Sentences with phrase «government workers on»

This article originally appeared in the May 2017 issue of the ABA Journal with this headline: «Public Employees, Private Speech: The 1st Amendment doesn't always protect government workers on or off the job.»

With the University of Texas and the state government workers on holiday, I would say visiting the city at this time of year would be considered inopportune.

With the University of Texas and the state government workers on holiday, I would say visiting Austin at this time of year would be considered inopportune.

While the original home buyer tax credit deadline passed in April 2010 (and isn't available in 2012), military families and some government workers on assignment outside the U.S. were given an extension until April 30, 2011, to get a home under contract and take advantage of up to $ 8,000 in tax credits for first - time buyers and $ 6,500 in credits for repeat buyers.

September 30, 2013 • Only hours before a partial shutdown of the federal government would take effect, House Republicans still hadn't arrived at a temporary spending bill that Senate Democrats were willing to approve to keep government workers on the job.

A spat among airlines over which deserved the contract to fly U.S. government workers on certain routes intensified on Tuesday, with the chief executive of JetBlue Airways calling rivals hypocritical for protesting its award.

Not exact matches

MOSCOW — Workers and activists around the world marked May Day on Tuesday with rallies and other events to press their governments to address labor issues.

By paying workers as independent contractors when they should be paid as employees, federal, state and local governments potentially miss out on tax revenue they would otherwise collect; this tax gap was the focus of a special report to Congress in 2011 and continues to be an area of focus today.

Each worker on the assembly line could scan their identification card, which is then verified by multiple sources such as government agencies and third - party auditors, ensuring the workers are not underage or overworked.

CAMBODIA: Riot police watched carefully as more than 1,000 garment workers defied a government ban on marching to deliver a petition to the National Assembly in Phnom Penh, demanding a higher minimum wage and more freedom of assembly.

«It would be a great gesture of goodwill for the prime minister to make ahead of negotiations but equally it's good for our businesses... This is what I hear about day in, day out,» he added, noting that the U.K. government could offer this to EU workers unilaterally despite having been rebuked earlier by the trading bloc in an attempt to agree a deal on this issue ahead of full Brexit negotiations.

These government workers are focused on how to make cities, towns and economic regions prosper.

Changes to the country's immigration rules implemented by the federal government last year could help replenish the pool of workers available to employers, with a new emphasis on skills and youth.

«We also see many governments failing to prepare for the future, on issues ranging from retirement and infrastructure to automation and worker retraining.

Earlier this year, May's government was forced into a U-turn when it dropped a plan to increase national insurance contributions on self - employed workers after Conservative lawmakers protested that it broke the 2015 pledge.

Of course, this doesn't let you off the hook, because if one of your workers takes a government subsidy to buy insurance on an exchange, you could face a tax penalty of $ 3,000.

To compensate, the government allowed farmers to hire Mexican workers — known as braceros, Spanish for «manual labourers» — on a temporary basis.

According to the AP, which first reported on the letter, that cache of data on government workers «contains up to 780 separate pieces of information about an employee.»

Hammond, who has faced calls from fellow cabinet ministers to scrap the 1 % freeze on public sector pay increases, said that the government must continue the «right balance» between what is fair for workers and taxpayers.

Over the past decade, employment of skilled technology workers in BC has grown 27 %, driven partly by U.S. companies frustrated with their own government's limit on visas for skilled workers.

The British government assured employees working on the company's public - sector contracts that they'd be paid, but no such promises were made to workers on Carillion's contracts in the private sector.

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.

LONDON — Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that Britain needs a «grown - up» debate over whether pay for public sector workers should be increased, arguing that the government must «hold its nerve» on austerity.

Instead of relying on monetary policy to boost the economy, the government should help train workers to fill those gaps.

Total tax revenue, % of GDP Taxes on income and profits, % of GDP Taxes on goods and services, % of GDP Taxes on average worker, % of Labour Cost Government gross financial liabilities as a % of GDP

It could also have a public benefit if it lessens the need for governments to build highways designed for rush - hour commuting or for workers to spend $ 100 a week or more on transportation, parking, coffee, lunches and so on.

«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.

While some are blaming that drop on the government shutdown, when federal workers were furloughed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics itself is not.

The German government granted a bridging loan of 150 million euros to allow Air Berlin to keep its planes in the air for three months and secure the jobs of its 7,200 workers in Germany while negotiations go on.

Workers on private sector contracts, however, will be paid by the government for only 48 hours.

SEOUL, March 27 - General Motors said its loss - making South Korean operations would file for bankruptcy if its union did not agree to cut labor costs by April 20, heaping pressure on workers and the South Korean government to swiftly agree a rescue plan.

Even Uncle Sam is getting in on the act, allowing some government workers to charge official purchases on government - issued credit cards.

Small businesses would get a subsidy from the federal government — the more low - wage workers on the payroll, the bigger the subsidy.

Japan's government loosened laws on pensions in May, allowing almost all working - age Japanese to join private defined - contribution retirement plans — similar to individual retirement accounts (IRAs) in the United States that allow workers to make regular contributions to an investment fund with tax breaks.

The problem lies less with layers of government and excessive numbers of government workers providing services than with the generous salaries and benefits of those who are on the public payroll.

The government contends that it loses millions, quite possibly billions, of dollars each year on workers who've been classified as independent contractors but who haven't voluntarily paid self - employment taxes.

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.

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 officials said technology experts from inside and outside the government are being brought in to work on the glitches, though they did not say how many workers were being added.

But CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a conference call that the company is investing «heavily» on safety and security, including workers with language skills for detecting hate speech, and tools for verifying government IDs ahead of elections in the U.S. and abroad by the end of the year.

The report also says that would lift labor participation, and more government spending on early childhood and college education «would raise the educational attainment of workers.»

Taxes on 1099 workers (independent contractors) either quarterly or once a year to the federal government

Canada was able to win exemptions on digital content in the renegotiated TPP, but the government has faced heavy criticism from Canadian auto workers and manufacturers for signing side deals with Japan, Australia and Malaysia on automobiles.

Seeking to attract corporations and workers, its previous government embarked on ambitious tax cuts.

A number of Liberal party supporters and candidates on Twitter cited a government study on federally regulated industries showing that only 416 of those workers made minimum wage in 2008.

One of the examples he cited was the recently announced Digital Defense Service, a sort of Defense Department job shadowing project in which technology workers can team up with the government on projects that could last up to two years.

A narrow plurality of offerors (49 percent) say the On - Demand economy should not be regulated and companies should compete to offer workers fair pay and benefits, even if it means less security, compared to 40 percent who say the government should regulate the sharing economy to guarantee independent contractors the same benefits afforded to full - time workers, even if it means fewer jobs.

This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive © on behalf of CareerBuilder among 5,708 workers (employed full - time, not self - employed, government and non-government) between May 18 and June 8, 2011 (percentages for some questions are based on a subset, based on their responses to certain questions).

In this Monday, March 5, 2018 photo, provided by the North Korean government on March 6, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, his sister Kim Yo Jong, and Vice Chairman of North Korea's ruling Workers» Party Central Committee Kim Yong Chol meet members of South Korean delegation headed by National Security Director Chung Eui - yong in Pyongyang, North Korea.

As Amazon builds up its distribution network, it's hit on a trick long practiced by the likes of Walmart: using the federal government to help pay its workers.