Sentences with phrase «government workers came»

But when government workers came to provide medical care, they heard disturbing news: The Korubo said they had survived an attack by members of the Matis in December 2014; at least eight Korubo were killed, apparently in revenge for the deaths of two Matis men.

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

Herzog said attorneys in the resource center were encountering furloughed government workers coming to court to take care of outstanding probate issues now that they had more free time.

Not exact matches

Everything is crashing, and the world is coming to an end,» says Chris, the government tech worker.

The federal government has contracted a boutique Perth consultancy to come up with a plan to address Broome's shortage of tourism workers.

That's a long way of saying the Conservative government could have seen the current temporary foreign worker scandal coming from five decades away.

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.

When it comes to «requiring employers to offer health insurance to their workers, or pay money into a government pool that provides coverage for people who are not covered through their jobs,» a whopping 76 offered their approval.

On the other hand, payroll services firm ADP, which has a somewhat spotty record when it comes to anticipating the government's payroll count, just missed for April with an estimate that private companies added 156,000 workers for the month.

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.

In other words, what this statistic shows is that Bill 6 was desperately needed, and that the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act courageously passed by the Alberta Legislature on Dec. 10, 2015, by the government of Premier Rachel Notley in the face of huge — and when it came to its political opponents, hugely dishonest — opposition was the right thing to do.

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).

In a world where governments are taking roughly half of workers» income in taxes, it should come as no surprise that employment, productivity, and incomes have stagnated

Migrant workers hired by government officials flipped over the parish car, then the police came.

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 the Turnbull government that's stood by and done absolutely nothing when it comes to ensuring that workers» penalty rates for working on Sundays in retail and hospitality industries are protected.

Researchers, farmers, chefs, policy makers, government officials, and students will come together panels on topics including; food waste, urban agriculture, family farmers, farm workers, and more.

It's no coincidence that the employers» charter comes on the same day the government proposes to make it easier to fire workers but harder for them to access justice in the courts.

The claims come as a council in south Lincolnshire warned that unless the government increased the number of homes in the area to deal with the influx of migrant workers wanting to settle, there would be social unrest.

«I came out on streets today because I feel the government reforms are not adequately engaging in dialogue with various workers in the public sector.

besides the fact that the budget director is clueless when it comes to the job he is getting well paid for, the accidental governor, finally has the legislators by the balls — furlough 100,000 + state workers or shut down state government (all of it).

«British jobs for British workers» only validates negative attitudes and I believe it has come back to haunt the government.

In this respect, the EU is a kind of «commitment device `: as a worker, you know that whatever government comes next, it won't be able to renege on these basic guarantees so easily.

The move comes after peers voted in favour of a motion by the former Labour minister Lady Hollis to halt the cuts until the government produces a scheme to compensate low - paid workers for three years.

Kogi State Government has come out to clear the air why some workers in the state received half salaries while others were fully paid.

Home secretary to announce the level of the government's planned cap on number of migrant workers coming to Britain from outside the EU

Earlier chairman of the ad - hoc committee and member representing Okura Constituency Hassan Abdullahi explained that the committee met three times with the striking workers and government but was yet to come to conclusion on the matter.

The leadership of the organised labour in Kogi State has urged workers not to be intimidated by the alleged sack threat coming from the state government...

It comes despite the government calling on both the Communication Workers» Union (CWU) and Royal Mail to accept independent arbitration from Acas.

This rating comes days after the Industrial Commercial Workers» Union (ICU) scored Nana Addo's government 80 % in its assessment, but emphasized the need for government to speed up processes to get the Special Prosecutor Office running effectively.

The government has said restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian workers coming to the UK will remain.

«They've already raided the pensions of Sellafield workers once, and now they're coming back for a second bite of the cherry, on the entirely spurious grounds that they fall under the government's public sector pension reform.

Then came the Amber Rudd speech suggesting the government would force companies to publish lists of foreign workers they employed.

The reality here is that, this NDC government has come to increase salaries and add up to workers» income power as every other government comes to do but the rate of price increase is not as escalating as we experienced under the NPP government.

Seeing a loophole to be exploited between the loose language of the law and the clear intent, when it came time to shut down the government, furlough workers, and stop checks from being issued, they got a convenient legal ruling that said, yes, suspending their own pay is considered altering the pay of Congress (because the law didn't just say pay raises) during the same session, therefore, it is illegal for them not to collect their paychecks during a shutdown.

Acciording to him, «This government came to power at the time civil servants were on strike; the issue that led to the strike was that of the salaries owed to the workers for many months.

The action came amid investigations into foreign spying by government workers and open questions over U.S. surveillance in Germany, a spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

The donation came less than two months after workers at certain busing companies, including one owned by Mr. Lodde's firm, had gotten an unprecedented windfall from New York City government: a $ 42 million grant pushed through by Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise wages at low - paying private bus companies with city contracts.

«The key for construction and the Government is to keep hold of our unemployed workers, and those coming into the industry, during the recession.

A survey of 500 Poles in Britain for Newsnight suggests that just 64 per cent had signed the workers» register, which the government uses to monitor the number of people coming from the ten new European Union member states to work in Britain.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

This came on the heels of the payment of May 2018 salaries to workers on the eve of this year's workers» day celebration by the state government.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats» plans for concessionary bus schemes for young people, students and part - time workers came a step closer to becoming a reality last night when the Welsh Government agreed to support the party's plans.

It will also come days after the New Year's Eve layoffs of more than 900 state workers, an event that union representatives marked with a candlelight vigil on the steps of the Capitol and outside government offices in five other cities.

The governor was reminded by a top aid that he and the legislature approved a new pension tier, so that future workers will receive fewer benefits, saving the state, as well as local governments, billions of dollars in costs in coming decades.

Her revelation that the Federal Government has gone a-borrowing came on the same day that re-elected and incoming APC state governors told President - elect Muhammadu Buhari that state governments are increasingly unable to pay their workers» salaries due to the perilous economic situation occasioned by declining statutory allocations from the Federation Account.

The government is halting the number of skilled non-EU workers who come in over the next nine months under some parts of the points - based system at 24,100.

DiNapoli's interest in the hotel — where politicians, lobbyists and others in state government's orbit are common patrons — comes as other elected officials have sided with hotel workers during the contract negotiations.

The endorsement from the 345,000 - member union was a welcome one for Mr. Cuomo, coming on the heels of rejections from the two largest unions representing state government workers.

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