Sentences with phrase «by public employers»

Singh said the Sikh community and other faiths were motivated in particular by discriminatory practices by public employers such as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the NYPD.

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But we all know that being cleared by your employer doesn't always mean you're actually innocent, and it certainly doesn't mean the public will move on.

Once feted by billionaires, Levandowski now finds himself starring in a high - stakes public trial as his two former employers square off.

Of course, in those two cases, the employers» hands were forced by enormous public pressure.

A certain portion of your monthly paycheck is deducted by your employer, which pays your premium to the public insurer.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).

She and the authors of the report, «Education to Employment, Designing a System that Works,» call for countries to create the role of «integrator» — a government appointee or someone designated by a public - private partnership, to make sure employers, educators, and students are getting what they need out of the system.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

Amazon is the fourth most valuable public company in the world, the largest Internet company by revenue in the world, and the eighth largest employer in the United States.

By building and operating an excellent public transit system, employers can access a wider pool of employees, employees can access more job opportunities, families can deal with housing affordability challenges by living with one less car, and productive and busy people can save time by having a fast and reliable alternative to sitting in traffiBy building and operating an excellent public transit system, employers can access a wider pool of employees, employees can access more job opportunities, families can deal with housing affordability challenges by living with one less car, and productive and busy people can save time by having a fast and reliable alternative to sitting in traffiby living with one less car, and productive and busy people can save time by having a fast and reliable alternative to sitting in traffiby having a fast and reliable alternative to sitting in traffic.

All of us fret and kick against the steel bands of institutionalism; the teacher against the grading system, the social worker against the artificiality created by the very fact of his being a professional representative of the state commissioned to deal with human needs, the worker something of whose very life is «bought» against the employer, and the sensitive employer who buys that portion of that life against the system, the public official against the role which political necessity assigns to him.

Where there are public retirement systems, workers are asked to replace them by a pension fund mechanism that subjects their own employers to the sole imperatives of immediate profitability, extends the sphere of influence of finance, and persuades citizens of the obsolescence of institutions of solidarity between nations, peoples, and generations.

• In his «Public Square» in the April issue, the editor explained why the Obama administration will «accommodate» Notre Dame and similar religious enterprises but will not consider them to be religious employers protected by the first amendment.

Several companies and organisations led by chief executives who have vowed to do more to promote women in business and the public service failed to make a list of the best Australian employers of women.

CNN discovered on page 1239 of law that employers with more than 50 employees are required to provide «a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from co-workers and the public, which may be used by an employee to express breast milk.»

• We help employers and public services to change, by providing them with information, advice and training; by assessing and evaluating their policies and practice; and by piloting new practice.

In addition, having the IMH Endorsement will inform prospective employers, peers, referral sources, families, and the public at large that an individual who is providing services to infants and their families meets standards that have been approved by a professional organization devoted to the optimal development of very young children.

According to the new healthcare law, employers are required to provide «a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public, which may be used by an employee to express breast milk.»

The move by employers comes at a time when the Conservatives have announced plans for new laws to curb the rights of public sector unions to take industrial action.

· Amend The Penal Law To Prohibit Undisclosed Self - Dealing By Public Officials: To address the Supreme Court's decision in Skilling, which severely hampered the federal government's ability to prosecute cases involving deprivation of «honest services» by public officials, New York State should enact a felony - level crime of «Undisclosed Self - Dealing» to target public officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government employeBy Public Officials: To address the Supreme Court's decision in Skilling, which severely hampered the federal government's ability to prosecute cases involving deprivation of «honest services» by public officials, New York State should enact a felony - level crime of «Undisclosed Self - Dealing» to target public officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government empPublic Officials: To address the Supreme Court's decision in Skilling, which severely hampered the federal government's ability to prosecute cases involving deprivation of «honest services» by public officials, New York State should enact a felony - level crime of «Undisclosed Self - Dealing» to target public officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government employeby public officials, New York State should enact a felony - level crime of «Undisclosed Self - Dealing» to target public officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government emppublic officials, New York State should enact a felony - level crime of «Undisclosed Self - Dealing» to target public officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government emppublic officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government employer.

Cuomo's plan creates tax credits for charitable contributions to public education or health care programs and allows employers to replace the income tax currently paid by employees with a payroll tax paid by the company.

The savings come from reduced costs for public assistance to low - wage workers — in effect a taxpayer subsidy to large low - wage employers — and increased tax payments by workers benefiting from the wage hike.

The new minimum wage tax credit, by contrast, has no caps for employers or the state, is open to any business large or small, and doesn't contain a provision to make information public.

There was a reason why even FDR was against public employees unions and I quote «All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, can not be transplanted into the public service, It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management» «The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations» «The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress.

ALBANY — The state during the first half of 2017 recovered a combined $ 5.3 million that thousands of employees on public works projects were cheated out of by their private employers, the Daily News has learned.

«What's vital now is that Lord Hutton's recommendations are implemented in full by government and public sector employers.

The survey of 700 employers by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) revealed a «substantial» fall in employment, especially in the public sector.

The state during the first half of 2017 recovered a combined $ 5.3 million that thousands of employees on public works projects were cheated out of by their private employers.

The TUC warned that attacks on public sector pensions by opposition leaders and employers» groups in recent months threatened to undermine what was left of «decent» retirement provision in Britain in favour of a «race to the bottom».

... a public employer shall be prohibited from diminishing the health insurance benefits provided to retirees and their dependents or the contributions such employer makes for such health insurance coverage below the level of such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such retirees and their dependents by such employer as of the effective date of this act.

A bill sponsored by Public Advocate Letitia James that bans employers from asking applicants about their salary history was passed by the Council in April.

Current obligations are due to reforms necessitated by the Wall Street crash of recent years and a decade of public employers not contributing to the system while employees contributed 3 percent of salary;

That ruling, expected this spring, would bar the mandatory collection of dues - like «agency fees» from non-members by declaring all public unions» activities political, since they negotiate contracts with government, not private employers.

Whether due to cutbacks of public pensions, the lack of retirement plans offered by private employers, or workers forced to raid their savings, it appears to a growing number of advocates and politicians that many Americans will be forced to keep

By its tripartite nature, the committee is made up of persons from the public sector, (federal and state governments) and the private sector made up of the Nigerian Employers» Consultative Association, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture and Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Enterprises.

«With reference pricing, the employer or insurer will make a contribution towards paying for the prescription drug chosen by the patient, and the patient will pay the remainder,» said lead author James C. Robinson, director of the Berkeley Center for Health Technology at the School of Public Health.

«After Pickering, courts were compelled to weigh the competing interests of public employees and employers on a case - by - case basis.

Another case — 1994's Waters v. Churchill — gave institutions an additional advantage by allowing them, as public employers, to limit speech that administrators deemed «disruptive» to a public school.

There was one example given by a public radio reporter of a maid whose employer did offer insurance — she made $ 1,500 a month and the insurance would've cost her $ 1,600 a month.

A 2004 study by the Genetics and Public Policy Center of Johns Hopkins University found that 92 percent of survey participants did not want genetic information shared with employers; and 80 percent of respondents felt health insurers should not have access to their genetic information.

They aim to make things easier by educating carers, employers and the general public.

While the overall employer contribution rate for public school teachers is higher than for private - sector professionals, the group average may mask differences between teachers who are and are not covered by Social Security.

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.»

The DB plans funded by state and local governments, unlike private sector DB plans or DB plans for public employees in other countries, base employer contributions on how much a government assumes its plan's investments will earn over time.

Sponsored by HGSE Career Services and the Office of Career Services at Harvard College, the event featured 38 employers and attracted 234 students from schools across Harvard including the Ed School, Harvard College, the Divinity School, the Kennedy School, the School of Public Health, and the Extension School.

Figure 2 contrasts with the relatively smooth accrual that would occur with a cash balance pension plan (see our EFP paper for an explanation of this type of program, used by many large private employers and a few public employers).

Regardless of whether you work in the private or public sector, are a large employer or a small one, all employers will by law have to submit Real Time Information (RTI) to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) by October 2013.

The campaign is backed by many public sector employers, including Greenwich University, Sheffield College, and NHS Employers and covers specific areas such as attraction strategies, developing multi-channel approaches and effective management of a flexible wemployers, including Greenwich University, Sheffield College, and NHS Employers and covers specific areas such as attraction strategies, developing multi-channel approaches and effective management of a flexible wEmployers and covers specific areas such as attraction strategies, developing multi-channel approaches and effective management of a flexible workforce.

As the NELP commentary notes, even if some employers are illegally discriminating this does not automatically imply BTB efforts are misguided; strengthened enforcement of anti-discrimination laws as well as increased public and internal conversations sparked by BTB efforts may lead to reductions in such discriminatory practices over time.

«Teacher Retirement Benefits: Even in economically tough times, costs are higher than ever,» by Robert Costrell and Michael Podgursky This study documents the growing gap between high employer pension costs for public school teachers and lower employer pension costs for private sector managers and professionals.