Sentences with phrase «labor practices in»

So do you want to order better pizza (that isn't) from a company with questionable labor practices in the post-PPACA era, or do you want to make sure that you'll be protected if your neighbor gets drunk and falls asleep with a lit cigarette?
Miller Canfield is widely respected as one of the best employment and labor practices in the U.S. BTI Litigation Outlook, which surveys 300 in - house counsel for top - spending organizations in more than 200 industries, ranks our employment and labor practice among the top 18 «standout» firms in the country and among the top 15 % of all U.S. law firms in the country for complex employment litigation in 2016.
Weisberg, who recently wrote an article for A.i.A. about maternity and museums, talked shop with Jaskey for a minute about the importance of fair labor practices in the arts — something they both promote.
Activists who have been working to draw attention to labor practices in connection with the Guggenheim's planned expansion in Abu Dhabi — and who last week briefly occupied the loading dock of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice during the 2015 Biennale — said this week that their tactics seemed to be generating more overt resistance from the government of the United Arab Emirates, which oversees cultural construction projects.
So do you want to order better pizza (that isn't) from a company with questionable labor practices in the post-PPACA era, or do you want to make sure that you'll be protected if your neighbor gets drunk and falls asleep with a lit cigarette?
First as a resource intensive crop and second for labor practices in some counties that amount to slave labor.
If the union is foolishly rigid, then you may need to take the risk of a grievance or unfair labor practice in order to survive.
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that «a confidentiality rule prohibiting employees from discussing their sexual harassment complaints among themselves» constitutes an unfair labor practice in violation of the Wagner Act.

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In today's cutthroat labor market, it certainly makes sense that companies would try practically anything to improve their hiring practices.
Referral Bonuses: Bribe Strangers, If You Have To Another long - standing practice that's getting refined in today's labor market is the venerable referral bonus.
At Google, an audit of their pay practices by the Department of Labor found «systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,» showing, one official has said, six to seven standard deviations between pay for men and women in nearly every job category.
However, Paul Reilly, the Guild representative involved in the Bloomberg effort, says the union has no plans to file an unfair labor - practices charge with the National Labor Relations Board about McGlaughlin's dismilabor - practices charge with the National Labor Relations Board about McGlaughlin's dismiLabor Relations Board about McGlaughlin's dismissal.
Thursday's decision by the National Labor Relations Board involving the Teamsters Union and Browning - Ferris Industries reverses decades of standard practice around the concept of joint ownership in business.
While franchisees have traditionally been seen as independent, a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board in 2015 said corporate parent companies are responsible for their franchisees» labor practLabor Relations Board in 2015 said corporate parent companies are responsible for their franchisees» labor practlabor practices.
The Dallas Morning News reports that the accused companies, which contend that their labor practices are sound, are up in arms.
And if the corporation failed to measure up — because of problems like unfair labor practices, environmental damage, unsavory tax practices — and rehabilitation failed, the government would place the company in «moral bankruptcy.»
Advisors take note: ERISA concepts are coming to IRAs under the Department of Labor's new fiduciary rule, and you need to change your practices accordingly before the April compliance date kicks in.
Sheppard, with 85 employees in Glendale and seven other cities like Boston, Chicago and Houston, will become the foundation for what Ketchum describes as a new worldwide unit, the Workplace Communication Practice, which will specialize in tasks like internal communications, human resources and labor relations.
His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.
With more than 100 lawyers, the office has well - established practices in corporate law, financial services, labor and employment, litigation, real estate and taxation and wealth planning.
These gains were matched in many economies around the world, the result not just of the now widespread practice of having a central bank with instrument independence commit to an implicit or explicit goal of price stability, but also of course of the effects of global economic integration on competition and labor costs.
«If D.C. does get chosen, we have some real issues with how Amazon does business, in terms of fair labor, equitable hiring, and equitable practices for people of color and women in particular,» Sneed said.
Is tipping a best practice in labor?
Our particular areas of focus in our Immigration Practice Group include: H - 1B (Temporary Foreign Workers), L - 1A / L - 1B (Intracompany Transferee Executives or Managers; Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge Professionals), E-2 (Treaty Investor), EB - 1 & O - 1 (Extraordinary Ability in Athletics, Arts, Sciences, etc.), EB - 1 (Multinational Managers & Executives), EB - 2 (Advanced Degree), EB - 3 (Skilled Workers, Professionals, Unskilled Workers), EB - 5 (Immigrant Investor), TN (NAFTA Professionals), J - 1 (Exchange Visitors) visa categories, and Labor Certification (PERM applications).
The disclosure of an alleged Labor Department investigation of Wells Fargo sales practices — including those in its retirement - plan services division — is sure to raise a few eyebrows, but should this sort of thing really be a revelation...
As the Belt and Road Initiative moves forward, countries and local communities more directly in the initiative's path could learn from Latin American countries» labor practices.
In the wake of the final Department of Labor (DOL) fiduciary rule, advisors and insurance carriers alike have been compelled to reevaluate sales practices surrounding annuity sales — especially with respect to variable and fixed indexed annuities.
Advisers need to examine their practices for IRA rollovers in the new fiduciary environment created by the Department of Labor's conflict - of - interest rule.
The Department of Labor is questioning Wells Fargo's practices in recommending retirement savings vehicles.
All I got out of this is that Chad thinks slavery is just fine under the right scenarios and that there was no need for the state or a moral authority (like, say, god) to point out that alternate labor scenarios, as practiced in many cultures, might be preferable.
As proof of this fact, you should understand that it wasn't so long ago that white settlers in this country held black slaves to forced labor, and virtually all religions of those days condoned the practice.
Such establishments had largely disappeared in this country, although agricultural labor practices often had a similar character.
In practice, Marxism has meant bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal prison camps and murderous forced labor, fatal deportations, man - made famines, extrajudicial executions and fraudulent show trials, outright mass murder and genocide.»
In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their worIn those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their worin that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their worin the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.
The main biblical evidence is (1) the stories of the creation (Gen.I: 26 - 27 with 5:1 - 2; 2:18 - 25) and the fall (3:16 - 20); (2) Jesus» respect for women, whom he consistently treated as men's equals (Luke 8:1 - 3; 10:38 - 42; 11:28 - 28; 13:10 - 17; 21:1 - 4; Mark 5:22 - 42; John 4:7 - 38; 8:3 - 11; 12:1 - 8; (3) references to women ministering in the apostolic church by prophesying, leading in prayer, teaching, practicing Samaritanship both informally and as widows and deacons, and laboring in the gospel with Apostles (Acts 2:17 - 21; 9:36 - 42; 18:24 - 26; 21:9 Rom.
If you believe in the dignity of labor, it makes sense to support an infrastructure program that allows more people to practice the habits of industry.
«These studies do tend to show there will be factors in resumes that will lead to bias,» said David Lewin, director of Berkeley Research Group's Labor and Employment practice.
Citing examples of Christian mothers who were instrumental in the abolition of slavery and the passage of laws against child labor, she makes a strong case that virtues such as compassion and creativity that are «refined in the practice of motherhood can and should be used in other arenas to bring God's love, peace, mercy and justice to the world.»
Using migrant farm workers at wages far in excess of their normal rate of pay in their own country is a major flaw labor practices.
Yet in both labor unions and churches, the official group pronouncements are on a higher level of insight than the actual practices of great numbers of their membership.
If the reader is helped to see the importance of prayer, its contemporary possibility, and something of its actual practice, I shall feel rewarded for my labor in writing this book.
In response to the demands of socially conscious consumers, many companies are latching onto Corporate Social Responsibility Standards that outline their labor auditing practices, but it's important to get as many specific details as possible since regulations are only helpful if they're followed.
I can not support such a meager effort, in particular from a company with such a long track record of disregard for labor and human rights, environmental protection, honesty in labeling and marketing, and other unethical business practices.
Mr. Kemper practices in the area of labor and employment law where he regularly counsels employers on a variety of workplace issues including, but not limited to, interviewing, hiring, employee discipline and discharge, workplace discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour (including tipping practices), whistleblower, unemployment, restrictive covenants, non-compete agreements, non-solicitation agreements, non-disclosure agreements, separation agreements, workplace policies and employee handbooks.
On the warm afternoon of Labor Day, five days before Nebraska would open its football season with a 55 - 14 pasting of Michigan State, Cornhuskers junior defensive end Grant Wistrom paused as he left the practice field in Lincoln and pondered the ribbon of greatness that stretched back over two years.
Here, we like to sneak politics in by vaguely concealing our disgust over labor practices and by generally siding with the players over owners.
Drive Gingerly and Watch the Bumps Your trip to the hospital is not a NASCAR event; your practice runs and the real thing should be as smooth as possible because a woman in labor is extremely sensitive to sudden moves and even small bumps.
This isn't about privileged women saying «breast is best» (a woman's choice how to feed her child is her own)-- it is about misleading, unethical, and in some cases illegal marketing practices, illegally sourcing milk from a horrible dictator, and the use of slave labor.
Bullied and bludgeoned by weeks of intense public debate over a longer school day, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis fought back Friday by filing an unfair labor practices complaint against Chicago Public Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at City Hall.
In addition, they are typically healthy and wish to avoid routine hospital interventions or non-evidenced based practices such as being confined to a bed, not being allowed to eat or drink in labor, continuous electronic fetal monitoring, routine IV fluids, non-medically indicated (pitocin) induction, episiotomy and other common birth interventionIn addition, they are typically healthy and wish to avoid routine hospital interventions or non-evidenced based practices such as being confined to a bed, not being allowed to eat or drink in labor, continuous electronic fetal monitoring, routine IV fluids, non-medically indicated (pitocin) induction, episiotomy and other common birth interventionin labor, continuous electronic fetal monitoring, routine IV fluids, non-medically indicated (pitocin) induction, episiotomy and other common birth interventions.
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