Sentences with phrase «difficult for workers»

According to NAPBS, the NCLC allegation that criminal background checks make it more difficult for workers to obtain employment is not supported by the facts since the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) «has stepped up enforcement against employers who discriminate based on criminal history.»

As Bessen argues, «[a] lthough it is difficult for workers and employers to develop these new skills, this difficulty creates opportunity.

I am concerned, however, that you bowed down to Big Business during committee review of Bill 148 and introduced amendments to scheduling that will make it extremely difficult for workers who need fair scheduling to actually get access to it.

Animal shelters are often busy and overcrowded, so it can be difficult for workers to provide every cat and dog with the individual attention they need.

Indeed, not only have the Tories failed to address the proliferation of zero hours contracts and insecure work, they are also making life even more difficult for those workers caught in a low pay trap.

There are already several bills that seek to address Janus: One from IDC state Sen. Marisol Alcantara of Manhattan and Democratic Assemblyman Peter Abbate Jr. of Brooklyn would make it more difficult for workers to opt out of their union dues.

Radical Conservative plans to make it much more difficult for workers in key public services to go on strike have been slammed as a «democratic outrage» by trade union leaders.

It also shows how it is becoming increasingly difficult for workers with only a high school education to enter the middle class.

This is the government ideology and many people believe this.That is why it is so difficult for the workers to fight against it.

The steady erosion in the voluntary employer - sponsored retirement system has made it more difficult for workers to save for retirement.

If an employer were to write to its worker's solicitor in measured and accurate terms, it would be difficult for the worker to claim that they had been subject to a «detriment».

Not exact matches

It's useful for workers to see where they fall in their organization and in their industry when it comes to pay, but since the new rule allows several definitions of «median employee», it's difficult to compare the numbers across companies.

When finding talented local developers who could code for iOS and Android proved to be difficult, Smith looked to Colorado, the Midwest, and Florida for a cadre of workers who use technology to feel part of the Insightly team.

The nondiscrimination rules and regulations of the Affordable Care Act make it difficult for employers to switch workers» eligibility for health benefits between exempt and non-exempt status.

Instead of welcoming foreign talent with open arms, Canada makes it exceedingly difficult for them to come to or stay in this country, even at a time when the thriving technology sector is in dire need of skilled knowledge workers.

«It makes it more difficult for a large company, when workers ask for that, to say, «No, we're not going to do it here.

It is expected that this change will make it more difficult for companies to bring on workers from outside the U.S.

Meanwhile, production at many senior companies is shrinking, as their older operations become more grade - challenged and difficult to mine, and workers agitate for larger shares of expanding profit margins.

In his plan, Trump is calling for making it more expensive to hire H - 1B visa holders, as well as making it more difficult for companies to replace U.S. workers.

They could also make it more difficult for U.S. workers to get visas or even take over offices based in the country.

The Trump administration is increasing federal scrutiny on the employment - visa application process, a move that will make it even more difficult for companies to hire foreign workers.

The results suggest the long - term unemployed have a difficult time re-entering the labor force, with UI benefits serving as an important income maintenance program for these workers.

The bottom line is this: If a worker isn't hanging out their «shingle» to perform the same duties for others, it'll be difficult to classify that person as an independent contractor.

«We are a startup and our hiring needs are ad hoc, and that makes it very difficult for us to plan ahead,» Aitharaju says, adding that he's competing not just with other startups, but much larger companies with entire divisions devoted to applying for H - 1B visas for workers.

Businesses say they like right - to - work laws because they make it more difficult for unions to organize workers and raise wage and benefit costs.

Some of the newer guilds are trying to speak for contingent workers of all kinds, making it far more difficult to organize and apply pressure against any one company or sector.

Potential underreporting of self - employment income makes it difficult to draw definitive conclusions on independent contractor earnings when compared with their peers, but the data clearly show a wide variance in earnings among independent contractors and lower wages for low - wage independent workers than low - wage employees even after adjustments for underreporting.

The monthlong reprieve prolongs the state of uncertainty hanging over the global economy, making it difficult for businesses to plan and discouraging them from investing in new factories or hiring more workers.

The newly elected Progressive Conservative government in Manitoba has moved quickly to cement its anti-worker bona fides with the radical right - wing by making it more difficult for non-union workers to join a union, and by opening up bidding on large scale public construction projects to non-union companies.

The state's new «ABC» test will make it more difficult for companies to defend classifying workers as independent contractors.

These gaps make it difficult for governments to track unemployment trends and determine whether, or where, there are shortages of skilled workers.

First, although rising wages are obviously great for workers and the overall economy, they can be difficult for low - margin companies that rely on cheap labor — like retail stores.

We believe the Bush administration will be under increasing pressure in 2007 to argue for a guest worker amnesty as the U.S. middle class begins to experience increasing home foreclosures in a market where employment in the lower - skilled job categories are increasingly difficult to find.

Likewise, individual workers like Ms. Hobson might not be owed much on an individual basis, making it difficult if not impossible for them to seek justice if they can't join together with coworkers.

In many cases, making work more secure for particular workers can also make it harder for employers to hire, but there is one place where conservative reform can make work more secure without making hiring more difficult.

To gain entrance to a corporation head and insist on discussing his workers» plight with him is much more difficult than to march in a picket line, for it requires much more in the way of intelligence, ability, precise information, and strength of soul.

And the sooner we stop fetishizing it as the core of what it means to be a mother and a woman, as some sort of sacred, higher, path for the female sex, the sooner we will see it for what it really is: difficult, necessary, and honorable work whose workers deserve dignified and decent working conditions.

Worker Exploitation: Many banana plantation workers work long hours in difficult conditions - handling pesticides and herbicides without sufficient protection - for low wages and poor job security.

«The agonizing decision to lay off hundreds of our great workers and reduce hours and pay for others was the most difficult one I have had to make in my time as Blue Bell's CEO and President,» Kruse said.

For example, high levels of father involvement protect against adult experience of homelessness in the sons of manual workers; and against later mental health problems in children in separated families; and fathers» active care of «difficult - to - raise» pre-schoolers is related to fewer problems in these children later (Flouri 2005).

«It's very difficult for many of these young men,» says Chris Facey, a WWM Young Fathers Development worker.

It is difficult sometimes for health workers to avoid these events — but a suitable t - shirt will help them to stand up and be counted.

But even as I'm forced to take sides in a fight which pits the needs of kids against the leading trade group for school food workers, I try to regularly remind everyone that those workers themselves are doing a valiant job under difficult circumstances.

The report, which will be welcomed by the government as proof it is offering public sector workers a fair deal in difficult economic times, highlights the change from retail price index to consumer price index inflation as the most substantial change for public sector workers.

There is more «red tape» for doctors to be reimbursed by the government, and more levels of approval for treatments by a non-profit bureaucracy, which makes things particularly difficult for young health workers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month announced the state would not defend a lawsuit from the New York Civil Liberties Union against a constitutional provision that makes it difficult for agricultural workers to unionize.

Having two different minimum wages in Upstate will make it difficult for some industries to recruit or keep good workers who could make more money at McDonald's, said Greg Biryla, executive director of Unshackle Upstate, a business group that opposed the wage hike.

Trottenberg previously said expanding the system to Staten Island would be difficult because the stations would be harder to get to for workers who distribute and maintain bikes.

Some of the workers, who on Monday gathered at the temporary secretariat to renew their loyalty to the Makarfi faction, however told our correspondent that things were becoming difficult for them.

GOP state lawmakers are urging Gov. Cuomo to defend a state labor provision that makes it difficult for farm and agricultural workers to collectively bargain.