Sentences with phrase «essential public service»

(b) notice as required by subsection (6) could not be given because the delay necessary to do so would result in irreparable damage or injury, a breach of the peace or an interruption in an essential public service;

«Access to justice should be treated as an essential public service — equal to healthcare or education,» he said.

Mark Benton, executive director of the Legal Services Society, said it endorses the conclusion that the current scope and availability of legal aid in B.C. does not meet the need, and endorses the recommendation that legal aid be recognized as an essential public service and be better funded.

This exhibition serves as the launch for a fictional smartphone app that offers branding as an essential public service by the government.

Inspired by nation - state branding campaigns, «A Wonderful World Under Construction» imagines a reality in which a government body provides branding as an essential public service.

Without an integrated plan to expand our economy and balance the budget, Ontario will face even higher deficits and will struggle even more to cover the cost of essential public services.

While it's laudable that Cameron and others contribute to the CASA Foundation which supports mental health for children, teens and their families, the fact that the Alberta government is relying more and more on charity to fund essential public services is making things worse.

A merit - appointment system would produce a better qualified board, and ultimately improve the governance architecture and access of Nigerians to essential public services.

We all know that taxes serve a vital purpose — funding essential public services and infrastructure.

The impact on municipalities would cripple community colleges and prevent local governments from providing the essential public services that middle - class New Yorkers need.»

It would be a big mistake to make our essential public services - schools, hospitals and the care of the vulnerable in our society - the whipping boys for private failures, or to pay the price for the excesses of greedy bankers and speculators.

With the rubbish piling up in the street and essential public services closed, this is deeply worrying for hard pressed council taxpayers.»

«The Governor keeps saying that «everything is on the table» but his proposals have only been about cutting back essential public services and shifting more burden to working New Yorkers,» Donohue said.

«New York's public employees raised serious issues at this week's rally about the state's need to invest, not privatize or outsource, essential public services.

They are busy slashing essential public services, while these bosses continue to enjoy their lavish lifestyles.»

The speech promised reforms of trade unions, to «protect essential public services against strikes».

A Treasury spokesman said: «We are determined to tackle the record budget deficit in order to keep rates lower for longer, protect jobs, and maintain the quality of essential public services.

Ministers say this will ensure strikes are the result of «clear, positive and recent decisions» by union members as well as ensuring that disruption to essential public services has a democratic mandate.

It will also make a strike unlawful in essential public services - health, education, fire and transport - unless 40 per cent of those entitled to vote support taking action.

For example, your elected officials should be focused on things like equal access to essential public services, fair governmental priorities and policies, city hall policies, school district choices, and public health measures.

The council is highlighting and supporting essential public services that keep our communities strong and help build sustainable, healthy economies.

In much the same fashion, our state and local taxes are one of the ways we have chosen to pay for our schools and essential public services.

Given the cuts to Government spending that are kicking in everywhere, is it time to ask what role green groups should play in a shrinking state?Transition Movement Gets Political I started pondering this question having read a heart - felt and passionate account by Sarah Nicholl and Marietta Birkholtz over at Transition Culture of how climate change and peak oil activists are fighting swinging cuts to schools, libraries and other essential public services.

In addition, the requirement to provide «on - call pay» will not apply to employees on call for the purposes of ensuring the continued delivery of essential public services.

Employers are exempt from this provision if the employer's request is to deal with an emergency, to remedy or reduce a threat to public safety, ensure delivery of essential public services or for other reasons prescribed by regulation.

The new entitlement will not apply where a person is put on call for the purposes of ensuring the continued delivery of essential public services, and the person is not required to work.

This will not apply to those employees who are on - call to deliver essential public services, such as volunteer firefighters.

This will apply regardless of who delivers the essential public services.

The provision will not apply where the employer's request or demand is to deal with an emergency, to remedy or reduce a threat to public safety, or to ensure the continued delivery of essential public services, regardless of who delivers those services.

Create a level playing field for children with cerebral palsy across the UK with regard to gaining access to essential public services, information and support

The Alberta government is holding consultations on proposed legislation to protect essential public services while upholding public sector workers» right to meaningful collective bargaining dispute resolution... [more]

The Alberta government is holding consultations on proposed legislation to protect essential public services while upholding public sector workers» right to meaningful collective bargaining dispute resolution.

Not exact matches

For any business that deals with the public, it's essential to have a way to predict the demand for products or services.

She added: «We will work with the new Administration and Congress in raising awareness that elimination of federal funding to CPB begins the collapse of the public media system itself and the end of this essential national service.»

This week's order prevents GDB's depositors, such as municipalities and public agencies, from withdrawing their money, except to fund essential services.

These changes to the essential service regime will have the effect of meaning that a larger number of public servants can not exercise their right to strike.

Primary Underwriting The new issue public finance pipeline provides a diverse offering of municipal products, including major governments, agencies and authorities, local governments, essential services, healthcare, housing and redevelopment, education, corporations, middle market corporations and economic development issues.

The employer could; if it felt like it; declare that every public service is essential, and ban strikes completely.

Bill 4: An Act to Implement a Supreme Court Ruling Governing Essential Services introduced by Labour Minister Christina Gray lifted the ban on strikes by all public sector employees in response to a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in 2015.

The work we do in the public service is an essential ingredient, but we can't fight all by ourselves.

Today, rightly or wrongly, helpfulness in general human affairs is, in consequence of one of those secular mutations in moral sentiment of which I spoke, deemed an essential element of worth in character; and to be of some public or private use is also reckoned as a species of divine service.

Local businesses create jobs and help fund your town's essential services such as public schools, police and fire departments through their tax dollars.

«We can assure the public now that we have rigorous contingency plans in place to ensure that their essential services are maintained during the strike action on Thursday.»

This initiative bridges the gap, providing essential transitional health services while also ensuring a smooth re-entry period and increasing public safety in communities statewide.»

According to Dr Rutherford, the reasons for this difference in volunteering activity could be due to the higher costs associated with running public services in the countryside, meaning that there is an incentive for communities to cooperate locally through voluntary organisations in order to provide essential services.

«Where the government chooses to use private companies to deliver public services it is essential that proper arrangements are in place to prevent and detect fraud and malpractice,» committee chair Margaret Hodge said.

Now, what the paper completely fails to address is how that precondition, that essential public trust, could possibly survive a system under which the security services were empowered by law to routinely trawl through the private communications data of vast numbers of citizens suspected of no crime, simply in order, as Sir David Omand puts it, «to identify patterns of interest for further investigation».

The law says «Where a police officer notified of a special event under subsection (1) has reasonable grounds to believe that the special event if held may lead to violence or endanger public defence, public order, public safety, public health or the running of essential services or violate the rights and freedoms of other persons, he may request the organisers to postpone the special event to any other date or to the relocate the special event.»

Meier's work was essential in the passing of the veteran's buyback bill, which permits public employees to obtain up to three years of service credit in the public retirement system for their military service during periods of conflict.

We believe there is an alternative to these spending cuts but, if we have to, it's right and inevitable that we will stand up for the jobs and pensions of public servants, as well as the essential services they provide to the public.»