Quotes About Employment

Earned sick leave gives workers a lot more confidence and adds to their participation in the economy.

New Yorkers would be shocked to learn of the conditions some construction workers in our city toil under.

We may not be able to make working at the airport stress-free, but we can at least give these workers the security of knowing they will be paid their due.

From teaching, the NHS and social care, to cleaning and building, the U.K. economy depends heavily on E.U. workers. Under a Canada-style deal for the U.K./E.U., the ability for E.U. workers to live and work freely in the U.K. would stop.

A strong economy begins with a strong, well-educated workforce.

Apprenticeship is a proven model for developing a skilled workforce.

Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

Zero-hours contracts are a low proportion of the workforce; they provide a route into employment and flexibility for staff. They benefit business, consumers, and taxpayers by keeping costs down, and they boost productivity, allowing the efficient use of labour.

Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, while increasing productivity, will also cause major upheavals to the workforce.

I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

We have a workforce crisis across the NHS with around 100,000 vacancies.

Zero-hours contracts offer an entry point for people who are either new to the workforce or have commitments that make it hard to work full-time.

France needs to improve training and education and the level of skills of its workforce.

To promote youth employment through policy solutions, President Trump has placed a very high priority on workforce training, providing young people and other workers with new skills to prepare for new jobs in our evolving economy.

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

We must recognize housing policy is workforce policy.

If you can't handle some of the basic stuff that's become a problem in the workforce today, then you don't belong in the workforce.

There are a number of people who are not in the workforce who have given up looking for jobs, and that's the real economic crisis in America.

When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

We know that veterans have valuable skills and experiences that are highly sought after in today's workforce.

There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences of having these jobs, they'd drop out of the workforce. There are only two problems with this strategy: First, someone has to pay for it; second, it is not the recipe for human fulfillment.

The workforce is getting Uberized. The gig economy is taking over the world. Independent-contractor jobs are the new normal.

Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.