Sentences with phrase «individual right of workers»

It is now the right moment to build on that and minimise the impact of strike actions without questioning the individual right of workers to take industrial action.

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But only enough to see that we are not after all the center of the universe, that our desires and ambitions have no more right to fulfillment than those of several billion other individual dreamers and workers.

He has a long record of seeking to expand workers» rights, and he is more likely than most of his colleagues to oppose measures that would increase the ability of individuals to own or use firearms.

Just like the job - seeking EU citizen who lost his / her worker status, the Citizenship Directive itself provides for the economically inactive in his first three months of residence a «gradual system -LSB-...] which seeks to safeguard the right of residence and access to social assistance», taking into consideration «various factors characterising the individual situation of each applicant for social assistance and, in particular, the duration of the exercise of any economic activity» (paras 46 - 48).

Given the current uncertainty and potential cost the best advice to SME's with EU workers who have been working in the UK for at least 5 years is to get them to make an application for Permanent Residence as this should provide a guarantee of an individual's continuing right to work in the UK.

It also re-defines the role of «worker» so that the obligation to provide personal service no longer prevents an individual from being eligible for basic employment rights.

Linda Luna Lara Works Hard and Wins Big For Workers Wronged By Employers Based on my personal experiences of witnessing the effects of a wrongful termination and the financial and emotional devastation it can cause on an individual and family I became wholeheartedly passionate about employee rights,» says Linda Luna Lara, Founding Partner at Lara & -LSB-...]

Instead, the Court finds that by «establishing a gradual system» as regard the retention of the worker status which seeks to safeguard the right of residence and access to social assistance, the Citizenship Directive itself already «takes into consideration various factors characterizing the individual situation of each applicant for social assistance and, in particular, the duration of the exercise of any economic activity» (para. 60).

The three major cases heard so far — against Uber, CitySprint and Pimlico Plumbers — have involved individuals claiming the rights of workers against a company attempting to classify them as self - employed contractors.

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.

On Thursday, April 26, CPCS had the pleasure of honoring exceptional members of our community — attorneys from the public and private counsel divisions, as well as a social worker, investigator and administrative professional — who work tirelessly to insure that CPCS meets our mission: to fight for equal justice and human dignity by supporting our clients in achieving their legal and life goals; to zealously advocate for the rights of individuals; and to promote just public policy to protect the rights of all.

When balancing this evidence against the privacy and dignity rights of individual workers, the Supreme Court concluded that the employer had failed to demonstrate a sufficient workplace problem or requisite safety concern which would warrant such an infringement on individual workers.

Her job was not only advancing the legal rights and entitlements of individual injured workers, but also their «collective» interests, through education, community development and law reform.

On November 2, lawyers from Miami Law's Health Rights Clinic, with Florida Legal Services and the Community Justice Project, sued DCF and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on behalf of the Miami Workers Center, New Florida Majority, and a class of disabled individuals claiming that the system discriminated against persons with disabilities who could not endure these conditions.

As permanent residents or citizens, these workers will have full mobility rights within the Canadian labour market, meaning it will be much more difficult for employers to use them as pawns to drive down wages and conditions on individual worksites or across sectors of the economy.

The Taylor Review considered it unfair that, where a contract provides for a genuine right of substitution (somebody who can undertake the work on behalf of the individual if they are unable), this could potentially defeat an individual being classed as a «worker».

While each case will turn on its facts, there appears to be a growing trend whereby businesses operating in the «gig economy» may find that individuals they have purported to engage on a self - employed basis are in fact workers for the purposes of employment rights.

Grace Pluchino, a community legal worker at the forefront of tenants» rights for the past 30 years, is this year's recipient of the Sidney B. Linden Award given by Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) to honour exceptional individuals who help low - income Ontarians in the pursuit of access to justice.

Craig has represented individuals in proceedings with many professional bodies including the College of Teachers, College of Registered Nurses, College of Dental Surgeons and individuals before administrative tribunals including the Employment Standards Tribunals, Worker's Compensation Board, and B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.

53 By contrast, although the aim of Directive 2004/38 is to facilitate and strengthen the exercise of the primary and individual right — conferred directly on all Union citizens by the Treaty — to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States (see Case C ‑ 127 / 08 Metock and Others [2008] ECR I ‑ 6241, paragraphs 82 and 59; Case C ‑ 162 / 09 Lassal [2010] ECR I ‑ 9217, paragraph 30; and Case C ‑ 434 / 09 McCarthy [2011] ECR I ‑ 3375, paragraph 28), it is also intended, as is apparent from Article 1 (a) thereof, to set out the conditions governing the exercise of that right (see, to that effect, McCarthy, paragraph 33, and Joined Cases C ‑ 424 / 10 and C ‑ 425 / 10 Ziolkowski and Szeja [2011] ECR I ‑ 14035, paragraphs 36 and 40), which include, where residence is desired for a period of longer than three months, the condition laid down in Article 7 (1)(b) of the directive that Union citizens who do not or no longer have worker status must have sufficient resources.

In its decision, Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v. United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 401, 2013 SCC 62, the Supreme Court weighed the collective rights of a union's freedom of expression under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms against the rights of individuals whose personal information was collected, used and disclosed without consent by the... rights of a union's freedom of expression under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms against the rights of individuals whose personal information was collected, used and disclosed without consent by the... Rights and Freedoms against the rights of individuals whose personal information was collected, used and disclosed without consent by the... rights of individuals whose personal information was collected, used and disclosed without consent by the... [more]

I am now debating going from a management job to a high - level individual contributor (been in current job for 2.5 Some details: I was a social worker right out of college.