Sentences with phrase «class of workers»

I'll close with this quote from USSC Chief Justice Hughes in the 1937 decision in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, he states: «The exploitation of a class of workers who are in an unequal position with respect to bargaining power and are thus relatively defenseless against the denial of a living wage is not only detrimental to their health and well being, but casts a direct burden for their support upon the community.»

For some reason, many insist we enter into these regulations whether China / India join us or not without stopping to think that without their consent also, there would be a great migration of business from the U.S. to China / India and our already struggling manufacturing class of workers would be left completely screwed.

Missionization By the time European explorers arrived in the Santa Barbara Channel, there were some 21 villages on the three largest islands of San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz, with highly developed social hierarchies that featured an upper class of chiefs, shamans, boat builders, and artisans, a middle class of workers, fisherman, and hunters, and a lower class of the poor and outcast.

Why not embrace this question of the industry's dependence on a class of workers who don't always feel recognized as peers by publishing professionals?

And yet, current policies curtail the retirement security of this major class of workers.

Yet, current policies curtail the retirement security of this major class of workers.

Big business failed in that they saw students as products and teachers as technicians, assembly line workers, and any other name you can attach to that class of workers.

«[They are] taking the authority of this class of workers and trying, with a wink and a nod, to think we still have an authority over workers at $ 11 an hour and it's now $ 13.»

Mr. Stringer's office maintains that language means Mr. Stringer's oversight only applies to the law — which does not cover the new class of workers or the higher wage — and not the new executive order.

Mr. Stringer's office argues that the executive order does not give him authority to investigate issues surrounding that new class of workers, or to uphold the higher wage, and only maintains his responsibility as outlined in the old law — to uphold the now outdated $ 11.11 wage, and only among the workers covered in 2012.

How does it make sense to have a minimum wage for one class of workers when state workers — there's many that don't make $ 15 an hour.

In Tyson Foods v. Bouaphakeo (No. 14 - 1146) a different court of appeal agreed that a class of workers could be certified as a group to pursue their members» claim that they should have been paid for the time when they were putting on safety equipment.

This despite the various civic problems that come from importing a class of workers who might face deportation if they undergo a spell of unemployment and who are barred from US citizenship.

Granted, U.S. firms do tend to hire a higher class of workers, often with a U.S. master's degree, compared to an Indian bachelor's for the Infosyses.

Today, gig economy platforms often mark the first step towards entrepreneurship for a new class of workers eager for an alternative to the inflexibility of paycheck - driven employment.

However, this is the first suit to object to Yelp's utilization of reviewers as unpaid labor, exploiting «a vulnerable and disposable class of workers.»

And it also illustrates the disconnect between the protected bubble of Silicon Valley, the elite venture capital firms that grease its machinery, and a new class of workers.

So rather than blowing the Q2 budget on a Superdesk to attract a younger class of worker, consider letting your employees work from a more familiar setting: their own homes.

Wages tend to grow along with the economy, but a number of factors, most notably technological change and globalization, have ensured that for most classes of workers wages have grown slower than productivity gains.

In fact, so many people have taken to driving, hosting and delivering goods that new companies are launching to help this class of worker maximize earnings, handle administrative functions and finish jobs efficiently.

To drive down labor costs, a company replaces a regulated, protected class of worker (members of a union) with a non-protected worker (by relocating to non-union states or countries with a lower labor cost).

Uber uses technology to drive down the cost of labor by replacing a regulated, protected class of worker (in this case, taxi drivers) with a non-protected worker (in this case, anyone with a driver's license and decent car).

Now PagerDuty wants to deliver the same always - on - call approach to other classes of workers, including marketers, IT administrators and those in the executive suite.

In June, he wrote a Washington Post op - ed calling for a new third class of worker — somewhere in between contractor and employee — to fit the needs of on - demand and marketplace companies.

According to the Common Core of Data, DCPS employed nearly 3,800 teachers in 2010 - 11, so even though the retirement system also includes other classes of workers employed by DCPS (certain public charter school employees are also eligible to be participants), the vast majority of DCRB's members appear to be DCPS teachers.

Authors are among our more vulnerable classes of workers.

The colors correspond to different classes of workers, just as employees are classified at Google and Disney World.

Brown, Goldstein & Levy has extensive experience representing large classes of workers who have not been properly paid overtime.

Founding Partner (Retired)- Argued three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court; Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers; represented large classes of workers who had not been properly paid overtime.

To not be able to include foreign workers in the regular growth and movement involved in large corporations almost creates a second class of worker, precisely what the original enforcement policies were purported to prevent.

Class codes are assigned to different classes of workers and help to establish the base rate for that particular type of worker.

The BWC uses class codes that are set by the National Council on Compensation Insurance to identify the different classes of workers.

This change clarified a lot of uncertainty regarding the deduction for many classes of workers.

I think there may be a way the Court can duck the issue by saying that the record is not sufficiently developed to determine whether the three classes of workers provided accommodations are similarly situated in their restrictions, but it is hard to see how they can do so without also ruling that is a proper comparison.

Not exact matches

«The issue is not that middle - class workers are doomed by automation and technology, but instead that human capital investment must be at the heart of any long - term strategy for producing skills that are complemented by rather than substituted for by technological change.»

The Silicon Valley worker benefits and perks — the free, fresh produce and transcendental meditation pods — have become symbols of the riches created in the tech sector and how good it has been to workers, but the hype belies the truth that many of the employees operating within big tech companies are working on second - class contract terms.

Obviously this isn't the majority - the median wealth of people in the 55 - 64 cohort is something like $ 200,000 - but a non-trivial percentage of middle class workers ultimately reach this milestone.

(Class actions in Massachusetts and California challenging contract worker status at some of the on - demand companies may also alter the landscape.)

Translated to a national stage, such policies could create a disconnect between Bush's stated long - term goals of helping the middle class and poorer workers while supporting business, political analysts say.

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

Attorneys for McDonald's workers have filed class action suits in three states claiming that the company was responsible for illegally withholding wages in a number of ways, including calling people in but not paying them for all the time they were required to be in stores as well as charging for the costs of uniforms.

Market volatility is low, U.S. census data shows income gains have reached the middle class, and workers are clawing back a larger share of national income.

Class action lawsuits filed by current and former Chipotle workers in Colorado and Minnesota accuse the burrito chain of making employees work extra hours without pay, reports CNN.

While Starbucks coffee can be an everyday indulgence for urbanites in the West, with a price tag of 30 yuan (US$ 4.43) for a medium latte in Shanghai, it is still a brand with plenty of snob appeal — a status symbol for the emerging Chinese middle class and a «liquid luxury» for an average worker.

The Law Commission even suggests this growing legion of precarious workers is on the verge of full - blown class consciousness, preciously calling them the «precariat.»

At 31 years old, I'm 3 classes away from my undergraduate, have run and lost a State Senate race, can debate Hayek and Keynes with economics Professors, debate Nietzsche and Schopenhauer with philosophy professors, and talk occupy politics with working class youth, unemployed workers and homeless bums on the streets of Atlanta.

The Turk is a convenient metaphor for the worker in today's disrupted economy: Finding himself in the most opulent of settings, a person is confined to a tiny box, performing menial tasks for the benefit of the ruling class.

But Monday's lawsuit, filed by former Tesla employee Marcus Vaughn, is the first to bring those claims on behalf of a large class of black workers at the automaker's Fremont, California factory.

One of those workers filed a class action lawsuit against the company in the bankruptcy court for violating the federal WARN Act, which requires larger companies to give 60 days advance notice of layoffs.

This boom includes Richard Florida's people: the young, digitized, multilingual creative class workers who populate the condos sprouting on Lake Ontario's edge, drawn from other parts of the city and the rest of the province and country to where economic and educational opportunity beckons.3