Therefore, cost of labour may be taken at 50 per cent.

Part of the attraction is the low cost of labour.

His priorities were capital acquisitions and inheritance taxes and reducing the high cost of labour.

This ranges from the cost of labour to the cost of babysitters, to the cost of houses.

What they desire is only to be obtained at the cost of labour, patience, and many disappointments.

The gold producer has called for a restructuring of gold mine operations and that could come at the cost of labour.

And in his last Budget, Brown put employers' National Insurance contributions back up again, increasing the cost of labour and discouraging job creation.

Crowd working is driving down the cost of labour and is one reason that average earnings growth in the UK is so weak.

The bigger question is whether Hollande will pull off the promised spending cuts at all, while making the cost of labour tangibly cheaper.

Business cited the cost of labour as the most rapidly rising expense last year in the Chambers Ireland SME business confidence survey, published yesterday.

That was once done by hand, but with the cost of labour rising, it's now done by machines that are typically made in Switzerland.

But these are also supply-side-friendly reforms, because they reduce the cost of labour and, by getting people into employment, facilitate the transmission of productivity-enhancing skills.

Mr Mirza claims he was informed the cost of labour to run the store would be between 21 to 30 per cent of sales.

But nobody was interested in their 16-page dossier about the cost of Labour's manifesto promises.

It runs North West close, but can't beat the low costs of labour and materials.

But with costs of labour and manufacturing going up and sales going down, businesses are struggling to make ends meet.