We think consumption growth will weaken now due to a softer labor environment, the first serious downturn in labor conditions since the 2001 recession.
This downward revision to guidance speaks to the still very challenging labor market environment.
The UN Global Compact seeks to align businesses operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption.
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The Obama administration supports moving ahead with those agreements, provided they adhere to certain standards, particularly on labor and the environment.
It's not a race to the bottom, but rather it says each country is abiding by everything from strong rules around labor and the environment to intellectual property protection.
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Yet, often of late, the fundamental question is indeed the acceptance of a market economy amid globalization, with all that means for taxes, capital and labor, the environment and the welfare state.
Therefore, strong labor demand in an environment of falling growth and productivity translates into falling profits and margin compression.
It has groundbreaking protections for labor rights, the environment and intellectual property -- so that trade is free and fair.
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The main areas of focus included business costs, labor supply, regulatory environment, current economic climate, growth prospects and quality of life.
From now on the United States will try to make its trade partners guarantee workers the right to organize and ban child labor, and prohibit forced labor and protect the environment.
Rising costs, higher incomes for Chinese labor and an increasingly competitive international business environment will pressure the big corporations in China again this year.
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The firm also joined the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (Sedex), a web-based platform and registry where companies report on CSR-related initiatives around business and labor practices, health and safety, and the environment.
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Lower prices, higher wages, better health insurance and a clean environment can attract enterprise, capital and skilled labor from places that lack them.
But creating such a neighborhood in Las Vegas allows them to get the built environment they want while retaining the cost and labor market advantages of Nevada.
High (and seemingly unending) personal and corporate tax rates are a major reason California gets a failing grade, but it also has to do with an overly-burdensome regulatory environment, which includes policies on health and safety, environmental, employment and labor.
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Some of the lower-skilled workers who would lose out in a higher-entry-wage environment might be absorbed, off the books, by the cash-in-hand labor market.
CareerCast used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau and trade associations, and measured five criteria: pay, outlook, work environment, stress and physical demands.
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