Today, Haitians provide cheap labor in the Dominican Republic, a trend that has caused resentment on both sides, not unlike the illegal immigration debate in the United States.
To be sure, a precious few do both, but they often have a partner who stays home or they can pay someone else to provide domestic labor and child care while they put in long hours at the office.
The most direct way to provide more labor mobility, including within a company, is to allow individuals waiting for green cards in the United States (often in H-1B status) to apply for adjustment of status even when a visa number is not yet available.
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Markets are evolving and dynamic, allowing businesses to combine capital with labor to provide goods and services for consumers.
New forecasts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics may provide clues about the fastest-growing fields this decade.
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Rising costs change the way retailers not only price their products, but they also change the way some source materials, labor, or provide services.
With national unemployment already at 6.1%, a reduction in the potential labor force might provide some relief to communities hit particularly hard by the downturn.
Even so, China must complement its ability to provide large, cheap pools of labor by strengthening its ability to design products that compete in global markets.
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Despite pressures on attendance and sponsorships in recent years, the sports industry can bank on the resiliency of television money and labor peace (the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball recently signed long term labor deals) to provide a steady backbone throughout the industry, Fitch thinks.
Finally, he knew that the growing fascination with statistics would provide him with the key component: cheap labor.
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The expanded information is mandated by a new Labor Department requirement that plan sponsors provide increased transparency on costs.
U.S. labor laws are not applicable to provide protection to crew members at sea, nor is there any real oversight of the cruise lines' operations.
The community colleges provide a very good asset that we work with labor in our communities to train people.
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In his view, a cluster of cultural prejudices have steered many potential tradesmen into college, and then toward stultifying office jobs, which provide less satisfaction and less security than skilled manual labor, and sometimes less money.
Some grandparents who provide regular care for their grandchildren regard it as a labor of love and don't want to be paid.
The eventual death of these companies could help provide other startups and companies with talent in the tight labor market, the report says.
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If the employer won't provide it, contact the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration for help.
Putting all those measures together can provide a picture of trends that are developing over time, even if a single report can't provide a precise assessment in a particular month of the overall labor market.
The law, which amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, requires an employer to provide a reasonable break time for a woman to express breast milk for her nursing child.
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The Labor Ministry is known to slap companies for slave labor conditions whenever a company or its outsourcing partner does not provide adequate equipment for its staffers.
It was hoped the ADP employment report on Thursday would provide that relief, and would be a positive precursor for the important Labor Department employment report on Friday.
Nigerians are increasingly questioning the police and military response, one that relies more on labor-intensive check points rather than intelligence operations that could provide tips on weapons or the composition of the group.
The labor deal also increased the amount of money high-revenue teams provide low-revenue teams.
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We provide unemployment insurance, which protects us against unexpected job loss and facilitates the labor mobility that makes our economy so dynamic.
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And together with Labor Secretary Solis and my Auto Task Force, Ed will help provide support to auto workers and their families, and open up opportunity to manufacturing communities in Michigan and Ohio and Indiana and every other state that relies on the auto industry.
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Central to the U.S. pension problem is the fact that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, charged with protection of investors in the securities markets, has seldom provided advice specifically for protection of participants in pensions and the U.S. Department of Labor lacks sufficient understanding of the securities and asset management industries to provide guidance to sponsors of and participants in pensions.
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We provide what's needed to do the program ... their contribution is the labor.
They provide decent light at significant energy savings and because they last longer will also save millions in labor costs as it takes fewer people to screw in fewer lightbulbs.
Outlined Monday by Gore economic policy adviser Laura Tyson, the organization would provide nations with a permanent forum similar to the World Trade Organization (WTO) or the International Labor Organization (ILO) to tackle cross-border disputes that affect the health of forests, oceans and endangered species.
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