Sentences with phrase «government workers so»

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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.

The technology giant said Monday that it plans to open a so - called transparency center in Beijing intended for government tech workers to test and analyze Microsoft products for security.

Among the things that such firms must make determinations about and document, Plakans says, is if they qualify as exempt employers, whether their workers are considered full - time employees, and if so, whether the plans they offer adhere to the cost formulas prescribed by the government.

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.

Also, although the new tax law that took effect Jan. 1 lowered rates individual tax rates and created a 20 percent deduction for qualifying earnings for solo workers (and other business entities that have so - called pass - through income), it doesn't take much to owe the government.

So while most people consider secret voting to be a fundamental component of democratic government, the Canadian Labour Congress calls it «a threat to workers rights.»

Instead, Sari Sairanen, health and safety director for national union Unifor, doesn't think the problem will get better until governments themselves step in to provide better child and elder care so that workers have options outside of just missing work.

So you have it backward: In any SANE world, no amount of malfeasance by a democratic worker council could justify unilateral capitalist (or government) «appropriation of a multi-million dollar piece of property.»

In Detroit, I halted government mandates that crippled American's great workers, so we can get motor city revving its engines again.

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

And the warehouse workers are paid so little and given such limited hours that they often turn to government benefits, with Amazon effectively outsourcing their payroll to the feds, too.

So every economics department was closed down, every social science department was closed down, about 10,000 labor leaders, government workers and others were murdered or driven into exile.

Contingent workers are key to increasing productivity, extending recovery Government policies threaten to ossify labor markets and stunt growthThe often - maligned phenomenon of contingent workers could play a key role improving workers» lives and productivity but so much depends on government policy, writes PetGovernment policies threaten to ossify labor markets and stunt growthThe often - maligned phenomenon of contingent workers could play a key role improving workers» lives and productivity but so much depends on government policy, writes Petgovernment policy, writes Peter Morici.

In so doing, they rejected government ownership of cod fishery on the basis of Britain's failure to strengthen its whaling industry by nationalization, and they rejected outright subsidies to the wealthy owners who controlled the boats and warehouses on the basis that any government tax credits had to include workers.

«The Christy Clark government needs to start tracking temporary workers so we can see how many jobs and apprenticeship opportunities for young British Columbians are being lost.

So on one hand you are saying bill 6 is of no value to farmers without paid workers and on the other you are saying that a farmer who enrolled in WCB long before the NDP government brought us bill 6 benefitted from enrolment in the WCB.

I appreciate too the exemplary efforts of emergency workers, government officials, clean - up crews and the thousands of volunteers in dozens of communities who have done so much to get the recovery under way as quickly as possible.

We ran into one cyclical recession in the» 70's, and the Republicans seized on it as an excuse to rig government and society for the benefit of people who are already rich, while taking away opportunities from everyone else... then they crushed the unions so that workers would never be able to get back better pay and better job security, while investors make more and more and pay less and less in taxes.

This is the government ideology and many people believe this.That is why it is so difficult for the workers to fight against it.

The market needs educated workers; so the government is responsible to see that education is available.

The gop has alienated so many people from so many walks of life that the only voter represented by them will be a 50 year old white man who mistrusts minorities and women and unions and non christians and seniors and government employees and teachers and librarians and nurses and postal workers and immigrants and firefighters and I have probably left out quite a few of you who they have managed to insult this past year.

The government can, however, impose health and safety requirements on all EMPLOYERS — they can require a minimum wage, they can require that female or minority workers are not discriminated against, and so forth.

«It hurt me that a so - called Government could receive all the Federal Allocations due to it and still find the heart to leave workers unpaid,» he lamented.

As government's capacity to constrain corporations and the wealthy has declined, so has the economic well - being of workers.

He says the government should strengthen the law so that employment agencies can not — even informally — favour foreign workers.

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.

In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

«The N9.6 bn refund is exclusively for the state government to pay salary and so any other claims by Fayose to brainwash the workers to deny them their entitlements once again is not only wicked and selfish, but also a fraudulent practice that Fayose has elevated to an official policy to short - change the state and her people at all times.»

Controversial UK Government plans to introduce different pay rates for public sector workers in different parts of the UK have so far dominated today's meeting of the Welsh Grand Committee.

We call for amnesty now for millions of fellow - workers forced to live in the shadows for the so - called crime of trying to support their families while lacking immigration papers acceptable to the government.»

Unions want the Welsh government to review the use of so - called zero hours, which give workers no guarantee of how much they will take home at the end of the week.

Government workers have been allowed to receive a refund check for a portion of their union dues for about four decades, but only a small number have chosen to do so.

Reacting to the report today, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) accused the government of initiating a privatisation agenda when it spoecifically promised not to do so in its election manifesto - a point made also by the Conservatives.

It was not the EU that smashed workers rights in this country but the neoliberal policies of successive British Governments for the last 37 years — Governments that reveled in the free market, that loved a flexible workforce, so flexible that 22 million workers in this country are on minimum wage and many have their wages supplemented with benefits just to survive.

«Again government hasn't increased salaries of workers so why increase transport fares?

But it was the public's differing attitudes towards public sector workers and the government which really shows why Cameron is so wrong to pick this particular fight.

Kofi Adams questioned the basis of moving YEA workers from one region to another, saying the government has failed on its promise of creating jobs for the youth so the transfer will compel most of them to abandon the job and then they will have the opportunity of fixing their people.

«The government's new National Living Wage is a step up for working people, so it is important workers know their rights and that employers pay the new # 7.20 from 1 April this year.

A Labour government will mean more workers paid a living wage, (as many enlightened employers and, I'm proud to say, increasing numbers of Labour councils, are already doing)- offering temporary tax breaks to employers that commit to paying it, and requiring transparency of large companies, so employees, consumers and campaigners can hold them to account.

«It's government's responsibility to get out of the way so businesses can thrive and prosper and I think by reforming the workers» compensation system we are providing that opportunity.»

Last year the parliamentary ombudsman said the government should compensate 85,000 workers who lost out on their pensions, saying official leaflets advising them on how to save for their retirement were misleading, but ministers have refused to do so.

Around 28,000 young workers in Wales will miss out on the UK Government's so - called «national living wage» despite still being hit by tax credit cuts, figures published by the Welsh Liberal Democrats reveal.

The agreement finally reached on the local government pension scheme after the government made significant concessions has rather less to do with official generosity than fear about the consequences if the scheme were so eviscerated that hundreds of thousands of local government workers might decide there was no point in continuing to contribute to it since, if they walked away, they would still get the same amount of money in retirement from means - tested income support.

SEBAC also claimed that Rowland's action violated the First Amendment rights of the 37,000 or so unionized employees that it represented, saying, among other things, that the workers» ability to petition the government and conduct political activity had been chilled.

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.

«The PAYEE account as a result of deductions from workers is not up to N850 million in actual fact, but the figure was inflated so that the balance would end up in private pocket while the fake figure is in government's books,» Olatunbosun said.

«If the government can find the money to postpone it for longer then all the better because it is a big pressure and of course you've also got bus and train fares going up in January too, so the cost of getting to work for people — there's an issue about whether work pays for a lot of low - paid workers.

Following a recent 30 - man committee set up by the Federal Government, to review the minimum wage so as to reflect the current economic realities, workers are...

No one is blaming her for the collapse of oil prices in the international market but that after a cumulative 8 years as finance minister, public finance is so heavily dependent on oil that the Federal and state governments can not pay their workers» salaries says a lot about the quality of management she did.

A Labour government will make it a criminal offence to use low - skilled European workers to undercut local workers and businesses, and change the rules so that more foreign national criminals are considered for deportation, the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said.