Currently, for example, there are exemptions from overtime pay for
certain categories of workers, including managers and information technology professionals.
According to a statement issued by the Director Bureau of Communication and Strategy for the State Government, Mr Semiu Okanlawon, stated that, «the government has engaged the doctors, perhaps, more than any other
category of workers in the state, on the need to equally be sensitive to the hardship foisted on the finances of the state especially since Nigeria as a whole entered into its trying period of economic recession».
We have a mismatch between having three
different categories of workers (employed, worker or «dependent contractor» and self - employed) for employment law but just two for tax (employed and self - employed).
Whilst welcoming the Taylor Review's proposals to bring greater fairness in rights to certain workers in the «Gig Economy», the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) advises that the suggestion in the Taylor Review to keep the three
categories of workers under employment law - renaming one» dependent contractor» from «workers» — means further work will still be needed to ensure fairness and simplicity in tax outcomes.
Fourth, that this does not require the creation of
new categories of workers, or new labels — in fact we can use any term we wish as long as we use it sensibly, i.e. purposively.
Politically, however, the creation of a
middle category of worker would be a hard sell, with labor unions likely to oppose it, says Brishen Rogers, a professor of labor law at Temple University, out of fear that it might tempt many big employers to eliminate fuller - benefit jobs.
With the recent raft of cases involving workers» status and rights (involving the likes of Pimlico Plumbers and Uber) the review is timely — but will any new legislation keep pace with changing working practices, and succeed in clarifying the sometimes blurred distinctions
between categories of worker?
For example, the much discussed and hyped (in some quarters) new category of «dependant contractor» actually appears on the surface to be a simple re-naming of the
existing category of worker and therefore is an important but none the less slightly damp squib of a development.
Maintaining three
different categories of workers (employed, «dependent contractor» and self - employed) for employment law but just two for tax (employed and self - employed) is a mismatch which means confusion and inconsistency among taxpayers and their employers will continue.
The changes extend presumptive coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder to six
new categories of workers (probation and parole sectors; nurses; police services personnel, including special investigators and bailiffs) and provide for transitional / retroactivity matters.
Because of the drop - off in investment, that
category of workers is expected to decline by 10,305 positions between now and 2020, according to a report released in April by Petroleum Labour Market Information, a division of industry training body Enform.
This category of workers include drillers, servicers and testers who operate and maintain the rigs that are the lifeblood of Canada's energy industry.
Globally, 1st May is the day dedicated to celebrate
all categories of workers.
«It's utterly unprecedented in the United States,» said Paul Sonn, legal co-director of the National Employment Law Project in Washington, D.C. «We're not aware of any state that has adopted a tax credit remotely resembling this one, which will have the taxpayer pick up the tab for the cost of the minimum wage increase for a certain
category of worker.»
* Up until then full salaries were paid to
all categories of workers, leave bonuses were paid promptly and pensions were never delayed.
The Government said with
this category of workers in Grade Level 1 - 7 having been paid 100 % of their salaries up to date there will be no justification for any industrial action.
'' The state is saying the backlog of salaries owed to
these categories of workers dates back to 2011.
Nonetheless, certain
categories of workers had their salaries jerked up in September 2016 as a result of slight improvement in allocations to the state, principal among which was the Paris Club Refunds.
Baderinwa said the governor was not happy paying modulated salaries to
some categories of workers but he assured them that the situation would change immediately the finances of the state improved.
All four
categories of workers are affected by the higher «core» rates.
Hajia Salau noted with the allocation distribution,
all categories of workers in the LGs will start receiving their full month salary as from tomorrow.
The goal, of course, is to maximize productivity — and now a study quantifies the impact of each of
these categories of workers on laboratories» output.
PRO / UAW is a brand - new entity seeking a first - ever contract for
a category of workers never before unionized in the state.
Universities and scholarly organizations «fought really hard» — but ultimately unsuccessfully — «to get [postdocs] removed» from
the category of workers affected by the rule.
This is true even in today's economic climate, which has resulted in higher unemployment for almost
every category of worker in the country.
The gig economy is still developing and
some categories of workers currently only have limited protection.
The Court further held that an exclusion from that protection may be allowed only if the relationship between judges and the Ministry of Justice is, by its nature, «substantially different» from that between employers and their employees falling, according to national law, under
the category of workers.
Construction equipment operators were among
the categories of workers with the highest number of fatalities during that same year, according to OSHA.
Its latest research is based on drug test results from three
categories of workers: federally mandated, safety - sensitive workers, the general workforce and the combined U.S. workforce.
It can come in a form of employer - paid and government sponsored programs, which cover certain
categories of workers and are usually cost - free, and also in private policies, which are paid for by the insured.
If you're in
this category of workers, never indicate that your actual employer is the government agency.