Sentences with phrase «of being a social worker»

Jowell hammers home her «One London» slogan as she speaks of being a social worker in Brixton and her role in creating the Sure Start programme.

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Signing up counsellors, all of whom are either registered social workers or therapists with PhDs, proved challenging at first.

Financial advisors say workers who are already close to retirement probably will witness fewer dramatic changes to the structure of Social Security and Medicare than younger workers like millennials.

People pleasing comes from a fear of rejection, failure or disappointing others, so it's time to examine where those fears come from and find a professional guide — a licensed therapist, social worker or psychologist who is knowledgeable in this area of personal development.

RETAINING female fly - in, fly - out workers isn't as simple as offering flexible rosters, with new research showing positive relationships with managers and opportunities for social interaction are of pa

«When the daily habits of nearly 17,000 utility workers in France were monitored throughout the 1990s, researchers discovered that their degree of social involvement was a good way to predict who would still be alive at the end of the decade,» she claims, for example.

Layoffs often demolish an employee's social circle and identity — and the same is true for family members of laid off workers.

Called Companion, it's an app nurses, psychologists, and social workers can use to monitor the psychological states of their patients, who record and upload audio diaries.

A team under Airbnb's global head of social impact, Kim Rubey, was already working on a program to house refugee relief workers in Greece, Macedonia and Serbia, but to address the product challenge, Gebbia formed a new team under his Samara studio that was ultimately spun out and called the Human team.

Stock market volatility reminds us privatizing Social Security is a bad idea, because it subjects every worker's lifetime contributions to the caprices of the market.

Some of the demonstrations, which are also celebrated under the International Workers» Day banner, reflected cultural traditions, and many others were a rallying cry for equal rights, equal pay, and a renewed focus on social, environmental and civil - rights issues.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

For example, we would have a ton of support from public school teachers, young men and young women who were social workers or probation officers.

Social workers are equally alarmed by a high rate of attempted suicides.

Other groups are experimenting with use of social media to inform, educate and mobilize workers — especially young workers.

The couple — she was a social worker, he was an engineer — took out a second mortgage to set up a brewing operation and made liberal use of several $ 10,000 - limit credit lines.

While there are programs like Social Security to help ease the financial burden, most workers have to depend on savings, 401k's and the dwindling number of pension plans that some companies offer, to see them through their after - work years.

Right now, the human worker who does, say, $ 50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things.

What makes this law firm attractive to those thinking of retiring is that workers receive a retirement contribution of 7.3 percent of pay plus nearly 6 percent of any pay above the Social Security wage base.

Paid family and medical leave allows workers to take longer leaves of absence for the birth or adoption of a child, to care for a loved one, or to recover from a more serious personal injury or illness.15 Paid family and medical leave can be provided through a social insurance system, as it is in the three U.S. states that have active paid leave programs, or through another type of structure such as a government - business partnership.16

Online, my social - media universe was filled with journalists and Jewish communal professionals, rabbis and professors and nonprofit workers, all of whom knew that a Tablet writer had said something offensive about the Harvey Weinstein case — but outside my front door, I encountered people who didn't inhabit my social - media universe.

«Social Security can represent up to 40 % of the total income the average worker receives throughout retirement and when and how to file are some of the most important financial decisions they make in their lifetimes,» said David Giertz, president of distribution and sales for Nationwide Financial.

The New York Fed employs far more workers than any other Federal Reserve Bank — some 3,500 at our headquarters in Manhattan and our operations center in East Rutherford, New Jersey — and thus has a large stake in the economic and social well - being of the metropolitan area.

Eliminate mandatory retirement: «In uncertain economic times, Canada needs the skills and experience of every worker who can contribute to our social and economic well - being,» says Susan Eng.

Cuts to arts and media spawned a coalition of «Canadian citizens who are artists, arts professionals and cultural workers concerned about ensuring the social and cultural health and prosperity of our nation.»

This book is a must read for those concerned about how technology is disrupting the way we work and eroding the social safety net, and how policy makers should respond to ensure that the growing number of workers in the «gig» economy earn adequate benefits.

This is consistent with national survey reports from the General Social Survey where employee owners report that they have greater job security and lower likelihoods of being laid off in the previous year compared to other employees.29 When faced with recessionary pressures, employee ownership firms may retain workers to sustain a workplace culture based on cooperation, information - sharing, and commitment to long - term performance.

because the business world becomes extra digital, it also becomes more social — that is very true as Millennials grow to be a greater share of the team of workers.

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Is it too cynical to suggest that Harper is not keen on preserving the history of workers combining in solidarity and risking everything for social justicIs it too cynical to suggest that Harper is not keen on preserving the history of workers combining in solidarity and risking everything for social justicis not keen on preserving the history of workers combining in solidarity and risking everything for social justice?

For 2017, the maximum Social Security benefit for workers retiring at the full retirement age of 66 is $ 2,687 per month.

We ran into a middle - aged social worker, a 300 - pound, ex-pat Newfoundlander, at the gym the other day who asked us if there might be some hope of an NDP sweep in Edmonton on Cinco de Mayo (a.k.a. elec...

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

It's considered glamorous to drop out of a selective college if you want to become the next Mark Zuckerberg, but ludicrous to stay in to become a social worker.

This event is made possible by the generous support from: Canadian Labour Congress, Canadian Union of Public and General Employees (CUPE), Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), Communications Workers of America (CWA) Canada, National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), People's Social Forum, Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), Unifor, the United Steelworkers (USW), and Réseau québécois sur l'intégration continentale (RQIC)

However, disabled individuals and survivors of workers who have died are also eligible to collect Social Security benefits.

Regardless of the strategy, it's clear that Regus wants to break into the social side of the flexible workspace industry and that they want to win over the new generation of workers.

Germany Europe's growing army of robot workers could be classed as «electronic persons» and their owners liable to paying social security for them if the European Union adopts a draft plan to address the realities of a new industrial revolution.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

Studies of periods of tight labour markets like the late 1990s and 1960s make it clear that the best social programme for disadvantaged workers is an economy where employers are struggling to fill vacancies.

In an age of increasing social responsibility, firing five thousand domestic workers is not exactly great for a brand's image.

That is only a fraction of the income - tax rate that most workers pay — on top of which is piled the 11 % FICA wage withholding for Social Security and Medicare that all workers have to pay on their salaries up to the cut - off point of about $ 102,000 (This cut - off frees from this tax the tens of millions of dollars that hedge fund traders pay themselves).

Assuming he earned the average income for a social worker (remember: his payments would be based on income), he'd pay off only $ 28,000 of his loans over 10 years.

The study assumed that workers would not receive any income from Social Security, in response to a survey from the Pew Research Center finding that 51 percent of millennials assume the entitlement program won't be there for them when they retire.

My goal would be to both ensure that those who depend on the program are protected, while also balancing the growing cost of Social Security with other pressing priorities — from programs for children, the vulnerable, public investments, and shoring up our education and worker retraining systems.

The basics of your Social Security benefit The size of a retired worker's Social Security check is based on two factors:

20 % of workers whose employers have at - work social media policies say they use social media to stay connected to family and friends while on the job, compared with 35 % of workers whose social media use is not regulated at work.

«The committee were clear to point out that their decision is not based on your views but on your act of publicly posting those views such that it will have an effect on your ability to carry out a role as a social worker.

Baxter is on most questions a theological conservative, but on matters social and political he is pretty much an unexpurgated lefty, as was the case with his heroine, Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker movement.

They are social workers, menatl health workers and counsellors across many human service professions in millions of jobs across the globe even in god «less communist countries.