Sentences with phrase «of force labor»

It originally arrived at using super herbs as a way to support people who have been victims of forced labor.

Coca - Cola and the U.S. State Department along with two other companies said on Friday they are launching a project using blockchain's digital ledger technology to create a secure registry for workers that will help fight the use of forced labor worldwide.

Food and beverage companies are under pressure to address the risk of forced labor in countries where they obtain sugarcane.

The sad reality is that sexual violence is often a component of forced labor.

I didn't realized employees of said business were forced to work there... maybe that letter of forced labor camps from China actually originated from Hobby Lobby or Chik - fil - a?!

Solomon the wise became known for his oppressiveness, his policy of forced labor, his self - aggrandizement (I Kings 5:13).

, including the sinister notice that one Adoniram «was in charge of the forced labor» (v. 6) We also read of the division of the kingdom into twelve districts (shrewdly violating tribal divisions in a well - calculated effort to break down tribal loyalties) each with its overseer charged with the responsibility of providing sustenance for the royal establishment — a simple daily diet (v. 22 f.) conservatively estimated as sufficient to feed between four and five thousand persons!

The Fund's Slavery Footprint project aims to educate the public on the pervasiveness of forced labor in the global economy.

«And this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer.»

Stein Mart's Vendor Code of Conduct requires our vendor partners to refrain from the direct or indirect use of forced labor or human trafficking.

Messala shows him no mercy; he sentences Judah to a life of forced labor.

Although initially not interested in a human interest piece, Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) finds himself drawn into Philomena Lee's (Judi Dench) story of her forced labor at a convent decades earlier whose nuns sold her child, and those of several other unwed mothers, into adoption for 1000 pounds.

The film focuses on the fact that when slavery was abolished with the passage of the 13th amendment, prisoners were excluded, creating a culture of forced labor in correctional institutions.

Her mother survived Auschwitz and her father, a prisoner of forced labor, was rescued by a Hungarian army officer and Seventh Day Adventist who saved more than 100 Jewish men under his command.

Each doll has a unique ability — from sexy seduction to rancid farts to punching to hugging — and you must figure out a way to use various abilities to solve environmental puzzles and save your family from a life of forced labor.

But they do not document the use of forced labor from the gulags to build the canal.

Myint, 40, is among hundreds of former slave fishermen who returned to Myanmar following an Associated Press investigation into the use of forced labor in Southeast Asia's seafood industry.

The mission of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) is to assist persons trafficked for the purpose of forced labor and slavery - like practices and to work toward ending all instances of such human rights violations.

In Australia, most investigations of forced labor have related to sexual exploitation.

The terms of the Young Living Supplier Code of Conduct specifically requires all suppliers and / or subcontractors to verify / certify that no raw materials, finished product, etc. purchased by Young Living has been manufactured, assembled, and packaged through the direct or indirect use of forced labor, bonded labor, child labor, or unsafe working conditions.

Not exact matches

Interviewing noted legal thinkers like Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow), the documentary argues that this «loophole» — allowing forced labor for criminals — enabled resentful white society to imprison black citizens on minor charges and put them to work.

In the overall U.S. labor force, 80 percent of workers are white, 12 percent are black, and 5 percent are Asian, according to the Bureau of Labor Statislabor force, 80 percent of workers are white, 12 percent are black, and 5 percent are Asian, according to the Bureau of Labor StatisLabor Statistics.

More than 110,000 of VW's worldwide labor force of 589,000 work at its immense headquarters in Wolfsburg and four other plants in Lower Saxony.

Roberto Romano, co-director of documentary film, «The Dark Side of Chocolate,» discusses his findings of forced child labor in many of the foods Americans eat.

A change that would make Buffett hopeful for women in the workforce took place soon after: Following World War II, women's participation in the U.S. labor force rose from 32.7 percent in 1948 to 56.8 percent in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Llabor force rose from 32.7 percent in 1948 to 56.8 percent in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of LaborLabor.

Not only are the figures for women - owned companies very low, relative to the female fraction of the labor force, but also the growth of women's business ownership seems to be greatest among non-employer businesses, which have little economic impact.

For the IoT, the true value of China's labor force stems from its massive force of engineers.

Sure, the unemployment rate has declined significantly since the recovery began, but much of that is due to the falling labor - force participation rate.

«We offer new analyses in this working paper of the impact of changes in the US labor force participation rate (LFPR).

The labor force participation rate has fallen due to cyclical factors such as workers temporarily dropping out of the workforce because of discouragement over job prospects, but also due to structural forces such as the Baby Boomers reaching retirement age and younger workers staying in school longer.

Our main message is that developing a theory of time allocation and occupational choice is important for understanding the forces that shape gender differences in labor market outcomes,» the researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, University of Toronto and Princeton University write.

Opinions and assertions about the condition of the US labor force are also offered by financial market participants, advisors, economists, and academics.

«There are absolutely two labor forces,» said Rick Wartzman, director of the KH Moon Center for a Functioning Society at the Drucker Institute.

Japan «s unemployment rate has been falling partly due to its shrinking labor force and a shortage of workers in construction, healthcare and hospitality.

The nation added 217,000 jobs in May to reach the milestone, though the unemployment rate remained unchanged last month at 6.3 % and U.S. employment still needs to catch up with the growth of the population and labor force that has occurred since the recession began.

Were it to do so, it would signal that growing numbers of Americans seek a return to the labor force by declaring they have the confidence to find employment.

«It's good news but a very large but a very large proportion of this improvement came from people who left the labor force - labor force participation has declined significantly and therefore the effort to draw them back into the labor force is a structural issue.»

On the other hand, can we see some characteristics of the labor force that suggest that it is normalizing?

Responding to the ban, Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Sulaiman Al - Jarallah expressed «the keenness of the State of Kuwait to protect the rights of all residents, including the Filipino community, within the framework of the labor laws in force in the State of Kuwait,» according to a government statement translated from Arabic.

According to a survey by McKinsey, the total number of gig - workers in the U.S. is now 53 - 68 million, or 35 percent of the total civilian labor force and growing to 50 percent by 2020.

This reality, combined with the fact that just 10 % of the labor force is now employed in manufacturing, means that there is plenty of electoral support for policies aimed at increasing trade.

Indeed, when one ponders the changes that the global economy has had to digest over the past 25 years, from the fall of the Iron Curtain to the flowering of the Internet - based economy to the entrance of 1.3 billion Chinese into the labor force, it would be surprising if the effects weren't felt by American workers.

Faced with labor shortages, the U.S. food system would experience supply constraints that could result in higher prices and force the country to look beyond its own borders for more of its food supply.

Fullerton Jr., Howard N. «Labor Force Participation: 75 Years of Change, 1950 — 98 and 1998 — 2025.»

While about two - thirds of the world's illiterate adults are female, research shows that educated mothers are more likely to participate in the labor force.

If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of the labor force to produce enough food for the country.

As a result, the labor force participation rate, which measures the percentage of Americans who are working or looking for work, fell to 62.8 % — the lowest level since 1978.

Yet, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, by 2022, 25.6 percent of the labor force will be comprised of baby boomers (up from 11.8 percent in 1992), and by 2020, 46 percent will be comprised of millennLabor Statistics, by 2022, 25.6 percent of the labor force will be comprised of baby boomers (up from 11.8 percent in 1992), and by 2020, 46 percent will be comprised of millennlabor force will be comprised of baby boomers (up from 11.8 percent in 1992), and by 2020, 46 percent will be comprised of millennials.

Once underway we will expand our scope and take advantage of high - margin new equipment sales and leverage our existing labor force to sell and service those products.

In the UAE, according to research by Harvard University, migrants make up roughly 90 percent of the labor force.