Sentences with phrase «for domestic workers in»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

They range from statewide proposals like environmental protections to more local topics, like fighting the MS - 13 gang on Long Island, and also include promises to take away gun rights from domestic abusers, criminalize «revenge porn» and «sextortion,» invest further in his program to revitalize local downtown areas, and reevaluate the lower minimum wage allowed for workers who regularly receive tips.

Joined by a large contingent of pastors from his native Harlem, as well as by former Gov. David Paterson and Councilwoman Inez Dickens, Mr. Wright pitched himself as an accomplished legislator in the Assembly who has supported stronger rent laws and helped pass legislation improving wages for domestic workers.

The agenda, five months in the making, includes bills that call for the creation of a task force to assess the city university system's affordability, admissions and graduation rates, a report on the use of long - acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices, sexual assault awareness and prevention training for cab drivers, a street co-naming for the original Ms. Magazine headquarters and expanding the definition of employer under the human rights law to offer protections for domestic workers.

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.

Before computers were available in Meghpar Titodi, a dusty, impoverished village in Gujarat, India, students such as eleventh grader Hemant were destined for menial jobs as street sweepers, domestic workers, and field laborers.

The federal government's investment in passenger rail means more jobs for American workers and domestic companies.

This type of global economic shift can mean that current U.S. employment or domestic employment has diminished for once in demand workers.

To much fanfare, most of it probably self - generated, Walmart issued its second round of wage increases in late February, taking the minimum hourly pay for as many as one million workers at its domestic stores up by a dollar to $ 10 an hour.

The house has a full time live - in domestic worker, who is responsible for the daily cleaning of the house but laundry is not included.

Presented as a large - scale installation in first floor Atrium gallery this work is the culmination of a 12 - month process involving research in The Tetley archive, interviews with ex Tetley's Brewery workers, collaboration with screenwriter Joe Hepworth and workshops with women from Justice for Domestic Workers (Leeds) supported by curator and writer Amy Charlesworth, J4DW (London), Gill Park, Director of visual arts organisation Pavilion, artist Jo Dunn and seminal women's collective Leeds Animation Woworkers, collaboration with screenwriter Joe Hepworth and workshops with women from Justice for Domestic Workers (Leeds) supported by curator and writer Amy Charlesworth, J4DW (London), Gill Park, Director of visual arts organisation Pavilion, artist Jo Dunn and seminal women's collective Leeds Animation WoWorkers (Leeds) supported by curator and writer Amy Charlesworth, J4DW (London), Gill Park, Director of visual arts organisation Pavilion, artist Jo Dunn and seminal women's collective Leeds Animation Workshop.

Ciara Phillips created her prints and texts in collaboration with a protest group, Justice for Domestic Workers.

In connection to the Communal Knowledge project Using our hands to Organise New Zealand based artist Fiona Jack has invited Ed Hall the UK's foremost trade union and campaign banner artist to meet with Justice 4 Domestic Workers, to begin discussions towards a new banner for their ongoing campaign calling on the UK Government to protect the rights of Migrant Domestic Workers.

Starting on April 17th, Para Site will work in collaboration with Lensational on a series of photography workshops designed specially for domestic workers on Sundays.

Even so, the total number of U.S. workers in «solar» is still artificially high, compared to a situation where the U.S. tax code just applied the same rate to all firms, and didn't have special credits for some domestic firms, or penalties on foreign imports.

Subtitle B: Disposition of Allowances -(Sec. 321) Amends the CAA to set forth provisions governing the disposition of emission allowances, including specifying allocations: (1) for supplemental emissions reductions from reduced deforestation; (2) for the benefit of electricity, natural gas, and / or home heating oil and propane consumers; (3) for auction, with proceeds for the benefit of low income consumers and worker investment; (4) to energy - intensive, trade - exposed industries; (5) for the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology; (6) to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy; (7) to be distributed to Energy Innovation Hubs and advanced energy research; (8) to invest in the development and deployment of clean vehicles; (9) to domestic petroleum refineries and small business refiners; (10) for domestic and international adaptation; (11) for domestic wildlife and natural resource adaptation; and (12) for international clean technology deployment.

Congressman McNerney knows that investing in a domestic workforce for clean tech will help ensure that that U.S. workers and the U.S. economy are able to benefit from continued growth in green jobs, and that bringing clean energies to scale will address ocean acidification, perhaps the biggest threat to ocean health worldwide.

With the International Labour Organization's (ILO) International Labour Conference currently taking place in Geneva from June 1 to June 17, with the agenda including an item entitled «Decent work for domestic workers», there are hopes that a Convention supplemented by a Recommendation will be adopted to afford what is seen as urgently - needed protection to domestic workers (see the ILO website for more... [more]

When it comes to protections for unionization, Domestic Workers working in private homes are explicitly excluded from the Labour Relations Act and collective bargaining units made up of one person are not permitted.

Our members include Cooper Institute in Prince Edward Island, Caregiver Connections Education and Support Organization (CCESO), Migrant Worker Solidarity Network in Manitoba, Migrante Canada, Migrant Workers Alliance for Change in Ontario, Radical Action with Migrants in Agriculture in Okanagan Valley, Temporary Foreign Workers Association in Quebec, Temporary Foreign Workers Coalition in Alberta, Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregiver Rights in Vancouver and West Coast Domestic Workers Association in Vancouver.

She never received permanent resident status, but supported herself illegally as a live - in domestic worker for 11 years.

Members of USW Local 1 - 405, hospitality workers in Kimberley, B.C., negotiated domestic violence leave provisions for the first time, ratifying their contract Jan. 18.

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 inDomestic Worker Visa, confirms that this description applies equally to overseas domestic workers indomestic workers in the UK.

He notes that the lives of overseas domestic workers currently exist «in the relative shadows»; that overseas domestic workers are «universally acknowledged to be in a position of special vulnerability» (the reasons for this including employment in an «informal economy» and employment by diplomatic agents) and that given that the exploitation of domestic workers is «hidden abuse», akin to domestic violence and child abuse, «what is currently seen and known is highly unlikely to be the full extent of the abuse.

Since June 15, 2010, the Ontario Occupational Health and safety Act violence and harassment prevention provisions (Bill 168) require an employer to take all reasonable precautions in the circumstances for the protection of all employees if a domestic violence situation is likely to expose a worker to physical injury in the workplace and the employer becomes aware or ought reasonably to be aware of the situation.

32.0.4 If an employer becomes aware, or ought reasonably to be aware, that domestic violence that would likely expose a worker to physical injury may occur in the workplace, the employer shall take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of the worker.

The new § 164.512 includes paragraphs on: Uses and disclosures required by law; uses and disclosures for public health activities; disclosures about victims of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence; uses and disclosures for health oversight activities; disclosures for judicial and administrative proceedings; disclosures for law enforcement purposes; uses and disclosures about decedents; uses and disclosures for cadaveric donation of organs, eyes, or tissues; uses and disclosures for research purposes; uses and disclosures to avert a serious threat to health or safety (which we had called «emergency circumstances» in the NPRM); uses and disclosures for specialized government functions (referred to as «specialized classes» in the NPRM); and disclosures to comply with workers» compensation laws.

Lois was called to the Bar in 1990 and worked as staff lawyer for West Coast Domestic Workers for over three years.

Before joining the Foundation, she worked as a staff lawyer for the West Coast Domestic Workers» Association and practiced in the area of immigration and refugee law with Smith Rey Hipolito.

In addition to this plan, a product piloted recently for domestic workers would be available for retail customers in the very near future, Sriniasan confirmeIn addition to this plan, a product piloted recently for domestic workers would be available for retail customers in the very near future, Sriniasan confirmein the very near future, Sriniasan confirmed.

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.