Sentence examples for workers worth from inspiring English sources

How much is the sacking of tens of thousands of workers worth?

Ver.di, which is seeking rises of around 6% for its members in retailing, has so far won a deal for wholesale workers, worth a total of 5.1% spread over this year and next.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration issued a final rule on Wednesday that gives employers greater leeway to use employee wellness programs, with financial rewards and penalties for workers worth up to 50 percent of the premium as an incentive to exercise, quit smoking, lose weight, eat more healthful food and lower cholesterol and blood pressure.

Q: That is like 30,000 workers' worth of office space.

Like most forecasts right now, Moody's assumes that the payroll tax holiday -- a 2% wage boost for most workers worth over $100 billion/year -- will be continued next year.

Employers still need to be persuaded that older workers are worth holding on to.

In most industries, the process of figuring out what workers are worth is pretty simple: the free market decides.

But within the government, claims one study, workers are worth only a quarter of what they get paid.Similarly, in the education sector, 30 years spent keeping pace with soaring student numbers has taken a heavy toll on standards.

Wages next door may be only a quarter of what they are in Austria, but he reckons his workers are worth the money, and his unit labour costs are still dropping.

For that system to genuinely change, Foxconn, its competitors and their clients — which include Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and the world's other large electronics firms — must convince consumers in America and elsewhere that improving factories to benefit workers is worth the higher prices of goods.

Murray said the £3bn Royal Mail privatisation plan, which will allow postal workers shares worth 10% of the company, was "a blatant attempt to spare the blushes of the chancellor and the prime minister and their failing economic plan that will borrow £245bn more than anticipated".