Sentences with phrase «conditioning work at»

And U.S. prisoners are often exposed to the same conditions working at disassembling e-waste for the government - owned corporation UNICOR Federal Prison Industries in Washington, D.C. «I visited a federal prison in California and I saw prisoners with hammers smashing apart CRT monitors,» says Ted Smith, chairman of the advocacy group Electronics TakeBack Coalition.

Not exact matches

The business community's continued failure to increase female representation at board and executive level has drawn fresh arguments for mandatory quotas and more flexible working conditions, with the

Just this month, as part of the first large - scale clinical trial of its kind, researchers working in rural India found that newborns who were given a synbiotic were at a substantially lower risk of developing sepsis, a potentially fatal condition characterized by severe infection.

In recent years, Amazon has faced criticism of the working conditions at its warehouses, at least some of which are managed by third - party contractors.

Canadian labels like Joe Fresh and Gildan Activewear have come under scrutiny for working conditions at factories in Bangladesh and Haiti.

Forget practice and conditioning and everything else — Tom Brady probably spends more time just watching film than the rest of us spend at work.

They often suffer from both mental and physical health problems at a higher rate than workers in other industries as a result of their working conditions, which include operating under hard - nosed management practices and getting yelled at all day by irate customers.

Namely, they don't meet SSDI requirements that their condition be «expected to last at least one year or result in death,» preventing them from working.

The news comes after recent reports of a data breach at the company and claims that her factory had an «unclean work environment,» with conditions akin to a «sweatshop.»

That agreement could bar workers from talking about their working conditions and safety issues at the company's facility in Fremont, California.

According to the National Labor Relations Board complaint, Tesla violated workers» rights by requiring them to sign a confidentiality agreement that could bar them from talking about their working conditions and safety issues at the company's facility in Fremont, California.

A May report by the Guardian detailed the tough work conditions at the company's Fremont, California, factory, revealing that hundreds of ambulances have been called over the past several years for injuries, fainting, and dizzy spells.

Robert Chant — a senior VP at Loblaw, a company that commissioned clothing from one of the companies that worked out of the doomed Bangladesh factory — said that while his company has always been concerned to monitor working conditions, they simply hadn't thought to have their subcontractors» buildings inspected.

Employees at the mill have deplorable working conditions and the main character works to create better conditions through the union.

Ask them about the barriers they face, about the work conditions they'd like to see, about how their ambitions square with the opportunities available at your organization.

Critics say they suppress wages, weaken the collective bargaining authority of unions and leave workers at the mercy of employers in negotiations over pay, benefits and working conditions.

Air Canada pilots complained during labour negotiations earlier this year that the low - cost carrier could threaten their job security and working conditions, and that pilots at the carrier would earn less.

Forget practice and conditioning and everything else; Peyton Manning probably spent more time just watching film than the rest of us spend at work.

Unions at Kaiser Permanente, Harley Davidson (HOG), Southwest Airlines (LUV), ABC School District in Los Angeles and others are building and sustaining partnerships with employers to improve performance, quality and working conditions.

The phone can tell you when to leave for work based on current traffic conditions or remind you to call a loved one at a certain time, for example.

Meanwhile, researchers have also cast doubt on the long - term efficacy of «forced fun» at work, finding that required levity can lead to an array of bad outcomes such as burnout among employees, and that these cheerful work cultures often serve to distract workers from excessive control or poor conditions elsewhere in the business.

All inmates must hold jobs at the prison, unless they have a medical condition that prohibits them from working.

Soon after Polman began at Unilever, the nonprofit Oxfam began investigating working conditions in the company's factories.

Stress, as defined by the Jobs Rated methodology, is determined by 11 factors: travel, deadlines, working in the public eye, competitiveness, physical demands, environmental conditions, hazards encountered, the life of oneself or others at risk, meeting and interacting with customers and / or the public, and the potential for job growth.

December 2009 (1967 kb PDF file): The Q&A in this issue features seven questions about political influence and the financial crisis (by Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, and Thierry Tressel); research summaries on «Credit Conditions and Recoveries from Financial Crises» (by Prakash Kannan) and «Inflation Targeting in Emerging Economies» (by Turgut Kýþýnbay); the contents of the latest issue of IMF Staff Papers; a listing of visiting scholars at the IMF during October — December 2009; and listings of recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Position Notes

Namely, they don't meet SSDIrequirements that their condition be «expected to last at least one year or result in death,» preventing them from working.

[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

In that respect Foxconn is probably the perfect partner to help Google achieve its vision given its history of poor working conditions and suicidal workers at its plants.

They ensure that everyone who works earns a minimum wage for their labour, and that nobody is subjected to inhumane working conditions or unduly harsh treatment at the hands of their employer.

Damore asserted that his memo was designed to enlist his fellow employees in improving working conditions at Google, «concerted activity» protected by the National Labor Relations Act.

Some offices they looked at, though, needed a lot of work: tearing down and moving walls, electrical, plumbing, HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning), disability access changes, and more.

Unapproved work was done without city permits to the air conditioning and back - up generator systems at the Hollywood Hills nursing home where several residents died when power to the air conditioning system failed during Hurricane...

They look at the origins, work conditions, and precarious lives of farm workers in terms of larger historical forces such as colonialism, land rights, and racism.

The agency's mission includes oversight of work - related benefits and rights and improving working conditions for people at all levels of the U.S. labor force.

Bennett took to the union's Facebook page at noon, about an hour before the district's plans were released, pledging to defend teachers» «personal leave, comp time and your contractual right to work in safe conditions.»

These individuals may still be available to work, but they might choose to sit on the sidelines of the labour market, ready to take up an opportunity or at least begin searching for one when conditions improve.

Certain shareholders have taken notice of this pattern of reports concerning the Company's working conditions, and at its 2016 annual meeting, have submitted a variety of shareholder proposals requesting increased disclosure of both Amazon's sustainability and human rights considerations.

Pin bars work great at the tops and bottoms of range - bound markets and provide very accurate setups in these conditions.

I work at a large industrial conglomerate — several of the conditions of employment are an IP waiver and a requirement to identify other income sources and / or business activities as part of conflict of interest reporting.

SB 284: Filed by state Sen. Lauren Book, D - Plantation, this bill requires nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have generators that can power air conditioning in the event of a loss of power, and requires the Agency for Health Care Administration to conduct an unannounced inspection at least every 15 months to check and make sure the generator is in working order.

In such conditions a pragmatic economic principle is at work: Debts that can't be paid, won't be.

After a reasonable interval to seek work in their own occupation, workers are currently expected to take a job «at a rate of earnings not lower and on conditions not less favourable than those observed by agreement between employers and employees or, in the absence of any such agreement, than those recognized by good employers.»

During the rally, women also complained about working conditions at the Memphis XPO warehouse and the on - the - job death of a co-worker.

Such a society depends on the willingness of large numbers of people to undertake tedious and unrewarding work at low pay and in very poor conditions.

I read today an article about people taking their own lives at the iPhone factory in China, allegedly due to working conditions.

Thus, when this forum was mentioned, we said to ourselves that it has the same perspective, even if we are working at the micro level, we are delighted to be here to share our experience and discover at the same time other climatic conditions [Switzerland in winter].

As we were taxiing around John Wayne Airport, the guy (who at the beginning of the flight told me he spent the summer working for Coca - Cola setting up air - conditioned tents at concerts and amusement parks), asked me what I was reading.

This can be seen in the end of labour contracts or at the very least, a general weakening of the once stable and fixed labour contract - which was the norm in the richest countries - and the general rise in uncertainty and unemployment and, for those still working, a deterioration in working conditions around what is called flexibility.

He is at work in time, and it is just this which the theological tradition, conditioned by neo-platonic metaphysics, has never been able to encompass.

Due to the work of McKee at Boston University and Bennet Omalu (subject of the recently released movie Concussion), we are learning about more and more athletes diagnosed with CTE — Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a condition marked by «memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control problems, aggression, depression and, eventually, progressive dementia.»