Sentences with phrase «despite legal protections»

It's true — despite legal protections, being considered an older job seeker can hinder your chances of finding employment.

Despite the legal protections granted to Florida patients, medical malpractice is unfortunately as common in Tampa as it is throughout the country.

Despite the legal protections that have been put in place to protect employees from workplace harassment, including those found in human rights and occupational health and safety legislation, which require employers to provide employees with a safe and respectful working environment, systemic barriers to reporting these incidents remain.

But despite these legal protections from employment discrimination, there are still pervasive and dangerous biases prevalent throughout many industries.

Despite this legal protection, many employers are not fully aware of what they must provide.

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«Premier Horgan went to Ottawa citing B.C.'s jurisdiction and concerns over protection of the marine environment, despite his government's recent admission that they were advised by their own legal experts last summer that BC has no jurisdiction to stop the pipeline,» said Chris Gardner, President, Independent Contractors and Businesses Association.

However, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal today ruled that MPs» communications with whistleblowers and their constituents have no special legal protection from state surveillance under the law, despite those long - held government doctrine apparently prohibiting it.

To see whether the shift in attitude would endure despite hearing opposing messages (as would be common during a political battle), during the online survey six weeks after the canvassing conversation the researchers showed voters one of the transphobic television ads used to overturn legal protections for transgender people in Houston.

Despite increased national and international protection of marine turtles, direct legal take remains a major source of mortality.

Dr Antonakakis, a Senior Lecturer in Portsmouth Business School and an Assistant Professor in Vienna University of Economics and Business, said: «Despite its legal obligation to assess the health effects of EU policies, the Directorate - General for Health and Consumer Protection of the European Commission has been rather passive in terms of assessing the impact of the troika's push for austerity, and has rather limited EU commentary to advise how health ministries should cut their budgets.

Despite these threats, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center found that sanctuary protections were strengthened across 410 localities and five states in 2017, restricting the use of their agencies» time, money, or other resources from being spent on federal immigration enforcement efforts.

Despite the absence of statutory protections, the plaintiff alleges she and her class members agreed to the onerous conditions because they could ill afford to make demands of their employer amid Canada's cutthroat legal jobs market.

Despite the fact that all EU states are party to the 1970 Hague Evidence Convention (Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters or hereafter Hague Convention) and have transposed the EU Data Protection Directive into national law, stark differences in the legal regime applicable to international transfers for the purposes of e-discovery exist between EU Member States.

The preamble of this Directive refers to both the creation of an internal market and the protection of consumers and Article 8 allows for the introduction of a higher level of consumer protection, despite Article 100A (currently 114 TFEU) being the legal basis.

Despite what external observers, and perhaps some foreign companies with manufacturing planets in the NAFTA member country, may assume about local labour protection law, the reality Gutiérrez said is that Mexican workers have very strong legal rights.

Despite these rules, the sense of the community of lawyers is that the protection granted by legal privilege in Italy is, as a matter of fact, low.

Aboriginal law was barely on the legal map in Canada at the time, he explains, despite a brand new recognition of aboriginal and treaty rights in s. 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982, affirming unspecified protections for Indians, Inuit, and Métis.

to the crypto community about the potential financial, operational, legal, customer protection and security related risks which the community is exposed to while dealing in cryptocurrency but despite operating under the dark clouds of such occasional cautionary by RBI, the sector continued to grow buoyed by the rising prices of cryptocurrencies.

Despite the differences, what seems universal are concerns about the national laws and legal procedures families must rely on when they can not solve their own problems, whether these are problems associated with divorce or child protection matters.