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Functional Assessment Interviewing Toolkit: Questions to Assess Strengths, Needs, Wants and Desires (PDF - 337 KB) The Child Welfare Policy and Practice Group (2016) Presents a toolkit for child welfare case workers on conducting a family functioning assessment interview.

Case workers on an average spend 40 percent to 50 percent of their time filing and processing paperwork, and each child on an average has five binders, with each binder consisting of 550 pages.

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If your employees work in your home office and get injured there, your homeowners» insurance may refuse to pay on the grounds that it's actually a workers» comp case.

In many cases, companies spend far more than $ 13,000 on employees» insurance, yet those workers could only bank that much lower limit.

A spokesman for PetroChina said the company was trying to keep salaries of front - line workers stable, but declined to comment on this particular case or recent salary trends for back office staff.

«What happens with Facebook is you don't know what you don't know,» said David Lopez, a former general counsel for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission who is one of the lawyers at the firm Outten & Golden bringing the age - discrimination case on behalf of the communication workers union.

The justices will hear Young's case nearly six months after the EEOC issued new guidelines to employers on how to treat pregnant workers amid the increase in bias complaints.

The Center for American Progress reviewed 30 case studies in 11 of the most relevant research papers on the costs of employee turnover and found that it costs businesses about one - fifth of a worker's salary to replace that worker.

Tablets and smartphones could also save case workers from lugging around cartloads of binders when at court or when investigating a case on the road, Benitez said.

The time spent on paperwork also impedes the ability for case workers to spend more time with the children and families they serve, Benitez said.

Workers from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department kill mosquitoes outside a construction site in Hong Kong on Aug. 26, 2016, after the first case of Zika was confirmed in the city.

If anything similar is the case at the Samsung factories, this implies that stricter limits on overtime would indeed be a bad thing, at least from the workers» point of view.

In its special report on the topic, the agency asserted that the majority of workplace harassment cases are never reported because employees fear retaliation; a recent survey from LegalZoom found that just a quarter of workers have faith in their employers to quickly and effectively resolve workplace issues.

The Liberals are unlikely to make any final decision on drug testing until the Supreme Court of Canada rules on its legality in a case between Suncor and workers at its Alberta oil sands operation, said Troy Winters, senior health and safety officer with the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

«Since there's no rule restricting the way we give options to people who are not executives or directors, we make those decisions on a case - by - case basis, based on a worker's seniority, merit, and importance to the company,» he says.

«This won't be a speech about specifics but instead about the case that we have to get growth faster and wages faster and get people to focus on that and the impact on workers» take - home pay,» a senior White House official said.

An investigative report revealed disturbing cases of nursing home abuses, with workers sharing photos or videos of patients on social media including Snapchat.

The former workers» cases hinged on their argument that the companies had violated clauses of the visa law requiring employers to show that hiring H - 1B workers «will not adversely affect the working conditions» of other workers in similar jobs.

One of Canada's leading scholars on deindustrialization and the author of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969 — 1985, Concordia historian Steven High, assumes that deindustrialization did occur to some extent, but that nationalist worker activism forced politicians to legislate advance warnings of shutdowns, better packages and, in some cases, even slowed plant closures.

The case, which centers on a small aircraft that Bombardier plans to sell to American customers, could affect the livelihood of thousands of workers whose jobs traverse the sprawling supply chains of both aircraft manufacturers.

The long - awaited proposed regulations (RIN: 1615 - AC04) would allow the DHS secretary to temporarily admit, on a case - by - case basis, entrepreneurs who meet a certain set of defined criteria related to the success of their startup companies and how many jobs they generate for U.S. workers.

Most likely that would come from taxes on those who were also working, which would erase any benefit that they got and act as a disincentive for many to work (opponents to the UBI in Switzerland made that case, suggesting it would lead to a flat out shortage of workers).

In many cases, the arrangement is on a consulting basis, with the worker based out of a remote office closer to home.

The workers demanded that they be able to bring their cases together — not in individual arbitrations — which set their case on the path to the Supreme Court.

Baxter is on most questions a theological conservative, but on matters social and political he is pretty much an unexpurgated lefty, as was the case with his heroine, Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker movement.

Employees who refuse to work on their sabbath have been the principal beneficiaries of this rule (in another case a worker lost his job in a brass mill because he refused to help manufacture tank turrets) The Oregon courts followed these cases and awarded unemployment compensation to Smith and Black.

The argument is particularly devastating today, for it is addressed precisely to the deprived, to workers, to those who live in underdeveloped countries (who are in even worse case than the besieged in Jerusalem), and it is true enough on its negative side.

Your case worker can arrange for another trained foster parent to come in and take over for a day or two or three if you need a break to get back on an even keel again and do the best parenting you can do.

Caseworker - Do you as the case worker know all of the duties and responsibilities placed on a foster parent?

In some cases the offers are better than the ones on the table for Chrysler's roughly 26,000 hourly workers.

WHO distance learning course WHO has developed a self - teaching training course on diarrhoea case management designed for health workers who regularly deal with children with diarrhoea but who are unable to attend training courses away from their workplaces.

Rather than passing herself off as some sort of miracle worker, or trying to sell me on a simple five - step plan she'd come up with, she made it clear to me that improving school food can not happen without lots of hard work and, most importantly, without funding; in her case, San Francisco's board of education is willing to kick in significant money each year to cover the costs of the improved school food.

In other cases guest speakers will speak on other child care topics to entice health workers to the event.

«This most recent incident — on top of ongoing allegations of discriminatory employment practices against women and a long, shameful record of aggressive hostility to worker's rights and basic decency — only strengthens the case against Wal - Mart's attempts to open locations in New York City.»

Currently, immigration sits primarily within the Home Office, but there is a case that the new trade department takes more of this role on as we consider how to attract the world's best workers to a Britain outside the EU.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

«While we understand the significant cost of complying with the recent court rulings overturning decades of New York State policy on 24 - hour homecare cases, we strongly believe that it is unfair to continue to ask home care workers to bear the financial burden of providing needed round - the - clock care.»

In a case that could have wide - ranging national significance for gay rights, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that a landmark civil rights law bars employers from discriminating against their workers based on sexual orientation.

-- Political columnist Errol Louis reviews Sheldon Silver's «other offenses» — Advocates want changes in the city's proposed e-bike rules; «In case it isn't obvious by now: Mayor de Blasio should have talked with delivery workers about electric bikes rather than declaring war on them.»

A case that was heard Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court and will be decided later on this year could have a big impact on public worker unions in New York.

I also asked Heastie if he's concerned about the governor's increased reliance of late on his executive powers to circumvent the Legislature on key policy issues like a minimum wage increase for the state's fast food workers and creation of a special prosecutor to handle cases in which unarmed civilians die at the hands of law enforcement officers.

The reporting of this case by television and print media has focussed on the failures of the care home system and the failure of police and social workers to pick up the signs of distress when this abuse started.

Facing resistance in Albany over his calls for a minimum wage exceeding $ 13 an hour in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio took his case directly to business leaders on Thursday, urging them to raise workers» pay to that level voluntarily.

His private practice still focuses on Workers» Compensation and Social Security disability cases.

In every area, the left has attempted to portray the case for reform as an attack on public sector workers.

Justice Baah therefore charged the Electoral Commission to work on a statutory definition of over-voting ahead of the 2020 general elections, to assist the Court in expeditious handling of such cases, and also urged it to train its workers well in election conduct and management.

The worker, whose name is being held back because the case is still pending, received a notice in June that read «you committed an act of abuse or neglect on or about (insert date) at (insert provider agency name).

11:43 - Brown is attacked on foreign workers - specifically the posted workers initiative, which (through a couple of later court cases) allows foreign to come over while being paid wages of their home country.

The public outcry and the criticism of social services which followed high profile cases of child abuse, such as those of Victoria Climbie and baby Peter Connelly, was reported to have resulted in increased numbers of children being taken into care as social workers erred on the side of caution.

«We have consistently said that we will defend our members» rights on pensions and this case demonstrates that successive governments have failed workers who have heeded their advice to save for their retirement,» he said.