Sentence examples for workforces employed from inspiring English sources

Moreover, groups like the Hardwood Federation continue to support the Act because it protects endangered forests and keeps reputable companies competitive, and their workforces employed, by stopping the imports of companies that use ill-gotten woods.

Like most modern cities, Amsterdam is a service centre, with only about one-tenth of its workforce employed in manufacturing.

This means large-scale redundancies among the 600,000 people (12.4% of the workforce) employed by the state.

Its third Congressional district has the highest proportion of the workforce employed in manufacturing of any district in the country.

The percentage of the workforce employed in energy has fallen since the mid-1980s, but not by much.

Her reign actually ended with more of the workforce employed in the public sector than now - 23.1% as opposed to around 20% now.

The share of the workforce employed in agriculture nearly halved, from around 70% at the beginning of the 1980s to 35% more recently.

As many as 850 jobs are feared to be at risk out of the 1,300-strong 1,300-strongployed by the US-based firm at Erskine.

When you're on staff, in the workforce, employed, one of the team, even "unemployed" you are alive — and likely to stay that way for many years.

These enjoyed their heyday between 1951 and 1975, when mechanical exports rose 20-fold and the workforce employed in the industries doubled.

With official unemployment at around 18%, and more than half the workforce employed in the informal economy, life for the poor the president's main allies is increasingly grim.