Sentences with phrase «government workers at»

Days after a federal judge blocked his efforts to furlough half the state work force, Gov. David A. Paterson is drafting a plan that would lay off thousands of government workers at the beginning of next year, a move officials say is necessary to help balance the state budget.

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In at least five cases since 2015, Huajian sued workers in Chinese court rather than pay compensation mandated by a government arbitration panel.

The new judging criteria for the federal skilled worker program will award more points to younger immigrants and changes the way the government looks at work experience and education.

Pretty much the only folks who will receive these benefits are government employees and a small percentage of workers at large corporations.

During the 2015 blizzard that hit much of the northeast, workers at businesses that stayed open risked losing their jobs if they decided to stay away from work because of government travel warnings.

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune obtained.

In June the Canadian government implemented a package of immigration reforms, known as the Global Skills Strategy, aimed at fast - tracking visas for skilled foreign workers — some can get processed in as little as two weeks — and providing a concierge service that will walk companies through the process of opening an office on Canadian soil.

«Canada's media and cultural industries are being severely damaged by the tax loopholes that benefit foreign digital companies and platforms at the expense of Canadian producers and workers and that cost the federal government at least $ 1 billion in revenues,» the union wrote in a statement on its website.

The American university system is good at training foreign workers for tech jobs, and it is essential that the U.S. government allows them to stay in the country to fulfill U.S. jobs, he said.

«By shirking its responsibilities to pay its workers,» states the document, the «defendant is in essence thumbing its nose both at their workers and the taxing authorities of all states and the U.S. government.»

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

The Canadian Media Guild (which also represents unionized workers at The Canadian Press) worries the new money from the federal government wasn't a reinvestment in the CBC so much as spending on companies producing CBC programming.

The actual Bureau of Labor Statistics count put private job expansion at 171,000, with an 11,000 decline in government workers accounting for the total nonfarm number.

And of course, Carter used his appearance at the security conference to recruit Silicon Valley workers who may have more technical know - how than the average government employee.

Then we had a control group of non-entrepreneurial businesspeople and another group that was not involved in business at all, like nuns and government workers.

People in B.C. also lashed out against that provincial government's support for Chinese - owned HD Mining's plan to use temporary foreign workers at a proposed coal mine in Tumbler Ridge.

Our Government will complete reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to ensure that Canadians always have the first chance at available jobs.

When Canadians parlay their strengths at home by linking up with opportunities abroad, Canadian workers, investors and governments all gain.

Like many of the other union leaders we consulted, Darcy says that her union will continue to organize aggressively during hard times, noting that the HEU has successfully signed up workers at most of the health facilities where the Campbell government has contracted out support services.

The government again shed workers, as it has been doing for most of the last four years, though reductions at the Postal Service accounted for most of the latest decline.

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.

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's announcement regarding electricity regulations and a just transition for workers: «The regulations announced today mark important progress in implementing the federal government's commitment to cut carbon pollution, but equally important is recognizing that clean growth...

While government workers have gold - plated pensions often starting at age 55 and many employed Canadians have employer - matched RRSPs, the small business owner is counting on the value of the business — including any investments owned by the corporation — for his or her retirement.

The pullback in government support was often justified by the idea that employee stock ownership may be a risky substitute for fixed worker pay, but almost all the studies indicate that employee stock ownership in the form of ESOPs does not come at the expense of workers taking lower wages or other forms of compensation.

Provincial government workers came in at a close second with a 55 % rise.

At the Tim Hortons in Corner Brook a long time mill worker simply asked that I work to get rid of a federal government that does not understand Newfoundland.

We've already seen the Harper government chipping away at our members» pensions, raising the eligibility age for young workers and increasing the contribution rate.

Any future conservative Alberta government would also likely try to reimpose the longstanding unconstitutional limitation on union membership by farm workers included in Bill 6, which was at the heart of the fury against the bill.

To participate, companies or government entities had to employ at least 15 workers in Florida and have been in operation at least one year.

At least 29 states have made efforts in recent years to expand retirement savings program coverage for private sector workers, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

The workers who are brought into Canada under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program, to work at 15 % below average wage thanks to the Harper government, are not ourworkers who are brought into Canada under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program, to work at 15 % below average wage thanks to the Harper government, are not ourWorkers Program, to work at 15 % below average wage thanks to the Harper government, are not our enemy.

At the current point in the recovery from the 2001 recession, employment at all levels of government had increased by nearly 600,000 workers; in contrast, in the current recovery, government employment has declined by more than 700,000 jobs, a net difference of more than 1.3 million jobAt the current point in the recovery from the 2001 recession, employment at all levels of government had increased by nearly 600,000 workers; in contrast, in the current recovery, government employment has declined by more than 700,000 jobs, a net difference of more than 1.3 million jobat all levels of government had increased by nearly 600,000 workers; in contrast, in the current recovery, government employment has declined by more than 700,000 jobs, a net difference of more than 1.3 million jobs.

Unions, working with employers, have come along way to making these workplaces safer over the past 30 years, but there's much more work to be done - particularly as we discover the toll these types of jobs take on workers mental health and as the Conservative government moves closer and closer to total industry self - regulation (something that puts all Canadians at risk).

The government argues it managed to protect pensions for those on low incomes at the expense of increasing contributions for workers and employers and getting rid of early retirement.

Here is a workable scenario: A corporation owned by both Israeli and Palestinian interests (probably the governments, at least initially) builds one or more very large desalination plants and the necessary pipelines, develops the land to be irrigated, manages the farms on that land, and perhaps develops communities where the farm workers can live.

they were crucifying thousands of people at the time, and government workers being what they are, they just werent that carefull to get the right folks.

At the other end of the spectrum is the philosophy represented by the Catholic Worker: all big government is dangerous; caritas emerges not from the tax system but from changing hearts and minds.

But, Jesus never said any government had the right to steal, at legal gun - point, from its workers to give to anyone.

That Adam Smith, considered to be the patron saint of the free enterprise system and the laws of the market should have forcefully asked for workers» education, and that too at the initiative of the government, may come as a surprise to many.

This is what James Eadie QC, Cameron's Government's expensive barrister, told the court (on his behalf): that the refusal to allow an NHS nurse and a British Airways worker to visibly wear a crucifix at work «did not prevent either of them practising religion in private», which would be protected by human rights law.

About 1500 jobs are at risk if fertiliser company Incitec Pivot fails in its talks with gas suppliers, government and its workers to cut cos...

Australian Workers Union NSW state secretary Russ Collison was furious at the government, rather than the company.

The two organisations warn that the highly effective two year Medical Training Initiative (MTI) that trains about 200 doctors a year from the developing world will be put at risk if the Government adopts its proposal to cut the duration of Tier 5 visas for temporary workers to just one year.

Adeboye spoke at the RCCG inter-denominational service held at Kassa in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, where he rounded up the RCCG 2017 Northern Ministers and Workers Conference, with the theme, «The Almighty.»

He urged the workers to continue to put in their very best and key into the state government's reform agenda aimed at enhancing productivity and ultimately the Internally Generated Revenue, IGI.

By our calculations, Osun state pensioners alone got at least, N1, 539,227,442.75 out of the N14.2 billion paid to active and passive workers in the last two weeks as arrears of 4 months salaries and pensions excluding what the local government pensioners were paid for the same period.»

The minister argued that there were more than five million public sector workers in the country, and pointed out that they all had loved ones, such as parents, spouses and children, who might share their frustration at government policy.

In the face of these hardships however, the Akufo Addo government has favoured platitudes and empty rhetoric instead of the implementation of concrete policies to alleviate the suffering of the worker and Ghanaians at large.

Finally, we urge the Akufo Addo government to ensure the completion and full implementation of a number of policy and legislative measures aimed at further protecting the interests of Ghanaian workers.

The government, at the last quarter of 2015, after a series of meetings of the National Tripartite Committee (NTC) comprising government, employers» association, organized labour and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) announced a 10 percent pay rise for public sector workers across the country.