Sentences with phrase «in workplace protections»

He continued: «A Labour government will work with EU partners, trade unions and businesses to ensure that, outside the EU, the UK does not lag behind Europe in workplace protections or environmental standards in future.»

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In December, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration renewed its alliance with the National Association of Women in Construction to continue to promote safe and healthful working conditions and prevent hazards that are specific to women such as a lack of personal protection equipment, sanitation and workplace intimidatioIn December, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration renewed its alliance with the National Association of Women in Construction to continue to promote safe and healthful working conditions and prevent hazards that are specific to women such as a lack of personal protection equipment, sanitation and workplace intimidatioin Construction to continue to promote safe and healthful working conditions and prevent hazards that are specific to women such as a lack of personal protection equipment, sanitation and workplace intimidation.

«As the on - demand economy creates exciting opportunities and unleashes innovation, it's also raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future.»

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a legal brief in an appeals court case, arguing against workplace discrimination protection for employees who are gay.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, more than 200 «anti-LGBTQ bills» were introduced across the country in 2016 sessions - most failing to pass - and more than 111 million people live in states without clear state - level protections against LGBTQ workplace discrimination.

Creating workplaces that are safe and free of harassment and discrimination should start in the halls of Congress, and my colleagues and I will not stop fighting for the protections that all victims deserve.

The Investor Education in Your Workplace ® program provides 10 hours of online investor education and protection to at least 500 credit union employees in each participating State.

Investor Education in Your Workplace ® provides investor education and protection to individuals in their wWorkplace ® provides investor education and protection to individuals in their workplaceworkplace.

«The Basics of Saving and Investing: Investor Edcation 2020» is an investor education and protection teaching guide that can be used in a variety of learning environments including college courses, workplace education, after school programs, seminars for adults and seniors, etc. «The Basics» is also a great DIY course for individuals.

«The Basics of Saving and Investing: Investor Edcation 2020» is an investor education and protection teaching guide that can be used in a variety of learning environments including college courses, workplace education, seminars for adults and seniors, etc..

Say no to weakening health and safety protections in Canadian workplaces.

• Restore full collective bargaining rights; • Restore strong health and safety protections in workplaces under federal jurisdiction, watered down by the previous government; • Repeal anti-labour Bills C - 525 and C - 377; C - 10; C - 4; C - 59; • Restore pay equity in the public service, with full union right of representation; • Re-open the nine veterans» affairs offices shut down in 2014.

It is frustrating to see William Chip's well - documented argument of the economic and political evils of illegal immigration rebutted from Scaperlanda's supposedly moral standpoint, when in fact the victims in this scenario are the laborers working without regulations for workplace safety, without employment benefits, and even without police protection (since contact with law enforcement is associated with deportation).

In recent years, evangelicals have pushed for greater «conscience protections» for Christians, hoping to keep believers from being forced to go against their beliefs on marriage and sexuality at their workplaces.

Attorney Christina Coleman explains the various legal rights and protections that pregnant and working mothers have in the workplace

Special measures should be taken to promote community and workplace support to mothers in relation to pregnancy and lactation, and feasible and affordable child - care services, and compliance to the ILO Maternity Protection Convention 2000 (No. 183).

Since BFHI began, more than 152 countries around the world have implemented the initiative.9 BFHI promotes a multi-level, multi-sector approach which, together with legislation regarding statutory maternity leave and protection of the breastfeeding rights of women in the workplace and enforcement of the Code of marketing of breast milk substitutes, is essential to effectively promote, protect and support breastfeeding.6 Monitoring and re-assessment of BFHI facilities are important as the initiative expands.

Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to give women the legal right to pump milk in the workplace, a protection available in three states: Hawaii, Minnesota and Tennessee.

And workplace accommodations to support continued breastfeeding simply don't exist in much of the world, let alone protections for poor women working in the informal sector, such as domestic work or street vending.

You're talking about health care professional training and the international code of marketing of breastmilk substitutes, national leadership, maternity protection in the workplace, data collection.

The other WBTi indicators offer key points to include, such as Baby Friendly status being a universal goal, legislation in line with World Health Assembly recommendations, adequate protection for breastfeeding in the workplace, local support that is of high quality and integrated, and health professionals who have adequate training is supporting breastfeeding.

The pushback from ESPA comes after Flanagan on Friday criticized Cuomo's plan to enhance workplace and housing protections for transgender New Yorkers, enacting parts of the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act — a measure the Senate has declined to adopt in the last several years.

Disposable protective coveralls are used extensively in the workplace for a variety of tasks; from guarding against dust, to protection from harmful toxic chemicals or infectious body fluids.

A motion condemning moves by the Coalition to remove vital health and safety protections in the workplace was debated at the Conference in Birmingham.

Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

But it's also raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future» Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said in a speech today outlining her economic policy.

The long - running campaign to secure federal workplace protections for LGBT employees took another step Tuesday when a Senate panel held the first hearing on the Employment Non-discrimination Act in nearly three years.

In the U.S. Senate, it has been almost two decades since legislation was first introduced to enact strong and clear federal protections against workplace discrimination against gays throughout our country.

She truly understood the vital role labor unions serve in strengthening our economy, and worked hand in hand with us to improve workplace protections, increase wages for America's working poor and middle class, and protect workers» health and retirement benefits.

The measure, known as the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, would provide protections against discrimination of transgender people in housing, the workplace and other public accommodations.

This legislation extends protections from sexual harassment to all private workplaces in New York state.

The final deal includes a provision extending protections to independent contractors, consultants and other non-employees in a given workplace, making an employer liable for sexual harassment against them.

Women who have reported sexual harassment by lawmakers, along with state Senate Democrats and some attorneys, say the package to be included in the state budget accomplishes little, save for a significant provision extending protections to contractors and other non-employees in a workplace.

The state Senate on Thursday approved two bills that are part of the 10 - point women's agenda addressing human trafficking and addressed protections geared toward pregnant women in the workplace.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo through executive action has moved to add protections for transgender New Yorkers in housing and the workplace through the state's Human Rights law.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2015 through executive action announced the state would enforce protections for transgender people to curb discrimination in housing and the workplace.

«I'm extremely proud to accept the endorsement of 1199 SEIU and its members, and I look forward to fighting alongside them in Congress for higher wages, better benefits, reliable pensions, and workplace safety protections that their members and all working New Yorkers deserve,» Lancman said.

As far as the UFT is concerned, withdrawing representation in grievances is unlikely to give teachers enough reasons to be members because contractual workplace protections are incomplete, and the UFT has not consistently enforced existing provisions.

She has a long history working with the LGBTQ community on issues ranging from LGBTQ educational programming, securing funding for prominent LGBTQ organizations and initiatives and fighting for equal protections in the workplace.

Building on the momentum generated by the Commission's recent campaign to promote sexual harassment protections in the workplace, the event had a dual purpose.

«With this proposal, we can enhance fairness and protections for victims and survivors of sexual harassment in the workplace while helping to ensure that no one has to ever say the words «Me Too,» ever again,» Cuomo said in a statement.

Curran, who will face County Comptroller George Maragos in a September Democratic primary, said that if elected, she would «stand with the hard - working men and women these unions represent, and will fight for better wages, benefits, and workplace protections.»

And the budget changes the law to offer protections for contractors, subcontractors, vendors, consultants or other individuals offering services in the workplace.

DNC spokesman Michael Tyler said the party's national platform «repeatedly and unequivocally states, the Democratic Party is staunchly committed to making it easier for workers, public and private, to exercise their right to organize and join unions, to increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, to protecting collective bargaining, to strengthening workplace protections, and to investing in infrastructure that uses American products and provides good - paying jobs for American workers.»

Lancman, a lawyer who served Assembly District 25 for six years, has also passed a significant volume of legislation, including theLibel Terrorism Protection Act, which aims to protect journalists writing about terrorism abroad from being hit with defamation lawsuits, and a host of bills related to equality andsafety in the workplace.

«I want to thank Speaker Heastie and the Assembly majority for their leadership on so many issues — from school funding and workplace protections to tax policy and women's equality — that are critical to the lives of average New Yorkers,» UFT president Michael Mulgrew said in a statement.

According to Councilmember Dromm: «Before [Schneiderman] was Attorney General, he worked with our LGBT community to pass SONDA [2002] and DASA [2010] in the State Senate, laws that provide important protections against workplace discrimination and school harassment.»

But if the assessments of Cao and Miller are correct — if UC postdocs will indeed rank among the nation's top postdoc earners, if the new workplace protections really are without precedent in so elite an academic system, and if the pact in fact heralds serious economic improvement — these facts say more about the generally dismal circumstances of young academic researchers than they do about the prosperity and security in store for those employed at UC.

As novel applications, such as drug screening, SNP detection, diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and food protection, are developed, there will be more demand for experienced microarray technicians in the workplace.

Providing federal recognition for same sex unions that would enable equal benefits and issuing federal mandates for the protection of LGBTs in the workplace would encourage the younger generation of scientists like Dash, Ventura, and Prescod - Weinstein to participate openly and proudly in the nation's scientific enterprise.