Sentences with phrase «by individual workers»

So these costs paid into the healthcare system are not «earned benefits» generated by individual workers working a certain numbers of hours which require they and their employer to pay into which provides benefits that that individual would not get if they had not worked those number of hours?
Ideally the desirable distribution should be achieved through choice by individual workers, with maximum freedom to change from one position to another.

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The film alleges that the COS was only declared tax - exempt by the IRS after it waged a decades - long campaign against the agency, which included filing dozens of lawsuits against both the organization and individual IRS workers, and hiring private investors and fake journalists to dig up incriminating information about individual IRS workers.
In fact, the authors of the study, who looked at wage data covering all U.S. companies from 1978 to 2012, found that the wage gap between the average worker at individual companies and the highest ranking executives (CEOs and other C - suiters) at those firms had only grown by a «small amount» in the past three - and - a-half decades.
Backed by labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union, workers have landed some victories as individual cities and states have raised their minimum wage.
A different approach would strengthen individual savings accounts by requiring workers to contribute out of pre-tax income, combined with a redistributive means - tested safety net for those who fall into poverty in old age.
It would offer a mixed bag for individuals, including middle - class workers, by roughly doubling a standard deduction that does not require itemization, but eliminating or scaling back other popular itemized deductions and exemptions.
These adjustments can be painful for individuals, and it is incumbent on policy - makers to help buffer the transition by ensuring adequate safety nets for workers and facilitating retraining and relocation.
So do companies and individuals posting assignments on crowdsourcing sites like Amazon Mechanical Turk, where hundreds of thousands of workers earn piece - rate wages by completing discrete tasks.
The Labour Watch site provides detailed information and advice to individual workers and employers on how to fight unionization drives and how to decertify existing unions, including by -LSB-...]
At the individual level, workers are embracing the freedom to indulge in «mindfulness» (including meditation, yoga, and even spiritual exercises at work), spearheaded by leaders such as Arianna Huffington (who joined WorkHuman live via satellite link) or Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini, and inspired by books such as Pico Iyer's The Art of Stillness or David Gelles» Mindful Work.
In addition, U.S. workers will begin receiving more take - home pay, likely by next month, as lower tax rates for individuals under the Republican plan kick in.
The internist is equipped to treat the physiological problems and administer Antabuse; the psychologist is trained to do testing through which the alcoholic's therapeutic needs can be evaluated, and he may be trained to do research and psychotherapy; the psychiatrist, being a medical doctor like the internist, can prescribe medication, but his unique skills are in the area of individual and group therapy and their relationship to drug therapies; the social worker may be trained to help the alcoholic work through his marital and vocational problems and do group as well as individual therapy; the social worker may also work with spouses; the pastoral counselor is specially equipped by training to help the alcoholic with his «spiritual» problems as these relate to his sobriety and his interpersonal relationships; he may also be trained to do group and marital counseling; 40.
Currently, I feel that the average worker is evolving to match the message of equality where by he thinks that everyone is ent.itled regardless of the individual's personal worth..
The nonhierarchical, egalitarian style of psychosynthesis is expressed in Assagioli's view that having a therapist, although an advantage, is not essential: «Psychosynthesis can be applied by the individual himself or herself, fostering and accelerating inner growth and self - actualization..., Such self - psychosynthesis should be practiced... by every therapist, social worker, and educator (including parents).»
Individual bees are swayed by this information to the extent that, after inspection of individual localities, worker bees change their preference and dance for the superior place rather than the one they first discovered or that was communicated to them by thIndividual bees are swayed by this information to the extent that, after inspection of individual localities, worker bees change their preference and dance for the superior place rather than the one they first discovered or that was communicated to them by thindividual localities, worker bees change their preference and dance for the superior place rather than the one they first discovered or that was communicated to them by their mates.
However, the costs of breastfeeding are mostly borne by the mothers and the cost of breastfeeding training by individual health care workers or hospitals.
However, the costs of breastfeeding are mostly borne by the mothers and those for breastfeeding training mostly by the individual health care workers or hospital, while the health insurance companies and society - at - large are profiting from the financial savings from exclusive and long - term breastfeeding.
The decree also states: «Information provided by manufacturers or distributors to health workers and pharmacists with regard to one or more targeted products may only be of a scientific or practical nature for each individual product, and must be clear, detailed and correct, proven and supported.»
Intervention: a community - based worker carrying out 2 activities: 1) 1 home visit to all pregnant women in the third trimester, followed by subsequent monthly home visits to all infants aged 0 — 24 months to support appropriate feeding, infection control, and care - giving; 2) a monthly women's group meeting using participatory learning and action to catalyse individual and community action for maternal and child health and nutrition.
«Culture» as defined by output targets will inevitably clash with «culture» as defined by the daily objectives and dilemmas of individual teachers, health - workers, resource - managers etc..
«This places care workers in the invidious position of having to choose between providing lonely and vulnerable clients with care visits that meet their individual needs and fulfilling their payment - by - results contract,» Ryan says.
Personal domination: linked to the placing of production into a hierarchy and the consequent subordination of workers to entrepreneurs, leaders, teachers, etc.; in short, work as subjection to the arbitrary exercise of power by other individuals.
The purpose of the Order is to foster construction employment opportunities for qualified local residents, underemployed individuals or otherwise disadvantaged workers on projects bid by Erie County and located within the county.
The purpose of the Order is to foster construction employment opportunities for qualified local residents, underemployed individuals or otherwise disadvantaged workers on construction projects located within the geographic boundaries of Erie County which are bid by the County of Erie.
Staff are leaving in droves only to be replaced by underpaid and under trained individuals, raising questions about whether this new injection of workers will really make an impact.
This program upgrades the skill sets necessary for aspiring workers to succeed by placing these individuals with companies that build their skills «on the job.»
Before the rally, individual workers came to the Capitol, and stood by a display of FDR memorabilia.
This has already included national walkouts on budget day on 20 March and a long weekend of action from 5 to 8 April, as well as individual strikes by Home Office workers and last week staff in non-departmental public bodies.
Social Services Commissioner Dankert - Maurer said, «These long - needed reforms will strengthen CPS investigations by providing workers with accurate and up - to - date information on the individuals and homes they are visiting, toughening penalties against abusers, and fortifying the reporting system to diminish false reports.
The proposed reforms address many of the problems CPS workers face in doing their jobs and stiffen penalties for those who abuse children or abuse the CPS reporting system by filing false claims against individuals.
• Full deduction for disaster clean up expense • Relaxed retirement plan distribution rules — elimination of the 10 percent penalty tax that would otherwise apply on an early withdrawal from a retirement plan and permit individuals to withdraw up to $ 100,000 without penalty to cover storm - related expenses • Housing Exemptions for displaced individuals — would provide additional tax exemptions for individuals who provide free shelter for at least 60 days to anyone displaced by the storm ($ 500 exemption per person, maximum of four exemptions for the year) • Worker retention credit — would extend tax credits to business owners who continued paying wages while their businesses were forced to close.
The poor word choices, which resulted from the passion expressed by some, diverted the attention away from the legitimate concerns of the more than 500 hardworking mental - health workers, correctional officers, caregivers for developmentally - disabled individuals, administrative personnel and others who attended the rally to call for substantive dialogue with the governor about the direction we need to take the Empire State so that it serves all its citizens well, especially the most vulnerable among us.»
I will task these individuals with determining if the base pay for tipped food service workers should be amended and, if so, by how much.»
The services will be provided by workers paid by ACE, a not - for - profit organization with a mission to provide recovering homeless individuals with the skills, support services and motivation they need to obtain and sustain employment and economic independence.
200 personal case workers have been made available to provide individual support to Remploy workers affected by the changes.
The author discusses stigma, discrimination faced by these individuals and makes suggestions for ways in which health care workers can respect and promote human rights in their everyday practices.
And by affixing an enzyme to the tip, Lieber has done the work of a Lilliputian construction worker — attaching the enzyme to an individual protein.
The group forms, and some individuals by circumstance become workers.
By carefully measuring individual laborers» exposure to benzene and other chemicals, the researchers showed that the 109 workers exposed below the 1 ppm level still had white blood cell counts almost 15 percent lower than similar workers who were not exposed.
Also, the Army's EIS «did not adequately document or characterize individual risk of exposure or infection, nor did it consider potential exposures to workers and others on the base itself or how the spread of a pathogen would be affected by population size and density,» according to a press release NAS issued about the study.
After linking the medical data with individual worker productivity data, the authors found that participation in the wellness program increased average worker productivity by over 5 percent — roughly equivalent to adding one additional day of productive work per month for the average employee.
First, it would have a negative effect on the individual workers, who have complicated lung diseases caused by unique exposures and who are often simultaneously suffering from mental health problems.
Founded in 1976, ISDCI serves to bring together research workers worldwide by fostering and maintaining international scientific cooperation and communication between individual scientists, regional groups and / or national societies interested in the study of developmental and comparative immunology.
Cameras follow these brave, terminally ill individuals as they live out the end of their lives, supported by family, friends, and dedicated healthcare and hospice workers who gently guide the process.
The bulk of the story of memory and reality remains in tact surrounding the bewildered protagonist Douglas Quaid, this time around played by a stern Colin Farrell, a factory worker married to a gorgeous wife (Kate Beckinsale) who visits REKAL, a trippy company that implants memories into individuals who yearn to experience a life outside their depressing surroundings.
Among the book's more «robust» conclusions, to use the economists» term, is that the high Swedish expenditure on adult education (which is very well developed in Sweden, as a resource for unemployed workers and as a way of upgrading or changing one's credentials) is not warranted by its returns: But how could it be, when, we learn, «individuals received student pay [all students are paid in Sweden — part of the commitment to equality] at the level of unemployment benefits, which in Sweden replace up to 80 percent of forgone earnings.»
Space limits an extended discussion here, but we note two conclusions from a 2012 article by Economic Policy Institute researcher Monique Morrissey, who explains that «the logical implication of Richwine and Biggs's [pension] position is that public employers and taxpayers would be indifferent between current pension funding practices and investing in Treasury securities, even though this would triple the cost of pension benefits» and that R & B «selectively alternate between the cost of benefits to employers and the value to workers, and inappropriately equate the latter with the often much higher cost to individuals of obtaining equivalent benefits.»
(3) other advisory and individual or group counseling assistance to enable students to benefit from the curriculum, to help students develop and implement postsecondary education and career plans, to help students who exhibit any attendance, academic, behavioral or adjustment problems and to encourage parental involvement, provided that advisory assistance shall be provided by teachers or counselors, or by certified teaching assistants under the supervision of counselors or teachers, and that such individual or group counseling assistance shall be provided by certified or licensed school counselors or by certified or licensed school psychologists or certified or licensed school social workers in cooperation with school counselors; and
Education in the United States is diverse in all aspects of operation, except in the expectation held by professional educators that all young people should receive a quality education that effectively prepares them for active and rewarding lives as individuals, parents, workers, and citizens.
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