Sentences with phrase «of displaced workers»

In addition, they provide assistance for any number of displaced workers, not just larger numbers laid off in a plant shut down.

Stone said the language of a final climate agreement would defer the resolution of displaced workers to «the labor movement, because they are the experts on the topic.»»

The legislation, which Mr. Reich said would be ready in the next four to six months, would also address improvements in unemployment insurance, the needs of displaced workers, and the creation of «one - stop shopping» centers for adults needing job training and assistance.

«And, like many places dealing with steep manufacturing job losses, there is a large swath of displaced workers that need assistance returning to the labor market.

Temporary hardships caused in certain industries by competition from foreign producers should be alleviated by direct economic assistance and by helping in plant modernization or the retraining and reallocation of displaced workers, and not by the imposition of import duties which prevent able and industrious people from reaping the rewards of their efforts.

If you're over 40 and work, you're in for some big surprises Disruptions will be enormous, and so will opportunitiesHigher taxes and millions of displaced workers are predicted in the next decade.

The main reason that unemployment has been held in check (even though it has already risen by an amount never seen outside of recessions) is that new hiring has absorbed a lot of displaced workers in recent months.

Then ask what happens as the unemployment rate rises (which is virtually inevitable, particularly with layoff announcements accelerating even while collapsing help - wanted ads signal slower hiring of displaced workers).

Wal - Mart said it believes most of the displaced workers will find new jobs that involve direct contact with shoppers and that the change was not a downsizing move.

Not exact matches

This is exactly the kind of thing that people sounded the alarm about in recent years — that robots are going to displace human workers.

Hajdu and Bains opened the meeting by outlining the extent of coming technological change, like automation, that could displace workers, as well as the need to craft policies to prepare workers for new jobs.

We must remain committed to education, retraining, and help for displaced workers... We need to help displaced workers make ends meet between jobs and move people quickly on to the next opportunity... [C] ommunity colleges do a great job of providing the right skills to workers and the right workers for firms.

Uber uses technology to displace low - skilled workers who may have little access to other jobs, and as a result makes labor (and ultimately the cost of a ride) cheaper.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

For Carlos Vargas - Silva, associate professor and senior researcher at the University of Oxford's Migration Observatory, the economic impact of migrants can be read in two ways: a fiscal impact — taxes and contributions that new arrivals will make, minus the benefits and services they receive — and the impact that they have on the labor market, which is essentially whether native workers will be displaced from their jobs or not.

«I do think there is a lot of evidence to suggest that information technology is playing a large role in that,» Ford said about displacing workers.

Employees lost face with their families, and Orr says the wife of one displaced worker called him, begging him to rehire her spouse.

The plurality of Canadians who do not reject the idea in general say temporary foreign workers should only be allowed if the required skills are not available in Canada (31 %), followed by those who want to be sure no Canadian jobs are displaced (21 %) or those who accept temporary foreign workers for jobs Canadians refuse (18 %).

«A lot of those displaced oil workers, especially the professionals that were working in the shiny Calgary office towers — those jobs are not coming back,» Hirsch says.

A large group of workers — mainly those whose work involves routine tasks — will indeed be displaced, so it might be wise to plan for it now.

And second, if workers were permitted to operate independently, other workers would be displaced because businesses would prefer to retain the services of independent contractors.»

The law also requires large outsourcing companies that employ many H - 1B workers to certify in some circumstances that those workers «will not displace any similarly employed U.S. worker» within six months of applying for the visa.

The good news: Aid workers have the lessons of Katrina to fall back on as they try to help the thousands of people displaced by this storm.

It's only been a couple of weeks since Disney, that most iconic of American companies, moved to displace all its home grown techies with low - cost foreign temporary workers.

Educated professionals like scientists and architects could use their skills more productively, while many less - educated workers, like bank tellers and travel agents, saw their jobs being displaced by technology.6 This led to bigger employment shares for high - and low - skilled jobs at the expense of middle - skilled jobs in Canada, along with a modest increase in income inequality.7

Displaced workers are defined as persons 20 years of age and older who lost or left jobs because their plant or company closed or moved, there was insufficient work for them to do, or their position or shift was abolished.

The turbulent economy has created a mass of skilled, creative, displaced workers who are looking for new financing opportunities.

Evaluating the Risks and Rewards of Venture Capitalism The turbulent economy has created a mass of skilled, creative, displaced workers who are looking for new financing opportunities.

Technological progress has always displaced workers — the famous example of the automobile displacing horse drawn wagons and buggies.

Theological ethics arrives at the same conclusion as philosophical ethics: though outsourcing must take its course as part of the normal markings of international trade, the beneficiaries of this market exchange must help displaced workers make the transition to a new place in the economy.

The (relatively) tight labor market for low - skill workers reveals the pathologies not only of the American poor, but of an American elite who would gladly displace and replace low - skill American workers.

These religions were born out of poverty, displaced Egyptian workers no longer needed to build pyramids were sent away with memories of Egyptian man - gods that were molded into their new modified Egyptian religions.

Students may qualify for full tuition ($ 4250 - 4500) assistance in a variety of ways, as there are funds available to assist youth, veterans, unemployed, disabled or displaced workers.

In fact, the beverage industry has donated more than 300,000 bottles of water, along with other beverages, to rescue workers fighting fires throughout the area and displaced residents at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego.

He says eliminating the processing center will not only displace workers (who might go to Manhattan, but also could end up being transferred anywhere within a 50 - mile range of New York City), it will delay delivery of mail to the entire borough, hurt local businesses around the plant who won't have those 271 customers anymore and increase pollution with the increased truck traffic.

According to James Perez, a union rep who works at the Bronx processing center on East 149th Street, the USPS has already begun shifting about half of the processing of Bronx mail to Manhattan and is intent on shuttering the center altogether and displacing its 271 workers.

The measure voted on today in the chamber was sponsored by Sen. James Seward, an Oneonta - area Republican whose upstate district includes the headquarters firearms manufacturer Remington Arms, which had threatened to displace workers following the passage of the SAFE Act.

But workers who lose their jobs will be able to «take advantage of the city's displaced worker opportunities,» said Tarlow.

The Organised Labour said their earlier call on the Federal Government to treat Kogi workers as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and send relief materials to them was borne out of the pitiable situation of the workers as a result of non-payment of their salaries between a period of three to twenty - two months.

The bill also calls for establishing of a city - run training program for displaced drivers and other industry workers.

Dino Melaye had, on the floor of the Senate, described Kogi workers as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

«We support expanding the Displaced Building Service Workers Act, and I know we'll get it done because this is a Council that cares about working men and women,» said Van Bramer, the son of a 32BJ member who worked as a cleaner in the city's school system.

• Full deduction for disaster clean up expense • Relaxed retirement plan distribution rules — elimination of the 10 percent penalty tax that would otherwise apply on an early withdrawal from a retirement plan and permit individuals to withdraw up to $ 100,000 without penalty to cover storm - related expenses • Housing Exemptions for displaced individuals — would provide additional tax exemptions for individuals who provide free shelter for at least 60 days to anyone displaced by the storm ($ 500 exemption per person, maximum of four exemptions for the year) • Worker retention credit — would extend tax credits to business owners who continued paying wages while their businesses were forced to close.

Many dedicated state workers were displaced or lost jobs as a result of this action.

BATON ROUGE — Today, Governor Bobby Jindal sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis of the U.S. Department of Labor requesting through the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990 for disaster related workforce training and job placement services and unemployment benefit services for workers displaced as a result of the oil spill.

At 1 p.m. the Committee on Civil Service and Labor will meet to hear a series of new bills that would require successive employers of buildings to retain workers for a transitional time period and extend protections for displaced building service workers to food service workers.

Congress as well came in for criticism from a breakout panel focusing on Workforce Investment Boards, local committees of government and industry representatives established to help train unemployed workers, especially those displaced by the structural changes outlined by Groshen.

Perhaps, Senator, you missed the Senate testimony by Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.:» [S] killed immigrants... can displace U.S. workers, as has happened in the technology / engineering sector,» she said.

Creating new opportunities for «all of these very talented, experienced, displaced workers» requires «getting them thinking creatively about maybe making the move from big pharma, where they've spent their careers,» to other opportunities, such as smaller, newer companies created by themselves, perhaps, or other displaced scientists.

«The human and economic costs of the transition should be managed through support for displaced workers, affected communities and low - income households,» it argues.