Sentence examples for worker savings from inspiring English sources

Worker savings remain "modest," and less than half of workers appear to be taking basic steps needed to prepare for retirement, the survey found.

The accumulation of capital assets is encouraged under a plan whereby workers below a certain earning level who agree to pay into a longer-term savings agreement, such as a home-savings contract, are given a "worker savings grant" by the state.

But such plans are dwindling — in 2017, only 16percentt of Fortune 500 companies offered a defined benefit plan (traditional or hybrid) to new hires, down from 59percentt among the same employers in 1998, according to Willis Towers Watson — as employers have shifted to investment-based retirement accounts funded largely with worker savings.

The firm discounts a certain amount from the worker's labor income and invests it in a worker savings fund.

Ultimately, in order to address the disappearance of the middle class, the U.S. may have to examine ways to further incentivize companies to grant shares - like ESOPs and restricted stock -- and other approaches such as diversified dividend and investment funds such as the Alaska Permanent Fund that are separate from the workplace and also not based on worker savings or wage contributions.

Critics of the program say that employers who pay for their workers' insurance would be unlikely to put all the premiums saved into the workers' savings accounts and that many workers would take a chance and end up with thousands of dollars of medical bills they could not afford.

Some employers are offsetting their lower insurance premiums by contributing some money into workers' savings plans.

At present, China's banks shovel workers' savings into state-owned enterprises, depriving workers of spending power and private companies of capital.

In addition to slim bonuses this year, the value of workers' savings in company stocks has plummeted at nearly every company on Wall Street.

One in five increased the percentage of money they set aside each year, but Vanguard figures that much of that was because many employers automatically increase workers' savings rates each year by raising their 401(k) contribution.

That's because many company pension schemes and stakeholder plans switch workers' savings into less volatile investments such as UK gilts and corporate bonds as they approach retirement, to protect them from stock market falls – a process called "lifestyling".