Sentences with phrase «existing state workers»

And he says drug tests could not be performed on existing state workers.

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In some cases, states should expand coverage of existing programs to include independent contractors, as is the case with workers» compensation and state retirement systems.

Rhode Island was the first state to cut benefits for existing workers.

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

Assemblywoman Sandy Galef wants Gov. Andrew Cuomo to establish a task force to address sexual harassment in state government, which would review existing policies and make recommendations for a uniform standard to handle claims and investigations involving all state workers and officials.

Brian McMahon, with the New York State Economic Development Council, a pro business and pro fracking group, believes that heritage tourism and the gas drilling industry can co exist, and he says fracking industry related jobs will pay workers a much higher wage and improve the overall health of the economy.

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.

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...

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Unions will push for a radical overhaul of Australia's «joke» workplace relations laws to allow millions more workers to push for substantial wage increases Laws related to pregnancy, leave and breastfeeding rights in the workplace exist at the federal and state level.

2018-04-08 12:19 Unions will push for a radical overhaul of Australia's «joke» workplace relations laws to allow millions more workers to push for substantial wage increases Laws related to pregnancy, leave and breastfeeding rights in the workplace exist at the federal and state level.

Public sector unions can breathe a sigh of relief after last month's state Supreme Court ruling: an Illinois pension reform law that would have cut benefits for existing workers was declared unconstitutional.

Unions fear that extending Social Security coverage will significantly cut into existing pensions, which are more generous to full - career workers in states that do not offer Social Security coverage.

In particular, we use existing research about how much a high level of achievement boosts the earnings of an individual worker, combined with our new measures of the average achievement levels of workers in each state, to gauge the contribution of differences in achievement to differences in income levels across states.

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.

So in order to avoid the political and legal headache of trying to cut benefits for existing workers, states typically take the easier path and create new «tiers» or modified versions of a plan with lower benefits for new teachers.

Many states protect public sector pension benefits with strong, near ironclad legal rules that make it tough - to - impossible to reduce benefits for existing workers.

Additionally it will help our state to meet our employers» demands for educated workers and address the gap that now exists for skilled labor.

Rather, in the case of recent proposals in Kentucky and Michigan, the increased costs were due to the fact that the states were simultaneously shifting new workers into a new system AND changing the way they paid down existing debts.

This new renewable energy manufacturer will add 155 new jobs to the existing 26,000 + clean energy jobs located in all regions across North Carolina and will continue bolstering the rapidly - growing clean energy manufacturing sector, which already represents 4,300 workers located in our state.

In Ohio workers» compensation claims, there are two different types of employers that exist: State fund employers Self - insured employers If a worker is injured on the job, they should receive...

The briefing states that «the implication is that where a worker is employed on a zero hours contract and provided with regular work which is regularly accepted there exists a possibility that the contract will be one of employment».

While some exceptions to the state law exist, employees can include minors, part - time workers, and workers who are not citizens.

Home visiting is deeply rooted in history, going back at least to Elizabethan times in England and endorsed as a strategy by Florence Nightingale in the 19th century.2, 3 Home visiting existed in the United States in the 1880s when public health nurses and social workers provided in - home education and health care to urban women and children.