Sentences with phrase «waged a number of»

Procter & Gamble (pg) waged a number of battles last year with activist investor Nelson Peltz, who succeeded in gaining a board seat after months of fighting.

Located inland within 40 kilometers of the Cayo District, Caracol once supported twice as many people as currently live in Belize City, and it even waged a number of wars with its more famous cousin Tikal.

Not exact matches

Earl: The limitation shouldn't be the number of visas, but rather the wage you can offer.

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).

Fisher says the value of the product used as compensation should be at least the number of hours worked times minimum wage.

While some workers may lose their job after the minimum wage increase (more on that in a minute), a very large number of workers will see an important pay hike, and that will loop back into the economy.

Finally, as I have noted a number of times before, my biggest fear about the next recession is that it leads to actual wage deflation (nominal as well as real):

A 2012 study from the Centre for Retirement Research at Boston College in the United States found that the greater number of older persons employed led to better outcomes for the young, including reduced unemployment and a higher wage.

In short, when you look at the data closely enough, you could see it as easily argues that a higher minimum wage actually increased the number of jobs.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

Sure, the majority of those jobs are minimum wage, but as some observers put it, without them the U.S. jobs numbers would have been a «reversal» or «devastating.»

A jobs number miss will bolster the case that the Fed should wait to raise interest rates until next year and perhaps calm fears of wage inflation.

If your product is household cleaning services, why call a random neighborhood where you have no knowledge of income levels, the number of household wage earners or the number of children?

The research, which is based on salary and offer data (rather than self - reported numbers), is compiled into a report called Women, Work, and the State of Wage Inequality.

Progress on wage equality for women in the United States has been demonstrably slow in recent years — but a number of companies have taken matters into their own hands.

There are any number of theories explaining the sudden drop in crude oil prices after two years of stability: America's increasing supply, the world's faltering demand, an undeclared price war being waged by Saudi Arabia, the rising U.S. dollar.

U.S. employers added the largest number of workers in nearly three years in November and wage gains picked up, a sign of economic strength that could draw the Federal Reserve closer to raising interest rates.

«The wage number is definitely moving the bond market,» said John Briggs, head of strategy at NatWest Markets.

On - demand services are growing all the time - and so is the number of wage - related lawsuits against them.

So if this minimum wage increase comes to fruition on the national level, they won't crumble or reduce their number of workers.

Bond yields have been rising as interest rate expectations have been rising, and the wage number confirms signs of wage inflation.

What Fraser hears over and over again from Feeding America's food banks is that while more people are working again, «those numbers disguise the fact that so many of these jobs are paying minimum wage or slightly above,» he said.

U.S. employers added the largest number of workers in nearly three years in November and wage gains picked up.

Edward Jones analyst Brian Yarbrough said it is tough to estimate the cost impact of the minimum wage changes without knowing the number of Wal - Mart employees affected.

Next we need to account for employment growth in federally regulated industries between 2008 and 2019, which should increase our overall number of people that benefit from the minimum wage policy.

A number of Liberal party supporters and candidates on Twitter cited a government study on federally regulated industries showing that only 416 of those workers made minimum wage in 2008.

To put that number in perspective, the average annualized wage in the private sector in 2015 was $ 51,600, less than half of the tech industry average.

For example, while a number of communities are debating how to provide benefits to gig economy workers, without policies that ensure a baseline wage threshold or that grant workers a voice in determining their wages and benefits, low - road companies could respond to requirements to contribute to benefits with commensurate decreases in pay.

Wage growth numbers were just the match thrown on the gasoline and not the major fuel of the market drop.

That figure doesn't bear out compared to independent data reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts Amazon wages 15 percent below the average wage in 11 metro areas, at only $ 11.96 an hour, a number roughly equivalent to the average retail wage.

First, Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak builds his whole campaign around a promise to create one million new jobs in Ontario over eight years, then one of his first campaign commitments threats  is to reduce the number of Ontario government employees by 100,000, together with a wage freeze for every -LSB-...]

The number of recent college graduates that are underemployed, or are accepting low - wage jobs or part - time work, is also increasing, Accenture found.

New York has the second - highest average weekly wage on our list and one of the highest numbers of establishments.

Considered the worst cities on our list to find a dream job, they scored lower on the factors that were taken into consideration: unemployment rate, average weekly wage and number of establishments.

Energy experts say it is unlikely that the tariffs will create more than a small number of American solar manufacturing jobs, since low - wage countries will continue to have a competitive edge.

This wage measure, along with a number of others, has been gradually trending upward over the past several years.

A number of South Side small business owners find themselves emotionally and politically conflicted between their progressive values and the city's push for a mandatory minimum wage of $ 15 an hour.

At the end of January, higher - than - expected payroll numbers and wage growth surprised investors.

The job losses would be concentrated among teens and young adults, while the number of minimum wage workers in Ontario would increase from just over 500,000 to 1.6 million in 2019, said a report released by the province's Financial Accountability Office.

However, hikes in minimum wages in a number of states and reports that prominent companies are having to offer higher pay to attract workers may start to show up in wage statistics in the months ahead.

Other significant year - ended wage increases were recorded for a number of industries with substantial public - sector representation, such as education.

A number of skeptical analysts have used job growth in the lower - wage «leisure and hospitality» sector to support their arguments that the labor market is merely optically healthy.

While profits of most of the listed companies in the S&P 500 Index showed robust growth, there are a number of underlying factors such as wage growth, consumer spending, auto and home sales that need to expand significantly.

Despite the success that a number of countries have had in generating jobs, wage growth remains low.

Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist at Windermere Real Estate, covering Seattle, says, «Our strong wage growth is still supporting rising home prices, which when combined with the historically low number of homes for sale in Seattle, gives home flippers substantial returns on their investments.

Other limiting factors are low wage growth, high unemployment, the large numbers of workers who have dropped out of the labor force, declining home prices, higher tax payments and a flattening out of transfer payments.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. employers added the largest number of workers in nearly three years in November and wage gains picked up, a sign of economic strength that could draw the Federal Reserve closer to raising interest rates.

SCHNEIDER: The number one metric and this gets back into my comments about optionality for the Fed, but the number one metric that the Fed is going to be focused on is the tightness of the job market and wage pressures on the go - forward basis, so sure inflation — headline inflation has perked up a little bit.

The battle has been waging, as Tech Times reported, for a number of weeks, with rumors abounding over where the factory will be located.

With three rounds of QE, the U.S. economy received no median wage growth, little inflation movement, a lackluster employment sector with numbers are cooked, and 95 % of income gains going to 1 % of the nation.