Sentences with phrase «also protect workers»

These same laws also protect workers from retaliation by their employers.

It not only saves energy, but also protects workers, reduces noise, helps protect against freezing, and more.

Alberta law also protects workers from discrimination in the workplace.

Not exact matches

Employees that are also members of a union or worker solidarity march are protected from video surveillance according to Section 7 of the NLRA or National Labor Relations Act.

And it also illustrates the disconnect between the protected bubble of Silicon Valley, the elite venture capital firms that grease its machinery, and a new class of workers.

If you have employees, workers» compensation insurance is also necessary, as it will protect any worker who becomes injured on the job.

1) Anyone who understands how supply and demand inter-relate should understand that minimum wage laws are not only counter-productive on an economy - wide basis but also cause the most problems for the group of workers they have supposedly been put in place to protect.

My goal would be to both ensure that those who depend on the program are protected, while also balancing the growing cost of Social Security with other pressing priorities — from programs for children, the vulnerable, public investments, and shoring up our education and worker retraining systems.

The convention also obliges governments to protect domestic workers from violence and abuse, and to prevent child labor in domestic work.

Moving beyond laissez - faire, democratic governments have also formed safety nets for those who can not compete effectively, regulated workplaces to protect worker safety, and guaranteed universal access to education and health services.

But it occurred also because of government laws protecting workers from extreme exploitation and from the organizing work of the employees themselves.

Workers in such industries are not only inadequately protected as regards health and safety, but they also do not enjoy security of employment in view of the tendency of such investors to move offshore to cut costs.

According to fifth - generation growers of the McManis Family, winners of a 2016 California Green Medal in Sustainable Winegrowing Leadership Award, the Lodi Rules ™ Program, «is a standard of farming practices that not only protects our land, our workers and the community that we live in, but also produces a higher quality of wine that reflects the place and the people that create them.»

CATIE is also committed to protecting the rights and well - being of its workers and ensures that they wear protective equipment and are provided with adequate housing.

Health workers also have responsibilities to protect their independence.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order to make permanent his Task Force To Combat Worker Exploitation, which is aimed primarily at protecting immigrant workers, permanent, and would also addressing the misclassification of employees.

«While Labour supported remaining in the EU to protect workers» rights, we can not hide from the fact that too much of the EU also had aspects of the old model, putting the interests of big business over ordinary people,» he said.

The Task Force also released a one - year report that includes recommendations to protect workers against predatory practices.

Cuomo also announced new measures to protect workers from dangerous on - the - job chemicals, including new ventilation requirements in nail salons that will go into effect on August 1.

The TUC Regional secretary also called on the government to provide the necessary resources to the various workers unions in the country to effectively and efficiently protect the interests of their workers.

He also spoke at the meeting about maintaining provisions that protect the safety of highway workers and bus operators, as well as maintaining «Safe Streets» language, which, according to the release, aims to ensure that new infrastructure is designed in a manner that helps protect pedestrians.

Also at 10 a.m., the Asian American Federation will partner with the Biking Public Project, Transportation Alternatives, and other advocates to hold the E-Bike Rally to Protect Immigrant Food Delivery Workers to protest de Blasio and the NYPD's planned enforcement of electric bicycle regulations starting in January, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

We also recommend a comprehensive review taking into account the tax and benefit interactions, with a view to better protecting low paid workers in the long term.»

Antonacci also wants to offer state workers the option of defined contribution plans, like 401 (k) s. DiNapoli wants to keep the state pension system as it is, saying it protects retirees.

The issue was raised by Green party MP Caroline Lucas, who also warned the bill was scrapping regulations which protected workers from injury, ill - health and abuse.

She also argued forcefully that the public concern on immigration was a reflection of Labour failures, in particular to ensure the availability of sufficient council housing and to protect workers» rights and job security.

It also protects the clinics — which encourage women to carry pregnancies to term — from penalties if they use nurses or other licensed workers to provide services like ultrasounds.

The amendments would also better protect workers whose building owners attempt to contract out their jobs, and extend assistance to employees whose work becomes in - sourced from a contractor to property owner.

In announcing the deal, Klein said that despite the IDC's achievements, «it is also clear that core Democratic policy initiatives that the IDC championed remain unfinished,» including «equal education for all New Yorkers» through the DREAM Act, protecting abortion rights, increasing workers wages and campaign finance reform.

Assemblyman Carl Heastie said: «This common sense law will protect workers and also, bring more fairness to the workplace.

The mayor has also received endorsements from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association and building workers union 32BJ SEIU — similarly reiterating at those announcements events that the city will protect its residents under a Trump administration.

Labour will also support two amendments drafted by the Labour MP Melanie Onn intended to protect workers» rights and to ensure employment protection does not fall after Brexit.

Workers would also have to be better protected, for example by dust being «wetted down» and with the use of extraction fans.

Smith also points out that his cleanup workers wore three layers of gloves to protect themselves while working but also to safely undress after the work was done.

«The project is to basically increase the confidence in the regulatory system for protecting workers and also, by extension, members of the public...» More...

Its the latest wrinkle in a continuing debate over how to protect health - care workers from the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu.

Buying organic not only helps your own health, but it also helps protect the health of the workers who bring that grain to you!

«While the government must protect the employment and pensions of Carillion's public sector workers it must also take a long hard look at its encouragement of private sector involvement in schools and the unnecessary risks being taken with children's education and wellbeing.»

Lone Worker Solutions Protecting support staff whose roles take them off school premises is also a growing concern for the education sector, especially since Charlie Taylor, the Government's expert advisor on behaviour, called for a crackdown on primary school absence in April this year.

This is important, because while many on Capitol Hill appreciate how MI protects the government and taxpayers from credit risk in the housing system, MI also directly benefits everyday workers.»

, is that one of the complicating factors in a crisis is the tendency of policymakers (along with workers, creditors, small businesses, and middle class savers) to change their behavior in response to a crisis by taking steps that protect them from the consequences of the crisis but that also make the crisis worse.

This bill will also protect shelter workers: Carbon monoxide gas is odorless and colorless, and shelter workers may not even know they are breathing it.

Extending the current Dangerous Dogs legislation to cover private property where a dog is permitted to be will also help protect people such as postal workers, telecoms engineers, and others whose work often takes them onto private land.

Lawsuits Avoided While it seems the workers» comp laws are stacked in favor of employees, note that employers are also protected from costly lawsuits by injured workers.

He's also implying that he'll stick with his (ill - timed) support for expanded offshore drilling — although obviously with an aggressive clampdown on the oil industry and the agencies that, in theory at least, were supposed to protect workers and the environment.

We also call on Governor Deval Patrick and the legislature to pass the Clean Energy Commonwealth Bill (HB 2935), which would create a community empowerment fund to assist communities and workers by protecting the local tax base and providing worker assistance and retraining opportunities when a coal plant retires.

We also note that there are tremendous leadership opportunities for these countries to demonstrate that moving beyond oil, coal, and gas — both demand and production — is not only possible, but can be done while protecting workers, communities, and economies.

In addition to protecting workers rights in the judicial system, I also protect the ability of employees to protect themselves in the legislative and political arena.

Mechanic's Liens (also known under different terms like «construction lien» or «supplier's lien») is a long - standing way for governments to protect contractors or workers, which promotes construction growth.

Minister Bains» letter also makes reference to increasing compliance with «laws and standards put in place to protect the lives and safety of workers.»