Sentences with phrase «workers lose their jobs»

One day after a reported 100 workers lost their jobs at the Ellendale diamond mine, Kimberley Diamonds has announced the mine has been closed and its subsidiary Kimberley Diamond Company placed in voluntary administration.

Even if one worker loses a job because of a robot, that's better than 40 workers losing their jobs if a warehouse gets closed, she explained.

There's no way to track how many workers lost their jobs as a result, but in recent years, factories in Europe and Mexico laid off thousands of steelworkers.

Mass poverty became common and many workers lost their jobs and were forced to live in shanty towns.

Recessions mean that more workers lose their jobs, and -LSB-...]

If Europe hits American goods like bourbon and motorcycles with huge tariffs, it could decrease demand for those products and lead to US workers losing their jobs.

While textile companies saved on their bottom lines by relocating operations to China, millions of workers lost their jobs in America.

Workers lost jobs and stockholders were left with worthless shares.

Employees who refuse to work on their sabbath have been the principal beneficiaries of this rule (in another case a worker lost his job in a brass mill because he refused to help manufacture tank turrets) The Oregon courts followed these cases and awarded unemployment compensation to Smith and Black.

But when workers lose their jobs, health care, homes etc They are considered lazy and not taking responsibility for themselves?

From the Marxist point of view, the 1930's depression was also caused by increased productivity: at one hand, machine churned out much more stuff than before, at the other hand, workers lost their jobs because machines did better job.

After months of haggling over Depew's future, weighing potential tax savings against the prospect of 170 village workers losing their jobs and how government services would be impacted, voters decided they wanted Erie County's second - largest village to live on.

So George Osborne's programme does lead to more public sector workers losing their jobs but only by 30,000 over the entire time period.

In the meantime, the governor says, it won't really be his fault if 3500 workers lose their jobs.

Last month the last GE incandescent light bulb factory in America closed its doors in West Virginia and 200 workers lost their jobs.

And when millions of workers lose their jobs, political tensions are exacerbated.

Millions of workers lose their jobs.

Some audacious proposals have been floated for the U.S. government to simply buy out the entire coal mining industry, shut it down over a number of years and develop a program with transition payments, relocation assistance and job - training for workers losing their jobs.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.bls.gov) 50,000 American workers lose their jobs each day of the year.

At one point, the unemployment rate in the city was 24 percent and when area workers lost their jobs their homes turned to rental units.

The unemployment rate rose to 6.5 % in October from 4.4 % a year earlier, and 1.2 million workers lost jobs in the first 10 months of 2008, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Not exact matches

While a lower unemployment rate is certainly better than a higher one, the rate doesn't capture workers who've quit looking for a job, part - time workers who wish to work full - time, or workers who've experienced a significant wage reduction in a new job after they lost their old one.

For injuries sustained on the job, workers» comp covers medical expenses, lost income, and rehabilitation.

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.

When it was over (the workers won severance and vacation pay but still lost their jobs), the cameras drifted away, leaving the plant for dead.

Unlike workplace flexible - spending accounts, HSAs don't have a «use - it - or - lose - it» rule and are «portable,» meaning workers who are no longer covered by HSA - eligible health plans because of job changes can continue to tap existing HSAs to pay for qualified medical expenses.

During the 2015 blizzard that hit much of the northeast, workers at businesses that stayed open risked losing their jobs if they decided to stay away from work because of government travel warnings.

An ongoing legacy of the financial crisis is that millions of workers have lost their jobs and are still lacking fulltime employment.

Those expected to lose jobs would be disproportionately teenage workers, who earn the least, the CBO says.

According to Young's Supreme Court petition, her manager told her that UPS offered light duty to workers who sustained on - the - job injuries, employees with ailments covered by the Americans With Disabilities Act, and those who had lost Department of Transportation certification because of physical aliments like sleep apnea; not — the manager said — to pregnant workers.

A whopping $ 300 billion in worker income and 9 million jobs lost.

Workers» representatives in Geneva reacted angrily to the restructuring plan, saying that 100 fixed jobs and 43 temporary jobs would be lost.

And now, we learn that of those 730 workers saved, many will eventually lose their jobs to automation once the plant is upgraded.

Workers inside the factory say they are owed two months of back pay and were afraid of losing their jobs, according to news reports.

In January, it purchased the manufacturing assets of a bankrupt Pennsylvania factory and then rehired many of the 150 workers who lost their jobs.

But the president has long railed against US companies that hire and produce their goods abroad, touching on the concerns of American workers who have lost their jobs in manufacturing.

Second, if firings are low, workers are presumably less worried about losing their jobs, which implies a decline in precautionary savings.

(Quick recap: The ideology is that trade and overseas manufacturing is bad for American workers who've lost jobs as other countries — namely China — have become exporters.)

LONDON — When two huge brands decide to merge, the focus is usually on whether prices will go up and whether workers will lose jobs.

People are afraid to lose their jobs, which stymies many workers from speaking out.

Many workers wonder whether they will lose their job to a robot.

WORKERS may be hiding back injuries from their employers for fear of losing their jobs, says Curtin University of Technology physiotherapy school senior ergonomics lecturer Leon Straker.

«A worker might be reluctant to report the tool as being lost over fear of losing their job.»

«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.

The hardest hit would be low - skilled workers like high school dropouts who lose their jobs or hours and have a big struggle to find something else, he said.

Specifically, nearly 134,000 workers would lose jobs, most of whom are less - skilled.

«Right now, you have a steel worker, maybe from the south side of Chicago here... He lost his job, he lost his health care, he got 30 cents on the dollar for his pension.

We also find that expectations inform behavior in other contexts: for instance, workers who express a higher perceived chance of losing their current job over the next twelve months also search harder for a new job and exhibit a drop in spending plans relative to the present over the same time horizon.

Starting a trade war might be cathartic for workers who have lost jobs, but it is unlikely to create a lot of factory work.

«This suggests that employment prospects for some workers in higher - wage occupations are boosted by minimum wage increases, consistent with a story in which some jobs are lost to automation, while others are created.