Sentences with phrase «for community workers»

The Australian Human Rights Commission (then known as the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission) commenced human rights training for community workers aiming to arrest family violence in Indigenous communities.

Drew Jackson discusses the PovNet website, which offers legal resources around anti-poverty issues, training courses for community workers and advocates, and email lists for community workers and advocates interested in engaging in an ongoing dialogue on anti-poverty issues with other like - minded individuals.

CLEO now offers webinars for community workers on helping your clients find legal information.

CLEO offers free workshops for community workers on how to help clients find good legal information.

On November 17, 2015 (2pm - 3 pm), we will be offering a webinar for community workers and advocates on locating free family law resources.

In addition to all of this online information, these organizations offer various direct services such as legal information lines, lawyer referral services, legal clinics, workshops for the public, training for community workers, speaker's bureaus and school programs.

Not exact matches

And this year I plan to lift up the many businesses that have figured out that doing right by their workers ends up being good for their shareholders, their customers, and their communities, so that we can spread those best practices across America.»

First Nations, Métis, Inuit, immigrants, apprentices, lower - skilled workers and official - language minority communities may be eligible for funding.

Hence: barely sweetened iced tea and totally biodegradable tea bags (Honest Tea Inc.); garden, home, and pet products made from recycled or organic materials (WorldWise Inc.); organic, shade - grown coffee with a guaranteed base price for growers (Sustainable Harvest Inc.); Web development using urban workers (CitySoft Inc.); nonsexist, nonviolent toys (Wild Planet Toys Inc.); revitalized communities and neighborhoods (Village Real Estate Services); and recycled paper products (New Leaf Paper LLC).

The company's plan, which prioritized community amenities, called for affordable homes that Hershey workers could rent or own, as well as public schools, an all - boys orphanage, shops, restaurants, and a trolley system.

According to data from the American Community Survey, in 2014, the pay gap for full - time workers was smallest in Washington, D.C. (There, women were paid 90 percent of what men earned.)

The rest will go to programs to ease the transition away from coal for communities and workers dependent on that industry, as well as to innovation programs and energy efficiency measures.

Light Gives Heat is fundamentally committed to the Ugandan communities it serves, reinvesting 100 % of profits back into projects that benefit the people of the community — setting up bank accounts for its workers, for instance, to help them save money for homes and education fees.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

To top it off, workers also receive weekly literacy and health classes so that they can further their own growth and learn skills for self - reliance and community benefit.

In a plan unveiled in mid-May, Schwarzenegger called for the elimination of the state's welfare program, a 60 % reduction in community mental - health programs, a 5 % pay cut for government workers, and the near elimination of drug and child care subsidies.

The nonprofit Last Mile Health is assembling a massive team of health workers who can serve critical health care needs for people within their own communities — i.e., provide the «last mile» of medical service delivery built into the organization's name.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

There is no official support for children who lose their parents in the air strikes and it is a struggle for aid workers to access them, so many rely on members of the community to take them in.

He notes that selected workers will shadow the restaurant staff, then «come back to [Rockaway] and work for the truck in a management position, and the rest of the community will see that.»

But Joyce Reynolds, executive vice-president of government affairs for the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, says just 26,000 (or 2.4 %) of her industry's 1.1 million workers nationwide are temporary foreign workers — most of them found in small communities in Western Canada.

LincolnLabs, founded last year by three young tech workers, is trying to create a sort of community for the Silicon Valley's «conservatarians,» a play on conservatives and libertarians.

Product sales generate income for the agents, which help overcome the high turnover that has plagued volunteer community health - worker initiatives and the fickle funding that has undermined government efforts.

The first of two Wisconsin cities in the top 10, this community of 70,775 has a core of businesses that has made it a magnet for engineers, scientists and other high - skilled workers.

For example, while a number of communities are debating how to provide benefits to gig economy workers, without policies that ensure a baseline wage threshold or that grant workers a voice in determining their wages and benefits, low - road companies could respond to requirements to contribute to benefits with commensurate decreases in pay.

In some parts of Canada, such as Aboriginal communities (but not only), StatsCan representatives, including locally recruited temporary workers, usually fill out the long - form census for the respondents (by interviewing them and filling in the responses) precisely in order to ensure accuracy and completeness... which brings us to the second issue...

But it does nearly nothing for workers or their communities.

Instead, we get the usual, lame assurances that what's good for corporations must be good for workers, communities or Canadians in general.

No job creation targets, no share for workers or communities.

Companies selected for the list are recognized for outperforming their peers on criteria like worker pay and treatment, healthy products and communities, and job creation, among other characteristics.

Our recommendations provide a strong foundation for long - term prosperity for British Columbians — including our resource industries and workers, and their communities.

Kitimat mayor Joanne Monaghan said a series of public consultations were already held in December, and the community is looking to Enbridge to hire up to 4,000 construction workers for the project.

B Corps are certified to be better for workers, better for communities, and better for the environment.

Orissa State Volunteers and Social Workers Association / Center for Research and Community Action Workshop — Bhubaneswar, India Gifted Citizen at La Ciudad de Las Ideas — Puebla, Mexico Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference — Halifax, NS MIT Climate CoLab's Crowds & Climate Conference — Cambridge, MA DiscoverE Engineering Global Marathon

Living Goods has also provided technical assistance to Marie Stopes International, which was working to create a community health worker network in Kenya, 54 and to the Clinton Foundation, to help design a pilot in Peru for an entrepreneurship program.55

Trudeau told a black - tie - and - gown audience in Hamburg, Germany (text, video) that for too long, executives have been putting their shareholders ahead of their employees, their workers» families, and the communities in which they operate.

«As a remote worker, Workfrom makes me feel like part of a global community of people who look out for each other and promote a lifestyle of freedom.»

Horgan said B.C. needs to fight for a new softwood deal that that works for B.C. workers, their families and their communities.

Forest workers, their families, and their communities have been neglected for too long, and I want them to know I'll have their back,» Horgan said.

Not working for forest workers and their communities, that's for sure.

So far, however, the Administration's protectionist trade actions appear more likely to result in increased economic insecurity for workers in California, with the effects concentrated in communities that are already struggling economically.

It is hurting the workers, families and communities who are hoping for benefits from LNG development,» said Horgan.

She has worked for over 20 years leading economic justice organizing campaigns to expand worker rights, immigrant rights, and the rights of low income and underrepresented communities of color.

24 HRS, VANCOUVER: Filipino Community Leaders Call for Federal Gov» t to Protect Temporary Foreign Workers

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.

The blue collar factory worker is left floundering when his job is sent to China and his only options are lower wage retail or attending community college to be «re-trained» for jobs that may not exist or he can not fill.

The new space will feature office space, open desks, pitch rooms, a podcasting studio, and conference rooms for entrepreneurs, start - ups, remote workers and the larger business community.

The organizations sent a joint letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland outlining their shared principles and priorities for a new trade model rooted in principles of equity, the primacy of human rights — including the rights of Indigenous peoples, women and girls, workers, migrants, farmers, and communities — and social and ecological justice.

Union rallied community support Tuesday for workers at XPO Logistics facility in Memphis.

The initial costs to communities affected by natural disasters can be great; however, after a natural disaster there is usually a surge of economic activity that continues for an extended period as people and communities rebuild and money and workers flow into the area — increasing income tax and sales tax revenues to municipalities.