Sentences with phrase «when few workers»

To that end, forward planning became key, and the group scheduled the trapping expedition for a weekend, a time when few workers were present on site.

Not exact matches

A core tenet of employee engagement is that there are few things more motivating to most workers than being heard; it's hard to imagine even the most jaded desk jockey wouldn't feel a little bit chuffed when the person at the top of the org chart looks her in the eyes and asks her what she thinks.

There are concerns that in some cases companies have little incentive to do so when they can access inexpensive labour through the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program, which has expanded dramatically over the past few years.

When he assumed the position last June, he promised to slash costs while raising service levels, and he's moved quickly on both fronts: fewer train crews go to work each day, thousands of workers have already been turfed, and CP's remaining fleet is pulling heavier loads.

When the healthcare workers were charged $ 99 a year for an hour a week of personal training, customers went the first few months but then their usage tended to trail off.

«On our reckoning, since NAFTA's enactment, fewer than 5 % of U.S. workers who have lost jobs from sizable layoffs (such as when large plants close down) can be attributed to rising imports from Mexico,» wrote its authors, PIIE senior fellow Gary Clyde Hufbauer and research analyst Cathleen Cimino - Isaacs.

It's good to be unique, but if few workers want the perks you're offering, they'll be pointless when it comes to keeping people on the job.

After all, at a time when workers are feeling squeezed by stagnating wages — nationally, 42 % of workers earn less than $ 15 an hour — they may see few other options.

Chaplains became free for ministry only when social workers, librarians, physicians, psychologists and other professional personnel became commonplace in our prisons just a few years ago.

The theory is that when economic growth goes far enough, as in a few countries in East Asia, the demand for workers drives wages up without benefit of unions or governmental involvement.

That the race is more to the bottom than the top was perhaps illustrated a few weeks ago when a garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing dozens of workers.

Few Glendal Foods employees had been members of the National Union of Workers (which covers some food manufacturing) until August, when a complaint was made to the union by Ms Nguyen, who also contacted the federal government's Fair Work Ombudsman, which in turn referred her to WorkSafe.

But in the past few weeks the sector took a fresh round of hits when franchise group Aussie Farmers collapsed, RFG announced an $ 88 million loss and flagged up to 200 franchise - run stores would close, while pizza giant Domino's reported disappointing results on the back of franchisees complaining about a brutal business model, and Caltex announced it was ditching its franchise model days before a damning report was released by the workplace regulator that found 76 per cent of its franchised stores had payroll compliance breaches that included underpaying workers.

There are fewer trains running at off - peak hours, when those workers are more likely to use the subway, and the MTA has not kept up with growing ridership between the hours of 5 and 7 a.m., or 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.

When an hourly state worker is shown to have claimed a few extra hours of payment they are removed from their position and forced to make restitution.

Amid the furor over Gov. Paterson's furlough plan this week, few seemed to notice when the state Senate passed a bipartisan measure on Wednesday that would give workers who have been physically, psychologically or economically abused by their employers the ability to sue in civil court.

They found that the synthetic odors mimicked the effect of the presence of a live queen in a nest — fewer workers» ovaries were activated and more regressed when exposed to the odor treatment than in non-odor controls.

At a time when fewer families in Western countries are having meals together, it would be especially opportune now for psycho - social workers to encourage the practice at home — indeed, even make it a priority, the researchers believe.

Two months ago, when clinician Tim Flanigan arrived in Monrovia to help Liberia combat its Ebola epidemic, it took ambulances a few days to respond to calls, dying people were turned away from designated treatment units, health care workers ran short of personal protective equipment, and dead bodies were left in the street.

Aside from radiation, few U.S. organizations have policies regarding pregnant lab workers, which means women are on their own when it comes to worrying about exposure during pregnancy.

No need to do biceps if you have worker super-hard on pullups and no need for triceps when you've done a few sets of dips.

When a queen is dead or dying, and the worker bees (don't get any ideas, guys) need to make a new one, they select a few larvae and feed them royal jelly for the rest of their lives.

They walked through my life for a few years when I was a boy — carpenters, child - care workers, counselors, psychiatric patients.

Teachers are particularly vulnerable at a time when so few private sector workers have union benefits, and when there's so little political will for improving education by spending more on it.

This latest Supreme Court ruling, along with the recent anti-tenure case in California, and Governor Malloy's worst in - the - nation anti-teacher, anti-union initiative in 2012 should remind voters that when it comes to protecting the rights of workers few politicians truly say what they mean and mean what they say.

Referring to difficulties parents had in Philadelphia when the charter schools took over traditional schools, he said, «Students will have to leave and go far away to go to school, and there will be a loss of arts and music education, a loss of skilled cafeteria workers and fewer adults at every campus.»

When Automotive News reported in September 2015 on FCA's plans to shuffle its North American manufacturing footprint, it was believed that excess workers from Warren Truck Assembly would transfer to Sterling Heights Assembly with their product, meaning few new jobs would be required.

When Patricia, a social worker, is assigned to the case of a five - year - old whose mother has died a few days before Christmas, she at first shies...

The transformation of some animal shelters into «warehouses» or cheap sources of animals for use in biomedical experimentation, the acceptance of cruelty to animals as a way of life in our society, and the stress that caring shelter workers suffer when they are forced to euthanize one animal after another, are just a few of the consequences of our society's carelessness.

Few hotels can match these excellent workers when you visit Barcelona.

With a few exceptions, the company I work at (A development company with a lot of workers in a wide swath of ages and gaming make up with approximately 120 employees) couldn't care less because it's just a gaming machine, and most of us prefer good games, and we tend to get into that when speaking about consoles.

There have been a few moments — like when I was standing too close to an open - water gap in the floating sea ice at the North Pole, until a bearlike Russian camp worker pulled me back, explaining in broken English that a tourist had fallen into the 14,300 - foot - deep, 28 - degree water that way the year before.

The administration is probably not too bothered about losing a few million workers to the Big C, when they are doing their best to limit population growth politically.

That big skylight connects workers with the outside and improves working conditions, but one can also see in this photo how few electric lights are on; they are tied to sensors and turn off when there is enough natural light.

When I was in Venezuela a few years back I witnessed office workers sporting the then fashionable down filled gilets and ski jackets when it was 28 to 30 degrees outsWhen I was in Venezuela a few years back I witnessed office workers sporting the then fashionable down filled gilets and ski jackets when it was 28 to 30 degrees outswhen it was 28 to 30 degrees outside.

Luckily, the simple answer to this question is «yes,» but there are a few things you should consider when using virtual workers or legal process outsourcing.

When it comes to workers» compensation there are very few reasons as to why a claim may be denied.

Convincing someone to love a company might be difficult when just a few years ago it laid off thousands of workers.

In following the Fair Credit Reporting Act for Adverse Action Employment, Timing Matters A few years back, when the economy was booming, the challenge for employers in general and HR recruiters specifically was to hire all the workers they needed to fulfill the high demand for their products and services.

The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers Association (NATSIHWA) says the Budget held «few echoes of the urgency» felt from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in February when he revealed the failure to be on track for most targets in the latest Close the Gap report.

Very few mothers were small employers / own account workers when their child was two years old (only 6 %, compared to 13 % of fathers in this class).

Another challenge for general contractors is delivering a quality product when timetables are compressed, there are too few workers, and existing workers are overworked or inexperienced.

With so many (too many) entering into the practice of becoming consumers» advisors in the real estate business, without the requisite practice; without the requisite background; without the requisite self - confidence; without the requisite detachment from the commission income mentality, it is no wonder that people such as: the dishwashers; servers; factory workers; truck / cab drivers; teachers; office workers; in general, the young and middle - aged unemployed who can't get a job anywhere else (high school drop - outs) etc. types of the world (none of whom are to be denigrated for their particular positions in the job market... except when they think that they are qualified to become Realtors after attending a few weeks of classes and memorizing answers to questions about which they have absolutely no hands - on experience with which to tie their memorized answers to), will willingly buy into paying someone else to professionally «augment» their individual «realities» on the internet.