Sentences with phrase «domestic workers in»

James Ewins QC, the Government - appointed independent reviewer of the arrangements for the Overseas Domestic Worker Visa, confirms that this description applies equally to overseas domestic workers in the UK.

She was active for over a decade with the West Coast Domestic Workers» Association, a non-profit organization which provides legal advice and advocacy for domestic workers in BC, and was a Board member of P.A.C.E. (Prostitution Alternatives Counselling and Education Society).

Her 2013 exhibition at London's Showroom - «Workshop (2010 - ongoing),» a project that in 2014 earned her a Turner Prize nomination - included an active screen - printing studio where she assisted the group Justice for Domestic Workers in preparing visually arresting protest materials.

Several artists navigate directly the main thematic map of the exhibition; others chose a more personal approach, looking at the presence of domestic workers in households, the public sphere, and the artists» lives.

She works with other artists but also social activist groups including Artlink Central in Glasgow, which works with the disabled, and Justice for Domestic Workers in London.

Several artists navigate directly the main thematic map of the exhibition; others chose a more personal approach, looking at the presence of domestic workers in households, the public sphere, and the artists» lives, while another group of artists create abstract and poetic landscapes that bring a different and necessary vocabulary in an exhibition that tries to address such a wide and contradictory array of topics and perspectives, from personal desires and dreams, to historical processes.

Several artists venture into the personal implications of the presence of domestic workers in households, the public sphere, and the artists» lives.

Students evaluate the impact of how an author orders information by analyzing two articles about the impact of Filipino women leaving their countries to work as domestic workers in the Middle East.

Simultaneously students conduct independent studies on contemporary slavery including the experiences of cocoa farmers in Cote dIvoire, brick makers in Pakistan, and domestic workers in the United States who are working for no pay.

Successful female actors are marketing themselves as mothers and domestic workers in order to keep a public interest on them and then making money off of it.

Explaining that she has spent the last 20 years advocating for domestic workers in the US and fighting against sexual harassment and assault of domestic workers, Poo detailed how her first meeting with Meryl, 68, was spent discussing how they could honor survivors.

Picture this: Last Sunday evening, surrounded by thousands of Hong Kong's Filipina domestic workers in a public outdoor square in Hong Kong, I rolled out a lone yoga mat.

Early this morning, dozens of domestic workers and their allies set up shop outside City Hall, participating in a 24 - hour vigil to lobby for a bill that would provide basic labor protections for domestic workers in New York.

Labour criticised the plans for not targeting gangmasters or offering plans to train up domestic workers in sectors reliant on migrant labour.

I am Swedish by origin but have worked in the capacity of a domestic worker in USA (specifically Utah) for a major part of the last decade and the present one.

Not exact matches

From doggie spas to oil companies, employers have been given the green light to hire temporary foreign workers even in regions of the country struggling with joblessness, including the Maritimes and southwestern Ontario, and in sectors where there is no apparent lack of domestic candidates.

When Canada first launched the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in 1973, it was designed to allow companies to hire skilled professionals, like engineers, from outside the country when their expertise couldn't be found in the domestic market.

The ban is being imposed despite the Philippines» reliance on remittance money from its Kuwait - based workers — 262,000 Filipinos are employed in the oil - rich Gulf sheikhdom, 60 percent as domestic staff.

Starbucks plans to spend $ 250 million on new employee benefits, including a pay boost for domestic workers, in the wake of the federal tax overhaul.

Multi-millionaire investor Wilbur Ross, a candidate for secretary of commerce, said in a statement to the Senate Budget Committee last month that he terminated an undocumented domestic worker whom he said lied about her immigration status.

«We had expected to find many areas where there was an insufficient supply» of domestic workers, said David Hardtke, chief scientist for Bright, based in San Francisco.

It's a small, but fast - growing, niche that's making inroads in a number of ways — such as providing an alternative to overseas outsourcing while offering jobs in domestic areas that often have few employment options, particularly for skilled workers or those with college degrees.

Regulatory changes had been in the wind for some time as the evidence against the program built up, yet employers relied on the lobbying efforts of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business to maintain the program rather than taking steps to improve domestic recruitment and training efforts or adjust wages and benefits to attract workers.

Put simply, for every 100 foreign computer scientists working in the U.S., between 33 and 61 domestic workers were displaced.

Junko Asano is a PhD candidate in International Development at the University of Oxford researching Indonesian domestic workers.

But while the tariffs may help domestic manufacturers, they are expected to ripple throughout the industry in ways that may ultimately hurt American companies and their workers.

The past several weeks have seen incredible turmoil in both domestic and international public markets, and many entrepreneurs and tech workers rightly wonder what impact this will have on them.

Every year, an unknown number of foreign guest workers in South Florida and the rest of the nation disappear into the worlds of sexual slavery and domestic servitude.

When German institutions — government, businesses and labor unions — negotiated among themselves at the turn of the century a sharp reduction in wage growth for its workers, they were obviously attempting to reduce German's high domestic unemployment by gaining trade competitiveness.

As of November 2015, the solar industry employed 208,859 solar workers, which is already larger than the roughly 150,000 jobs remaining in the domestic coal industry.

Contributing to the decreased supply is the Trump Administration's sanctions on OPEC countries boosting reliance on domestic oil supplies and a long - running economic crisis in Venezuela, where oil workers have been «resigning in droves» since their state oil company was taken over by a military leader.

Migrante BC, the West Coast Domestic Workers Association and MLA Mable Elmore today called on Prime Minister Trudeau to cancel a Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) project that targets foreign caregivers in their employer's homes.

In an age of increasing social responsibility, firing five thousand domestic workers is not exactly great for a brand's image.

Starting in March, the company's 4,000 - plus domestic workers will be given the option to receive up to 100,000 yen ($ 880) of their monthly pay in bitcoin.

The convention also obliges governments to protect domestic workers from violence and abuse, and to prevent child labor in domestic work.

Marriage and domestic partner ship rights are not, however, only a state issue, as in affects federal taxes, inheritance, immigration rights, and benefits for federal workers and the military.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

This resulted in an employment decline of almost 1,200 workers, with $ 80 million in lost gross domestic product and a $ 4.5 million loss in local tax revenue.»

Adoptions From The Heart, the East Coast's leading private adoption agency, has contract social workers in the Manhattan area of New York City to help families with a home study for international or our domestic adoption program.

Foster adoption social worker: «If you are in the process of adoption — domestic, international, or foster adoption — please pick up this book.

However, in these cases immigrants will generally take jobs that are unattractive to domestic workers (Werner, 1990).

The Domestic Workers Bill of Rights — the first of its kind in the nation — has passed both houses of the Legislature.

Is the future of labor to be found in worker centers, community - labor alliances, fast - food workers, domestic workers and others traditionally outside the union movement?

Before serving in the Assembly, as Chief of Staff for then - City Councilmember and current Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Brian negotiated enactment of several significant new laws, including the Domestic Worker Protection Act, promoting the rights of housekeepers and caregivers, and laws to foster the use of technology to make government more accessible and efficient.

Few recall that migrant domestic workers had their right to change employers withdrawn in 2012.

To give a few examples, apart from those from outside the European Economic Area who can not lawfully work at all, there have been restrictions on migrants from new EU members states (to self - employment for a period of seven years), those on Tier 2 visas (to a named employer), on students (who may work, but not full time or in a profession), and on domestic workers (who may not seek another employer even if abused).

Wage - workers, propertyless peasants, domestics, and poor artisans were assumed to be too dependent to participate fully in politics; small farmers and artisans deserved political rights but should defer to their betters in most political decisions — the truly virtuous wealthy landowners.

While noting that there is no longer any room for child abuse or under aged workers, Governor Ambode said it had been discovered that domestic workers were largely undocumented and pose a grave security threat in the State.

They comprise 24 percent of all groundskeepers, 23 percent of domestic workers and 20 percent of those in clothing manufacture.

ALBANY - A state worker who played a key role in a domestic violence scandal that engulfed the Paterson administration received raises during the probe of the incident, the Daily News has learned.