Sentences with phrase «workers in»

The most recent ADP payroll report, for instance, saw businesses with fewer than 50 employees add 84,000 workers in June, or 45 percent of the 188,000 total private - sector jobs added in the month.

Confused about how to count your seasonal workers in determining your business's size?

Some recent examples of companies using VR technology include Farmers Insurance, which is using Facebook's Oculus Rift headsets to train its claims adjusters and PG&E, which also uses the Rift headset to help train workers in inspecting electrical equipment.

I don't mean harming or killing in the same way that policemen and women are harmed or killed in the line of duty, obviously, or people who handle hazardous chemicals, or aid workers in war - torn countries.

They include Apple (which relies on China for a quarter of its iPhone sales but also indirectly employs hundreds of thousands of workers in China through its contract manufacturer, Foxxcon).

The New Democratic Party has proposed reinstating the minimum wage for workers in federally regulated industries and increasing it to $ 15 by «the end of our first term in office» (presumably 2019).

By 2001, more than 21 % of workers in the sector were foreign - born.

Canadian immigration lawyers have reportedly seen an influx in interest from non-citizen tech workers in the U.S. Meanwhile, a company named TrueNorth has been set up to help businesses move employees potentially affected by any H - 1B visa changes over to Vancouver.

But the practice hasn't necessarily been great for native - born workers in the country's IT sector.

But these measures are less attractive because these American targets, vulnerable as they are, all employ large numbers of workers in China.

A bevvy of recent lawsuits assert that some companies have improperly classified workers in order to keep their costs down.

For example, canceling orders of Boeing aircraft (China accounts for nearly 12 percent of Boeing's sales in 2015) will have no adverse impact since Boeing employs few workers in China and Beijing can buy from Airbus.

DuPont has already said it will cut 1,700 workers in its home state of Delaware ahead of the deal.

In 2008, a Thai research team surveyed 2,000 office workers in 54 Bangkok workplaces and found that fully 63 % of them with at least one year of experience on the job were experiencing some kind of musculoskeletal pain.

Additionally, they would like to create a path to citizenship to keep more of these workers in the U.S. after the term of their visas expires.

That's one recent insight from a study looking at the impact of so - called green roofs — such as the nine - acre one Facebook is installing at its headquarters — not on the environment (which they definitely benefit) but on workers in the vicinity.

A mathematician concluded that over the five decades, male U.S. workers in their forties should have bulked up from 76.9 kilograms on average to 89.7, just through the changes in their work situations.

But headset prices must drop first, he says, and the technology must improve so workers in virtual reality don't get seasick.

Pools of active workers in advanced economies are shrinking because aging populations are adding more retirees than new labourers.

Workers in major cities like New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Atlanta walked out on their jobs that day, arguing for a $ 15.00 minimum wage.

Unions advocate card checks because it allows them to sign up workers in secret and then surprise firms with a fait accompli.

While 43 percent of U.S. workers in a 2013 Willis study said they were planning to push back their planned retirement date, only 32 percent said the same in the newest survey, which could reflect the improving economy, Nyce said.

While the CFIB doesn't like employers being required to enrol their workers in PRPPs, it's a preferable option to Big CPP.

Nearly a third of older workers in the NORC study said they have brushed up their skills through job training or school during the last half decade, which could provide an income boost and help in finding late - career work.

The media has hailed it «the largest protest by low - wage workers in US history.»

For example, if you have workers overseas that receive 30 vacation days, while workers in the United States receive 15, your employees may resent the international contingent, which may strain communication between the two groups.

And, he says, Hunter and his army of retail investors did nothing that hasn't been repeatedly done by investment bankers, bondholders and hedge funds during other CCAAs, such as the restructuring of Hamilton steelmaker Stelco, where self - serving parties threatened the future of thousands of workers in order to turn a profit after buying voting power from scared creditors.

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

Barnes & Noble is trimming its staff, laying off lead cashiers, digital leads and other experienced workers in a company - wide clearing, CNBC has learned from sources familiar with the matter.

Now workers in Shake Shack's New York City locations have a starting hourly wage of $ 12.50, which is 50 cents more than the city's fast food minimum wage of $ 12.

«There are companies that try to use brute force to solve these issues, such as employing hundreds of low cost, low quality workers in developing countries to look at each product image and annotate the details.

You know the system is in serious trouble when such despondency is coming from workers in their twenties and thirties.

The GMB union, which represents workers in the retail sector, expressed indignation.

Guru.com's proposition holds that free agents (or «gurus,» as the company likes to refer to them), who lack the community and other trappings afforded workers in traditional office settings, will glom on to a site where they can create an alternative to the watercooler.

The increase in freelance, independent and temporary work leads to these types of workers in need of space to work.

Schultz has found the most effective method of importing labour is to bring foreign workers in on temporary work permits and then use the provincial nominee program to convert them to permanent residents.

The two unions represent over 300,000 workers in industries that run the gamut of Canada's economy, from carmaking to fisheries, phones, TV stations, casinos, retailers, life insurance, even freelance writers.

More concerning is that according to Dr. Cialdini, these workers in an enduring dishonest work culture have little allegiance.

This influx of skilled alternative energy workers in Alberta supports the growth of alternative energy products and businesses.

Class action lawsuits filed by current and former Chipotle workers in Colorado and Minnesota accuse the burrito chain of making employees work extra hours without pay, reports CNN.

What's more, the pay - equity model also factors in workers in the same job categories and analyzes the wages to make sure there is no major difference between genders.

On Feb. 1, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed a controversial right - to - work law prohibiting workers in union shops from being forced to pay union dues — less than 48 hours before Electro - Motive announced the closure of the London plant, its jobs expected to move to the Hoosier state.

«Minister Kenney has now banned the use of temporary foreign workers in food services,» McGowan said Friday.

For instance, whereas many consumer - products companies would employ rank - and - file workers in sales and marketing, Baker has farmed out most of those functions to brokers and outside strategists.

This presents a quandary for smaller companies — in particular, tech firms — which have struggled to find enough qualified workers in the U.S. to fill their needs.

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) president Mohammad Atiqul Islam said there were 3,122 workers in the factories on Wednesday.

One of the issues raised by China Labor Watch is that workers in the factories lacked a mechanism by which to lodge complaints.

RingCentral and CITE Research recently surveyed 2,000 knowledge workers in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia to shed light on this conundrum.

Demonstrators stand outside of the Li Fung tower in Hong Kong as they protest over what they say are unpaid wages owed to textile workers in Turkey by Li and Fung and garment brand Esprit.

Last year, three executives of a Chinese railway construction company were killed in a terrorist shooting in Mali, and in 2014 a series of kidnappings and attacks targeted Chinese workers in Nigeria, Zambia and Cameroon.