Sentences with phrase «living and working conditions»

From the Canadian Real Estate Association's Code of Ethics, we learn that, «The Realtor is instrumental in moulding the form of his or her community and the living and working conditions of its people.

Key Highlights: • Requested to lead Task Force Safe Team with mission to correct a multitude of electrical hazards, grounding and bonding, unsafe wiring practices and complete rewiring of facilities ensuring safe living and working conditions.

• Requested to lead Task Force Safe Team with mission to correct a multitude of electrical hazards, grounding and bonding, unsafe wiring practices and complete rewiring of facilities ensuring safe living and working conditions.

The Rainforest Alliance has been working to strengthen the position of smallholder cocoa farmers since 2006 — both on the land and in the marketplace — by training them to conserve natural resources, increase productivity and secure decent living and working conditions.

The plastic objects, as well as the entire shop, are part of the work; together with the film, they form an allegory for the living and working conditions within our global society.

The show — including Valie Export, Sharon Hayes, Jiří Kovanda, Klara Lidén, and Ettore Sottsass among others — embraces the discussion around the ideas of the city, with modern views and the measurement of real living and working conditions and presents international examples over the last 60 years.

From photographs of today's living and working conditions, portraits of those laboring in 21st century fields, factories, and mines, to fantastical visions of a world defined by data and digitization, the imagery on view in Labor & Materials is both nostalgic and futuristic.

In his work, which is produced by means of digital imaging, he deals with the effects of digital technologies on visual culture, living and working conditions, perceptions and ways of knowing.

As Pribich explains, «My practice is informed by the social justice issues of my surroundings in New York City, including the living and working conditions of the Essex Market staff.

While their day would prove to be challenging, overcoming the living and working conditions of a Third World Country, they seemed to relish and embrace in the fortunes that became apparent from the views.

Previous studies have shown that health depends mainly on the living and working conditions.

Those who practice the ancient Chinese art have enriched lives, enhanced health and well - being, and created better living and working conditions for thousands of people around the world, from Donald Trump to Tony Blair.

Living and working conditions are challenging, retirement prospects are daunting, and at the best institutes, competition for positions can be intense.

The truth is there are roughly a dozen local, state and federal governmental agencies that enforce a plethora of laws that govern both the living and the working conditions of farmworkers in the state.

Since 2004, Zotter has been a permanent licence partner of FairTrade Austria, and according to its founder Josef Zotter, they believe that as a cocoa processing company, they carry the responsibility for the living and working conditions of the cocoa farmers in third world countries.

The Rainforest Alliance has been working to strengthen the position of smallholder cocoa farmers since 2006 — both on the land and in the marketplace — by training them to conserve natural resources, increase productivity and secure decent living and working conditions.

Their temporary migrant workers from the surrounding developing economies are also covered by the same living and working conditions as the local resident workers.

EMB vice president Sieta van Keimpema warned that forced cuts to farm businesses were usually made at the cost of animal welfare and farmers and their family's living and working conditions: «Major distortions in competition on the dairy market have, for many years, led to prices that are significantly lower than inherent production costs,» she said.

Indeed, the earth's compressive force is leading to just that — in the forms of overpopulation and dehumanization through overcrowded living and working conditions.

Given the uniquely close living and working conditions of military life (e.g., on ship or in the barracks), how would the admission of acknowledged homosexuals into the military affect recruitment and retention?

I'm glad Jesus didn't constantly complain about the pay, living and working conditions while he was on earth.

Delano was assigned the task of capturing the lives and working conditions of people living on the eastern seaboard and in Puerto Rico, where he permanently settled in 1946 after falling in love with the complex ethos of the island and its» people.

This special exhibition depicts the lives and working conditions of farmers who are slowly disappearing from the American landscape.

There is a clear epochal shift from the perspective of planning urban development and the integrated model of creative city and how it impacts on the lives and working conditions of city dwellers.

Jeremy Deller will explore the question of life and working conditions in factories, based on archival materials from the nineteenth century through the present.

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When Segen eventually relented, the inspection found poor living conditions and low food inventories — complaints eerily similar to those from refugees who worked for Segen elsewhere in Eritrea.

The RAISE Act's lower quotas and emphasis on English and other skills would make it harder to fill those jobs with immigrants, and thus mean more Americans would be diverted from higher - paid, more productive tasks into cleaning - or else have to live and work in dirtier conditions.

Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.

Since you always have a choice of where you spend your money, even though some of us conveniently forget uncomfortable truths, Girlfriend Collective's factory uses no forced or child labor, mandates fair working hours and safe conditions, pays living wages, and allows workers to unionize.

Stress, as defined by the Jobs Rated methodology, is determined by 11 factors: travel, deadlines, working in the public eye, competitiveness, physical demands, environmental conditions, hazards encountered, the life of oneself or others at risk, meeting and interacting with customers and / or the public, and the potential for job growth.

He's dedicated his life to helping others build strength through his work as a certified personal trainer and certified strength and conditioning specialist.

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Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.

They look at the origins, work conditions, and precarious lives of farm workers in terms of larger historical forces such as colonialism, land rights, and racism.

Consequently, even «best practices» that fully enforce Title VII «are insufficient to realize a labor market responsive to the needs of low - income workers for adequate wages, safe work conditions, and work hours and schedules that allow for fulfilling family and civic lives.»

Our mission is to represent all workers in the building, construction, fabrication and maintenance industry and support their efforts to improve their working conditions and quality of life.

When I first started my working life as meat inspector in 1979, meat packing plants and slaughterhouses were very dangerous places, full of fast - moving equipment, sharp blades, and sometimes extreme environmental conditions.

That's why I dedicated this year as Mastery of Fear, which I made a few decisions to put me in an «uncomfortable» condition intentionally, such as committed to work part - time (living on half of the salary) to push me really go out get clients and keep the side business running.

SB 284: Filed by state Sen. Lauren Book, D - Plantation, this bill requires nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have generators that can power air conditioning in the event of a loss of power, and requires the Agency for Health Care Administration to conduct an unannounced inspection at least every 15 months to check and make sure the generator is in working order.

Yanking health insurance from any retiree is bad enough, but these are people who spent their working lives in highly unsafe conditions; many now suffer from black lung and other coal - related ailments.

With courts increasingly willing to nullify popular legislation and proclaim new rights, legislators are encouraged to avoid their responsibility for tackling controversial issues; interest groups are encouraged to take their cases to the courts rather than to try to persuade their fellow citizens; and citizens get the feeling that they have no say in setting the conditions under which they live, work, and raise their children.

«As the treaty goes into effect, millions of women and girls will have the chance for better working conditions and better lives.»

Stating that men have been killed in Chittagong's shipbreaking yards on the coast of southern Bangladesh, he said: «This work is carried out in very hazardous conditions and claims innumerable human lives.»

«Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»

Instead of considering my condition a frustration of life, I could, by the gnostic negotiation, work to see the inherently miraculous nature of my state, and rest upon its indication of being in God.

What we have had in British political life under British common law is a procrustean class system, one of the most fixed in the world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers of the lower class from gaining equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable living standards until the end of the nineteenth century.

So, after affirming a whole range of ways in which various roles and occupations and professions can contribute to our common good she said, «To all of you on this Christmas day, whatever your conditions of work and life, easy or difficult; whether you feel that you are achieving something or whether you feel frustrated; I want to say a word of thanks.

All wisdom is acquired relationally, in the context of family and friends, work and neighborhood, under the conditions of sin and forgiveness, within the complex stories that the Holy Spirit has been writing and continues to write of our lives.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

In Detroit Niebuhr discovered the real cost of industrialization: dehumanization of the worker, nervous tensions, unemployment without compensation, broken bodies, appalling working conditions in the factories, and naive gentlemen with a genius for mechanics deciding the lives and fortunes of hundreds of thousands.