Employer Quotations

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

I can be the most skilled person in the world, but if everyone else at my firm lacks skills, my employer is going to find it more difficult to introduce new technology, new production techniques. So as a result, my employer is going to be less productive. They will not be able to afford to pay me as good wages.

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bank being big. In fact, there are some good arguments about universality of geography that in theory, if you have all your eggs in one little community, and some big employer goes out, that could be your downfall.

Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money.

The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.

When we think about the workplace, people think about hard skills being dominant, but they're not. The employer realizes knowledge will shift quickly, and there's a half-life to knowledge in this world.

You can learn what you want to learn through hard work. And a good employer will teach you what you want to learn as long as you show the right attitude and behaviors.

Make your employer feel truthfully that you are sincere with him; that you are going to promote his interest; that you are going to stand for the things which he represents; that you are proud of being a member of his staff, and there is nothing that will reap you a richer reward. Loyalty above all!

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered.

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

In Australia, a deaf person attending an interview must take their own interpreter at their own expense, or ask the employer to provide one. Believe me, nothing says 'I'm the best person for this job' quite like asking an employer to pay to interview you.

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.

Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades.

I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.

Whatever you may be thinking when you apply for a job today, you can be sure the employer is asking this: Can this person add value every hour, every day - more than a worker in India, a robot or a computer? Can he or she help my company adapt by not only doing the job today but also reinventing the job for tomorrow?

You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.

The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for contraception or any other kind of procedure if the employer had a 'moral' objection to it.

We are pleased to have received such broad support from the employer community. No one payer can implement this program alone and not only employers, but health plans have recognized that this is an important investment to make.

We are also very interested in her ideas on immigration and her concept of possible employer sanctions. The Arizona Chamber is supporting measures to help small businesses comply with confusing federal immigration rules. We are opposed to new state-level sanctions that would further complicate the bewildering mess of current immigration laws.

The reforms should recognize that employer prejudice is a key obstacle in the way of many claimants moving back to work.

We're actually a major employer within the community,

We've said pretty consistently we would be willing to accept a responsible form of an individual mandate if it was also paired with a clear employer responsibility. It seems from what we are hearing that both elements are there.

Senior executives may find themselves facing decisions other pre-retirees don't need to consider. For instance, they may have a large portion of their net worth invested in employer stock and still feel strong ties to that employer. And for former executives who have a great deal of their net worth tied up in stock options, this can pose a dilemma: how can they balance their need to diversify with their desire to maintain involvement with the company and benefit from its future success?

She saw herself and her employer recognized her.

She cannot go back to work because of the way her employer treated her. She has had no paycheck for the last five years because they chose to keep on a supervisor who hit his employee.

More important is, Is the employer contributing what the required annual contribution is?

No employer who seeks to exploit people, who seeks to use John Howard's laws to cut take-home pay and conditions will be without attention.

Right now it's against the law for an employer to allow a family member to take an hour off on Friday afternoon to see his daughter get an award at the high school and make up that hour on Monday,

Retirees who cancel their employer coverage and take the new federal benefit may not be able to go back if they later realize they've made a mistake.

People will have trouble keeping a job, or even getting a job if their genetic information gets to an insurer, a potential employer or even an employer,

One of the most important factors in collective bargaining is establishing that the employer can afford the union's demands. The hotel industry will have a hard time making a case that it can't.

One of the most frustrating -- even humiliating -- things that can happen to job seekers is not to hear one word back from the potential employer after an in-person interview. And it seems to be happening a lot these days.

If they choose XYZ Boiler Room, the employer is on the hook,

I am thrilled to be kicking off the year with the addition of advanced skills testing services to our Employer Services offering. This latest product expansion continues to solidify the depth and breadth of our services package for human resources professionals worldwide.

I feel some of the City Council has lost the concept that they are the employer and the city manager is the employee.

If at the end of the week's work, and on receiving his wages, he were to ask his employer for a larger sum, pleading that, though he could not justly claim it and did not really deserve it, yet he expected it, he would not only receive the larger sum but would, doubtless, be discharged from his post. Yet in spiritual things men do not think it to be either foolish or selfish to ask for these blessings

If an employer is serious about attracting and retaining talent, about making Wisconsin the kind of place they can do business over the long haul, they've got to understand that the ability for all people to feel welcome is absolutely critical.

If an employee is misbehaving, an employer can establish rules to stop that. If they're not qualified for the job, you don't have to hire them.

If the funding level is continuing to decline over time and the employer is not making its annual contribution, that is bad. If the state is addressing the need, that gives you more comfort.

There is no duty in the state of South Carolina for any employer to do a criminal background check.

We take great pride in this recognition, since being a top employer for scientists is a strategic goal to enable Abbott to foster innovation and remain competitive.

We are extremely focused on being the employer of choice in our markets and our new, on-site pharmacy fits in well with our company philosophy, ... The three primary goals of our on-site pharmacy are to lower the company's rising healthcare costs, pass some savings on to our associates and provide our associates with the convenience of handling their pharmaceutical needs during their work day. We view CHD Meridian Healthcare as a valuable partner in this new venture to not only provide high quality pharmacy services for our associates but to also provide us with direction to help alleviate the healthcare expenditure pains that both we as a company and our associates have been facing.

For men, unless it's a pretty casual affair, it's usually best to leave the shorts at home. And while there are many nice dress sandals for men, most of them don't go with business casual or formal attire. Of course, you can always check with your employer about the dress-code policies to see if dress sandals are OK to wear.

When they lost their jobs, they lost everything, ... income, benefits, friends, reputation, and sometimes even family. Their years of work didn't deliver what they thought the organization had promised. They'd had an unwritten social compact with their employer that if they did their job well, they could keep it until retirement.

We have to be able to prove the employer knowingly hired someone who is not authorized to work.

Know the market, know what other people are offering for your job position. Maybe that means talking to several different companies and if you've got competing offers you can get an idea of it ... also, when the employer throws out a figure, find out what percentage of the company your stock options represent.

I would try to talk to your employer and see if they would change the investments, ... You might as well try if the choices stink or the offerings are really expensive.

I would think they would be less likely to have employer contributions.

It is a grave concern that an employer would stoop so low as to illegally eavesdrop on their staff during negotiations for collective agreements.

I think we're going to get there soon, not eventually. The major reason is, most people agree that employer support for health insurance is just not going to continue.

I think that it is an excellent school, but it ought also to be a model for how to conduct employee relations, between an employer and an employee, and I don't think that it does that,

Overcoming employer resistance to hiring long-term IB claimants may require greater use of direct financial incentives to employers, such as the offer of recruitment subsidies or low cost work trials for claimants.

Overall, the U.S. labor market is off to a very solid start in 2006 as strong business fundamentals continue to boost employer demand for workers, creating more job opportunities and driving the unemployment rate down to well below 5 percent. Demand for workers in the U.S. remains elevated at the outset of the year, while the online migration of help-wanted advertising continues at a rapid pace. The Index's findings for February clearly indicate greater confidence among employers throughout much of the country, largely due to the underlying strength of the economy. This is encouraging news for job seekers and bodes well for this year's class of college graduates as they begin their search for employment.

Over 600 Indian companies have opened their offices in U.K. and have secured the second highest number of jobs by a foreign employer in the U.K.

Some of the leverage has moved from the employer to the employee.

Some of the largest promotions come from quitting one employer and moving on and up with another employer,

I think from what he used to tell us, he always wanted to be on the police force. We saw each other quite often (when Hyder was young), and it was kind of a strange happenstance that I ended up kind of being his employer when I became a trustee.

I was off from work for a year and a half, and then, my employer cut off my workers' comp benefits. Being disabled, no one wanted to give me a job, so I started my own business.

My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens.

You can buy almost anything. When your employer gives you the window, he's doing a good job. It offers more diversification.

We'll continue to have a major presence and impact here. These latest asset decisions are aimed at strengthening our ability to continue to succeed in the global market, which is critical to our future as a major employer here in Puget Sound.

We're calling on the Legislature to quickly pass the health care reform proposal now pending at the State House, with an employer responsibility provision. By putting a floor under employer health expenditures, the employer responsibility provisions halt the race to the bottom that leaves workers with no coverage and raises health care costs for everyone.

We're currently in multi-employer plans. We want it to be a single employer plan. It would be administered by both the Teamsters and UPS and our people would get the benefit of the dollars we're spending for their pensions and it would be a much more secure pension for them,

Wages are flat or falling. Health care costs for families with employer coverage shot up 79 percent from 1996 to 2003. Imagine the hit on families struggling to make it without job-based coverage.

You have no right . . . to ask a worker whether he or she belongs to the trade union movement or which trade union. That is a person's fundamental right . . . and it is a United Nations basic and fundamental human right. No employer has any right to ask a worker about it.

We didn't put that pressure on Carl because we didn't want him overdriving, ... We didn't want him to think his employer thought he should be able to do it. But he thought he should be able to do it, his team thought he should do it, we believed he could do it, and he did it.

The question is if we do collect a lot of genetic material from people ... are you going to see those people then injured when their health provider or employer uses that information to take away opportunities. At the moment, in the United States particularly, those protections are not in place at a federal level.

We do a lot of mock interviews and also employer panels.

We demand that Fidelity, as a major employer use its powers to bring back the employers to the negotiating table.

The experience with past employer (tax) credits is they're not particularly effective,

We permit recruiters to come on campus as just another employer in a sense. We don't restrict access to campus.

Those with retiree health benefits should ask their former employer or union for advice.

When combined with the anticipated double-digit gains in employer health-care costs, manufacturers may find it very difficult to add to their payrolls next year and may opt to work their existing work forces longer.

We think the New Jersey law is too broad and may have unintended consequences, making coverage for those who are part of employer groups more expensive.

We've decided to isolate Hilton because they are the most recalcitrant and belligerent employer in the industry.

Too much of the debate over immigration reform has ignored one of the greatest threats to our privacy. The proposed employer verification system would require Americans, regardless of citizenship, to get a 'permission slip to work' from the government. If Congress wants to reform immigration, then it should, but it shouldn't use this legislation as a clandestine means to subvert our constitutional right to privacy.

When you look at the people who say they don't plan to enroll, it's mainly because they already have coverage. They have coverage through a former employer or through a Medicare health plan, and that's just great.

Without focusing on employer sanctions, you're just whistling Dixie .

We've opened it up for general membership to nominate each other or their employers. We left it pretty broad -- anything an employer did to support a member's activities with ISA or anything an ISA member did to promote ISA to mentor new people in the Society.

We're the single largest private employer (in Orleans Parish), ... What does it say if the single largest employer doesn't get up?

We're talking about people in their 30s wanting to take a sabbatical and see the world, go back to school, fix up a house or have a baby. The attraction that 401(k) accounts will have for people who can't touch them until they're in their 60s won't be as strong as the attraction of an employer participation program where employees can access those funds earlier in their lives. They'll want to make some of their dreams come true earlier rather than later.

You cannot design a healthcare consumerism program with a cookie-cutter approach. There are many variables an employer needs to consider when planning a healthcare program, including employee demographics, number of locations, company culture and the presence of chronic conditions in their workforce. Understanding these variables is critical to making healthcare consumerism work.

We've had very cooperative relationship with PMA up until six years ago. There has been an amazing boom in trade between the West Coast and Asia and it was accomplished with relative labor peace, with both employer and union prospering.

Those that have retiree health benefits have good reason to stay on top of this issue. Even if an employer decided to keep coverage for 2006, it's likely they will revisit these decisions in 2007 and beyond.

This was the largest employer in the community for decades.

The public service sets the pace for what happens with every other employer in their practices, procedures and the pay,

We feel our hospital is the employer of choice in Beaufort County, even in the entire region. Still, in this environment, you've got to do anything you can to properly and effectively recruit. It takes skill.

We wanted a look that better represented the use of technology in Cecil County public schools. We are the largest employer in the county and we went for a look that represents that.

Beneficiaries should be hearing from their former employer or union this fall about their coverage options.

Everyone wants to solve the problem. Certainly the employer community is right there -- the employer community is paying the bill of having the highest healthcare costs in the country. But let's not make a mistake that will endanger local employers.

Every person and company, including every employer and employee, is required by law to fulfill promises that it makes to another person, so long as that other recipient of the promise has reasonably relied on that promise.

Engagement is an emotional issue. If workers are not appreciated by their superiors and co-workers, the emotional bonds holding them to the employer weaken. They become much more receptive to other employment opportunities where they will be valued.

Employer sanctions can be a very efficient tool if enforced. The problem is the way the law reads, it's basically a joke. It basically gives employers a huge loophole to walk through.

Employees need to understand the organizational challenges an employer has. By understanding these challenges and the changes in the workplace, an employee can take responsibility for the impact he or she has on that workplace.

Even if an employer offers coverage for dependents, most people in Humboldt County have to pay for it. It's unaffordable for a family that has to pay for rent, groceries, sneakers. Paying $100, $150 or $200 a month is way beyond the realm of possibility.

There should be no disruption with the contracts with current CHA employer groups and the providers in their network.

Is it the employer who controls whether an employee gets to take comp time or overtime or the employee? ... When unions hear 'flexibility' they hear employers (not workers) get the flexibility to schedule the work.

The whole idea with employer equity in these plans is when times are good, everybody loves it, but when times are bad, they hate it.

These rigid percentage caps on stock create all kinds of problems. You're discouraging employer matching, and you're imposing rules on how individuals should invest their money.

The strike began last Friday at 8 a.m. after the employer refused to remove demands for concessions during contract talks for a new collective agreement.