Sentences with word «wages»

That dollar amount mirrors the San Francisco minimum wage, company spokeswoman Jamie Viggiano says, which is among the highest metropolitan minimum wages in the nation.

If it needs to be adjusted, you are encouraged to submit records including a W - 2 form, tax return and other documents verifying your wages and place of employment.

In 1892, the company tried to lower wages at a steel plant, but the employees responded with the Homestead Strike.

Wages tend to grow along with the economy, but a number of factors, most notably technological change and globalization, have ensured that for most classes of workers wages have grown slower than productivity gains.

«We find that industrial robots increase labour productivity, total factor productivity, and wages,» write lead researchers Georg Graetz, an assistant professor in the department of economics at Uppsala, and Guy Michaels, an associate professor in the department of economics at LSE.

Those making poverty - level wages, however, would be exempt.

You would therefore think that, by contrast, labour market pressures that reduce unemployment and cause wages to rise would be heralded as positive developments.

Given the low unemployment rate, anecdotal evidence from a variety of companies, and alternative measures such as the Atlanta Fed wage tracker showing stronger growth, wage growth may not be back at precrisis levels, but the trend over the past year shows wages are certainly headed in the right direction.

Nguyen says small business owners can all learn a valuable lesson from TaskRabbit about setting higher wages.

For those that said their businesses would be affected, two - thirds of respondents said it would be positive for hiring and wages if the law is declared unconstitutional.

It will no longer be necessary to pay wages to data storage and data management experts.

December wages grew just 1.7 % year over year, the smallest monthly increase since October 2012.

The Fight for $ 15, a worldwide effort to raise wages and strengthen unions, has successfully led to better pay in many places since its launch in 2012, and a proposed federal minimum wage of $ 15 an hour was part of the Democratic Party platform in 2016.

On the other side of the coin, workers» incomes are rising due to tax cuts and to hikes in minimum wages.

Furthermore, tying the minimum wage to average wages or realized inflation rates is counterproductive if you believe higher minimum wages are stimulative (I do not, but I should hold out the possibility that I may be wrong).

At a time when Chinese wages are rising by double - digit percentages annually, Bangladesh has gained market share: it is now the world's second - largest exporter of apparel (behind China), sending more than $ 19 - billion worth abroad in 2012.

Some 29 states have the minimum wages above $ 7.25 an hour.

It wasn't all good news — the tighter job market hasn't translated into much bigger paycheques, with average weekly wages rising at just 1.1 % from the year before, meaning that after inflation Canadians took a slight pay cut.

Wages, meanwhile, are barely keeping pace with inflation.

Restaurants in the rest of the state will have to raise their wages to $ 9.75 by the end of the current year, and to $ 10.75 by 2016.

But now increasing numbers of businesses and entrepreneurs are realizing the benefits of setting wages higher than the national $ 7.25 an hour.

This group of occupations has an unemployment rate of just over 1 per cent and wages that are «rising by an average annual rate of 3.9 per cent — more than double the rate seen in the economy as a whole.»

The wage demand, pushed by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer during intensive talks in Washington last week on modernizing the North American Free Tree Agreement, are aimed at preserving U.S. and Canadian auto production and putting upward pressure on Mexico's low auto wages.

The latest U.S. proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional value threshold as well as new labor content rules requiring substantial work at hourly wages of at least $ 16.

The report's justification for the 60 % target is that it is a current policy goal in Europe and matches the minimum wages in ``

Its authors declare that there is «no correlation between federal minimum - wage increases and lower employment levels, even in the industries that are most impacted by higher minimum wages.

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.»

This presents an alarming problem should older adults default on these loans — with results like garnished Social Security checks, wages and tax returns.

Others complained that after entering the program, creditors sued successfully and were now garnisheeing their wages.

«Highest Stock Market EVER, best economic numbers in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising, border secure, S.C.: No WH chaos!»

Oroc was eventually reinstated with no loss of wages.

However, couching the discussion in terms of «skills gaps» and rising wages is misguided.

States covet auto assembly plants because they typically pay above - average wages and spin off jobs at suppliers and service companies.

Specifically, it comes against a backdrop of groups such as Fight for $ 15, which has been organizing fast food workers to demand higher wages.

I have yet to see any evidence that labour market imperfections can be blamed for the bulk of rising wages, particularly for professions identified by the report such as «account manager» and «financial planner.»

The U.S. unemployment rate is less than 5 %, borrowing costs are extremely low and wages are rising.

«The crewmembers want and deserve job security, representation and due process in disciplinary cases, improved wages and benefits, and a seat at the table in case of possible merger or acquisition,» said TWU.

The reason why GDI started trending above GDP is the same reason wages have been growing faster than productivity: the surge of commodity prices, and of oil prices in particular, since 2002.

The debate is particularly fraught in the service sector, where fast food workers have organized and protested for higher wages this year.

Meanwhile, «transportation in the U.S. costs the equivalent of less than one yuan ($) per kilometer, while road tolls [in China] are higher,» he added, pointing out that some mid - and small - sized Chinese enterprises have already started moving to Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and Cambodia for cheaper wages and materials.

Thanks to rising health costs, stagnant wages and growing levels of debt — especially the $ 1.4 trillion of student loans borrowers owe — you may need to generate more income just to get by.

Certainly the presidential hopefuls have expended a lot of energy on social issues, but they've also laid out plans on numerous topics critical to small - business owners, primarily in the areas of taxes, health care, wages, and immigration.

Those payments, unlike direct salary, don't have to be reported on your personal tax forms as wages, as long as they qualified as legitimate business expenses, and remained under the IRS's per diem cap rules.

«We saw significant acceleration in IT wages, as employers tried to retain them by paying them more,» says Ahu Yildirmaz, chief economist of ADP Research Institute.

And because the final price of many products that Americans buy is made up mostly of the labor costs associated with production, wages are a very important driving factor of inflation.

As the ability of Unifor and UAW to set industry benchmarks diminished along with the Detroit Three's workforces, though, Toyota began paying wages markedly below union rates in certain U.S. regions, notes Kristin Dziczek, director of the Center for Automotive Research's labour group.

That's only a three percent increase from last year, and more or less in line with general inflation (two percent) and the average increase of workers wages (2.3 percent).

One reason may be because Cambodian companies have been able to position themselves as low - cost, reliable alternatives to Chinese factories, where wages are rising, according to Afshin Molavi, senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

Overall, the correlation between wages and automatability shows a great deal of variability.

Since 2000, wages have been stagnant or in decline for a majority of workers, a trend now accelerated since 2007.