Sentences with phrase «way to labor»

If she has five or more in an hour, chances are she is on her way to labor.

Not exact matches

We thought that the products business would be a way better business to be in than selling labor.»

By promoting craftsmanship training, advancing STEM jobs and identifying new ways to incorporate new technologies for growth and innovation, the construction business can strategically combat the labor shortage and set the industry up for success.

Doing the minimum required by a franchise system is not the way to make big numbers — he recommends doing as much as possible in the beginning, theorizing that if franchisees are scrimping on advertising or labor in the first year just to keep the doors open, they didn't have enough operating capital to begin with.

The «Tupperware party» was a way for women to earn an income after much of the labor market closed to them as soldiers came back from war.

This modern method is often the best — and most inexpensive — way to come up with new ideas, generate content and supplement labor for your business.

As the manufacturing - and - farming economy has given way to an information - and - service economy, the number of Americans making their livings from what economists call contingent labor has soared.

In the emails, Clinton advisers discussed how to frame the candidate's «energy infrastructure» plan, which would call for replacing old pipelines, repairing rail tracks and improving the electric grid in a way that would appeal to labor unions, who had yet to endorse her at that stage.

While the book is stuffed with helpful big picture observations, it doesn't offer much in the way of specific on - the - ground ideas — though Keen does call for reforms to data privacy and gig economy labor laws, and for a serious discussion of a universal basic income.

Sometimes, Uber doesn't get its way, as happened when the California Labor Commission's Office ruled that a driver who had sued the company be treated as an employee as opposed to as an independent contractor.

In the sport of remanufacturing, the fundamentals include such things as using hand tools correctly, watching the labor utilization rate, figuring out better ways to make spare parts.

Although most ardent Australian admirers of that increasingly murderous hellhole joined the Communist Party of Australia, a significant segment of Labor's activist strata also saw Sovietism as the way to go.

«As Secretary of Labor, he will be able to apply his business successes in a way that will benefit all Americans - growing wages and creating opportunity.»

It originally arrived at using super herbs as a way to support people who have been victims of forced labor.

It is emotional labor based on our experiences and the way we see the world (and the way we want others to see the world).

With Millennials practically owning the labor force these days (and into the future), business leaders are constantly looking for new ways to attract and retain these rising professionals.

John Canally, chief economic strategist for LPL Financial, said the language may continue to be used in coming months «as transition words» until «it becomes clear to FOMC members that the overall economy, the labor market, and inflation are well on their way toward hitting the FOMC's targets.»

But President Elect Trump has characterized the program as a way for companies to undercut American wages with cheap foreign labor.

Real estate developers have plenty of ways to avoid taxes, via totally legitimate deductions not available to folks who labor for a company.

To a large degree, Labor's big budget repair plans have stalled, while newcomers on both sides of the aisle find their way around their house on the hill.

If you count only those whose primary way to earn a living comes from a so - called alternative work arrangement, you get to about 15 % of the American labor force.

A 30 hour work week is seen by some as a way to more evenly distribute the shrinking pool of labor among workers, and reduce the potential of automation to increase income inequality.

The stock market opened way down, continuing last Friday's selloff, though it has climbed back since the open — implying the return of volatility — as skittish investors continue to fear the sequence I describe in this AM's WaPo: tight labor market, wage pressures, higher interest rates, inflation, lower profit margins.

The 1 % who profit from a weaker economy, giving up some sales to retain dominance over pliant labor market, and 20 % share of national income, laugh all the way to the Fed Bank

That proposal was controversial because some critics view it as a way for tech companies to simply save money on labor costs by relying on lower - paid workers from overseas.

It would simply mean conceding that Europe does not yet have the institutions needed for the currency union to survive, and that the capital, labor, banking and fiscal frictions that remain in place ensure that the flexibility eliminated by currency union will re-emerge in more destructive ways.

On Labor Day, Scott Gerber, president and founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), hopes to tap into precisely this brand of technology, scale and openness to change the way startup mentorship is done, with the launch of StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program for young entrepreneurs.

The parties who sued the Department of Labor say the way is now clear for the SEC to establish a standard that would cover all financial industries.

Allowing wages to continue to rise should, in the longer run, boost productivity growth because businesses will be incentivized to find ways to improve the productivity of their workers in the face of tighter labor markets and higher labor costs.

Put differently, the only way to reduce debt is to allocate the cost to some sector of the economy, and broadly speaking these sectors are the household sector, the private sector, the state sector, and the various more specialized subsectors within these three — for example households can consist of rich households versus the rest, the state sector can be divided among the central government and the provincial governments, the private sector can consist of SMEs, large corporations, labor - intensive industries, capital - intensive industries, the export sector, etc..

Another way to assess labor market tightness is to look at labor flows — in other words, how workers move between being employed, unemployed (not working, but looking for work), and out of the labor force (neither employed, nor looking for work).4 Figure 11 shows the flow from being employed to unemployed.

I can't possibly work longer hours than I already am, I've been killing myself for years in that department and I'm actually cutting back some to try to preserve my health, but we've been living lean for awhile now and still looking for ways to save, so I'm also looking for ways to increase my income without adding a ton of extra hours and labor.

Valet Anywhere tried to make on - demand parking work for several months in New York, but founder Robert Kao says «there was no way» to charge a customer more money than it cost to pay for labor and the parking space.

We were able to grow our way out of our debt problem after WWII because of the huge increase in labor participation (16 million soldiers came home and women entered the workforce), a world that needed our factories and the Marshall plan which financed our exports.

On the other side, many larger firms were pleased that Labor's final regulation pushed back full compliance to January 2018, one of several ways the department offered concessions in response to industry concerns.

Put another way, it's harder to find labor in the U.S. right now than at any point in recent history.

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, Infosys ranked first with 6,269 H - 1B petitions approved by the government, and Tata ranked second with 6,193... these leading offshore outsourcing firms use the H - 1B program to replace American workers and to facilitate the offshoring of American jobs... they don't use the H - 1B visa as a way to alleviate a shortage of STEM - educated U.S. workers; they use it primarily to cut labor costs.»

Ever since the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other trade groups began filing lawsuits to overturn the Labor Department's fiduciary rule in 2016, legal experts have speculated the issue would ultimately find its way to the Supreme Court.

«The only way to get to 3 percent growth on a sustained basis is faster growth of the labor force or faster growth of productivity.

Way back in 2009 I showed a study that suggested Labor Day week performance has been somewhat dependent on whether the market has rallied over the 20 trading days leading up to it.

They were a way for companies — particularly those involving physically intensive and potentially dangerous labor — to move older people out of the workforce.

Despite the ruling, attorneys note that the Department of Labor has many ways to respond.

There does not seem to be any inherent reason why one generation should buy Treasury securities to be sold later, except to provide a surreptitious way of taxing labor unduly.

Once you've got your income stream set up the way you want it, you will be able to essentially receive the fruits of your labor.

And it will be very difficult for these people» — especially those who acquire criminal records — «to reenter the labor market in any significant way.»

That's great if (1) you want to lie to the government and (2) there is no paper trail otherwise of the financial fruits of your labor so no way to track you (this is why your accountant says number of hours worked doesn't matter.

«We just moved the Vietnamese Communist Party to recognize labor rights in a way that we could never do by bullying them or scaring them,» Obama told me, calling this a key victory in his campaign to replace stick - waving with diplomatic persuasion.

Plaintiffs in the court case that threw out the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule declared «complete victory» against the rule and said the way is now clear for the Securities and Exchange Commission to create a new standard that would apply across financial disciplines.

From 1986 to 1996, these took the form of special tax credits (pre-1986 the tax advantage worked differently but had a similar impact) that were rationalized as a way to help Puerto Rico be competitive with developing countries as a manufacturing location, given that Puerto Rico - based firms need to comply with basic US labor rights and safety standards.

One way to represent this juxtaposition is by noting that labor - compensation's share of GDP fell to 53 % by 2016 from a recent high of 58 % in 2001 while corporate earnings» share of GDP rose to 11 % from 2001 levels of 7 % — illustrating the vast outperformance of financial assets versus the real income gains of the populace.