Sentence examples for inability of workers from inspiring English sources

The non-payment of wages, confiscation of documents and inability of workers to leave their employer constitute forced labour under UN rules.

One of the problems of the economy in the past decade has been the inability of workers to negotiate real wage increases.

Although many hotels in Acapulco were undamaged, some began rationing food and other provisions because of power failures and the inability of workers or trucks to get through flooded streets on the outskirts to supply them.

The obligation to repay these debts, combined with the non-payment of wages, confiscation of documents and inability of workers to leave their place of work, constitute forced labour, a form of modern-day slavery estimated to affect up to 21 million people across the globe.

Some officials argued that the high unemployment rate might have structural causes: mismatches between the jobs that are available and the skills needed to perform them, an inability of workers to relocate because their mortgages are greater than the value of their homes, and the effects of extended unemployment benefits.

In markets further removed from perfect competition (i.e., those with few employers, little information about other jobs, or large inability of workers to change jobs), ε l,w →0 and monopsony power over wages increase.

Likewise, the reluctance or inability of older workers to retire has led to less attrition and fewer opportunities for workers to move up a rung and make room for new workers at the bottom of the corporate ladder.

The program was further hampered last year by an inability of I.N.S. workers to conduct on-site interviews in some countries because of security concerns.

Currently, the inability of unemployed workers to sell their homes also impedes the effective functioning of the labor market -- and the federal government should deal with this problem, too.

They favor the bill's requirement that companies warn employees 30 days before freezing trading in their 401(k) retirement plan accounts -- a proposal made in response to the inability of Enron workers to sell shares during several weeks last fall when the company's stock was in free fall.

A strong disposition in theory and practice relates to the fact that numerous situations of difficult control activities on the maintenance workforce are associated with the inability of the workers to appreciate maintenance as an income-earning function and not as bottomless-pit-of-expenses.