The big employers are the regional press, magazines, local advertising sales.

Those companies are not the big employers in small towns around the country.

New York City, Stamford and New Jersey's Jersey City compete for big employers with incentive packages.

Importantly, confidence among small firms was the highest since 1992, and they are big employers in Japan.

Still, a high Australian dollar and intense foreign competition is pressuring manufacturing and retail, both big employers.

Indian software giants Infosys Ltd and Wipro were among the big employers to stay shut on Tuesday.

Starting in 2014, big employers such as Darden will be required to provide health insurance to full-time workers.

The financiers, who stood at the back of the big employers, had had enough of the whole affair.

Tourism, hospitality, the age-care sector and forestry were also big employers and contributors to the economy, Mr Kerslake said.

And instinctively they feared the big employers more than the journeymen, and were shy of entering the Union with them.

There is nothing in the submission that would not be expected from an organisation that represents the state's big employers.

Banks are big employers: the four largest employed 1.5 million people at the end of June.

Those two industries are big employers and so the capital investment data is not a totally definitive picture of the economy.

In virus-hit Seattle, big employers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google all have urged or allowed staff to work remotely.

Financial Engines is working with big employers to provide an impartial tool that helps workers choose wisely among different 401(k) packages.

Labour has clashed with big employers over plans to stop companies hiring tens of thousands of foreign workers through agencies at cheap rates.