Sentences with phrase «many unpaid labours»

Organized as a follow - up to January's Women's March on Washington, the one - day walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear red.

Awate spent the better part of the next decade performing unpaid labour, much of it for the military.

Labour includes paid work, but it also includes the many unpaid labours of love and service.

The prime minister apologised to the British children forcibly sent to Commonwealth countries for a life of abuse and unpaid labour this afternoon.

These results can also be used by policymakers and employers to develop or alter laws, policies, and work environments in ways that promote men's involvement in unpaid labour.

Marx tells us that profit is simply workers» unpaid labour.

Smith's dual roles as both a Pasadena housewife and an emerging artist in the mid-1960s literally collide in the prints, performing the tensions between public and private space, and paid and unpaid labour.

The title is loaded with associations: the Victorian workhouse with its harsh living conditions and social stigma; the self - employed homeworker; the unpaid labour of housework.

Once it was resented because it seemed to deny the long, hard and unpaid labour behind cultural achievement.

Thus, it is important to increase the incentives for men to take on a greater share of unpaid labour and to challenge cultural norms that associate women with certain kinds of domestic labour if women are to be given a real choice about how they spend their time.

Consider the cuts to university funding, the elimination of student grants in favour of loans, the reductions to Legal Aid Ontario, the institutionalization of unpaid labour by the Law Society, or the fact that most citizens can't afford to access the services of lawyers.

Unpaid internships also exacerbate class divisions in Canadian society where students from lower socio - economic backgrounds are denied opportunities to gain critical experience due to their inability to engage in unpaid labour.

Laws prohibiting unpaid labour rely on the paternalistic and false assumption that those of us who choose to work for free are stooges or victims.

Would those benchers who have investor - clients be working merely the alleged 31 days a year bencher - average of unpaid labour to get that approval?

Across G20 countries, women are paid less than men, work part time positions and do most of the unpaid labour.

Probably not the ideal recipients of my angst, since they'd be up to around 500 hours of unpaid labour by now.

Not exact matches

There have been similar lawsuits in Canada, along with high - profile cases like HootSuite, a Vancouver tech firm, amending its call for unpaid help after accusations of violating B.C. labour laws.

Update: It was revealed Thursday that the Ontario Ministry of Labour will begin cracking down on unpaid interns at magazines, starting with Toronto Life and The Walrus.

It appears to be to ensure there is a minimum dollar figure attached to someone's hourly labour, though with a raft of unpaid internships in Ontario that are jobs in disguise, we should question how effectively we are meeting even that modest goal.

Canada needs to do much more to learn the effects unpaid internships have on the youth labour market.

In December, labour minister Yasir Naqvi announced changes to labour legislation that would bring unpaid workers under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and boost workplace inspections this spring.

It ignores unpaid work, most noticeably the labour of mothers.

A little more to ad, the labour of women is largely undervalued (because women are I suppose), so whether or not we want to apply «hero» they are certainly undervalued, and under - appreciated for the successes, their unpaid and unrecognised labour etc..

In Canada the Labour Code legislates 17 weeks leave with 15 weeks paid at 60 % of average weekly earnings plus the option of 10 weeks of unpaid, parental leave; however workplace breastfeeding regulations are not yet in place.

Labour wants the UK's biggest firms to do more in a bid to close down «loopholes and scams» and recoup unpaid tax worth up to # 9.5 billion.

Labour leaders in Osun State may have adopted a hide and seek tactics with the state government over pressures being mounted on them by the administration of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola to call off its over 6 week old strike action over months of unpaid salaries.

He was an unpaid communications advisor to the Leader of the Labour Party in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections.

But the union case was strengthened by data obtained by the TUC from the nationwide Labour Force Survey, showing that teachers carried out more unpaid overtime in 2013 than any other profession.

This Sunday's Arts in Bushwick Panel Discussion at Radio Bushwick from 5 - 6PM will converse on owing up in the art world and address the issue of unpaid arts labour

Since so much of the labour of caretaking — whether of people or the planet — is currently unpaid and often performed by women, we call for a vigorous debate about the introduction of a universal basic annual income.

Just this week we also heard that the potential conservative government in the UK would implement many new employment law strategies, but not in regard to the elimination of zero hour contracts, unlike the Labour party, which has promised a ban on zero hour contracts and unpaid internships.

From April to June 2014, the Ontario Ministry of Labour is conducting an employment standards inspection blitz targeting organizations that employ unpaid interns.

Women's increased employment rate and working hours have not been matched by a concomitant shift in unpaid domestic work to men, although men have increased their contribution to domestic labour.

It was decided in this case that two interns working on the set of the film Black Swan should have been paid, given that the work they accomplished did not meet the six criteria used for determining that an internship may be unpaid, as published in a fact sheet by the U.S. Department of Labor (which are interestingly the same criteria published by the Ontario Ministry of Labour):

Both provincial labour ministries (Ontario and Quebec) are currently helping IQT's former employees, investigating the circumstances and trying to recover the unpaid wages and grants paid out.

The Ministry of Labour recently reprimanded two high profile magazines for their unpaid internship programs.

Under the current Employment Standards Act, a claim for unpaid wages by an employee is limited in two ways: • There is a six - month time limit imposed on most wage claims (increased to 12 months for repeat violations and claims for unpaid vacation pay); and • There is a $ 10,000 cap imposed on the amount an employment standards officer or the Ontario Labour Relations Board can award in a wage order.

Last month, a Mississauga employer was sentenced by the court to thirty (30) days of jail time and fined $ 20,000 after failing to comply with an order issued by the Ministry of Labour (the «Ministry») to pay over $ 140,000 of unpaid wages to forty - three (43) of his staff employees, along with administrative fees to the Ministry.

The issue of unpaid interns was hot in 2013 and Sandhu affirmed that the Ontario Labour Relations Board is going to compensate those who are treated more like employees than anything else.

Between March 2007 and October 2009, 61 employees from six companies, operated by Blondin filed claims with the Ministry of Labour for unpaid wages.

Between March 2007 and October 2009, 61 employees from the six companies operated by Blondin filed claims with the Ministry of Labour for unpaid wages.

The growth of unpaid internships in Ontario's labour market is alarming.

Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench finds CRA entitled to priority to «earned but unpaid» contract funds held by obligee (over the surety who had paid out labour and material payment bond claims after principal's default)

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It provides an Employment Insurance special benefit for parents of critically ill children and it makes amendments to the Canada Labour Code to provide unpaid leave guarantees for parents of missing or murdered children as the result of a suspected Criminal Code offence.

Next month, a bill to ban the advertising of unpaid internships is set to have a second reading in Parliament, after being introduced by Labour MP Hazel Blears last year.