Sentences with phrase «labor committee hearing»

Doug Volland was among those who took the day off from work to testify at the six - hour Labor Committee hearing on Senate Bill 216.

In a related event in Albany on Thursday, a parade of business and restaurant officials and owners testified before the Republican - controlled state Senate Labor Committee hearing on the recent Fast Food Wage Board convened by Cuomo, bashing it as largely one - sided political stunt designed to appease progressive advocates.

It has helped shape laws in several other states and will be discussed at a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on the subject.

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After being introduced in the Washington Senate, it was referred to the Senate Commerce, Labor, and Sports Committee, which held a public hearing on January 25, 2017.

Gottlieb made the statements at a confirmation hearing last Wednesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

At 11 a.m., the Assembly Committees on Social Services, Codes and Labor and the Puerto Rican / Hispanic Task Force hold a joint oversight hearing on services for victims of human trafficking, Legislative Office Building, Roosevelt Hearing Room C, hearing on services for victims of human trafficking, Legislative Office Building, Roosevelt Hearing Room C, Hearing Room C, Albany.

The Connecticut General Assembly's Labor Committee held a public hearing on Tuesday to address Governor Daniel Malloy's proposed minimum wage hike.

At 11 a.m., the Senate Labor and Social Services committees hold a joint public hearing examining ways to address issues affecting families in the workforce, on the agenda: paid family leave, childcare subsidies, facilities enrollment, and dependant care tax credits, Hearing Room A, LOB, hearing examining ways to address issues affecting families in the workforce, on the agenda: paid family leave, childcare subsidies, facilities enrollment, and dependant care tax credits, Hearing Room A, LOB, Hearing Room A, LOB, Albany.

Cuomo did not send any representatives to the hearing, something Labor Committee Chair Martins said was regrettable.

ALBANY, NY (07/25/2012)(readMedia)-- Today, Mario Cilento, president of the 2.5 million member New York State AFL - CIO, provided testimony to a joint hearing of the New York State Assembly Committees on Labor, Energy, and Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions to examine the protocols established by Con Ed to ensure public safety and delivery of services.

Leadership announced committee hearings on public protection, mental hygiene, higher education, general government, environment and housing, transportation, economic development, human services / labor, and education all to take place throughout the day on Wednesday.

At 10 a.m., the Senate Labor Committee holds a hearing on «prompt pay reforms» for the state's construction industry, Legislative Office Building, Hearing Room A, 198 State St., hearing on «prompt pay reforms» for the state's construction industry, Legislative Office Building, Hearing Room A, 198 State St., Hearing Room A, 198 State St., Albany.

Also at 11 a.m., the Assembly Committee on Labor and Commission on Skills Development and Career Education hold a joint public meeting on pre-apprenticeship and work preparation programs in New York state, Hamilton Hearing Room B, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, Albany.

N.Y. State Sen. Jack Martins, R - Mineola, speaks during a Senate Standing Committee labor hearing on the Fast Food Wage Board in 2015 in Albany, N.Y.

«In the City Council, we do a fair and balanced hearing,» said Councilman James Sanders (D - Laurelton), chairman of the Committee on Civil Service and Labor.

The General Assembly's Labor and Public Employees Committee heard testimony Tuesday in favor of the bill this week.

At 11 a.m., the Senate standing committee on Labor holds hearing to examine the overall process of the Fast Food Wage Board of 2015, Van Buren Hearing Room A, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, hearing to examine the overall process of the Fast Food Wage Board of 2015, Van Buren Hearing Room A, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, Hearing Room A, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, Albany.

Some of the hearings, which will be headed by Senate Labor Committee Chairman Jack Martins (R - Nassau County), could take place before the new legislative session kicks off in January.

I plan to attend, but do not wish to testify at the hearing on March 5th March 12, 2010 Bronxville hearing 4:00 - 7:00 PM Education, Labor and Family Assistance Public Protection and General Government Please respond by Friday, March 5th: E-mail to: [email protected] Or fax to: [phone] I would like to testify at the hearing on March 12th (The committee will accommodate as many witnesses as possible.)

At 1 p.m. the Committee on Civil Service and Labor will meet to hear a series of new bills that would require successive employers of buildings to retain workers for a transitional time period and extend protections for displaced building service workers to food service workers.

At the State Legislature on Monday: The Assembly Committees on Health, Aging, and Labor, and the Task Force on People with Disabilities, will meet at 11 a.m. to conduct a public hearing to «examine the growing need for home care and personal care, and to examine the obstacles to recruiting, employing, and retaining an adequate home care workforce.»

And the Labor Committee that he chairs — for a stipend of $ 14,000 — held just one announced hearing all year.

In the coming months, the Council will hold committee hearings and subsequently vote on the matter — the full Council approval of the project, in whatever exact form it is finalized, will likely occur around Labor Day.

Councilmen Jumaane Williams of Brooklyn and Dan Garodnick of Manhattan questioned officials from labor relations director Bob Linn's office, the Department of Education and Small Business Services on a variety of issues during an education committee hearing.

Jorgensen said Friday he had no data readily available to support his bill, but that his staff would have facts and figures prepared in time for the bill's scheduled public hearing Wednesday by the Assembly Committee on Labor.

Democrats say that the issue will likely dominate Azar's confirmation hearing Wednesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee.

As if to illustrate that point, Representative George Miller (D — CA), who chaired the 30 April hearing and represents the congressional district just north of Berkeley, commented that «as chairman of the [House] Education [and Labor] Committee and chair of the Democratic Policy Committee, I meet all of the time with leaders from the research - university community.»

In response to the agreement, Representative George Miller (D — CA), chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee who held a hearing in April on the then - stalled talks, issued a statement criticizing the «unnecessary delays that blocked a first contract for far too long,» adding that those delays were «outrageous and needed to end,» and that «it was clear that [UC] caused» the delays.

At the 3 - hour - long Senate hearing — which, in an unusual move, was jointly held by an appropriations subcommittee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions — topics ranged from financing the effort to the need for a greater sense of urgency, public health and scientific issues, and personal experiences.

The Democratic Presidential candidate's testimony was the highlight of the hearing before the Labor and Human Resources Committee.

Heather Weiss, founder and director of Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, was one of five witnesses to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor at the June 11 hearing on House Resolution 243, Education Begins at Home Act (EBAH).

On February 8, Lecturer Paul Reville testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions at a hearing on No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) reauthorization and strategies that promote school improvement.

Last week, the House Committee on Education and Labor held a hearing on the topic of what the federal government can and should do to make the distribution of effective teachers more equitable.

The House Education and Labor Committee began hearings last week on a similar measure.

Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill on January 17, 2017, at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

On Wednesday, January 21 at 9:30 am, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will hold a hearing on Fixing No Child Left Behind: Testing and Accountability.

The Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources» Subcommittee on Disability Policy last week held its third hearing on the upcoming reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

As Congress gears up for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, questions from key lawmakers last week at the first hearing on the subject by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee gave a sense of their priorities.

That matter was the first order of business in the new Congress for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, which devoted three days of hearings to it last week.

HR 1 The House Education and Labor Committee last week continued its hearings on the proposed «civil rights act of 1991.»

At a hearing on the issue last week, Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), was clearly sympathetic to arguments by several witnesses that Congress should keep the testing mandate but dump the rules that prescribe how states must hold schools accountable for test results.

The agency's November 2007 guidelines outlining humanitarian concerns to be addressed during raids «are not being followed in a consistent fashion,» said Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey, a Democrat from California and the chairwoman of the workforce protections subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee, who presided over a hearing this morning about how raids by the agency known...

On April 15, Professor Thomas Kane testified before the Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions as part of the fourth hearing on the Elementary Secondary Education Act's Reauthorization.

Members of the National Education Association circulated in the halls of Congress on Sept. 10 while the House Education and Labor Committee held a six - hour hearing on the panel's draft of a bill to reauthorize the 5 1/2 - year - old education law.

Professor Thomas Hehir testified today before the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor hearing on expanding access to quality charter schools.

Priscilla Little, associate director of the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) at HGSE, was one of four witnesses invited to testify at the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education hearing, After School Programs: How the Bush Administration's Budget Impacts Children and Families, for the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor on March 11.

As Senators of the Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee debated federal education policy at an abbreviated hearing Wednesday morning, two coalitions of education and civil rights groups released letters poking holes in the bill while the nation's two largest teachers» unions released notes containing partial endorsements.

On January 11 at 10:00 am the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee will begin a hearing on the nomination of Betsy DeVos to serve as Secretary of Education.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held a hearing on state innovation under ESSA.

Education Secretary Confirmation Hearing Betsy DeVos testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on her nomination for secretary of education in the Trump administration.