Significantly, the VEBA can begin adjusting workers' health care benefits in 2010, two years sooner than the previous contract allowed.
If jobs can be saved, the state and city should work hard to find ways to adjust workers' benefits.
Labor costs went down, as high unemployment led to lower worker turnover and gave restaurant owners greater ability to adjust worker schedules and hours.
Subsequent analyses stratified by worker location then resulted in no trend for surface workers, a clear trend for UG workers, and a nonsignificant trend for the complete cohort when adjusted for worker location.
Therefore numerous subsequent analyses adjusted for worker location were undertaken.
The primary differences are that HRs are adjusted for worker location, age, race and sex and the referent group are all eligible members of the cohort, while the referent group in the calculation of crude ORs is comprised of 562 randomly selected controls matched by mining facility, sex, age and race.
Forecasts on the report vary widely, Mr. Fine noted, and after adjusting for workers returning from a strike against Verizon Communications and a reduction in temporary census workers, the predicted range runs from a tepid rise of 130,000 to a strong gain of 325,000.
It also makes it harder for real wages to adjust, since workers rarely get cuts in nominal pay.
The production of two different types of pheromones by the larvae, gives a powerful signal to adjust all workers for colony tasks, especially larval care.
The association between psychiatric sickness absence and mortality risk was attenuated after adjusting for workers' marital status and health behaviors, but it remained statistically significant for suicide and for death from other causes.
