Sentences with phrase «including worker protections»

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Reversed or delayed rules would have addressed issues including public health, worker safety, consumer protection, and the environment.

These regulations are handed down from several federal agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and various state agencies, which implement laws in the realms of worker's compensation, employee protection, and otProtection Agency (EPA), and various state agencies, which implement laws in the realms of worker's compensation, employee protection, and otprotection, and other areas.

That includes accusations that its business model drives down wages and erodes worker protections, claims for which the evidence is mixed.

The precarious workforce includes workers with insecure employment arrangements with few job protections, including temporary workers, freelance workers and independent contractors, part - time workers, and day laborers.

Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez plans to create added protections for hotel workers in Miami Beach, including arming them with panic buttons to report sexual harassment or assault.

The move serves as a coda to the administration's ongoing efforts to enhance rights and protections for workers, including making millions more eligible for overtime pay and expanding workers» rights to sue over pay discrimination.

The letter echoes the demands trade justice advocates have long called for: transparent and democratic negotiations; strong and enforceable labour rights, including for migrant workers; protection of public services; enforceable environmental standards; and the right to regulate in the public's interest.

They included abolition of child labor, protection of workers against industrial hazards, shorter hours — the 12 - hour day was then common — a living wage and arbitration of industrial disputes.

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The courses we offer are aimed at service managers and frontline workers from a variety of settings, including Children's Centres, maternity services, child protection, schools and family learning services, Job Centre Plus, child and adolescent mental health services, teenage pregnancy services and youth offending teams.

«Other stand - out recommendations include a bill designed to address the exploitation of our tax laws and exploitation of Nigerians by multinational firms by Femi Obagun, and a brief policy for more stringent laws against rapists, a Workers Protection Act, an Alternate Financing to Economic Growth Act, a Policing and State Security Act, and a Government Transparency and Anti Corruption Act.

Before serving in the Assembly, as Chief of Staff for then - City Councilmember and current Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Brian negotiated enactment of several significant new laws, including the Domestic Worker Protection Act, promoting the rights of housekeepers and caregivers, and laws to foster the use of technology to make government more accessible and efficient.

Governor Cuomo has acted alone this year on several different issues, including a minimum wage hike for fast food workers and legal protections for transgender New Yorkers.

«Every New Yorker deserves the protection of guaranteed paid sick leave — including the 300,000 workers still left behind.

He backed calls for government action, including more regulation, transparency and protection for the rights of workers.

Beil had not seen the pay plan, but based on highlights included in the letter sent to legislative leaders, he expressed concern that many of the protections for workers negotiated and put into union contracts during the past 50 years were being removed.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

«And under my leadership, it would mean a strengthening of employment rights including creating a new Shadow Cabinet Secretary of State for Labour tasked with making Britain the envy of the world for the quality of our jobs and the protections they have, so workers have access to better terms and conditions.»

In the interim, the deal will be revised to include more financial protection for the city and stronger local - worker hiring requirements.

Bargaining unit members negotiated a contract that includes such basic guarantees as living wages, reimbursement of standard work - related expenses, and protection from sexual harassment and discrimination, according to a release from the Campaign Workers Guild.

In a statement signed by the Secretary to the Government of Imo State, Sir Jude Ejiogu, the workers caught in the sack - web includes the Imo Water Corporation, Imo Cattle Market, Imo Sports Council, Imo State Environmental Transformation Commission, ENTRACO, Imo Marketing Company, Imo Consumer Protection Council, Hospital Management Board, including its headquarters staff.

The Labour frontbench will concentrate its efforts on getting greater parliamentary scrutiny of Brexit, including the swift publication of the white paper along with protections for workers and environmental standards.

They range from statewide proposals like environmental protections to more local topics, like fighting the MS - 13 gang on Long Island, and also include promises to take away gun rights from domestic abusers, criminalize «revenge porn» and «sextortion,» invest further in his program to revitalize local downtown areas, and reevaluate the lower minimum wage allowed for workers who regularly receive tips.

But the new contracts do not include job protections for current workers, which the union threatened would put experienced drivers out of work and compromise kids» safety.

At 12:45 p.m. Monday, City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, joined with Unite Here 100, will rally for food service worker retention, supporting a bill that expands upon the 2002 Displaced Building Service Worker Protection Act to include food service workers from being fired from work after a new owner takes over a busworker retention, supporting a bill that expands upon the 2002 Displaced Building Service Worker Protection Act to include food service workers from being fired from work after a new owner takes over a busWorker Protection Act to include food service workers from being fired from work after a new owner takes over a business.

The agenda, five months in the making, includes bills that call for the creation of a task force to assess the city university system's affordability, admissions and graduation rates, a report on the use of long - acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices, sexual assault awareness and prevention training for cab drivers, a street co-naming for the original Ms. Magazine headquarters and expanding the definition of employer under the human rights law to offer protections for domestic workers.

If enacted, PAWA would bring public employees, including state university workers like Sheri, under the protection of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which currently excludes them.

The original passage of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) protected employees against age discrimination but limited protection to workers between the ages of 40 and 65 and allowed employer benefit plans to include mandatory age limits.

(ADEA) protected employees against age discrimination but limited protection to workers between the ages of 40 and 65 and allowed employer benefit plans to include mandatory age limits.

Projects include working with sex workers, inner - city girls, LGBTQ youth, and others to explore ways that high and low technology can be used for protection and self expression, from the latest in GPS and mobile software to simple DIY kits.

The American Lung Association supports measures to improve the health and safety of coal mine workers, and the communities where they live, including protection from harmful air pollutants.

This guidance document presents that employment, social protection, social dialogue and workers» rights need to be an integral part of any policy in pursuit of sustainable development, including with regard to climate change.

Also included in the promises are rights in relation to the gig economy, training, pension protection, a potential minimum wage rise, a guarantee that European worker rights would be sustained post-Brexit, and more.

We provide services to our clients regarding Federal, New Jersey and New York statutes, including: Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, National Labor Relations Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act, New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, Conscientious Employee Protection Act, New Jersey Family Leave Act, Civil Rights, ERISA, and Wage and Hour Law.

Our diverse membership includes: judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers, probation and parole agents, law enforcement officers, case managers, child protection service case workers, therapists, treatment professionals, court administrators, research scientists, and more.

With the International Labour Organization's (ILO) International Labour Conference currently taking place in Geneva from June 1 to June 17, with the agenda including an item entitled «Decent work for domestic workers», there are hopes that a Convention supplemented by a Recommendation will be adopted to afford what is seen as urgently - needed protection to domestic workers (see the ILO website for more... [more]

Each pleaded guilty to two charges: failing to ensure the company provided information, instruction and supervision to a worker regarding fall protection and / or working at height and to failing to ensure that the company ensured that a worker was protected by fall protection (director and officer provisions in Ontario, as well as B.C., require that directors and officers take all reasonable care to ensure corporate compliance with OH&S provisions including regulations and orders).

She also helps clients manage compliance risks including in relation to employee entitlements, contingent workers, assignments and data protection.

This work includes applications for permanent residence in business, immigrant categories, applications for skilled workers under federal and provincially based immigration programs, applications for temporary workers under the immigration regulations pursuant to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, as well as applications for Canadian citizenship.

The State and Federal Employment disputes handled by Whittel & Melton include FLSA (fair labor standards act), Wage and Overtime disputes, Minimum Wage Violations, Discrimination (age, sex, disability, pregnancy, national origin, race), Retaliation claims including FMLA (family medical leave act), workers compensation and sexual harassment in the workplace, Whistleblower protection, qui tam and other civil rights pursuits.

Workers have less protection than employees, but their rights include the minimum wage, holiday pay, and discrimination / whistleblowing protection.

Business Development: Brokering various business dealings that further the diversification of Indian economies Developing and accessing commercial financial programs and services for tribal governments, including tax - exempt offerings and federally - guaranteed housing loans Serving as issuer or underwriter's counsel in tribal bond issuances Ensuring tribal compliance with Bank Secrecy Act and other federal financial regulatory requirements Handling federal and state income, excise, B&O, property and other tax matters for tribes and tribal businesses Chartering tribal business enterprises under tribal, state and federal law Registering and protecting tribal trademarks and copyrights Negotiating franchise agreements for restaurants and retail stores on Indian reservations Custom - tailoring construction contracts for tribes and general contractors Helping secure federal SBA 8 (a) and other contracting preferences for Indian - owned businesses Facilitating contractual relations between tribes and tribal casinos, and gaming vendors Building tribal workers» compensation and self - insurance programs Government Relations: Handling state and federal regulatory matters in the areas of tribal gaming, environmental and cultural resources, workers» compensation, taxation, health care and education Negotiating tribal - state gaming compacts and fuel and cigarette compacts, and inter-local land use and law enforcement agreements Advocacy before the Washington State Gambling Commission, Washington Indian Gaming Association and National Indian Gaming Commission Preparing tribal codes and regulations, including tribal court, commercial, gaming, taxation, energy development, environmental and cultural resources protection, labor & employment, and workers» compensation laws Developing employee handbooks, manuals and personnel policies Advocacy in areas of treaty rights, gaming, jurisdiction, taxation, environmental and cultural resource protection Brokering fee - to - trust and related real estate and jurisdictional transactions Litigation & Appellate Services: Handling complex Indian law litigation, including commercial, labor & employment, tax, land use, treaty rights, natural and cultural resource matters Litigating tribal trust mismanagement claims against the United States, and evaluating tribal and individual property claims under the Indian Claims Limitation Act Defending tribes and tribal insureds from tort claims brought against them in tribal, state and federal courts, including defense tenders pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act Assisting tribal insureds in insurance coverage negotiations, and litigation Representing individual tribal members in tribal and state civil and criminal proceedings, including BIA prosecutions and Indian probate proceedings Assisting tribal governments with tribal, state and federal court appeals, including the preparation of amicus curiae briefs Our Indian law & gaming attorneys collaborate to publish the quarterly «Indian Legal Advisor ``, designed to provide Indian Country valuable information about legal and political developments affecting tribal rights.

(3) Migrant workers need special anti-reprisal protections including the ability to stay in the country while their complaints are being processed.

These include statutes such as the California Equal Pay Act, the Wage Theft Protection Act of 2011, and the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, which pertain to issues involving work hours and wages, including meal periods, rest breaks, overtime, and minimum wage.

The issue of discrimination against LGBT people is again making legal headlines as a federal appeals court in Atlanta recently ruled that Title VII does not include within it a protection for workers who suffer discrimination based upon their sexual orientation.

Since the OHSA is meant to be interpreted broadly, these sections obligate supervisors and employers to take all reasonable precautions to protect workers, including, in our view, in situations where the worker requires protection from the harassing behaviour of a manager or colleague.

Its multi-disciplinary team includes solicitors with national reputations, a qualified social worker, an accountant and an experienced Court of Protection deputy who are able to manage the financial affairs of those who lack mental capacity as defined under the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

The multi-disciplinary team includes solicitors with national reputations, a qualified social worker, an accountant and an experienced Court of Protection deputy, able to manage the financial affairs of those who lack mental capacity as defined under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 — a holistic approach

It is therefore important for immigrants and other low - income workers to know that there are laws in Ontario that provide basic protection for most employees, including those who work part - time, as well as those who find their jobs through temporary agencies.

These included minimum wage increases, extending occupational safety coverage to unpaid interns and trainees, addressing wage recovery for unpaid workers and improving employment protections for foreign workers.