Sentences with phrase «migrant workers who»

Stellar Lumens is focusing on the developing world and, more specifically, the multi-billion dollar industry of migrant workers who send money back to their family in impoverished countries.

Hon. Claudette Tardif (Deputy Leader of the Opposition): Honourable senators, last week, the government announced the elimination of special employment insurance benefits for migrant workers who are employed under the temporary foreign worker program.

And yet, migrant workers who come to Canada under Canada's temporary foreign worker program, especially low - skilled streams, will tell you again and again that they are paying fees, thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars, for the promise of a low - paid, precarious job in Canada.

Join us for this great event as we hear from injured migrant workers who have taken a stand to say no one is disposable!

What: Panel discussion and workshop with several injured migrant workers who stood up for their right to stay in Ontario for healthcare and workers compensation.

In October 2013, the Ontario government lost its appeal at the Health Services Appeal and Review Board in which they were seeking to remove OHIP coverage for migrant workers who got injured on the job.

Ensure access to Canada Pension Plan, Employment Insurance and other federal entitlements to migrant workers already in Canada and portable benefits to migrant workers who are no longer here.

The son of migrant workers who settled in the valley, Morales remembers the embarrassment of being sent to special - education class when he started school because he didn't speak English...

For children of migrant workers who would otherwise face a roving existence in slums and construction sites, Puvidham constructed a hostel facility, housing about half of the school's population.

The party believes in Britain as an «open, trading nation», «within the European Union and beyond» and celebrates openness to «visitors who boost our economy», «migrant workers who play a vital role in business and public services» and «refugees fleeing persecution».

Is it fair on migrant workers who can find themselves tied into agency accommodation deals?

The day we spent together included a trip just outside of the city, out to the apple fields to check in on some of the migrant workers who were busy harvesting the yearly apple crop.

Show your thanks to the migrant workers who toil in the hot sun at minimum wage so you can have a cheap salad and the truckers who drive 6,000 miles to bring produce from California to your table.

The Y Tu Mama Tambien star announced himself as both a Mexican and a migrant worker who is «against any form of walls».

Not exact matches

«This is the day where people can see how much we contribute,» said Alberto Resendiz, who previously worked as a migrant worker in fields as far away as Michigan.

Germany views migrants as a way to solve a future dearth of young and able workers but many in Europe who oppose immigration are keen to point out that, as a prosperous country, Germany has the means to support more migrants.

Saudi Arabia relies on cheap migrant workers, who now make up about 30 percent of the population.

The U.S. government and major business leaders are renewing their call on the Thai government to crack down on slavery in its fishing fleets, and to punish people who force migrant workers to catch seafood that can end up in the United States.

Interviewing migrant workers at the Beijing West Railway Station earlier this year, I met an old man with twisted hands and a compelling face who was willing to talk about his life.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Ben & Jerry's has agreed to implement the Milk with Dignity (MD) Program, a multi-year plan created by Migrant Justice in 2014, which aims to improve working conditions of dairy farm workers who supply the milk for the ice cream manufacturer.

She and her social worker husband Merv (Richard Dillane) take on both the UK and Australian authorities and governments, who officially sanctioned the Child Migrants Programme.

She co-edited «Who Needs Migrant Workers?

To give a few examples, apart from those from outside the European Economic Area who can not lawfully work at all, there have been restrictions on migrants from new EU members states (to self - employment for a period of seven years), those on Tier 2 visas (to a named employer), on students (who may work, but not full time or in a profession), and on domestic workers (who may not seek another employer even if abused).

As Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson have argued in their volume Who Needs Migrant Workers?

Far from reducing abuse in the workplace, further restrictions on working migrants will increase the supply of workers who are most easily subjected to exploitation.

Advocates explained that the workers are largely male migrants who leave behind their families and travel from Mexico, Guatemala and other Central American countries for seasonal employment in the fields.

just to clarify, does the question include or exclude migrant workers (who don't really have residency and political rights as far as I know), who are common in UAE / Saudi Arabia?

The same standards of treatment apply to the workers who toil for the supermarkets, especially in meat and poultry processing, where unions say agency and migrant workers are subject to mistreatment and exploitation.

In March, a top - level provincial court upheld the death sentences of two migrant workers from Myanmar who were found guilty of murdering two British tourists on the southern island of Koh Tao in 2014.

Chris will be joined by Home Office representatives who will give delegates detailed advice and practical examples of how to protect their businesses, projects and limit the abuse of illegal migrant workers.

An amnesty would make a bad situation worse; it would not be especially attractive to existing migrants who would face competition from the newly legalised workers, and it would certainly enfranchise a large number who, for cultural rather than policy reasons, are strongly inclined to vote Labour.

«This will also help stop the abuse of migrant workers from unscrupulous employers who pay very low wages in the anticipation that these will be topped up by tax credits and family benefits,» he argued.

The bank caters to a population of users — migrant workers, for example — who often do not have existing forms of ID.

No maps show the routes migrant workers take, and those who are working illegally don't want to be found.

Its victims, too, are literally off the map: people who work in the forest — largely poor, itinerant loggers, miners, or migrant workers, and marginalized ethnic minorities who live along the messy international borders.

A team led by Kording and Wei recruited three groups of people: Chinese migrant workers with no computer experience, workers who were matched by age and education but did have computer experience through a job, and a control group of college students who were computer proficient.

Many of those who died were migrant workers and new colonists.

That isn't the only lesson Gheorge offers Johnny, who, before the arrival of the slightly older — but vastly more mature — migrant worker had been stuck in an endless cycle of work dodging, binge drinking, anonymous sex in men's rooms and vomiting.

Meanwhile, Garcia Bernal — who made reference to Trump at the Oscars in February by declaring, «As a Mexican, as a Latin - American, as a migrant worker, as a human being, I'm against any form of wall that separates us» — refused to even acknowledge Trump and his politics.

Change comes, gradually, with the arrival of Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu), a robust and dashing migrant worker from Romania who arrives to help during lambing season.

Maria Cherry Rangel Cultural Organizer María Cherry Rangel is the daughter of migrant agricultural workers and musicians who worked the land of many Southern states.

Fish - out - of - water high school football coach Jim White (played by sports movie king Kevin Costner) moves with his wife (Maria Bello) and two daughters to the small, Mexican - American migrant worker town of McFarland, CA and decides to start a cross country team at the school after noticing four kids in his gym class who excel at running.

The film is based on the true story of Margaret Humphries, an unassuming social worker and family woman who inadvertently stumbles upon the untold story of child migrants, who, having been told their parents had died, were piled into massive ships and brought to Australia where they endured hard work and often abuse.

Rounding out the setup are two migrant workers, Saleem Ahmed Kahn (Shahid Ahmed) and his son Wasim (Mazhar Munir), who have recently been laid off from one of those oil companies and look anywhere for a job.

After reading the poem «My Mother Pieced Quilts,» a middle school girl might lead the class in celebrating the life of a family of migrant workers and the mother who makes their story a work of art by piecing together remnants from their past into quilts.

First Generation tells the story of four high school students - an inner city athlete, a small town waitress, a Samoan warrior dancer, and the daughter of migrant field workers - who set out to break the cycle of poverty and bring hope to their families and communities by pursuing a college education.

She went on to say that the situation is «exacerbated» by the government's migrant worker cap which requires the deportation of workers who fail to reach an annual salary of # 30,000 in five years», with such salaries being but a «pipe dream for most teachers».

Together we represent parents, educators, employers, and millions of students with disabilities, low - income students, students of color, English language learners (ELLs), and the children of migrant workers — all boys and girls who, through education, are working to build bright futures.

He has also recently been approached with the idea of creating a U.S. - based branch of Souktel to assist migrant workers and Americans who do not have access to the internet.