Sentences with phrase «exploitation of all workers»

A greater integration of faith and life will help us increase in integrity and purpose, and will help avoid the scandals, where even Christians, who by trying to compartmentalise their faith from their work, can become involved in fraud or the exploitation of workers.

We witness examples of such devastation in our countries such as through the use of chemical pesticides and even fertilizers, the deporting of our mineral wealth by mining transnational corporations, the exploitation of our workers, women and children and the ill - effects of drugs, arms sales and even of some types of tourism.

As long as the borderlines between different tax statuses can be fuzzy and open to interpretation, we are likely to continue to see confusion and inconsistency among taxpayers and their employers, and exploitation of workers in too weak an economic position to resist entering into work arrangements that HMRC might be expected to challenge.»

Commenting on Ed Milliband's announcement that a Labour Government will crack down on the exploitation of workers by agencies, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «Millions of agency workers, including supply teachers, will welcome today's commitment from Ed Milliband to get tough on unscrupulous agencies.

Ross and likeminded critics have staged protests at the Guggenheim's flagship museum in New York City and at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice to focus attention on exploitation of workers on Saadiyat Island and in the UAE more broadly.

She explains that fast fashion is an incredibly lucrative industry with companies typically outsourcing production to factories in countries that have lenient labor laws, leading to exploitation of workers and human rights abuses.

He also took «official» images, promoting the ghetto's work efficiency, and at the same time he documented the grim daily life in the ghetto: suffering and despair, starvation and diseases, the exploitation of the workers, the deportation of thousands to death camps at Chelmno and Auschwitz.

Rio Tinto has a long and unrepentant history of environmental destruction, human rights violations, exploitation of workers and tax dodging (as I have written elsewhere).

Not exact matches

Immigrants who avoid ICE face the possibility of exploitation by employers: A 2008 survey from the National Employment Law Project found that 51 % of all undocumented workers in New York City were underpaid by more than $ 1 per hour, and 47 % said they were required to work after sustaining an injury on the job.

The usual form of that criticism emanating from both sides of the debate is that free trade deals between the U.S. and poorer countries hurt the American middle class while contributing to worker exploitation abroad.

Domestic workers face a wide range of serious abuses and labor exploitation, including excessive working hours without rest, non-payment of wages, forced confinement, physical and sexual abuse, forced labor, and trafficking.

The minjung theologians are certainly concerned about the exploitation of the peasants and workers for the sake of rapid industrialization.

Savar, Bangladesh (CNN)- Pope Francis, speaking at a Mass on Wednesday, made reference to the Bangladesh building collapse that killed upwards of 400 people in a sharp condemnation of worker exploitation and «slave labor.»

The Commission realized that western culture and science could not destroy the traditional idols but has also introduced into India new gods like Rationalism, Scientism, Individualism and Materialism which had no sense of the sacredness of human persons and was converting technology into a force for exploitation of the industrial workers and dehumanization of peoples» lives in the cities of India.

On Wednesday, the Pope Francis made reference to a building collapse in Bangladesh that killed upwards of 400 people in a sharp condemnation of worker exploitation and «slave labor.»

But it should be noted that the axiomatic base of such analysis is a bit of flat - earth superstition explicitly rejected by Pius XI» the Marxian labor theory of value and its purportedly «scientific» corollaries, the theory of surplus value and worker exploitation.

Globalization is the era of mega-competition, in other words, the competition among giant TNCs which accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit by further exploitation of labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers of their labor rights, using cheap labor such as casual and even child labor, and also by further destruction of environment.

But it occurred also because of government laws protecting workers from extreme exploitation and from the organizing work of the employees themselves.

The belief that every single person is precious in God's sight has inspired some Christians to work for social changes such as the abolition of slavery, an end to the exploitation of factory workers, the removal of racial discrimination and apartheid, and the prevention of cruelty to and the sexual abuse of women and children.

Some who profited from the exploitation of farm - workers expressed deep concern for those who would be put out of work.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

«A large number of employees at the audited sites are young and migrant workers, cohorts that we know to be particularly vulnerable to workplace exploitation and reluctant to complain about mistreatment,» Ms James said.

Today, the Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) released a publication titled, «Palm Oil Innovations: Labour Rights» on the heels of the 14th annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Bangkok, Thailand which highlighted worker exploitation issues in the palm oil sector.

«In many ways, by not complying with the law of this country there has been an exploitation of the five workers that is extremely serious.»

«With more innovators joining forces under POIG, we move closer to achieving POIG's vision: a responsible supply chain that has broken the link between palm oil production and the destruction of forests and peatlands, the exploitation of communities and workers, and climate change,» concluded co-chair Matthias.

Recently Fairfax Media reported that oil giant Caltex had become embroiled in similar allegations of worker exploitation happening across a national franchise network of more than 650 stores.

A responsible supply chain that has broken the link between palm oil production and the destruction of forests and peatlands, the exploitation of communities and workers, and climate change.

It exposed the distressing and disturbing reality that significant portions of our cheap food system depend on the ruthless exploitation and abuse of migrant workers, most of whom are in this country on short - term working visas.

It comes amid mounting concern over deteriorating workplace standards in Australia, including underpayments, the exploitation of temporary foreign workers and the misuse of contracting and labour - hire arrangements.

Holding a summit to tackle the tough issues of food insecurity, exploitation of food workers, and food waste at the opulent Ritz Carlton in San Francisco provoked an interesting contrast, but the collection of industry, NGOs, media and students in attendance were indifferent to their surroundings and intently focused on improving the world's food system.

Protection of breast feeding from commercial exploitation should be among the highest priorities for the international community, yet violations of the World Health Organization's code of marketing of breast milk substitutes have been seen regularly, despite companies» expressed intentions to conform.1 — 3 The study by Aguayo et al in west Africa in this issue (p 127) provides further evidence that many manufacturers fly in the face of the code by providing free samples, giving donations to health workers, and contravening standards for labelling.4

«Other stand - out recommendations include a bill designed to address the exploitation of our tax laws and exploitation of Nigerians by multinational firms by Femi Obagun, and a brief policy for more stringent laws against rapists, a Workers Protection Act, an Alternate Financing to Economic Growth Act, a Policing and State Security Act, and a Government Transparency and Anti Corruption Act.

At various points, he recognizes the legitimacy of all four common justifications of market regulation: to protect workers from exploitation, to protect consumers, to protect third parties harmed by market transactions (through externalities), and to preserve the stability of the economy or society as a whole (e.g., through regulation of the financial sector).

Sanders has recently argued that he voted against the bill because of guest worker program provisions which he believed would have created vulnerabilities for workers and exploitation.

Miliband committed to increase funding for border checks, tackle exploitation and the undercutting of wages, require employers who recruit abroad to create apprenticeships, and ensure workers in public - facing roles have minimum standards of English.

«We will act to end the exploitation of migrant labour to undercut workers» pay and conditions,» he is expected to say.

Socialists are traditionally concerned about workers» exploitation by the owners of the means of production.

The problem is that Home Secretary Theresa May describes the crime as «human beings used as commodities for the personal gain of others» (Hansard, 8 July 2014 col. 166), provoking the question of how this form of exploitation differs from other «everyday» exploitation faced by many (if not most) workers.

«I have directed the Department of Labor to ensure that no workers are more susceptible to exploitation because they rely on tips to survive.

Far from reducing abuse in the workplace, further restrictions on working migrants will increase the supply of workers who are most easily subjected to exploitation.

I don't agree with Tory plans to have more free schools, but I want an EU referendum; I agree with Labour's plans to stop the exploitation of immigrant workers, but disagree with their manifesto commitment to abolish zero - hours contracts.

Building a fairer system examines how workers from developing countries become tricked or coerced into paying illegal and extortionate recruitment fees, and, once in debt, become vulnerable to exploitation in their place of work.

In Cuomo's proposal, state labor commissioner Roberta Reardon said it's hard for employers to keep track of their workers» tips and difficulties with recordkeeping open the door for wage theft and exploitation.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo also spoke at the conference, championing a $ 15 minimum wage for all workers in the state and citing his administration's efforts to combat exploitation of undocumented workers.

«For too long this industry has been unregulated and this leaves this industry with conditions that are ripe for exploitation and raises the levels of abuse for many domestic workers,» domestic worker Alison Gillian told officials.

Cuomo says the tipped wage system inhibits workers who earn tips from coming forward with concerns about exploitation and harassment, and it disproportionately affects women and people of color.

«Given the Government's lack of policy to protect agency workers, it is of course unsurprising that they will be subject to further exploitation purely to suit the Government's ideological aims.

The same standards of treatment apply to the workers who toil for the supermarkets, especially in meat and poultry processing, where unions say agency and migrant workers are subject to mistreatment and exploitation.

Two trade groups representing Chinese and Korean nail salons plan to sue the Cuomo administration over the new requirement that they purchase wage bonds as security for any unpaid wages, following a high - profile report of alleged worker abuse and exploitation.

Business secretary John Hutton announced new measures to detect and guard against exploitation of the most vulnerable workers.