Sentences with phrase «government employment program»

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The government is trying to support employment, including by propping up insolvent SOEs, increasing retraining programs and encouraging people to become entrepreneurs.

But another 42 % of executives said the government was right to suspend the two programs because the employment of citizens must take precedence.

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen acknowledges that gaps in employment and wages do exist, but says government has been working on designing settlement programs to improve opportunities for immigrant women and their children.

While there are government programs in place to assist, limited resources prevent them from being as effective as they need to be to ensure every service member has a fair chance at employment.

Program expenses were lowered by $ 5.4 billion in that Update, with all three major components contributing to the decline: major transfers to persons down $ 1.8 billion, primarily due to lower employment insurance benefits; major transfers to other levels of government, down $ 1.4 billion, primarily reflecting the recovery of the sales tax harmonization transitional payment from British Columbia; and direct program expenses, down $ 2.2 billion, due to lower other traProgram expenses were lowered by $ 5.4 billion in that Update, with all three major components contributing to the decline: major transfers to persons down $ 1.8 billion, primarily due to lower employment insurance benefits; major transfers to other levels of government, down $ 1.4 billion, primarily reflecting the recovery of the sales tax harmonization transitional payment from British Columbia; and direct program expenses, down $ 2.2 billion, due to lower other traprogram expenses, down $ 2.2 billion, due to lower other transfers.

Structural changes to the employment insurance programs in the late 19980s and early 1990s reduced benefits and eliminated direct government financing of the program.

Program expenses were up only 0.4 per cent, as the ending of most of the stimulus spending in the Economic Action Plan and lower employment insurance benefits nearly offset increases in transfers to other levels of governments (spending in this area is largely set in legislation) and in elderly benefits.

The government will tweak the employment insurance program to boost training of unemployed workers and support what a senior government official called a «nascent innovation agenda.»

The strong dollar, changes in the economy creating mismatches between workers» skills and the needs of business, and well - intentioned government programs that aid the jobless but also create disincentives to seek training and employment have slowed annual GDP growth to 1.8 percent since 2000 from 3.4 percent the prior two decades.

For example, the Public Accounts / Budget / Updates includes employment insurance program costs, as the government has full control over this program, determining the premium rates and eligibility and the amount of the benefits, whereas the Estimates excludes them, on the basis that they are included as part of a specified purpose account.

Some 6,000 Baltimore youths started work Monday as part of the city's YouthWorks summer program.The five - week employment program gives people ages 14 to 21 opportunities to work in industries such as finance, law, government, health care and tourism...

Evan Solomon: The government of Alberta, they point to these statistics: the oil sands creates $ 307 billion in tax revenue, $ 187 billion for the federal government, 23 % of employment is from oil sands, 7 % of employment in Canada from the oil sands and in Ontario alone, 7 %, they say, of employment comes from the oil sands and they say royalties of $ 1.9 billion fund programs across the country.

The government does not contribute a penny to the Employment Insurance program.

Total federal government expenses consist of four major components: major transfers to persons (old age security, employment insurance benefits and children's benefits); major transfers to other levels of government (Canada Health Transfer, Canada Social Transfer, Fiscal arrangements, Alternative payments for standing programs, and Gas Tax Fund), direct program expenses (other transfers, Crown corporation expenses, and departmental and agency operating and capital expenses) and public debt charges.

The 500,000 temporary Census jobs that temporarily swelled the employment numbers are a minor distortion compared to a stealth government make - work program at least twice the size of the Census, uncovered by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William M. Arkin.

Therefore, to the greatest extent practicable and permitted by law, religious observance should be reasonably accommodated in all government activity, including employment, contracting and programming.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

Mr. Speaker, we note that several transition programs run under the various government institutions and agencies including the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the National Vocational and Technical Institute (NVTI), Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Youth Enterprises Support and the Youth Employment Authority, have targeted non-tertiary government institutions and agencies including the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the National Vocational and Technical Institute (NVTI), Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Youth Enterprises Support and the Youth Employment Authority, have targeted non-tertiary Government and Rural Development, the National Vocational and Technical Institute (NVTI), Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Youth Enterprises Support and the Youth Employment Authority, have targeted non-tertiary graduates.

After completion you are left to your fate to battle your stars for employment but our junior in colleges who are all affiliated to our universities and are undertaking 3 years program get automatic entry into the job market which is facilitated by government and the GHS.

The objectives of the program would be to: • Provide employment to unemployed graduates • Improve skills and employability • Improve public service delivery • Improve government revenue mobilization.

The Employment Minister's whine over the burdensomeness of SSSS comes at a time that government is undertaking a program with the International Monetary Fund which requires that it cut down the wage bill.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. today urged local governments and community - based agencies to participate as work sites for the 2010 Oneida County Summer Youth Employment Program.

«The government has again created another bureaucratic structure called Nation Builders Corps while we have Youth Employment Authority; the Authority could have been given additional resources to run such program to cover the youth who have graduated from Tertiary education», he stressed.

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Government should also encourage NGOs and private sector to take up training programs targeted to foreign employment including scholarship to support poor people.

Government programs to promote youth employment are dysfunctional in 21 countries (Mo - Ibrahim - Foundation, November, 2012)

Through its University Pathways Program, Doxa aims to introduce disadvantaged young people to a wide range of roles and employment pathways available within a government department.

Programs and services are and will be in compliance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the California Fair Employment Practices Act, Government Code § 11135; and Chapter 1, Subchapter 4 (commencing with § 30) of Division I of Title 5, California Code of Regulations (5 CCR).

Prior to joining the Stanford University faculty in 1969, Dr. Kirst served in several positions in the federal government, including staff director of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Manpower, Employment, and Poverty; director of program planning and evaluation for the Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education in the U.S. Office of Education (now the U.S. Department of Education); and associate director of the White House Fellows.

107; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; 29 C.F.R. Part 1614; Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations; Executive Order 13087, Further Amendment to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 13160, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Sex, Color, National Origin, Disability, Religion, Age, Sexual Orientation, and Status as a Parent in Federally Conducted Education and Training Programs; Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009; Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations governing the processing of complaints of discrimination in the Federal sector; and EEOC decisions, procedures, guidelines, and program and management directives.

College Work Study (CWS): Funded by the federal government, CWS is a program designed to provide college monies to students through employment in exchange for services to the university, state or other agency.

The PSLF program defines eligible public service broadly to include employment with a nonprofit agency or any federal, state, or local government.

To help students who secure employment in low - paying public interest and government jobs, Golden Gate University offers a Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP).

Last year the federal government decided to try and level the playing - field by offering self - employed people the option of buying into the Employment Insurance program so they can qualify for mat leave benefits, along with a slew of others including parental, sickness and compassionate care benefits.

The government showers money on banks and shuns the employment insurance program, and that is just one of the million ways you are being screwed.

I am in the student loan forgiveness program and of course they wanted to explain to me whats on the US Department of Education website about how I'd have to certify my employment each year because a person could have a government job and quit the next day.

Low - income Canadians pay little or no tax and get their employment incomes fully replaced by government programs largely financed by wealthier Canadians.»

(Technically, borrowers aren't required to formally enroll in the program, though the federal government recommends that they certify their employment each year to track progress toward PSLF eligibility, so the total number could be much higher.)

You might want to look at http://www.finaid.org/loans/publicservice.phtml to find out about a fairly new 10 - year loan forgiveness program from the federal government for any public service employment such as teaching, social work, non-profit, police, library, fire, etc..

Your TFSA won't impact other income - tested programs: If you're receiving Employment Insurance (EI), the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), the Canada Child Tax Benefit, or any other income - tested benefit from the government then there's no worries of a claw back if you withdraw from your TFSA.

Then there is the Solar Foundation — closely allied with the Solar Energy Industries Association and government solar advocacy programs — which publishes a yearly report on solar employment trends across the country.

Government coal programs support employment in several critical swing states, including West Virginia, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Montana, and Missouri.

Government Income Maintenance / Income Security programs (including Ontario Disability Support Program, Ontario Works, Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security, Employment Insurance)

The CBA administrates this program, which is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) as part of the Government of Canada's Youth Employment Strategy (YES).

Three of those streams are operated by the Federal Government: the Federal Skilled Worker Program (includes «Arranged Employment»), Skilled Trade Program and Canadian Experience Class.

On November 27, 2013, Quebec's National Employment Insurance Review Commission released its report regarding the impact of the federal government's 2012 changes to the Employment Insurance (EI) program.

A criminal record that reflects a conviction will make it difficult to rent an apartment, find gainful employment, and participate in important government programs.

A new program intended to help those with criminal records gain employment appears contradictory to the federal government's desire to make it tougher for offenders to put their past behind them and could leave them vulnerable to discrimination by employers.

The 2008 case settled the law in this regard; the amounts collected as contributions to the employment insurance program form part of the government's revenues and can be used for purposes other than paying EI benefits.