The boards on which I serve increasingly labor over hiring CEOs that are far more than just brilliant.
The problem with taking an elastic approach to the labor market is that very few professional services firms really know how to manage freelance labor over time.
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Research reveals only a modest evolution in the division of household labor over the past 18 years -- mainly in the realm of child care, with more dads stepping up.
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We, as consumers, have to embrace our own responsibility to the workers who labor over our coveted gadgets by keeping pressure on Apple and its competitors to ensure that they will change their ways.
Consumers were also mixed about the outlook for the labor market over the next six months.
Two mid-sized dams are being built there now, constantly under legal pressure and labor disputes over unfair pay and poor working conditions.
To ensure labor peace over the years, domestic automakers negotiated union contracts that require them to pay workers even if their job has been permanently eliminated.
One may be tempted to draw a similar conclusion from the decline of unionization in the U.S. and the increases in labor regulations over the last 50 years.
At the same time, pending increases in electricity costs and the potential of further labor unrest over the coming months, when wage contracts will be up for renegotiation, as well as uncertainty over mining legislation, have all helped exacerbate an already challenging situation.
Obama pointed out that the private sector added around 2.5 million jobs to the labor market over the last 17 months, but still needs at least six million more to make up for the estimated 8.5 million jobs lost in the 2008 housing and credit crisis.
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Qantas has been embroiled in a bitter labor dispute over pay cuts and job protections that resulted in the airline shutting down earlier this year. (Government officials ordered it back into service.) The year-old airport system required extensive retraining of staff, but didn't result in layoffs, which the union confirms.
More tellingly, the poll gave the coalition government a five-point lead over Labor, and Mr Howard the same lead over Mr Beazley as preferred prime minister.
Over 12 months, we experienced a huge improvement in productivity that lowered labor costs by over 12%.
The National Labor Committee created a media frenzy over the child labor that was used to create Kathie Lee Gifford's Walmart label, effectively ending it.
Over Labor Day weekend 2001 Doan received a new liver at the University of Minnesota.
Bad management needs to be separated from control over labor and capital as fast as possible.
And meanwhile, far from shrinking, the demand for low-skilled labor is growing over time.
Over Labor Day weekend in 2011, 10 people were killed and at least 50 were wounded in incidents citywide.
Moreover, the GOP convention begins over Labor Day weekend, which could diminish viewership.
So even as production of dozens of television shows and films resumes in the coming days and weeks, there's no guarantee Hollywood's labor strife is over.
His main beef was a belief that unions needed to get back to basics by focusing their efforts and resources on building membership, rather than on lobbying Washington over labor law.
We need to restore the bargaining power that labor has lost over the last 30 years, so that ordinary workers as well as superstars have the power to bargain for good wages.
And I think it helped that Gustav had good manners to come over Labor Day weekend, which a lot of folks had plans to leave town anyway and they just accelerated have been pulled out quicker.
There will be a four-performance encore over Labor Day weekend during the Old Threshers Reunion, an annual event that celebrates the agricultural heritage of the Midwest and typically attracts 80, 000 visitors to Mount Pleasant.
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No, it's their parents - the kind of people who drive their Aston Martins over Labor Day weekend to Bridgehampton's Hampton Classic Horse Show, an event that can be traced back to before WWI.
With the first few weeks of the NBA basketball season cancelled and the remainder of the season in jeopardy, franchise owners must wonder if jilted fans will return in the same numbers after the labor dispute is over.
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We can have some people who are really willing to work hard, but if the technology is coming from overseas and all we're competing for is just our labor, then over time those countries will get richer, our countries will get poorer.
Of course this isn't the first time that we've seen rebates drive down computer prices so much -- there was the HP setup that we saw over Labor Day, which included a CRT, and a burner for the same price after rebates too -- but a laptop is something to take stock of.
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