Sentences with phrase «agricultural workers»

Climate change has serious implications for agricultural workers who constitute a large population of the region's working poor.

For starters, farmers and other agricultural workers appear to have higher rates of certain cancers.

For example, agricultural workers face considerably higher levels of exposure to pollution than individuals who work indoors.

In this issue both fishermen and agricultural workers joined together.

But the proliferation of robots does not automatically mean wholesale replacement of human agricultural workers.

Not only are these practices better for the environment and safer for agricultural worker but they also help the farmer keep more of what they earn.

There are narrow exceptions for certain types of agricultural workers, charities and non-profit organizations, domestic servants, and those employed by family members.

Andrew Lokan and Michael Fenrick are representing three migrant farm workers who are trying to increase the constitutional protections afforded to workers employed in Ontario through the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.

The HRTO held that Mr. Peart had satisfied the first step of the Kapp test by demonstrating that s. 10 (5) of the Act has a disproportionate impact on foreign workers in Ontario under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP), who are identified by prohibited grounds of discrimination, specifically citizenship and race.

So it's not enough that we treat our farmers like dirt, we must create near slave - like conditions for agricultural workers in order to reach those holy grails of «increased productivity» and «greater global competitiveness».

The majority held that the Agricultural Employees Protection Act, 2002, («AEPA») which excluded agricultural workers from the Labour Relations Act («LRA») following Dunmore v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2001 SCC 94, [2001] 3 S.C.R. 1016 did not violate s. 2 (d) of the Charter.

She is most well known for her award - winning and critically acclaimed documentary, «The Sugar Babies: The Plight of the Children of Agricultural Workers on the Sugar Industry of the Dominican Republic».

Jack Delano Migratory Agricultural Worker Waiting at the Little Creek End of the Norfolk - Cape Charles Ferry Gelatin silver print (photograph) Taken July 1940 Printed 1984

To prove that this is a true deprivation, it must be shown that the expediency and scope of the services available under the WCA to injured workers are greater than those services publicly available; the fact that alternative treatment options are available does not diminish the deprivation faced by agricultural workers facing longer delays to get treatment outside of the WCA regime.

• Consultant, Investigator, SSMI Supervisor & Specialist at the Department of Fair Employment & Housing, Sacramento • CA • Health Education Department Director & Health Educator at Agricultural Workers Health Centers, San Joaquin County • CA • Program Director at St. Marys Interfaith Dinning Room at Stockton • CA • Investigator & Court Interpreter at Philip C, Paige, Attorney At Law, Stockton • CA • Correctional Officer at California Department of Corrections, Tarcy • CA

The General Secretary of the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU), Edward Karaweh has described Nana Akufo - Addo's «one dam one village» policy as a sign of underdevelopment.

The General Agricultural Workers» Union (GAWU) thinks the government's estimate of 745,000 jobs provided under the Planting for Food and Jobs programme might be exaggerated.

The majority held that the Agricultural Employees Protection Act, 2002, («AEPA») which excluded agricultural workers from the Labour Relations Act («LRA») following Dunmore v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2001 SCC 94, [2001] 3 S.C.R. 1016 did not violate s. 2 (d) of the Charter... [more]

These rights from which agricultural workers are excluded are the following: having a certified union, bargaining a collective agreement, and use strike and any other mean of pressure to change the employer's mind.

Dunmore decided that Ontario had a positive obligation to include agricultural workers under provincial labour relations legislation because excluding the workers infringed their section 2 (d) freedom of association....

That's when an Italian doctor in Brazil reported the case of a 45 - year - old agricultural worker with growths in his mouth.

Most employers hire agricultural workers who are robust and physically dexterous as there is a lot of physical work to perform.

A new study, conducted by the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, found that poor agricultural workers in Uganda and Ethiopia have not benefited as much as they should from working on Fairtrade certified farms.

How animals are treated, the working conditions of many agricultural workers, forced labor and paltry wages are all topics not often covered by mainstream media.

The amendment is aimed at helping protect workers in precarious groups, such as migrant workers, including agricultural workers and live - in caregivers.

Some were eager to leave based on the hope of regaining control of British farming and now as Parliament sets out to implement Article 50, farmers and agricultural workers await on the...

Would you make a good Agricultural Worker?

I thought, «How can I possibly expect to play a blue - collar agricultural worker from East Texas?»

The association is lobbying for more agricultural worker visas, known as an H2 - A, but part of what it wants to do is offer these workers a mult - year path to citizenship as an incentive for their agreeing to do farmwork.

Malas, who were considerable in number, were mostly agricultural workers like Holeyas in the western India.

Farm Labor Contractor, Vineyard Pay $ 42K in Penalties for Providing Deplorable Housing Conditions to Farm Workers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma County...

Several produce and farm labor contractors are contesting fines they face in connection with two separate pesticide drifts in the Central Valley that sickened close to 130 agricultural workers last year.

A labour body has introduced a # 200 fee for finding people who speak good English as competition for seasonal agricultural workers grows.

Now, Nobis and other agricultural workers around the state are keeping an anxious eye on President Trump, who campaigned on tearing up trade deals he feels are bad for U.S.e workers, and is reportedly preparing to pull out of a free trade agreement with South Korea as early as this week.

Lets be honest with ourselves; ALL Prem players are obscenely overpaid but we can be expected to stomach this obscenity in life (esp when compared to people who do REAL jobs, nurses, bus drivers, agricultural workers etc, etc) ONLY when those fortunate players bust a gut, every game, for the club who employs them.

Union members will demonstrate alongside agricultural workers and film buffs who disagree with government plans to disband publicly - funded bodies like the UK Film Council, Forestry Commission and the Agricultural Wages Board.

The New York Farm Bureau filed court papers to defend a law that exempts agricultural workers from collective - bargaining protections.

Given that the purpose of the Bill was to protect Welsh agricultural workers after the UK Government scrapped that protection, it is disappointing that the Attorney General has referred the Bill to the Supreme Court.

Those 1489 agricultural workers earned an average third - quarter weekly wage of $ 610.

Agricultural workers constructed extensive terracing to keep up with population growth, but farming reached a point of diminishing returns as all available land was terraced.

«They asked me many questions about agriculture, from which crops were grown to what kinds of clothes agricultural workers were wearing.

During both years, hand harvest was done by four unskilled agricultural workers who were not experienced in apple picking.

In addition, students research examples of contemporary slavery — such as child soldiers in Burma and unpaid agricultural workers in the U.S. — and create brochures to educate the community about slavery's existence today and how it can be eradicated.

It also aids agricultural workers and business owners from different sectors to enroll for training programs via their mobile devices.

Billy R. Evans Harvesting, which operates approximately 12 passenger buses for transporting agricultural workers and six trucks for hauling fresh produce from harvesting fields to processing plants, and employs four commercial driver license (CDL) holders, was served the federal order on July 29, 2016.

The Tolpuddle Martyrs» Festival celebrates the story of six nineteenth century agricultural workers from my home county of Dorset, who fought to form a trade union, and the struggle of the working class to defend them.