Sentences with phrase «existing protections for worker»

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Labor unions are leading the fight against a New York ballot measure to hold a constitutional convention, arguing that it's just too risky to tinker with the state's governing document and threaten existing protections for worker's compensation, unemployment benefits and...

Labor unions are leading the fight against a New York ballot measure to hold a constitutional convention, arguing that it's just too risky to tinker with the state's governing document and threaten existing protections for worker's compensation, unemployment benefits and collective bargaining.

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The World Bank observed last year that adding new employment - protection laws inevitably favours existing job holders over new entrants and «lower [s] employment rates for disadvantaged worker groups, especially youth.»

In this paper, I discuss the shortcomings of the legal protections that exist for pregnancy, breastfeeding, and parenting for United States» workers.

Because states like Illinois have constitutional protections that lock in benefits for existing workers, the only way for state and local governments to address funding problems is to target new workers.

It is of tremendous concern that a majority of law lords in this case is content to afford blanket protection / immunity to social workers, thereby adding to the immunity enjoyed by existing categories of professionals, ie doctors and police, for making well - intentioned but negligent mistakes in child protection investigations, on the pretext of protecting children from their allegedly abusive parents.