Sentences with phrase «domestic worker protection»

Before serving in the Assembly, as Chief of Staff for then - City Councilmember and current Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Brian negotiated enactment of several significant new laws, including the Domestic Worker Protection Act, promoting the rights of housekeepers and caregivers, and laws to foster the use of technology to make government more accessible and efficient.

Not exact matches

On Monday, the Philippine Senate ratified the Domestic Workers Convention, launching into effect new levels of labor protection and working conditions for millions of Philippine wWorkers Convention, launching into effect new levels of labor protection and working conditions for millions of Philippine workersworkers.

They range from statewide proposals like environmental protections to more local topics, like fighting the MS - 13 gang on Long Island, and also include promises to take away gun rights from domestic abusers, criminalize «revenge porn» and «sextortion,» invest further in his program to revitalize local downtown areas, and reevaluate the lower minimum wage allowed for workers who regularly receive tips.

Early this morning, dozens of domestic workers and their allies set up shop outside City Hall, participating in a 24 - hour vigil to lobby for a bill that would provide basic labor protections for domestic workers in New York.

The agenda, five months in the making, includes bills that call for the creation of a task force to assess the city university system's affordability, admissions and graduation rates, a report on the use of long - acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices, sexual assault awareness and prevention training for cab drivers, a street co-naming for the original Ms. Magazine headquarters and expanding the definition of employer under the human rights law to offer protections for domestic workers.

With the International Labour Organization's (ILO) International Labour Conference currently taking place in Geneva from June 1 to June 17, with the agenda including an item entitled «Decent work for domestic workers», there are hopes that a Convention supplemented by a Recommendation will be adopted to afford what is seen as urgently - needed protection to domestic workers (see the ILO website for more... [more]

When it comes to protections for unionization, Domestic Workers working in private homes are explicitly excluded from the Labour Relations Act and collective bargaining units made up of one person are not permitted.

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These include statutes such as the California Equal Pay Act, the Wage Theft Protection Act of 2011, and the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, which pertain to issues involving work hours and wages, including meal periods, rest breaks, overtime, and minimum wage.

The parenting project takes account of this tension through extensive consultation with the police, child protection workers, duty counsel, defence counsel, child protection lawyers and the service agencies assisting in the parenting education; this consultation goes far beyond the examination allowing accused persons admission to the domestic early intervention program [4].

However, human dignity is not western, eastern, northern nor southern; it's not Christian nor non-Christian, as absurd as this may appear, such a Convention as the one proposed by the ILO to protect domestic workers is rooted in the protection of human dignity and that's a «human thing».

Since June 15, 2010, the Ontario Occupational Health and safety Act violence and harassment prevention provisions (Bill 168) require an employer to take all reasonable precautions in the circumstances for the protection of all employees if a domestic violence situation is likely to expose a worker to physical injury in the workplace and the employer becomes aware or ought reasonably to be aware of the situation.

32.0.4 If an employer becomes aware, or ought reasonably to be aware, that domestic violence that would likely expose a worker to physical injury may occur in the workplace, the employer shall take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of the worker.

The main thrust of her appeal was that in the light of the incorporation of the Convention into domestic law, by virtue of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) coming into force in October 2000, a local authority may owe a duty of care to a parent of a child when exercising, through social workers, its duties to protect children from their parents by placing the children on the child protection register.

My past experience includes employment as a domestic violence counselor and advocate, a child protection worker, a targeted case manager and an in home therapist for children at risk for out of home placement.

Report in The Guardian by Patrick Butler based upon analysis of our advice service data which reveals an explosion in calls from families needing advice because their children are subject to child protection inquiries by social workers due to domestic abuse.

I also met with and conducted training sessions for workers and managers within the Family Court of Australia, Family and Youth Services, SA's statutory child protection system, the Police, Attorney - General's Department, a magistrate from Adelaide's Domestic Violence Court, domestic violence services, community health services, family services, anDomestic Violence Court, domestic violence services, community health services, family services, andomestic violence services, community health services, family services, and so on.