Sentences with phrase «as temporary worker»

At Above the Law, «Roxana St. Thomas» has been writing about what it's like to be laid off from BigLaw, and now ventures into the miserable world of document review as a temporary worker.

The CBO estimates that one major channel for future illegal immigration under the Gang of Eight plan would be the low - skill guest worker program, as temporary worker overstay their visas.

The Coalition heard from 145 workers about wage theft, lack of breaks, employment contract violations, improper termination, excessive work hours, and unequal treatment as temporary workers.

Note, as well, that the Ontario Government has already passed a regulation which ensures that «elect - to - work» employees, such as temporary workers, have the same rights to public holiday entitlements as other workers.

Not exact matches

Ultimately, the news from Microsoft may also have a substantial side effect: forcing an increasing number of companies to take a second look to ensure they are correctly classifying temporary workers, either as W - 2 employees or independent contractors.

As the payroll contributions increase after 2019 there may be some temporary downward pressure on wages or employment, but with the payroll contribution increase limited to 1 % for most workers, this pressure will be limited.

Finding temporary workers to fulfill on - demand requests was seemingly impossible before services such as Uber and Lyft created that market.

To compensate, the government allowed farmers to hire Mexican workers — known as braceros, Spanish for «manual labourers» — on a temporary basis.

The temporary foreign worker program has ballooned under the Conservatives from about 100,000 people in 2002 to as many as 338,000 now working across the country.

The rise in contract workers, such as Uber drivers, or those who work temporary positions for companies means that many U.S. workers are not protected by these laws.

Bringing other provinces on board with pipeline expansion, plus a variety of other controversial issues such as temporary foreign workers, requires a national perspective on economic growth.

«It looks like the temporary foreign worker program in many cases is serving as an escape valve for many employers,» who resort to imported labour rather than raise wages to attract Canadian candidates, he says.

The proposal would give companies a temporary tax break for setting up profit sharing plans, which, as their name implies, share profits with workers when times are good through defined plans.

More than 8 - in - 10 Canadians agree temporary foreign workers should be proficient in either French or English before being allowed to work here (82 %), and as many as two thirds agree strongly (64 %).

Insecurity and anxiety reign as young workers cycle through temporary contracts, part - time jobs, or freelance gigs.

As the legal battle wore on, Microsoft changed its policies for using temporary workers.

Another possible avenue is to use a temporary service such as Manpower to staff and insure workers.

In some parts of Canada, such as Aboriginal communities (but not only), StatsCan representatives, including locally recruited temporary workers, usually fill out the long - form census for the respondents (by interviewing them and filling in the responses) precisely in order to ensure accuracy and completeness... which brings us to the second issue...

In a terse decision, Judge Gregory A. Presnell of the United States District Court in Orlando rejected the former workers» arguments that Disney and the two contractors had colluded to make false statements when they applied for temporary visas, known as H - 1B, for the foreign replacements.

(Reuters)- J.C. Penney Co Inc (JCP.N) plans to hire about 35,000 temporary workers for the coming holiday season, roughly the same level as in 2011, before it changed its pricing strategy and did away with most coupons and sales events, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

-- Similarly exploited immigrant labor without labor rights (all temporary and dual purpose immigrants), employer sponsorship being the key to suppressing wages (plus all of David Card's papers and equations are wrong due to DNWR)-- Fair Labor Standards Act generally doesn't apply to office workers and other positions that corporations tag as professionals and / or managers, despite recent Obama hike of minimum applicable wage.

«It's certainly very hypocritical for the Conservative government to say that a member of parliament that advocates on behalf of a business in his or her constituency who advocates in favour of temporary foreign workers who meet the criteria as set out in the program, if somehow that's illegitimate for a member of parliament to advocate for a temporary foreign worker permit in his constituency,» Mr. LeBlanc explained, «then the Conservatives should ask themselves why under their watch the number of temporary foreign workers has doubled.

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance called for a temporary ban on pick - ups at John F. Kennedy Airport as a protest against President Trump's ban on refugees from seven Muslim - dominated countries.

As of last year, 491,547 «temporary» workers were on the job here.

Credit unions are another option, especially if they are associated with your school (as an international student) or place of employment (as a temporary foreign worker).

The camp trailers on family property of Santa Rosa contractor Michael Wolff, which serve as temporary homes for workers clearing fire debris, won't result in fines this week against Wolff, a city official said Wednesday.

40 They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you;» (Lev 25)

Saudi Arabia allows Roman Catholics and Christians of other denominations to enter the country as foreign workers for temporary work, but does not allow them to practise their faith openly, and as a result Roman Catholics and Christians of other denominations generally only worship in secret within private homes [2].

Their temporary migrant workers from the surrounding developing economies are also covered by the same living and working conditions as the local resident workers.

But three out of four Chicago Park District workers are classified as «temporary ``

Mr Moraes said a gap existed between the importance of European issues and their coverage in British reporting, citing temporary agency workers» rights, climate change, and working time as key issues currently affecting the UK.

Workers negotiating for a first contract at Wendt Corp. in Cheektowaga plan to rally outside the plant on Friday, as the company prepares to make temporary layoffs.

As part of our role within a wider educational charity, for some time now LITRG has wanted to do more to support temporary workers who are having to grapple with working through an umbrella company

LITRG has worked with PRISM on the factsheet, who among other things have provided invaluable, up to date information as to trends in the ever - moving temporary worker sector to ensure the factsheet is current and relevant.

A Labour government will mean more workers paid a living wage, (as many enlightened employers and, I'm proud to say, increasing numbers of Labour councils, are already doing)- offering temporary tax breaks to employers that commit to paying it, and requiring transparency of large companies, so employees, consumers and campaigners can hold them to account.

In addition, we have recently requested the Legislature allow the temporary hiring of six retired child protective workers as part - time employees, and reestablish the Erie County Community Coordinating Council on Children and Families.

ALBANY — State Budget Director Robert Megna confirmed Friday that the next one - week budget extender will include the 4 percent raises to unionized state workers, as demanded by a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge.

As opposition to employer sanctions waned and growers» lobbying efforts for extensive temporary worker programs intensified, agricultural worker programs began to outrank employer sanctions component as the most controversial element of reforAs opposition to employer sanctions waned and growers» lobbying efforts for extensive temporary worker programs intensified, agricultural worker programs began to outrank employer sanctions component as the most controversial element of reforas the most controversial element of reform.

The government has granted temporary workers the same employment rights as permanent staff once they have completed 12 weeks of work.

That was the message CSEA delivered to state lawmakers today as the union continued its fight to end the Paterson administration's exploitation of temporary workers and undermining of state workers.

Complete statistics are not collected on how many temporary foreign scientific and technical workers are in the country, where they work, and whether they leave the country when their visas expire or, as critics suggest, move into the illegal immigrant pool.

But, as Garfield points out, although these temporary visiting health workers were helpful, they could not replace the long - time doctors that patients had relied on prior to the disaster.

Greatly increasing the number of H - 1B temporary worker visas, as your bill proposes, will create employment opportunities for Americans?

Now, new evidence suggests that today's slave snatchers started out as temporary parasites — ants that laid their eggs in the nests of other species and then used those workers as part - time caregivers for their own offspring.

(For the purposes of this story, «guest workers» means foreign workers in the United States who have temporary employment - based visas, such as the H - 1B visa for «specialty occupations».)

Universities, which are exempt from the limit on visas, can import as many postdocs and other temporary scientific workers as they wish.

Many universities offer a variety of temporary work on campus, as a research assistant, promotional worker, or library assistant, for example.

A lawyer who made a fortune as an early investor in the telecommunications firm Nextel and other high - tech startups, Warner has long advocated increasing the number of H - 1B skilled temporary worker visas and «stapling a green card to every Ph.D.» as ways of encouraging innovation.

The beaches are nice enough, but the locals are an insular lot, using the murders as a convenient excuse to give temporary migrant workers a hard time.

t that we recognise the value that temporary workers, such as supply teachers, bring.