Sentences with phrase «labor standards in»

To create good - paying middle class jobs that can not be outsourced, Democrats support high labor standards in clean energy infrastructure and the right to form or join a union, whether in renewable power or advanced vehicle manufacturing.

-- Supports a price on carbon AND methane — Supports high labor standards in the development of renewable energy — Supports changing the Clean Power Plan to incentivize renewable energy over fracked gas.

It's more often the beneficiary of implicit or explicit government subsidies to make it more affordable for the coal industry to operate (the land is practically given to them for free, they get tax expenditures hand over fist, their roads are most often built for them by the state, they're exempted from waste - disposal regulations, allowed to dump and run, and use some of the most tyrannical and abject labor standards in the world).

China and India's massive spike in emissions are intimately linked to their governments» frenetic embrace of this export model of development, which always sacrificed environmental and labor standards in the name of rapid economic growth.

Not exact matches

The Fair Labor Association (FLA) and Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production standard (WRAP) both grew out of U.S. market reactions to labour abuses in Central America during the 1990s, while the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) and Ethical Trade Initiative (ETI) worked to address early European concerns with the fair treatment of workers across North Africa, India and Bangladesh.

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.

If this attribution were correct, there would be little labor market slack left in the US economy, and the standard unemployment rate (minus the best - guess nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment [NAIRU]-RRB- would be a nearly sufficient target for that slack.

She also said that despite a 4.9 percent unemployment rate that is bumping up against the Fed's standard for full employment, there «appears to be scope for some further improvement in the labor market.»

In an interview about the trade sanctions that President Trump is throwing at China and at Corporate America - whose supply chains go through China in search of cheap labor and other cost savings - Ambassador Cui Tiankai defended the perennial innocence of China, as is to be expected, and trotted out the standard Chinese fig leafs and state - scripted rhetoric that confirmed in essence that Trump's decision is on the right tracIn an interview about the trade sanctions that President Trump is throwing at China and at Corporate America - whose supply chains go through China in search of cheap labor and other cost savings - Ambassador Cui Tiankai defended the perennial innocence of China, as is to be expected, and trotted out the standard Chinese fig leafs and state - scripted rhetoric that confirmed in essence that Trump's decision is on the right tracin search of cheap labor and other cost savings - Ambassador Cui Tiankai defended the perennial innocence of China, as is to be expected, and trotted out the standard Chinese fig leafs and state - scripted rhetoric that confirmed in essence that Trump's decision is on the right tracin essence that Trump's decision is on the right track.

Since the Department of Labor finalized its fiduciary rule (now in limbo) last year, annuity sales have fallen dramatically as brokerage firms and advisors anticipate that the products may not pass muster under a tighter regulatory standard.

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.

«However, due to occupational segregation and the devaluation of jobs that women disproportionately hold, outdated labor standards, and insufficient work - family policies, women in the United States aren't able to meet their full economic potential.»

A report released by the Labor Department in 2016, called the «Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation,» concluded that the federal government's primary job - training programs don't really work.

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The new Department of Labor fiduciary standard will alter hedge fund usage in certain portfolios.

By April 2017, investment advisory firms will have to be in compliance with the Department of Labor's new fiduciary rule requiring them to adhere to a «best - interest standard» in advising their customers.

Cetera Financial Group says it has hired more executives and updated its platforms in order to helps its advisors sell and service retirement plans in accordance with the expected new Department of Labor fiduciary standard.

The creation of transitory and fragile asset - price bubbles is not built on labor nor do they bring rising living standards in their wake.

In the days back when Alan Greenspan railed about the need to control upward wage pressures (that is, living standards) in order to squeeze labor more, he was not talking about CEO paIn the days back when Alan Greenspan railed about the need to control upward wage pressures (that is, living standards) in order to squeeze labor more, he was not talking about CEO pain order to squeeze labor more, he was not talking about CEO pay.

Despite that distinction, President Barack Obama is one of her biggest fans: In his speech last year pushing the Department of Labor to press on with its fiduciary standard rule, he pointed out Garrett by name as an FA who puts the best interests of her clients first.

The new Department of Labor fiduciary standard represents «the most dramatic regulatory change in a number of decades, suffice to say,» explained Scott Curtis, head of Raymond James» independent advisor channel, in an interview on Tuesday.

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Friday's currency turmoil and stock market plunge was a case of the chickens coming home to roost from the class - war policies being waged by European and Asian industry and banking squeezing their domestic consumer markets — that is, labor's living standards — in favor of export production to the United States.

They include «rules of origin,» or the percentage of parts that must be made in North America for a product to qualify for free - trade status; language on how to settle disputes affecting foreign investors; changing Mexican labor standards; and Trump's stated goal of reducing U.S. bilateral trade deficits.

But the prescription offered by the Taylor rule changes significantly if one instead assumes, as I do, that appreciable slack still remains in the labor market, and that the economy's equilibrium real federal funds rate — that is, the real rate consistent with the economy achieving maximum employment and price stability over the medium term — is currently quite low by historical standards.

Whether through the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, labor and environmental standards, or other elements of the Canadian legal and regulatory system, we should ensure that human rights standards enshrined in our laws and regulations are respected by our PRC partners.

The proposals have been in the pipeline for a while, and were released amid growing uncertainty that the Department of Labor's (DoL) own rule, the fiduciary standard rule, which applies only to retirement brokers, will be stricken from the records on the May 8.

Instead of raising labor productivity and living standards, it is a purely mathematical dynamic that governments can not rescue in the end.

Plaintiffs in the court case that threw out the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule declared «complete victory» against the rule and said the way is now clear for the Securities and Exchange Commission to create a new standard that would apply across financial disciplines.

The Department of Labor's fiduciary standard, and new securities industry account statement rules for greater clarity in the prices of products, have forced nontraded real estate investment trusts to slice their commissions.

Much of our clothing is made in sweatshops — which means there are labor violations according to international standards.

Will it not be harder than ever to stop the «race to the bottom» in terms of standards of labor and pollution?

2) Whole industries have moved to places where wages are lower and labor laws and environmental standards less stringent than they are in the United States.

Unfortunately, there is no global government to enforce standards, and when labor organizes successfully in one place, capital typically moves to another.

Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises adopted by the Organization of Economically Developed Countries in 1976 provided for observance of standards of labor relations by transnational companies.

Today the most intense competition in the globally integrated market is not between the gigantic Transnational Corporations, but it is between governments that find themselves competing with one another for investors by offering the cheapest and most compliant labor; the weakest environmental, health, and safety standards, the lowest taxes; and the most fully developed infrastructure.

We believe that protecting human rights is the shared responsibility of all parties in the cocoa value chain and we expect our suppliers and business partners to champion and uphold fair labor standards and policies.

They work with a cocoa farm in Ecuador that we are proud to support, which is Organic Certified and has high labor standards and benefits for farmers such as doctor visits and professional development.

I actually had one doctor in Wheeling tell me that if I refused * any * of the procedures she considers standard (including induction right at 40 weeks, an IV, and constant fetal monitoring), that she will refuse to deliver my child, even if I'm in the maternity ward and in active labor!

We focus on sustainable materials and practices, and everything we sell is made in the United States or Europe to ensure standards of product quality, safety, and labor practices.

As for his patients who would choose a hospital delivery, they were well - known for making things «difficult» for hospital staff: refusing to be «shaved», have enemas, (both still standard procedures in 1981) and wanting to do unthinkable things like get up and walk around during labor instead of lying (preferably) on their backs or sides strapped to a fetal monitor - all with the encouragement and blessing of their doctor.

Although it is important for me to work with highly professional and skilled women (who are also mothers) who are put to the strictest standards of high quality birth artwork in the event I have an imminent emergency during a client's labor, my goal is to always be dependable and attend every one of my birth client's births myself, and I am glad to say in four years of birth photography (out of my ten years of working as a photographer), I have attended each of my client's births myself.

But I don't credit magical birth preparations (I took no preparation other than standard OB care and showing up in labor), I credit dumb luck and my doctor's training and skill.

In fact, compared to women who have standard hospital deliveries, those who hire doulas have half the chance of undergoing a cesarean section; experience less forceps deliveries; and have labors that are reduced in length by a quarteIn fact, compared to women who have standard hospital deliveries, those who hire doulas have half the chance of undergoing a cesarean section; experience less forceps deliveries; and have labors that are reduced in length by a quartein length by a quarter.

To be considered for the Seal of Approval and earn a listing in the annual National Green Pages ™, businesses complete a rigorous screening process to ensure they meet Green America's standards for the environment, community and labor.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

Some pregnant moms do want the standard treatment, as they are more concerned with GBS than a few doses of intravenous antibiotics, and do not feel the IV in labor will hinder them or their birth dreams.

We have several methods of relaxation that have become standards in the world of pregnancy, labor and birth.

I liked the idea that Ceal would monitor the baby's heart rate every 5 to 15 minutes during labor, and every 5 to 10 minutes while I was pushing, rather than strapping a fetal monitor on me and leaving it there, as is standard in the hospital.

In addition to the standard information about pregnancy symptoms, fetal growth and labor, I appreciated some of the offbeat tips in the book, including how to ward off tummy touchers, ways to avoid snoring, how to pick a pronounceable baby name, and how to cope with «pregnancy brain.&raquIn addition to the standard information about pregnancy symptoms, fetal growth and labor, I appreciated some of the offbeat tips in the book, including how to ward off tummy touchers, ways to avoid snoring, how to pick a pronounceable baby name, and how to cope with «pregnancy brain.&raquin the book, including how to ward off tummy touchers, ways to avoid snoring, how to pick a pronounceable baby name, and how to cope with «pregnancy brain.»