A quarter of older
workers say they plan to never retire.
About 56 % of
workers say they plan to use their tax refund to pay off credit card debt and other bills, according to a CareerBuilder survey.
According to a study done by the Employee Benefit Research Institute in March 2010, 9 % of all American
workers said they plan to retire before the age of 60 while 31 % had already left the workforce before their 50s.
Not exact matches
Ford (f) has repeatedly
said it has no
plans to close any U.S. plants and likely could not do so under the terms of the current United Auto
Workers contract that expires in 2019.
«Then write down a
plan ahead of time that works for you and practice what to
say and what to do with your
workers like a fire drill.»
At benefits company Stride Health, which sells and manages healthcare benefits to «gig»
workers like Uber drivers, CEO Noah Lang
said that he would want to be sure that the replacement
plan has tax credits available to people as they need them, rather than at the end of the year only.
«There's a recognition by a lot of the provinces that a lot of people are going to retire with inadequate pensions and they're going to have to do something about it,»
said president Ken Georgetti, adding that
workers his group spoke to supported a provincial pension
plan.
In fact, far from retreating from the education front, Barton
says the council is working now on another set of skills - related recommendations — looking especially at mid-career «re-skilling» of
workers who must adapt to technological change — for the third and final report it
plans to deliver in November.
The technology giant
said Monday that it
plans to open a so - called transparency center in Beijing intended for government tech
workers to test and analyze Microsoft products for security.
HOUSTON, April 10 - U.S. shale oil producer Devon Energy Corp
said on Tuesday it would lay off 300
workers, roughly 9 percent of staff, part of a
plan to streamline its operations.
Workers» representatives in Geneva reacted angrily to the restructuring
plan,
saying that 100 fixed jobs and 43 temporary jobs would be lost.
Turkey suspects the U.S. of having helped to
plan the failed coup of President Erdogan in 2016 and claims it is now protecting Turks who were involved; The U.S.
says Turkey has flouted due process in its arrest of the embassy
worker and that there is no evidence of U.S. involvement in the coup.
More importantly, 23 percent
said they
plan to add
workers, a decrease of three percentage points from the first quarter; 9 percent
said they
planned to scale back on the number of
workers they have, an increase of two percentage points.
SEOUL, March 27 - General Motors
said its loss - making South Korean operations would file for bankruptcy if its union did not agree to cut labor costs by April 20, heaping pressure on
workers and the South Korean government to swiftly agree a rescue
plan.
Lower - paid employees qualified for subsidies, while higher - paid
workers could afford
plans or went on their spouses»
plans, he
said.
Citigroup on Monday
said it
plans to raise wages to address pay inequality among its female and minority
workers.
«This is a revolutionary change, and the biggest winners will be the everyday American
workers as jobs start pouring into our country, as companies start competing for American labor, and as wages start going up,» Trump
said Wednesday after he announced the
plan.
«While many companies focus on training to onboard new employees, failing to implement a continuous growth and education
plan can lead to stagnant
workers,»
says Nguyen.
During the Democratic debate on Tuesday night, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
said she had a
plan to get corporations to share more of their profits with
workers.
Among the things that such firms must make determinations about and document, Plakans
says, is if they qualify as exempt employers, whether their
workers are considered full - time employees, and if so, whether the
plans they offer adhere to the cost formulas prescribed by the government.
«We are a startup and our hiring needs are ad hoc, and that makes it very difficult for us to
plan ahead,» Aitharaju
says, adding that he's competing not just with other startups, but much larger companies with entire divisions devoted to applying for H - 1B visas for
workers.
When
workers have unpredictable schedules, they can't
plan ahead to accommodate activities like school,
said Gleason.
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.
Workers at Amazon «s main distribution hub in Italy are
planning their first ever strike for Friday, trade unions
said, while they are also striking at six warehouses in Germany, threatening to disrupt one of the year's busiest shopping days.
Research released by Michigan State University in October revealed that 37 percent of 5,700 employers surveyed
said they
plan to increase salaries of entry - level
workers 3 percent to 5 percent next year.
But when PwC commissioned a study of its millennial
workers, the results were clear, Donovan
says: This new generation of
workers wanted to work differently, and they weren't
planning to wait around for things to change.
To prepare for this shift in 3D printing, one that will see more companies using additive manufacturing, especially with metals, to manufacture end - use parts, companies are staffing up, training new
workers, and buying more 3D printing machines, SDM's report shows that 73 % of the 700 respondents to SDM's survey
said their companies
plan to increase their in - house production of additively manufactured parts, a trend more pronounced in the aerospace and medical industries.
Just 20 percent
said they
plan to add
workers over the coming two years.
In a tight labor market, creating a climate attractive to older
workers is essential,
says Lydia Greene, chief human resources officer for Tufts Health
Plan.
Dave Stafford, who heads human resources for the company,
says last year, it had to
plan around losing most of a lab team made up entirely of older
workers.
In fact, more employers with 50 or more full - time equivalent
workers who offer coverage
say they shifted or
plan to shift
workers» hours from part - time to full - time status to make them eligible for health benefits (7 %) than
say they shifted or
plan to shift
workers from full - time to part - time status to make them ineligible (2 %).
• 40 % of
workers say they spent eight hours or more
planning for the holidays this past year, while only 34 % spent that much time
planning for retirement.
However, one survey found that about half of retirees
said they retired earlier than
planned due to health problems, changes at their workplace, or other factors, suggesting that many
workers may be overestimating their future retirement income and savings.
• Of those
workers who
say that they and their spouses have a retirement
plan, such as a 401 (k) 403 (b), pension or IRA, 35 %
say they've tucked away at least $ 100,000.
Twenty - six percent of employers
said they
plan to hire minimum wage
workers this year.
Brandon addressed
workers at the company's headquarters in Wayne, New Jersey, laying out
plans for an orderly shutdown of the business, the person
said.
«So you're
saying to the steel
worker that in order to pay this lucrative defined benefit
plan, we're going to raise your taxes?
The e-commerce giant has
said it
plans to invest as much as $ 5 billion in the project and to hire up to 50,000
workers, most earning high salaries.
Dauman's
plan for a turnaround in advertising sales and an increase in movie production will put the company on better footing, the CEO
said in a memo to Viacom
workers.
In February, the company
said it
planned to hire 80,000
workers nationwide for spring, which it called «the company's busiest selling season.»
Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council,
says that Canadian
workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution
plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.
(Reuters)- J.C. Penney Co Inc (JCP.N)
plans to hire about 35,000 temporary
workers for the coming holiday season, roughly the same level as in 2011, before it changed its pricing strategy and did away with most coupons and sales events, a spokeswoman
said on Tuesday.
In his ruling, Rhodes
said that settlement, which was key in winning the support for the
plan from Detroit's two retirement systems and scores of city
workers and retirees, «borders on miraculous.»
Straehla
said Cobra
planned to send about 500
workers to Puerto Rico in the coming days.
«The Mayors» Council
plan not only quickly improves transit service with 25 % more buses, it will give those driving to work or school the option to leave the car at home and take transit, which is better for our environment,» McGarrigle
said, adding that the BC Federation of Labour, representing over 500,000 unionized
workers across the province, unanimously supported a resolution Unifor Local 111 introduced to endorse a Yes in the referendum.
Many employers are reluctant to suggest higher default contribution rates due to a concern that their
workers might blindly accept what is not in their best interest, or that they might get intimidated and opt out of the
plan altogether,»
says Dr. Shlomo Benartzi, senior academic advisor to the Voya Behavioral Finance Institute for Innovation.
Toys R Us, which
plans to hire more than 12,000 part - time
workers despite filing for bankruptcy last week,
says it will pay weekend rates during peak holiday times and will offer additional employee discounts this year.
Case in point: Eighty - five percent of executives surveyed
said they
plan to increase their organization's use of independent freelance
workers over the next year.
This week, Western Forest Products
said it's closing that very same mill, and she's not willing to go back and explain to those
workers what the
plan is for them.»
BEIJING (AP)-- More than 10,000
workers at a state - owned machinery manufacturer in southern China are protesting low wages and company
plans to lay off thousands of staff after posting losses for three years, employees
said Wednesday.