Sentences with phrase «leave legislation so»

«Because of their hard work, New York State has lead the way — passing a $ 15 minimum wage and enacting historic paid family leave legislation so that no New Yorker will lose their job while taking care of a sick loved one.

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But legislation that would mandate paid sick leave nationwide, notably the so - called Healthy Families Act, has stalled in Congress for years, prompting the administration to seek alternative ways of achieving the policy's goals.
Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»
In part it's probably because the Supreme Court has left so little room for expression of popular will through legislation.
What we do know is that virtually every boundary is going to have to change because the legislation leaves so little leeway for variation from the set electorate quota of 76,000 voters per constituency.
More fundamentally, the Committee observes that while the Review implicitly assumes that «only a rigid, cut - and - dried rule would be sufficient because leaving scope for flexibility or the exercise of judgement on the part of the House of Lords would be undesirable», the Review simultaneously says that the Lords should trust the Government to ensure that, in the future, Bills contain «an appropriate level of detail» so as to guard against constitutionally improper reliance upon secondary legislation.
As we find ourselves considering the legislation resulting from the decision of the British people to leave the European Union, the constructive approach this House has so far shown will be ever more important.»
«The way things are going I believe we shouldn't leave these kind of things to discretion, so there is a need for us to enact legislation that will stop this kind of rot,» he added.
The authors of the legislation must have thought, with so many sticks beating on the backs of schools (test - disaster headlines, parents leaving in droves), the carrot of fundamental change would be irresistible.
U.S. lawmakers always have reasons for what they do, so there must be one for why they didn't make public the 1,059 - page rewrite of the 2002 No Child Left Behind until a few days before Congress began voting on the compromise legislation last week.
Just leave it to so called environmentalists to mismanage forests for years and years through endless lawsuits and misguided legislation, burn said forests to the ground and then claim global warming did it.
«If what the framers of the legislation had in mind was that the leave test was going to be a meaningful obstacle that would screen out cases, there's no indication in the two cases that have decided leave so far that that's going to happen,» he said.
In this case the man may wish to take a longer parental leave (up to 37 weeks under the legislation) so his wife can return to work.
However, the legislation also says that it does not require anyone to use or accept information in electronic form, so if one is not comfortaable «signing» by leaving a voice message, one does not have to do it.
Regrettably — because this would at least have made clear to all concerned what is really going on — Quebec has opted not to do so, leaving it up to prosecutors to deduce from the new legislation that they should not pursue assisted - suicide charges.
Finally, the Bill will enable changes to be made by secondary legislation to the laws that would otherwise not function sensibly once we have left the EU, so that our legal system continues to function correctly outside the EU.
So now the Court has confirmed (en passant) that IJI also applies to federal legislation, a question that it left open in Canada (Attorney General) v. PHS Community Services Society, [2011] 3 SCR 134, 2011 SCC 44.
The exception to reinstatement under Ontario's employment standards legislation, for example, does not define any reasons that are «unrelated» to the leave, so it is unclear how far the legislature which drafted this statute intended for this exception to apply.
NOT SO FAST... starting in 2008, legislation was pushed through to fill the lawsuit gap left by the end of no - fault.
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