Compensation for musculoskeletal disorders in Quebec: systemic discrimination
against women workers» International Journal of Health Services, 33 (2), 253 - 281.
The agreement, stemming from the union's lawsuit charging that the state discriminated
against women workers by paying them less than men doing comparable jobs, will affect more than 35,000 employees, including non-professorial and non-administrative workers in state colleges and universities.
Not exact matches
Then Goliath hurled himself once again at David, that is,
against the
workers, the peasants,
against the young people and
women,
against children,
against the heroic people of Nicaragua.2
Even though resistance takes many different forms (
against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers,
workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or
women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.
The organization states that «the practice has the effect of unduly shortening the
worker's right to sickness benefits in the postnatal period, when she might need them most, and leading to potential discrimination
against women.»
«This most recent incident — on top of ongoing allegations of discriminatory employment practices
against women and a long, shameful record of aggressive hostility to
worker's rights and basic decency — only strengthens the case
against Wal - Mart's attempts to open locations in New York City.»
Campaigners for sex
workers» rights say that by focusing on the prosecution and deportation of the
worker rather than the attack
against her, police were discouraging other
women from coming to them for help.
It must therefore itself remain organised and resist any pressure to dissolve into the soft left, because its support is vital to people fighting imperialism, black people fighting racism,
women protesting
against the assault on the welfare state,
workers on strike and every other progressive struggle.
But
women who have worked for the Legislature and have filed harassment complaints
against lawmakers criticized the process and the end product, saying the new provisions will not adequately protect
workers.
In her statement announcing her support for Cuomo, she pointed to the fact that he raised the minimum wage — of which
women make up two - thirds of earners — as well as his work in enacting paid family leave and making it harder for individuals to discriminate
against pregnant
workers.
«From an ethics standpoint, she was a good lady and a hard
worker, and from a demographics perspective, she was a Latina
woman running
against another
woman.»
But unlike the struggles of their grandparents» day, the current unionization dispute does not pit ragged men and
women freezing on picket lines
against bosses threatening
workers and their children with starvation if the
workers dare to organize.
It came about to honor the 1908 garment
workers strike in New York City, when
women protested
against unsafe working conditions.
See online dating profile examples for
women so you have templates, tips, and inspiration to create a dating profile to find the person you're really Prosecutors from the RSPCA will review evidence
against the bank
worker who was caught on CCTV dumping a cat in a wheelie bin.
Among them were Tarana Burke (founder of the resurgent #MeToo movement), Saru Jayaraman (a workplace justice advocate for restaurant
workers), Billie Jean King (tennis champion and founder of the
Women's Tennis Association), and Marai Larasi (executive director of Imkaan, the group working to end violence against black and minority wo
Women's Tennis Association), and Marai Larasi (executive director of Imkaan, the group working to end violence
against black and minority
womenwomen).
Social movement unionism works with affiliates in
worker's movements,
women's movements, student movements, other human rights organizations to and integrates them into a broader network or popular front
against injustice and exploitation by the ruling class.
On March 8, 1857, garment
workers staged one of the world's first organized actions by working
women, striking
against the inhumane working conditions in New York City textile factories.
Published during a moment of political upheaval and dissent
against resurgent fascism in the United States, Bordowitz's book inserts Untitled (I Am a Man) into a history that includes the African - American sanitation
workers» strike in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech «Ain't I A
Woman?»
This fight
against the oil lobby and the financial oligarchy needs to continue linking up with larger movements of
workers, immigrants, Muslims,
women, and others fighting attacks from Donald Trump and the billionaire class.»
Parker Waichman's attorneys help men and
women understand how these laws can help them and file lawsuits
against project owners and contractors to obtain relief that injured
workers desperately need.
These «multiple forms of trauma or victimization» are common to many missing and murdered Aboriginal
women — not just sex trade
workers — and speak to the many underlying causes of violence
against these
women.
This case involved two applicants — a former sex
worker named Sheryl Kiselbach and the Downtown Eastside Sex
Workers United
Against Violence Society (SWUAV), a group that works to improve conditions for
women in the sex trade.
While this has a lot to do with the ongoing impact of historical experience and cultural as well as societal norms
against the employment of
women, as with other gulf country states, Saudi Arabia is highly dependent on foreign
workers.
Some experts believe that the salary history question, which ties
workers» compensation to previous rates of pay at other companies, is inherently biased
against women.
This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors, social
workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about the growing incidents of and costs associated with intimate partner violence
against women.
This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially addiction counselors, psychologists, mental health counselors, social
workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about aspects of violence
against women.
Erin Galvin, LICSW is a licensed clinical social
worker with an extensive background working in the fields of maternal mental health and violence
against women and children.