Sentences with phrase «workers program make»

And abuses in the Temporary Foreign Workers program make even McJobs far less available to them.

Not exact matches

Unpaid internships depress wages by creating a pool of workers willing to work for free — and for no benefits, making them akin to the labourers brought to Canada under the much - maligned temporary foreign worker program.

As well, ineligible firms can make themselves eligible for the program by firing workers and cutting salaries, giving them a $ 2200 tax credit they would not have otherwise receive.

The Trump administration has also taken steps to make it harder for American companies to hire skilled foreign workers through the H - 1B visa program.

The Trump Administration Tightens Rules in Worker Visa Program, Making It Harder for Businesses to Hire Foreign Employees

«Let me be clear: the Temporary Foreign Worker program must always and only ever be a last and limited resort for employers who have made every possible effort to hire and train Canadians but can't find them for available jobs,» Kenney said.

Kenney announced the moratorium on the food service industry Thursday night, after the controversial program made headlines yet again over allegations of misuse of the temporary workers at three McDonald's franchises in Victoria and a pizza restaurant in Weyburn, Sask.

The skills - focused platform recently launched a scholarship in partnership with Lyft for an «Intro to Self - Driving Cars» program, in an attempt to make it easier for workers to enter the field.

The program started in 2007 and is made available to qualifying workers, like teachers, military personnel, nurses, and firefighters, who hold a job in a non-profit organization or the government.

This non-traditional, employee first approach has made AGNORA a bit of a manufacturing anomaly, where in traditional industrial environment, workers come to work, are paid fairly, contribute to a pension or retirement program and then retire.

The order weighs how to make the country's immigration program «more merit based,» calls for site visits at companies that employ foreign workers, and tasks the Department of Homeland Security with producing a report twice a year on the total number of foreign - born people — not just nonimmigrant visa holders — who are authorized to work in the United States.

At least 29 states have made efforts in recent years to expand retirement savings program coverage for private sector workers, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

Businesses in the on - demand economy should not get a free pass on making contributions to existing social insurance programs, such as Social Security, Medicare, workers» compensation, and unemployment insurance, on their workers» behalf.

It could mean reducing occupational licensure requirements, and educational reforms that make it easier for workers to acquire new skills through alternative training programs.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

As the effects of the one - child program make themselves felt, however, the numbers leap dramatically: to 23.8 percent in 2020, 36 percent in 2030, and 44.9 percent in 2050 — when more than 400 million Chinese will be over sixty years of age, and there will be almost one retiree for every two workers.

This investment will allow us to improve the quality of our School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, increase the number of kids participating, and ensure that schools have the resources they need to make program changes, including training for school food service workers, upgraded kitchen equipment, and additional funding for meal reimbursements for schools that are enhancing nutrition and quality.

She hated the idea that dedicated cafeteria workers around the country were being implicitly maligned by media stories about «miracle schools,» because those stories almost never disclosed the hidden advantages that made those fabulous meal programs possible.

Every now and then, an article will appear somewhere touting a «school food miracle worker» who is able to serve what appears to be healthier, higher quality food than what is typically found in school lunch programs, and sometimes the claim is made that the meals cost no more than what a typical school district spends on a less healthy meal.

These Make the Road literacy or training programs are always folded into a larger project of «worker organizing» or «empowerment,» which require recipients to attend political meetings as an implicit condition of getting services that are, in fact, city - funded.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

The proof is in programs like DROP, where a politician promises the moon and stars to his most loyal constituency, government workers, to make himself look good, then leaves the taxpayers holding the bag.

«From the Unemployment Strikeforce to the Urban Youth Jobs program, we are making smart investments to tackle unemployment in communities where it is most pervasive, and connect tomorrow's workers with the skills they need to succeed in a 21st century workplace,» said Cuomo at a bill signing ceremony held at Hostos Community College.

Cuomo's $ 100 million proposal to bring social workers, mentors, medical personnel and mental health experts into failing schools and make them community schools is an echo of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Renewal Schools program.

«These programs produce workers with skills in good - paying jobs that are in demand right here in Erie County, making our county stronger today and into the future.»

«As we create these hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units, we also make sure they are done by qualified, professional programs and builders and workers,» she said, insisting that union construction is safer and of superior quality.

The program would make New York City the first city in the U.S. to offer its own retirement savings program for private sector workers who lack access to employer - sponsored retirement plans, de Blasio and other citywide elected officials said Thursday at City Hall.

The program is supposed to make it easier for companies to start up apprenticeship programs to train future workers, according to state Sen, Dave Valesky, a member of the IDC.

As part of the deal, Quinn also announced that she and the council would urge the city's Economic Development Corporation to begin a «pilot program» that would make certain development projects open only to developers who agreed that their tenants would also pay their workers the higher wage.

High - skill temporary worker programs like the H - 1B visa, which were intended ostensibly to «complement the American workforce,» have «made it too easy to bring in cheaper foreign workers with ordinary skills — ... not specialized skills,... not the best and brightest — to directly substitute for, rather than complement, American workers,» Hira said.

During the question period, Senator Chuck Grassley (R — IA), the cosponsor, with subcommittee colleague Senator Dick Durban (D — IL) of a bill to tighten the H - 1B program, asked Hira if he could «rebut the assertion that some, including your co-panelist Brad Smith, have made that the U.S. does not in fact have enough highly skilled workers.»

He is recognized for his commitment to obtain justice for workers whose health suffered from working in nuclear weapons programs, and for advocating scientific integrity in public policy making.

One thing was clear from the talks: Most companies are focused on increasing the supply of workers with STEM education, but few are doing much to improve demand for such jobs, either by raising salaries for STEM jobs or implementing programs to make these jobs more attractive.

What is more, the majority of adult literacy programs are made and implemented by NGOs, and levels of functional literacy remain low for national active population: about 70 % of workers that have basic skills in reading, writing and numeracy are unable to use these skills in an effective and competitive way in a context of global economy.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday detailed the fallout he attributes to Chicago Public Schools making good on a $ 634 million pension payment: 1,050 workers will lose their jobs, 350 vacant positions will be eliminated and several education programs will be slashed as a result of $ 200 million in budget...

Afterschool workers and paraprofessionals can decorate with students by not allowing students to make any decisions about programming, but forcing them to attend in order to say students were there.

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Each year since 1985, the volunteer workers who make up the backbone of the Club Racing program have been recognized at the National Championship event.

The program started in 2007 and is made available to qualifying workers, like teachers, military personnel, nurses, and firefighters, who hold a job in a non-profit organization or the government.

Making a bet that workers, parents, and married couples will make good on their student loan debt, PenFed Credit Union rolled out a new student loan refinancing program targeted directly at this group.

Room of people partaking in an unrelated hearing.Making a bet that workers, parents, and married couples will make good on their student loan debt, PenFed Credit Union rolled out a new student loan refinancing program targeted directly at this group.Offering consolidatio n and refinancing rates as low as 3.5 %, the nation's second largest credit union is -LSB-...]

I owe more on my student loan than I do on my house... after six years of graduate school and all that money I don't even make fifty thousand a year... my saving grace last year was the income based payment program... I hope I get it this year too... especially since I just filed bankruptcy... was all this debt work worth it??? I don't know... I wish there was more support for social workers... thanks

The significance of the new social insurance program was that it sought to address the long - range problem of economic security for the aged through a contributory system in which the workers themselves contributed to their own future retirement benefit by making regular payments into a joint fund.

Following up on the news whirlwind that was the uncovering of false claims made in Mike Daisey's This American Life piece on conditions at Apple manufacturer Foxconn's factory in China, American Public Media's Marketplace program sent reporter Rob Schmitz to get a first hand look at what life was really like for workers.

As senior communication strategist and senior analyst, in the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), Karen Perry Stillerman manages campaigns and initiatives aimed at transforming and modernizing the American food system to make it safer and healthier for consumers, farmers and farm workers, rural communities, and the environment.

Concretely, this means creating undergraduate and graduate programs in new energy sciences; postgraduate fellowships for scientists, engineers, and technicians; and training for the electricians, construction workers, efficiency experts, and installers needed to make the clean - energy revolution real.

At the same time, through the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), we joined forces with local community members and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to build RePower LA, a program in which low - income residents lower their neighbors» utility bills and receive a living wage as they make businesses and homes more energy efficient, train for jobs with the local utility, and get on a path to union membership.

At times compromises need to be made with the people hosting events and workers in the office, but most of the time there is a happy coexistence between programs.

Make sure you ask the leaders of the programs your child participates in how they screen their workers.

Note: Effective December 31, 2013, the Federal Government made additional changes to the Federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program.