Sentences with phrase «of public employers»

The unilateral authority of public employers to determine whether and how essential services are to be maintained during a work stoppage with no adequate review mechanism, and the absence of a meaningful dispute resolution mechanism to resolve bargaining impasses, justify the trial judge's conclusion that the PSESA impairs the s. 2 (d) rights more than is necessary.

The combination of the unilateral authority of public employers to determine whether and how essential services are to be maintained during a work stoppage, combined with a lack of an adequate review mechanism and the absence of a meaningful dispute resolution mechanism to resolve bargaining impasses, can only lead to the conclusion that the PSESA is not minimally impairing — and so it is unconstitutional.

Current obligations are due to reforms necessitated by the Wall Street crash of recent years and a decade of public employers not contributing to the system while employees contributed 3 percent of salary;

As can be seen in the graph above, employer contributions are already eating up a significant portion of public employer budgets, and are on the rise.

That statute precludes liability for «any claim based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a public employer or public employee...» For purposes of the statute, discretionary conduct must involve policy making or planning and not merely an ad hoc determination.

Not exact matches

Ex-employees of tech companies and positions have been known to hack employers, and once this kind of thing gets out, it is a public issue, especially if it happens in a public institution.

To qualify, you'll still need to have a loan from the Direct program, have had made all of your payments in full and on time, and have worked 10 years in a public service job with a qualifying employer.

«It becomes a matter of corporate philosophy — does the employer want to get in a public dispute over this?»

Of course, in those two cases, the employers» hands were forced by enormous public pressure.

France's mostly taxpayer - funded public pension system may do better at ensuring every retiree is sufficiently funded (for now), and America's mostly private pension patchwork may be more sustainable into the future, but our hybrid system of individual -, employer - and government - funded benefits ranks high on both criteria, sufficiency and sustainability — «which is uncommon,» says Morin

Even in conservative parts of the country, where public attitude about gay rights differs from more liberal areas of the country, employer actions that allow discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation can lead to a lawsuit that the employer could lose.

A certain portion of your monthly paycheck is deducted by your employer, which pays your premium to the public insurer.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).

She and the authors of the report, «Education to Employment, Designing a System that Works,» call for countries to create the role of «integrator» — a government appointee or someone designated by a public - private partnership, to make sure employers, educators, and students are getting what they need out of the system.

Exactly how many jobs that translates into at not - for - profit organizations, public sector employers and small businesses with 50 or fewer employees won't be known until the end of the year.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

It is interesting that much of the growth in income of the top 1 % has come in the form of eageincome which is practically impossible to hide (because employers have reporting and withholding obligations in the tax system and, at least for large public companies, often have public disclosure obligations for their senior CEOs).

Seeing your company touting diversity initiatives rather than battling a public relations nightmare can convince an employee to give their employer the benefit of the doubt.

He tells of how the Labor Dept. is denying the public access to its estimates regarding the costs to tipped workers of the Trump admin's proposed rule to let employers take the tips of minimum wage... Read more

CA whistleblower Chris Wylie — who last month gave public testimony revealing how millions of Facebook users» data was passed to his former employer for political ad targeting — has described AggregateIQ as the Canadian arm of CA's parent entity, SCL.

So Mr. Négri combed through public documents that employers file with the Department of Labor as a first step in an H - 1B application.

As an employer, the Food and Nutrition Service's hiring paths include opportunities for the public, federal employees, veterans, individuals with disabilities, family members of overseas employees, military spouses, Native Americans, and senior executives.

Every year employers fill thousands of jobs without ever announcing them to the public.

Additionally, under a special Code Section 162 (m) exception, any compensation paid pursuant to a compensation plan in existence before the effective date of this public offering will not be subject to the $ 1,000,000 limitation until the earliest of: (i) the expiration of the compensation plan, (ii) a material modification of the compensation plan (as determined under Code Section 162 (m), (iii) the issuance of all the employer stock and other compensation allocated under the compensation plan, or (iv) the first

As Ron Hira, an Economic Policy Institute research associate and an associate professor of public policy at Howard University outlines in this blog for the Economic Policy Institute: «These two India - based IT firms specialize in outsourcing and offshoring, are major publicly traded companies with a combined market value of about $ 115 billion, and are the top two H - 1B employers in the United States.

Avoiding two 2 % increases would save public - sector employers $ 1.7 billion annually (substantially less than the annual cost of provincial corporate tax cuts).

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In order to qualify for a 403 (b) program, you must be either a public education organization, a certain type of non-profit employer, or a self - employed minister.

By building and operating an excellent public transit system, employers can access a wider pool of employees, employees can access more job opportunities, families can deal with housing affordability challenges by living with one less car, and productive and busy people can save time by having a fast and reliable alternative to sitting in traffic.

It seems as though 99 percent of Facebook users post an astounding amount of highly personal and inappropriate material on the electronic venue, accessible to family, employers, and the general public.

That's what you call a code of ETHICS??? So your employer does something terrible and you have to keep quiet about it even if it's in the public interest to know, and you consider it ethical to stay silent?

All of us fret and kick against the steel bands of institutionalism; the teacher against the grading system, the social worker against the artificiality created by the very fact of his being a professional representative of the state commissioned to deal with human needs, the worker something of whose very life is «bought» against the employer, and the sensitive employer who buys that portion of that life against the system, the public official against the role which political necessity assigns to him.

In addition, there are in nearly every congregation employers who have alcoholics in their businesses or plants, workers who know of untreated alcoholics in their unions, professional people with alcoholics among their clients or patients, public schoolteachers and opinion molders who through social prestige, political leadership, or involvement in the mass media help to create new images of public problems.

Where there are public retirement systems, workers are asked to replace them by a pension fund mechanism that subjects their own employers to the sole imperatives of immediate profitability, extends the sphere of influence of finance, and persuades citizens of the obsolescence of institutions of solidarity between nations, peoples, and generations.

The fallacy that the churches and «conscientious objector» employers are foisting on the public is, the right to be free to choose or not choose, is intended to be a right of the people.

«Workers of all ages are good for business and these finalists are proof positive that creating a work environment that values older workers pays off big time,» says Ruth Finkelstein, director of the Age Smart Employer Awards program and Associate Director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at the Mailman School of Public Health.

Several companies and organisations led by chief executives who have vowed to do more to promote women in business and the public service failed to make a list of the best Australian employers of women.

As one of Arsenal spokepersons, of course he has to say good things about his employer's situation in public.

I am not sure that this is going to change the dynamic of feeling uncomfortable in public as a nursing mom or of employers giving you just the option of using the bathroom.

CNN discovered on page 1239 of law that employers with more than 50 employees are required to provide «a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from co-workers and the public, which may be used by an employee to express breast milk.»

So we are working to make it easier for mothers and fathers to share caring and earning for their families, through measures such as more father - inclusive maternity services, a fairer system of leave entitlements, public services that systematically engage with men as fathers, and employer practices that recognise that most men are dads.

The coalition has been awarded three grants over the past five years: Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant with the goal of increasing the number of policies and practices that promote and support breastfeeding - friendly environments; Business Case for Breastfeeding Grant to educate employers on how to comply with the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act and a Women Infants and Children (WIC) Local Agency Breastfeeding Special Project Grant.

In addition, having the IMH Endorsement will inform prospective employers, peers, referral sources, families, and the public at large that an individual who is providing services to infants and their families meets standards that have been approved by a professional organization devoted to the optimal development of very young children.

American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer.

This year as we follow the 1993 theme, «Mother - Friendly Workplace Initiative,» which sadly is still a struggle many women face today, we spread the word and encourage employers and the general public to stop criticizing women for nursing in public but instead embrace the healthy and natural process of breastfeeding.

There is an urgent and compelling need to license athletic trainers in California to protect the public, protect employers of athletic trainers and protect athletic trainers.

As professional sports teams and many employers began to offer paid paternity leave, a public debate ensued about the validity of giving fathers time to provide caregiving to their new children.

Others benefiting from their former's employer's largesse with the public purse included Ameet Gill, former director of strategy, and Liz Sugg, former head of operations at No 10.

While we expand the scope of our probe, I urge all public employers to closely examine how they can improve the way they do business for the sake of the state and taxpayers.»

The government, at the last quarter of 2015, after a series of meetings of the National Tripartite Committee (NTC) comprising government, employers» association, organized labour and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) announced a 10 percent pay rise for public sector workers across the country.