Sentences with phrase «by temporary workers»

The Temp Payroll department processes and pays the 26,000 timesheets submitted by temporary workers every week.

Sumsion v BBC (Scotland)[2007] IRLR 678, was a test case for complaints by temporary workers for the BBC.

Premises Liability: Rape and assault of tenant by temporary worker during hurricane repairs.

Because patients do not have a choice except for the ER staff on duty, hospitals can be held «vicariously liable» for damages, even when the patient's injury was caused by a temporary worker or independent contractor.

Not exact matches

Unpaid internships depress wages by creating a pool of workers willing to work for free — and for no benefits, making them akin to the labourers brought to Canada under the much - maligned temporary foreign worker program.

In reality, a scene set on farmers» fields across the country should show that a great deal of agricultural work in Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workers.

In September, the department store, which has been beset by 11 straight quarters of comparable sales declines, said it would hire 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, the second year in a row it was taking on fewer seasonal associates.

This tripling of the itinerant workforce resulted in unemployment being 3.9 percentage points higher in Alberta and British Columbia, where the use of temporary foreign workers is prevalent, according to a recent study by Simon Fraser University professor Dominique Gross.

To hire a temporary foreign worker, employers must pay the «prevailing wage» for the position, an amount determined by postings on the Job Bank.

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.

A new study suggests that by 2020, 40 percent of America's workforce will be contract, temporary or self - employed workers.

Armed with all that information, Stroz Friedberg determined that the leaker of the photos was a temporary worker employed by the photographer.

Prized by the business lobby, loathed by unionized labour, the temporary foreign worker program is either a solution to or an exacerbation of a problem that may or may not exist.

In response to a question posed by Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland on temporary foreign workers, Jason Kenney, the Minister of Employment and Social Development gave the following response:

Last April, facing a Federal Court lawsuit launched by unions over the HD Mining workers, the federal government introduced reforms to the program, including removing a provision that allowed employers to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15 per cent less than the prevailing Canadian wage.

The plurality of Canadians who do not reject the idea in general say temporary foreign workers should only be allowed if the required skills are not available in Canada (31 %), followed by those who want to be sure no Canadian jobs are displaced (21 %) or those who accept temporary foreign workers for jobs Canadians refuse (18 %).

It's not perfect, but the open letter to Canadians from RBC president and CEO Gord Nixon does hit a lot of the right notes to help stem the swell of ill will, sparked by a CBC report over the weekend claiming the company was swapping Canadian staff for cheaper temporary foreign workers.

A Qualcomm spokesperson told Fortune in a statement that both full - time and temporary workers will be affected by the layoffs, without citing the specific number of full - time and contract workers that will be cut.

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 %).

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...

Posted by Armine Yalnizyan under big business, capitalism, corporate profits, employment, federal budget, globalization, immigration, labour market, migrant workers, taxation, temporary workers, wages.

Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder was revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.

Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India.

That changed in 1986, when the H program was split into the H - 2A agricultural and H - 2B non-agricultural temporary worker programs by the Immigration Reform and Control Act, creating the categories still in use today.

Agricultural workers were also eligible to work legally under the temporary worker — H class visa — created by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952, although this program was primarily used for nonagricultural workers.

Posted by Nick Falvo under BC, Conservative government, employment, immigration, income, income support, Indigenous people, Job vacanices, labour market, migrant workers, poverty, skill shortages, social policy, temporary workers, unemployment, wages, workplace benefits.

They also examine how the rights and privileges of farm workers, including seasonal and temporary foreign workers, conflict with those of their employers, and reveal the barriers many face by being excluded from most statutory employment laws, sometimes in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

By December 2014, the number of temporary foreign workers in B.C. increased to 84,000.

Even the establishment of a new and more robust temporary worker program and the reallocation of Diversity Visa quotas to other programs does not alleviate the significant concerns associated with the reduction of legal immigration levels by more than 400,000 family and diversity visas.

They offered a behind - the - scenes glimpse of what it's like to work in the Amazon warehouse, where temperatures soar on hot summer days, production rates are difficult to achieve and the permanent jobs sought by many temporary workers hired by an outside agency are tough to get.

Because of the layoff of Census temporary workers, the headline payroll number fell by 131,000.

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

«It is far too easy for employers in Britain to undercut wages and working conditions by recruiting temporary workers from elsewhere in Europe on very low pay and with no job security, knowing that the benefit system will top up their income.

Most of the workers have chosen to remain at home while a few of them show up briefly at the party's temporary headquarters being used by a faction of the party led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi.

The source said there was a flood of voter registrations about 10 years ago that forced the board to hire temporary workers recommended by Democratic and Republican county leaders.

Besides delaying school aid, Mr. Paterson tried to impose a temporary freeze on state employee salaries and to furlough about 100,000 government workers — both moves have been struck down by courts — in steps that the governor insisted were necessary to keep the state afloat.

State officials say they've hit on a way to save $ 60 million over the next five years by reducing the pay of a legion of temporary workers who supplement the state workforce.

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.

A new report by the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) will highlight the plight of temporary low - paid agency workers who turn to confusing and costly umbrella arrangements to claim tax relief on travel expenses.

The number of agency workers is set to reach 1 million by 2020, according to the Resolution Foundation thinktank, and 1.66 million people are now employed on a temporary basis.

He had been exploring the impact of HIV / AIDS in New York City, but the storm inspired him to lead a caravan of about 30 researchers, graduate students, and health workers to visit temporary housing sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Mississippi and Louisiana.

In contrast, real immigration reform, Hira said, should «significantly raise wage floors» depressed by the presence of low - paid workers on temporary visas and «ensure that Americans have a first and genuine opportunity for these jobs» — two goals apparently absent from Warner's stated preferences.

A seventh allotment for janitors, clerical workers, and substitute teachers has also been reduced (by 18.6 %) if you take into account federal stimulus funding that allowed North Carolina to pay these workers from federal funds on a temporary basis in FY 2010 - 11.

For that, temporary workers are easily provided by the industry.

In Ontario, effective 1 April 2018, equal pay protection under the Employment Standards Act will be extended to ensure that part - time, seasonal and casual workers must be paid the same as full - time workers doing similar work; and workers hired through temporary help agencies must be paid the same are workers hired directly by an employer who are doing similar work.

For instance, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2005 alternative workers — people «employed as independent contractors, on - call workers, temporary help agency workers, and workers provided by contract firms» — made up just 11 percent of the total U.S. workforce.

On March 29, GULF staged an intervention at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in protest of the conditions of extreme indenture faced by thousands of mostly Bangladeshi temporary workers being imported into Abu Dhabi to build the Guggenheim and Louvre complexes on Saadiyat Island.

It is time that the rights of our temporary workers are spelled out clearly and not swallowed up by political sound bites and forgotten once an election is over.

Latest research by the REC shows that the new regulations have caused only limited problems for businesses which regularly use agency workers, and only 4 % of those surveyed attributed any reduction in their use of temporary agency staff directly to the regulations themselves; citing other market reasons for reducing their use of agency workers including continued economic uncertainty and weak growth.

If the Browning - Ferris decision signals a coming shift by Canadian labour boards from traditional legal tests that focus on actual control (like hiring, firing and discipline) to tests which focus more on indirect or reserved control, then employers will face even greater challenges when dealing with temporary workers.