Sentences with phrase «years in the labor»

«It was also very expensive — about $ 450,000 year in labor and diesel fuel.

In her other life, Judy is an RN, and has worked for 25 years in Labor and Delivery, and the last 4 years as the Charge Nurse in the Ob / Gyn Department at Kaiser Permanente.

The business council has estimated that New York businesses will spend up to $ 15 billion more per year in labor costs once a $ 15 minimum wage is fully implemented.

DeFrancisco predicted last week that the state Senate would not pass a $ 15 minimum wage because it would cost businesses an extra $ 10 billion a year in labor costs.

After spending many years in a labor camp in the rural fields of China, he was considered «rehabilitated.»

The redshirted individual will ultimately spend one less year in the labor force and forgo the returns of an extra year of experience throughout his working life.

Assuming that, as research seems to indicate, being redshirted has no net long - term impacts on skill level, we can estimate the cost of losing that year in the labor force for a college - educated male who retires at age 67.

Forgoing a year in the labor force is much costlier for a college graduate than a high - school dropout because the college graduate has more lucrative job opportunities.

According to data from the comparable year in a Labor Department survey, an average full - time employee works 1,932 hours a year spread out over 48 weeks (excluding two weeks vacation and federal holidays).

The two Current TV journalists arrested for trespassing in North Korea have been found guilty and sentenced to 12 years in labor camp.

TOKYO, June 4 — Facing perhaps 10 years in a labor camp, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, TV reporters accused of illegally entering North Korea and committing unspecified «hostile acts,» were scheduled to go on trial Thursday afternoon in Pyongyang in a case that has become part of a nail - biting face - off between North Korea and much of the rest of the world.

Achievements: Created new organizational as well as filing practices which saved the company approximately $ 3,000 every year in labor expenses it would have normally contracted for this job.

Not exact matches

That business suffered badly last year and in early 2015 because of labor strife at West Coast ports from Seattle to San Diego.

Last year, Huajian found itself entangled in labor and human rights controversies that made global headlines but attracted little attention in China's official media.

On Thursday, the U.S. Labor Department announced that the number of new jobless claims had hit its lowest mark in five and a half years, down 19,000 to 326,000.

Claims had fallen to 229,000 in the prior week, near a 44-1/2 - year low, and remain well below the 300,000 level generally regarded as signaling a healthy labor market.

WA Labor is operating a cash - for - access Leaders» Forum — which charges wealthy company bosses about $ 25,000 a year for private meetings with the Premier and his ministers and is a carbon copy of a secretive Liberal Party fundraising venture slammed by Mark McGowan when he was in Opposition.

The French government is to unveil final details of proposed labor reforms Thursday in what is seen as a key plank of President Emmanuel Macron's political and economic strategy for the next five years.

Twenty years later, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in 2012 alone there were over 17,000 U.S. mass layoff events.

The number of job openings in the U.S. hit a seven - year high in April, reflecting a labor market drawing strength from the nation's economic recovery.

Of the people identified as victims of modern slavery in Britain last year, 139 were Polish nationals brought over for labor exploitation with West Midlands Police currently investigating 70 claims of human trafficking from Poland.

Robots and automation are priorities in China, where salaries have increased more than 100 percent over the last 10 years while the national labor force has been shrinking.

He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»

The Labor Department said on Thursday that the claims data for Maine and Colorado were estimated, while claims - taking procedures in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands had still not returned to normal after being devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria last year.

«The unexpectedly swift decline in the unemployment rate in recent years has in large part been attributed to a drop in the labor force participation rate.

The percentage of American workers represented by unions has dropped from 23.3 percent in 1983 to 12.5 percent last year, according to the Labor Department.

«True, there are encouraging signs of economic recovery in those advanced economies most affected by the global financial crisis which erupted in 2008... [but] the report finds that those economic improvements will not be sufficient to absorb the major labor market imbalances that built up in recent years.»

For the five years prior to that, they labored on a related ride - sharing startup, Zimride, but sold off the campus - centric business to Enterprise in 2013.

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.

Earlier this year, in Australia, a Chinese billionaire reportedly threatened to withdraw an AUD$ 400,000 donation to the opposition Labor party after an Australian official took a hard line against the Chinese military's activities in the South China Sea.

The latest U.S. proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional value threshold as well as new labor content rules requiring substantial work at hourly wages of at least $ 16.

Ahead of the Fed's announcement, the Labor Department released its latest reading of the Consumer Price Index, which rose 0.5 % in November from a year earlier.

Since the Department of Labor finalized its fiduciary rule (now in limbo) last year, annuity sales have fallen dramatically as brokerage firms and advisors anticipate that the products may not pass muster under a tighter regulatory standard.

In private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decadIn private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decadin the first half of the decade.

Premier Colin Barnett has softened his position on the proposed privatisation of Western Power, saying it could be used by Labor as a scare campaign in the state election next year.

Comparing state - by - state flight searches for travel over the end - of - summer holiday to last year's Labor Day searches, Kayak's data crunchers found that online searchers in Michigan, Oregon and Tennessee have been checking out vacations in the U.K. — now more affordable thanks to a deep swoon in the British pound.

During the Super Bowl earlier this year, the American Petroleum Institute (API) launched an ad geared toward Millennials, who now make up the largest generation in the U.S. labor force.

U.S. stocks closed mostly lower on Friday after data showed the labor market experienced its first contraction in seven years.

This weekend, and in particular Sunday night's race (the Bojangles» Southern 500 airs Sunday at 6 p.m. ET on NBCSN) marks the third year of NASCAR Throwback Weekend, an idea hatched in 2015 by track officials to commemorate the race's return to its traditional Labor Day slot on the NASCAR calendar.

Earlier this month, it was revealed the number of applications for H - 1B visas — a similar, coveted program for companies to onboard specialized foreign labor — declined for the second year in a row, as the administration moves to streamline the program.

At $ 22,000 each — less than the price of a minivan — it could easily pay for itself in months, saving a company $ 30,000 a year or more in labor costs per robot.

According to U.S. Department of Labor statistics, female participation in the workforce was less than 40 percent in 1960 but is predicted to reach 62 percent by the year 2015.

The Partnership for a New American Economy estimates that labor shortages in agriculture cost the American economy about $ 3.1 billion a year.

That's why corporations started outsourcing labor to foreign countries a decade ago, and while they'll begin in - sourcing work to robots over the next 10 years.

For Chromalloy, Foster was the right deal at the right time — a certified public accountant who, for several summers during his college years, had labored as one of the gang in a Cleveland foundry and later served briefly as its controller.

In March 2016, Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years hard labor after allegedly trying to steal a political slogan from a hotel.

A 14 - year low on jobless claims reinforced expectations that slack in the labor market was being reduced.

«The (Fed policy - setting) committee needs to make policy choices that will lead to more great years like 2014,» Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota said in remarks prepared for delivery in Helena, Montana, citing the dramatic improvement in the U.S. labor market last year.

That thinking — markedly boosted by the carnage of the Great War, which was sparked in Sarajevo by a 19 - year old Bosnian student assassin, not a capitalist — made Labor a honey - pot for all forms of pacifism.

«Faster economic growth over most of the past year has tightened labor and product markets and helped to boost prices at a faster pace,» David Berson, chief economist at Nationwide, said in a note.