Sentences with phrase «job protections for»

Commenting on whether freedom of speech protections offer job protections for nongovernment workers, Burke says,» [I] f it's a private employer, there's no particular freedom of speech.»

Lawmakers have passed a number of controversial, partisan measures, rapidly expanding school choice, cutting school resources, and eliminating job protections for teachers.

The two men share vastly different backgrounds and overall educational beliefs, leading the LA Weekly to characterize the election as a reform vs. union battle for the heart of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Times to call it «a prime example of the strange rift in education, in which liberal Democrats are sharply divided on such issues as charter schools, job protections for teachers, the authority of the federal government in schools and the value of standardized test scores.»

Overhauling work rules and job protections for school employees, Moskowitz stresses, is the most critical factor needed to foster academic excellence.

This reversal did not determine that the quality of education was compromised by tenure or job protections for teachers or that students were deprived of their constitutional right to an education.

In oral arguments presented in the Appellate Division, 2nd Department of the New York State Supreme Court, the plaintiffs argued that the existing school system is failing their children, and that the outsized job protections for chronically ineffective teachers across New York must be struck down.

A Los Angeles judge on Thursday affirmed a tentative June ruling that struck down five laws governing job protections for teachers in California.

Charters have also become a touchstone for how people feel about a host of related issues: job protections for teachers, the role of elected school boards and teachers unions, and the privatization of schools.

He said the law will improve the ranks of teachers by rewarding the most ambitious and competent while maintaining job protections for current teachers who don't want to change.

The Washington Post reported that the court decided «tenure, seniority and other job protections for teachers have created unequal conditions in public schools and deprive poor children of the best teachers.»

Whereas tenure for university professors had some early antecedents, and job protections for school teachers crept into Massachusetts as early as 1886, K — 12 tenure as we know it today is mostly a mid-twentieth-century phenomenon.

A California Supreme Court majority declined to hear Vergara v. California, the case that challenged teacher tenure and other job protections for teachers.

The union's concerns dated to 2013, when the Bloomberg administration withstood a monthlong strike over a new contract that stripped job protections for the unionized drivers.

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.

Proponents of a bill known as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would provide job protections for gay and transgender workers, are actively taking a whip count to see whether the measure has enough support for floor action.

Education advocates in recent days have assailed job protections for New York teachers as antiquated, unwarranted and unconstitutional.

Democratic elected officials aligned with the city and state teachers unions see charters as a thinly - veiled, well - moneyed effort to erode job protections for teachers.

Parents should have at least six months of paid leave and job protection for the primary caregiver, and at least two months of the same for the secondary one, according to Schore, and Sroufe goes further, advocating for one full year of paid leave and job protection.

While other districts have put performance - pay systems in place and others still have relaxed seniority rules, the initiative coming out of the nation's capital would, in one stroke, swap job protection for salaries that outpace what most...

Teacher tenure is cast as a civil rights issue for struggling students, because job protection for teachers is supposedly an obstacle to improving educational outcomes and closing the «achievement gap.»

According to this TNTP guide, the original Vergara ruling from June 2014 sheds light on how existing laws support job protection for teachers and make it virtually impossible for districts to replace low - performing ones.

A new death or disappearance of a child leave will provide up to 52 weeks of job protection for employees whose child disappeared as a result of a crime, or up to 104 weeks if a child died as a result of a crime.

A new citizenship ceremony leave to provide up to a half - day of job protection for employees attending a citizenship ceremony.

Retaining the status quo for job protection for parental leave at 37 weeks, but allowing for a potential future increase to align with proposed federal Employment Insurance benefits.

When I joined the CAF in 2003 as an Army reservist, while public support was on the increase, legal support in the form of job protection for reservists was almost non-existent.

Not exact matches

Environmental groups said the proposed cuts would threaten thousands of jobs and could harm health and safety protections for millions of Americans.

ILC Dover, known for making spacesuits for NASA and personal protection equipment for military, Homeland Security and industrial users, moved manufacturing operations — and the accompanying 115 jobs — from Mexico to Seaford.

«Visa programs for foreign workers... should be administered in a manner that protects the civil rights of American workers and current lawful residents, and that prioritizes the protection of American workers — our forgotten working people — and the jobs they hold.»

WASHINGTON — The two top officials in charge of security and toxic - waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers that his subordinates were to blame for alleged ethical lapses that have prompted more than a dozen federal investigations of the agency.

As expert Jessica Shortall pointed out in her excellent piece for «The Atlantic», we do a better job of legislating protections for newborn kittens and puppies than we do for human infants.

The World Bank observed last year that adding new employment - protection laws inevitably favours existing job holders over new entrants and «lower [s] employment rates for disadvantaged worker groups, especially youth.»

On his first day on the job as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray visited the Brookings Institution and gave his vision for the agency.

In addition, some refinancing companies such as SoFi and CommonBond have unemployment protection, which allows you to put your payments on pause while looking for a job.

If you're looking for that kind of protection, bonds should still do their job more times than not.

Rick is a former Chief of Staff for the federal New Democratic Party, and has led many successful campaigns for important new public policies at the federal and provincial levels related to environmental and consumer protection, urban planning, green jobs creation, democratic reform and progressive taxation.

Unemployment protection — loan payments are paused and it helps eligible graduates find new jobs and also hire them for short - term consulting projects

John Horgan and the B.C. New Democrats believe that, in order to move forward, LNG development must include express guarantees of jobs and training opportunities for British Columbians, a fair return for our resources, benefits for First Nations, and protection of our air, land and water, including living up to our climate change commitments.

Adrian Dix and the New Democrats have an environmental plan that would reinvest in transit and climate change initiatives, create green jobs, and offer legislated protection for species at risk.

The B.C. New Democrats have proposed an environmental plan that would reinvest carbon tax revenue in transit and climate change initiatives, create green jobs, and offer legislated protection for species at risk.

The average family with a single earner with such job protections could probably squeak by for about 6 months on an emergency fund of about $ 6,000.

A professor in financial planning shared that most needs - analysis tools available today do not do an adequate job of discovering insurance gaps for guaranteed income and protection in an individual's financial plan.

Only a public authority can guarantee the universal access to a medical care of quality, the development of knowledge and the certainty of a job as well as social protection for all.

This would allow either parent who is away from the waged workforce caring for children to receive child - care payments, children's allowances, job training and other protections against long - term financial and job vulnerability.

This administration does care about the suffering that results for workers who lose their jobs and it does care about the weakening of environmental protection that is entailed in free trade.

Any change in the abortion law should be accompanied by changes in health - care benefits for women and children, in child care, in job protection, in comparable worth and in career advancement.

Worker Exploitation: Many banana plantation workers work long hours in difficult conditions - handling pesticides and herbicides without sufficient protection - for low wages and poor job security.

(Though a gun may not be a great equivalent since there are jobs where it may be needed for protection.)

whatever you think of ramsey... and in my books he is a decent b2b but certainly not top class... he is not going to control the area between edge of box and centre line which is what all great DMs do... nor has coquelin proved that to me... he is a guttusso type player and has improved massively in that role... not convinced it is what will take us to challenging for titles however which is why a cavalho type DM is a needed addition especially as arteta and flamini are obviously not up to the task... but have always said that wengers job is to get best out of ozil santi and wilshere who are the real creative world class strengths of this squad... they need protection behind them and options in front... at moment the real worry is that wenger will continue to use mertesakher at CB and fail to bring in quality striker... so the song remains the same... without quality DM and attacking option we will be trying to retain 3rd place and reach qf of cl

look man i understand that you say ozil in the middle means no protection or less than adequate but ozil will be CAM and he is close to scoring a tap - in rather than giving shield to arteta who is an unreliable source and does not deserve the captaincy, wenger only gave it to him cause he gave the players some papering over the cracks statements after the Liverpool, chelsea and man city match and the player does not even have a cap for the national team Wenger may have seen this as a player who can play in and out with no internationals regardless of his qualities on the pitch and the main reason why he sold vermaelen who would have done decent job at CDM and then all that fluid style that arsene thinks he can play dictate «arrogance»!

Even with generous maternal leave entitlements and protection for jobs.