with phrase «wage pressures from»

If the Fed were to continue hiking rates based on the current low rate of productivity growth for fear that inflation would accelerate, that would tend to keep productivity growth permanently depressed by preventing wage pressures from pushing businesses to investment in productivity boosting technologies.

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«The first quarter's slowdown was led by consumers, whose incomes are under pressure from slowing employment and wage growth as well as rising inflation.

Restaurants are often laggards when it comes to adopting new technology, but rising labor costs due to higher minimum wage and labor shortages coupled with food inflation has some looking to solutions that can provide some relief from the increased pressure on already tight margins.

Seattle's new minimum wage law groups franchises with large businesses, putting the pressure on independent franchisees to increase workers» pay at an accelerated pace (a move that sparked a discrimination lawsuit from the IFA).

Even juggernauts like McDonald's are making changes: The fast - food chain announced that it would raise its entry - level minimum wage this month, ceding to the pressure from labor organizers as well as from an increasingly strong economy.

From my perspective, that look would tell them several things: 1) the U.S. economy is in recession, 2) the combination of weak producer prices and rising wage and benefits costs means that profit margins continue to be under pressure.

However, given the weakness in the bargaining power of so many in the workforce, along with some anxiety about price pressures from wage - push inflation, such evidence must be scrutinized.

Median wage pressure has increased from 1.6 to 3.1 percent in the last 12 months, as shown on the Atlanta Fed's Wage Growth Tracker repwage pressure has increased from 1.6 to 3.1 percent in the last 12 months, as shown on the Atlanta Fed's Wage Growth Tracker repWage Growth Tracker report:

That suggests that underlying inflation pressures from such things as wage increases remain muted.

Wage pressures remain muted as hopes for sustained faster growth fade, given that pro-growth policies from Washington are looking less likely by the day.

But recently, new minimum - wage laws and a tight labor market have pushed up wages for the poorest workers, squeezing retailers who are already under pressure from Amazon.

An influx of 50,000 Amazon workers could force more lower - wage and middle - income workers from the city and put more pressure on housing prices and congested roadways.

The usual arguments from the far right («we can not afford this,» they say, or «if you pay people for not working, people won't work») join with those on the far left («this is just a way to reduce pressures on the minimum wage or cut back all the other programmes that are vital») are mutually reinforcing, even though they're largely inaccurate.

• Finally, as previously discussed, «military pressure» from the contras was the principal means by which the United States waged economic war against the people of Nicaragua.

Tottenham aren't going to want to see any of their top players leave this summer, but with the pressure of being unable to match wage offers from rivals coupled with their track record of failing to win major silverware, it could all count against them if United really do come knocking.

In part because human capital in these high quality sectors is deep and specific, so needs to be used to the full in exporting; in part because there are typically strong positive externalities to training and innovation systems from increased exports; in part because a tight fiscal policy constrains wage demands in the public sector from undermining restraint of export sector unions: these countries, as well as Japan and China for similar reasons, want no constraints on their exports through macroeconomic regulatory rules pressuring them to expand consumer demand.

A Labour administration would focus on three things to help ease pressure on public services and wages including better enforcement of the minimum wage, cracking down on recruitment agencies who only supplied workers from particular countries and looking at areas and types of jobs where there were large numbers of foreign workers.

Cuomo faced pressure from the left in his party to further increase the state's minimum wage for non-tipped workers.

Cuomo faced pressure from the left in his party to further increase the state's minimum wage for non tipped workers.

Abia State Governor Theodore Orji on Sunday said his administration sacked non-indigenes from the state's civil service because of pressure of implementing the minimum wage.

And the pressure from the WFP won't end with the minimum wage: Lipton said the party will continue to push Cuomo to back a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate next year.

Mike Boland, the operative who left the party to run Teachout's campaign, and Bertha Lewis, who nominated Teachout from the floor of the W.F.P. convention, have both gone on record urging Teachout voters to hold their noses and vote W.F.P. as a way of keeping liberal pressure on Cuomo, reminding them of the party's successful pushes on items like paid sick days and the minimum wage.

Stuart Appelbaum, president of the RWDSU, thanked de Blasio for expanding living wage while pressuring him to support a bill to be introduced in the Council that would disallow developers from retaliating against workers who unionize on projects covered under the living - wage law.

«The businesses that will be under the most pressure, paying a significantly higher minimum wage - 6 % higher on average every year in this parliament - aren't the same businesses as a whole who will get the benefit from the tax reductions.»

The data now shows that teachers, under the pressure of needing to make enough of a living wage to support their own families, are moving from poor schools to non-poor schools... from high - minority to low - minority schools... from urban to suburban schools.

It is perplexing to me that the budget included money for dropout and truancy prevention, but ignored the needs of our 4,500 publicly funded after school programs in CA, that are dying on the vine because of cost pressures from the minimum wage increases.

And if the climate movement can keep pressuring the the government, banks and universities to invest in the future and divest from fossil fuels, it seems inevitable that we'll be burning less coal in the coming years, whether President Obama has officially waged a War on Coal or not.

Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unions).

Employers are also advised to expect upward pressure from non-minimum wage staff who may in turn expect equivalent pay raises themselves.

Increasingly, too, business is under pressure from greater government say on employee rights with at least three provinces including Ontario taking increased measures to boost minimum wage and worker benefits.

When looking at wage pressures, Oxford Economics have forecast real wage growth to be at 2.9 per cent for year - end 2017, down from 3.6 per cent in 2016, which is further good news for organisations based in the UAE.

Mexican firms are expected to benefit from more competitive wages (lower wage pressure) in 2017, as inflation is forecast to erode real wage growth.

Apart from increased labour market participation which increases the talent pool for employers to choose from, this is largely driven by lower overall wage pressures.

For some time, we have been hearing about rising pressure on wage rates from seniors housing and care operators.