Sentences with phrase «like sick pay»

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In the absence of a federal policy for paid sick leave, it is remarkable that a large Fortune 500 company like Microsoft is now performing the role of setting employment policy for other businesses.

«This includes how pay decisions are arrived at, how they are rated on their performance, how the company treats things like sick leave and other benefits, how the company views work - life programs and how they will be treated in a dispute.»

Studies of the economic impact of existing laws sponsored by groups across the ideological spectrum have found that while the costs to employers of paid sick leave mandates tend to be low on average, they tend to be more significant in certain industries, like food services, where paid sick leave is less common and workers typically are younger.

Now imagine that, like a third of American workers, you don't get any paid sick days, so every time one of your children gets an ear infection or catches the flu, your pay is docked for taking time off to care for them.

He isn't like people that give - up their free - time to raise money for charity, or those who volunteer to work without pay, to help people that are sick or homeless.

For some sick reason, he has his heart on playing under Pep again, and frankly, if they paid us like 80mil for him, I'd let him go in a heartbeat.

So we know that policies like paid family leave after a new baby arrives — which the U.S. is the only industrialized country in the world not to have in place — are critical to helping to close that wage gap, as well as fair pay policies, sick day policies and affordable childcare policies.

No Sick Days or Benefits You won't earn that week of paid vacation, sick days or health benefits like you would at another job but you also won't be leaving the house like you will with a typical 9 Sick Days or Benefits You won't earn that week of paid vacation, sick days or health benefits like you would at another job but you also won't be leaving the house like you will with a typical 9 sick days or health benefits like you would at another job but you also won't be leaving the house like you will with a typical 9 - 5.

Using other online tools such as email and Facebook and even offline tools like phone calls and text messages, they urged supporters to ask Susan to use her relationship with NYC Council Speaker (and expected candidate for NYC Mayor in 2013) Christine Quinn to allow the council to vote on paid sick days legislation.

Councilmember Gale Brewer has real legislative accomplishments on important issues like paid sick leave and protecting small shops on the Upper West Side, and would probably be a good borough president.

Nixon told me earlier that progressive issues like passing the Paid Sick Day bill is more important than making history by electing New York City's first female or openly gay mayor.

Washington (CNN)-- Democratic candidates this cycle are working feverishly to exploit their party's edge among female voters, thrusting issues like equal pay, paid sick leave and women's health to the forefront of their campaigns.

: «Voters in senate district 40 are sick of corrupt, pay - to - play politicians like Jose Felix Diaz who are owned by the special interests that buy them.

He saved it for a quick moment at the end, and even then only in reference to Clinton's plans — rattling off things like paid sick leave to universal pre-K without mentioning his own victories on this issues.

-- Johanna Cervone, spokeswoman for the Florida Democratic Party: «Voters in senate district 40 are sick of corrupt, pay - to - play politicians like Jose Felix Diaz who are owned by the special interests that buy them.

«The primaries were all about that and the platform resulted from these primaries and then the discussion of the powerful ideas, raising taxes on the wealthy, increasing wages and benefits, things like paid family leave, paid sick leave, things that really would have resonated with so many people hurting in this country,» de Blasio told NY1's Errol Louis in his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» segment.

He said he also likes the governor's revised paid family leave proposal, which would phase in a rate of 2/3 of a worker's pay for up to 12 weeks of time off to care for a newborn or sick family member.

«The office will study and promote programs on worker protections, education and safety — and it will also enforce City laws like paid sick leave and transit benefits.»

Trades Unions won us working rights like the weekend, the 8 hour day, paid holidays and sick leave.

Mike Boland, the operative who left the party to run Teachout's campaign, and Bertha Lewis, who nominated Teachout from the floor of the W.F.P. convention, have both gone on record urging Teachout voters to hold their noses and vote W.F.P. as a way of keeping liberal pressure on Cuomo, reminding them of the party's successful pushes on items like paid sick days and the minimum wage.

Whether the speaker's resistance to paid sick leave will ultimately pose a stumbling block for the city's major labor unions, which take care of issues like this as part of their contract negotiations with management, is unknown.

By taking to the streets in Howard Beach, bashing NYCHA's sluggishness in restoring power and heat in Red Hook, and pushing for lefty favorites like the paid - sick - leave bill, De Blasio is trying to draw a contrast with Quinn as out of touch with real working New Yorkers, beholden to big business, and too close to Bloomberg.

We tried to do that with things like the affordable housing plan, the rent freezes, the efforts to give people lawyers to stop eviction, pre-k, after school, paid sick leave.

The primary theory for this disparity is that the U.S. has a relative lack of workplace policies like paid sick leave, paid vacation, flexible work hours, and paid parental leave.

It makes me sick... buy a new photoshop... if you want to take your photos pay me like a pro or buy me some shoes on sale.

I would imagine being a sugar baby is just like any other job, you to go to work, you can't really be sick or out of uniform (hmmm) do what the boss wants, the way the boss wants it to get paid.

Like any B - movie worth its salt, the film is blissfully short and to the point: just - fired mechanic Craig (Pat Healy) and his old high - school buddy and current debt collector Vince (Ethan Embry) get drawn into a sick birthday game by rich couple Colin (David Koechner) and Violet (Sara Paxton), who pay the two to complete a series of increasingly harrowing dares for ever - larger payouts.

I know that Americans don't understand this but we in the UK value stuff like free healthcare and help for the poor and sick generally, so we like people and companies to pay a share of their earnings towards the good of the country whose population the companies are making their money from.

Some fees are optional — like insurance for your loan, which many lenders offer, that will pay your loan in situations like if you lose your job, or get sick, or become disabled.

You have a steady job and you like the area you live in, but you're sick of renting and paying for someone else's mortgage.

Between the stress of being sick and being broke from paying your medical bills, you may be feeling like you are at the end of your rope.

You may also be entitled to things like holiday pay and paid sick leave.

Maynard's is just one story of how Animal Advocates, in partnership with cat rescuers in many places in BC, makes a difference, by paying for spay and neutering of feral cats on reserves, paying for sick and starving kitten rescue, and paying for cats like Maynard.

Some really important things get to see the light of day, like the AIDS Treatment Project — at Hunter College's 205 Hudson Street Gallery — which I started in 1984 to help people sick with the disease pay for their rent, medicine, transportation, anything they needed.

Some think by giving to selected charities at their Church they have done their duty, but don't like paying tax out of their wages to help the poor and sick.

Climate change is only about redistribution of wealth from developed countries to poor countries, through penalties, which sounds like Obamacare penalties to take money away from young people and healthy people to pay for sick people and old people.

He put forth some policies like middle - class benefits, paid sick leave and childcare support that are apparently highly unpopular among today's Republicans.

It sounds like either your landlord lost the ability to do credit cards, or he got sick of paying the 3 % overhead, or some other overhead costs that may be higher because he does not have the right credit card merchant service.

There is currently no federal requirement for employers to provide paid sick leave, although some states like California may have local laws.

Most importantly, companies subscribe to this model because it involves lower overheads — the business has fewer employees and so is able to reduce the financial and administrative burden which accompanies things like paid sickness absence, disciplinary and grievances hearings, sick - pay, maternity, paternity and parental rights, and pension auto - enrolment.

Just like one can not expect to purchase auto insurance coverage after getting into a car wreck and expect the insurance company to pay for the damages to the vehicle one can not purchase disability insurance or health insurance after a disability or after becoming sick and expect the insurance company to pay up.

Rob Gronkowski is one of the best damn players in the NFL, and he's sick of not getting paid like it — so says ex-Patriots tight end Jermaine Wiggins.

The company's drivers in the country are presently self - employed from a legal standpoint and only eligible for basic worker rights, not benefits like minimum wage and sick pay, though Uber previously said it's already paying them above the legal minimum for full - time workers.

Then I can drink as much wine in cafes as I like when the Sprogs are at school, without that annoying, sick, niggly panic in my chest about how we're going to pay the bloody mortgage at the end of the month.

I am very excited about the trip, but I also feel a bit sick about it, because while it sounds like a cheap holiday in theory because the kids» airfares are paid, the reality is that all their hotel rooms and food and sightseeing are not.