Sentences with phrase «labor legislation as»

Trained all new Employment Specialists and Hiring Managers in our computer programs, union and labor legislation as well as UW policy, and the layoff / rehire procedures

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Indiana is the latest Midwestern state where Republicans have pushed labor legislation with safe voting margins even as the efforts have drawn large protests by union backers and spawned recall efforts.

The White House threatened to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes to pass the measure.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes in his own party to pass the measure.

Critics of the Labor Department's rule have argued that requiring advisors to serve as fiduciaries to the small and midsize plan market will negatively affect access to 401 (k) plans at a time when policymakers at the federal and state level are crafting and passing legislation intended to broaden access to retirement savings for employees of small employers.

Economists view many labor markets as being in disequilibrium due to how legislation and public policy protect people and their jobs, or the amount they are compensated for their labor.

I consider my work «radical» because, although «radical» or «activist» work at large is perceived as protests and / or changing legislation, I believe that the emotional labor, relationship building, and advocacy are important (and overlooked) parts of justice work.

Almost 90 minutes of proceedings in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee included the first - ever Senate testimony from an openly transgender witness, who joined three other speakers in making a robust case for the legislation as necessary for workers and helpful for business.

Led by New Yorkers for Clean Livable and Streets, also known as NYCLASS, the activists and council members at the press conference expressed optimism that the legislation would ultimately pass the City Council next spring and become law, despite the opposition of organized labor and a sizable number of council members.

As part of the enabling legislation approved the state Legislature earlier this year, the Hotel Trades Council previously signed five labor peace agreements with the operators who are considering applying for upstate casino licenses.

The measure, known as the Education, Labor and Family Assistance budget bill, included a suite of ethics reform legislation that address client disclosure for state lawmakers who are attorneys as well as per diem and campaign finance reform.

SARANAC LAKE U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) is proposing legislation to make it easier for small businesses to craft employee - owned stock ownership plans, or ESOPs, a measure the lawmaker says will stave off possible disruptions in local economies as older business owners begin to transition out of the labor force.

Even Trump, a Republican, appeared to backtrack when he called the bill «mean» and implored the GOP - led Senate to be «more generous» as they labored to assemble companion legislation.

As chair of the Committee on Labor, he has not passed much legislation to attract overwhelming accolades or scrutiny.

THAT NYSUT establish a task force which shall include member - participants in each of the public retirement systems, including the retirement plan trustees, if applicable, to discuss possible methods, including legislation, to harness and use public pension plan resources to improve poor labor practices and to provide workers the right to organize and bargain collectively in enterprises controlled by private equity funds, as well as other corporate interests; and

As a labor sending country, it is in Bangladesh interest to accede to the convention immediately and frame necessary enabling motional legislation.

They've also pushed controversial anti-union state legislation known as «right to work,» dealing a major blow to the labor movement, including teachers» unions, in Michigan.

In 1978, the United States Congress passed legislation, which was signed by President Jimmy Carter, proclaiming the first Sunday after Labor Day as National Grandparents Day.

Honors attorneys find themselves working in practice areas such as administrative, aviation, litigation, environmental, constitutional, torts, legislation, labor and employment, and contract and procurement law.

Labor and the climate advocacy movement made a strategic mistake in 2010 by trying to sell the climate legislation as about «clean energy futures» and «saying yes» without talking about how climate change would affect people's lives.

I've been planning for a while to write a post arguing that the one thing Julia Gillard can do to (at least, potentially) salvage her place in the history books is to secure passage of the carbon price package (and preferably the other outstanding items left over from the Rudd era, such as the mining tax legislation and health reform), then step aside, and let the Labor party choose a new leader.

Political deals (sometimes dubbed «grand bargains») to win Republican support for carbon taxes, such as the proposal by Democratic Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) and Brian Schatz (HA) therefore risk alienating labor, low - income advocates and economic - justice activists, many of whom are already tepid at best about carbon tax legislation that doesn't directly invest considerable carbon revenues in a «just transition.»

The new Division of Labor Relations came into existence as the result of legislation merging the Labor Relations Commission (where I was a staff counsel in the 1980s), the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration and the Joint Labor Management Committee for Municipal Police and Fire.

As previously mentioned in other blog posts, the Ministry of Labor will only ever enforce the provincial legislation, and will not consider an employee's full entitlement, and all available remedies.

Recent buzz in Montenegro, according to Komnenic Managing Partner Milos Komnenic, revolves primarily around new and proposed legislation in the country, including a newly - adopted Law on Spatial Planning and Construction of Objects, as well as the proposed new Law on Commercial Companies and new Labor Law, both of which are undergoing public debate.