Sentences with phrase «authority over workers»

Notwithstanding that, it is common ground that a term of imprisonment is necessary to adequately denounce Mr. Kazenelson «s conduct and to deter other persons with authority over workers in potentially dangerous workplaces from breaching the legal duty set forth in s. 217.1 of the Code to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm from befalling those workers.

«[They are] taking the authority of this class of workers and trying, with a wink and a nod, to think we still have an authority over workers at $ 11 an hour and it's now $ 13.»

Not exact matches

Critics say they suppress wages, weaken the collective bargaining authority of unions and leave workers at the mercy of employers in negotiations over pay, benefits and working conditions.

Who will admit that the colonizer prepares the colonized for independence, that the proprietor provides social services for his workers, or even that the teacher maintains a guardian authority over his students?

A principal has no authority over maintenance or lunchroom workers, who report to the building engineer or lunchroom manager.

But until business growth enables Cotton Babies and like - minded companies to leverage authority over suppliers, and until high - end consumers agree to pay more for premium diapers to ensure worker welfare, disposables may still be the more ethical and convenient diaper choice.

The authority and the workers are fighting over differences in base pay, health care costs and contributions to pensions for future workers.

The 17 month old baby boy, Peter Connelly, had suffered horrific injuries over many months of abuse despite countless visits from local authority workers.

The largest state workers union, CSEA, is suing the Thruway Authority over its decision last year to raise by 6 percentage points the co-payment that retirees pay toward their health insurance.

The head of NYCHA's biggest worker union and the chair of the Assembly's Housing Committee, Keith Wright, took the unprecedented step of calling on the state to take over the city's troubled Housing Authority.

It also gives current LIRR workers, who now make an average $ 87,000 a year, 17 percent raises over 6 1/2 years — a middle ground between the seven years sought by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the six years sought by the eight unions.

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

Comptroller Scott Stringer repeatedly asserted that a new executive order signed by the mayor stripped his office of its oversight authority when it comes to the higher wage and new workers covered in the order, handing that power over to the mayor's Department of Consumer Affairs.

Union workers and commuters faced over proposed Port Authority toll and PATH train fare hikes at a hearing in Washington Heights.

A major state workers union is suing the Thruway Authority over its decision last year to raise by 6 percentage points the co-payment that retirees pay toward their health insurance.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew didn't mince words when he addressed hundreds of angry Transport Workers Union Local 100 members protesting the Metropolitan Transit Authority's attempt to overturn a binding arbitration ruling that awarded transit workers an 11 percent pay increase over threeWorkers Union Local 100 members protesting the Metropolitan Transit Authority's attempt to overturn a binding arbitration ruling that awarded transit workers an 11 percent pay increase over threeworkers an 11 percent pay increase over three years.

Already, the Transport Workers Union, which has been engaged in bitter criticism of de Blasio over funding for an emergency Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) plan put forward by Lhota (again the agency's chair), has spent $ 119,025 on a TV ad attacking the mayor (TWU is seen as an ally of Governor Andrew Cuomo, a consistent de Blasio foe with whom the union negotiates its major labor contracts).

Like them, it happened because people with power and authority over the laboratory failed to give primacy to lab workers» lives and safety.

In addition, Barr's case offers a rare glimpse into the practices of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), an obscure agency within the White House that wields vast power over the entire federal bureaucracy through its authority to vet recently hired workers.

The basic, forensic detail of examining and tracing the body and the interviews presented with the border authorities and aid workers are compelling and shocking, presenting a troubling view of the American immigration system without ever being over the top.

In anticipation of its expanding streetcar network, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (NORTA) competed for and received in 2011 a $ 400,000 workforce development grant from FTA to establish a new streetcar maintenance training program specifically for disadvantaged workers 21 and over.

We will also explore civil rights litigation on behalf of those who have been sexually harassed by property managers, landlords, maintenance workers, housing authority officials, or others with power over access to housing, with a focus on the role that civil legal services attorneys have played — or can play — in these efforts.