Sentences with phrase «labor policy»

It's often hard to know which companies use child or forced labor, and which stick to paying adequate wages and other fair labor policies.

A blocked fire exit or a vague labor policy was an immediate red flag.

The question of how teachers are and should be paid lies at the heart of a broader debate about education and the role unions play in setting classroom labor policies.

We also support efforts to secure greater economic opportunities, holistic labor policies, and citizenship protection for immigrant and low - income women workers.

For example, labor economists analyze the effects of labor policies on employment.

«Despite health being a top priority for voters, it received scant attention in the Prime Minister's address, with no discussion of Coalition health policy and attacks on Labor policy on Medicare,» said Alison Verhoeven, chief executive of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, representing public health services.

«The adoption of this local labor policy insures that local working families will benefit from the temporary construction jobs produced by IDA induced projects.

Not only that, but according to F. Vincent Vernuccio, Director of Labor Policy at the Mackinac Center, a pending bill, SB 210, would end release time — a scam that allows teachers and other public employees to conduct union business during working hours paid for by the taxpayer.

(c) Nothing in the national labor policy indicates that a union and employers in one bargaining unit are free to bargain about wages or working conditions of other bargaining units or to settle these matters for the whole industry, nor does it allow an employer to condition the signing of an agreement on the union's imposition of a similar contract on his competitors.

SA Liberal Party leader Steven Marshall said that state Labor policy had left South Australians with «the highest energy prices in Australia» and «the least reliable grid».

The new labor policy means that construction companies that receive Niagara County IDA incentives will have to recruit at least 90 percent of their workforce from counties in Western New York.

Such frankness and clarity is greatly preferable to Ferguson's mealy - mouthed pretence that his position is somehow consistent with Labor policy and with a serious response to the greenhouse problem.

Brent Wilton, the company's global head of workplace rights, said in an email to Reuters, «We are partnering with the pilot of this project to further increase transparency and efficiency of the verification process related to labor policies within our supply chain.»

Employees at Shake Shack, like their counterparts at Starbucks and Chipotle, which are also known for their progressive labor policies, are eligible for health insurance and match 401K plans, among other benefits.

Tough's teachings have especially struck a chord with business leaders and labor policy wonks who have taken his ideas and woven them into their vision of our future workforce.

The news release compared the agreement to the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency's labor policy requiring contractors and suppliers working on city projects to be locally owned and operated.

Carrying Puerto Rican flags and signs depicting vultures to represent the hedge funds allowing investors to profit from the island's debt, advocates chanted «Wall Street's greed is making Puerto Rico bleed» and voiced concern that the board would implement labor policies that would slash worker salaries and harm the working class.

In March, a subsidiary of Related Companies filed a lawsuit against Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and its president, Gary LaBarbera, alleging that the union's labor policies drove up costs at Hudson Yards by more than $ 100 million.

We can hope for a rapid economic recovery, but hope seems to be a tenuous foundation on which to build an expansionist national S&T labor policy.

It seems like there is a lot of clothing touted on here that is cheaply made, likely in places with not so great labor policies, and from fabrics that have real environmental effects.

The author discusses the types of help working families need, including access to public transportation, extended - day programs, and reformed labor policies.

Promised support for families on pension cards with additional funds for school camps is another well - targeted Labor policy.

Readdressing Latin America's «Forgotten Reform,» Quantifying Labor Policy Challenges in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.

NEW YORK — State lawmakers from Illinois to Tennessee are considering laws that could change what it means to be a teacher, as labor policy has become the heart of a pitched education debate — one in which each side claims that the other doesn't put students» interests first.

Political trailblazer Frances Perkins was the first female member of a presidential Cabinet, and as such she made many contributions to American labor policy, including Social Security and unemployment benefits.

Although the federal labor policy contained in Taft - Hartley is not to be ignored, the paramount concern must be with the public policy against racial discrimination which is reflected in civil rights legislation and in the Court's New Negro Alliance decision, which immunized racial - labor disputes from injunctions under NorrisLa Guardia long before the advent of civil rights legislation»...

For the High Line, Nazareth presents a grouping of cast cement watermelons — a conceptual artwork whose realization references both the corrupt labor policies involved in the construction of the iconic historical capital of Brasília, and the journey that watermelons — originally native to West Africa — made to the Americas alongside colonization and the slave trade.

Turin was home to several poveristi, and like countless disaffected locals, they viewed the influx of American capital as a kind of colonization, bringing with it exploitative labor policies and a toxic ethos of consumerist capitalism.

Without a reputation to protect, counterfeiters can skirt product safety regulations or employ factories with questionable labor policies.

International labor unions may be granted unprecedented authority to set and legally enforce domestic labor policy in the United States, activists participating in United Nations climate talks in Paris hinted Friday.

Communicate payroll procedures for all human resources and labor policies including garnishments, tuition aid, vacation, overtime, and short term disability.

In a separate Labor policy announcement on Thursday, Shadow assistant treasurer Andrew Leigh said his party, if in Government, would establish a fine enforcement collection scheme that would allow the states and territories to use the tax and social security system to recover unpaid fines.

The first project the new local labor policy will be applied to is Ellicott Development's $ 14.6 million adaptive reuse of the long - vacant Fairmont Creamery Co. / Arctic Freezer building, at 199 Scott St., in downtown Buffalo.

Paul Kersey is director of labor policy at the Illinois Policy Institute.

But consumers are also voting with their wallets and working with companies that live by a set of core beliefs - community oriented, environmentally friendly, fair labor policies, etc..

Tens of thousands across the country peacefully chanted, picketed and protested Monday against President Donald Trump's immigration and labor policies on May Day, despite a small pocket of violent unrest in the Pacific Northwest.

SA Liberal Party leader Steven Marshall said that state Labor policy had left South Australians with «the highest energy prices in Australia» and «the least reliable grid».

Kaufman «To a large degree, most scholars regard trade unionism, collective bargaining and labor - management relations, and the national labor policy and labor law within which they are embedded, as the core subjects of the field.»

Porras's labor policies are just as progressive.

Tens of thousands across the US peacefully chanted, picketed and protested against President Trump's immigration and labor policies on May Day.»

His labor policy was more remarkable still, for this great champion of emancipation, when he established himself as governor, reintroduced slavery in all but name.

Adolpho Birch, another witness to the meeting and the NFL's senior vice president of labor policy and government affairs, wrote just two words that day.

According to a Department of Labor policy brief, one study of working fathers in the U.S. found that those who took leaves of two weeks or more were much more likely to be actively involved in their child's care nine months after birth — including feeding, changing diapers, and getting up in the night.

Tens of thousands across the country peacefully chanted, picketed and protested yesterday against Trump's immigration and labor policies on May Day, despite a small pocket of violent unrest in the Pacific Northwest.

Major issues during the 2014 legislative session included improvements to the integration of environmental regulation, affordable healthcare, tourism funding, workforce training, a tax policy that would not increase taxes on businesses, and a labor policy to not increase costs to employers.

Vinnie Vernuccio, a labor policy expert at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, said it would «trap» government workers.