Sentences with phrase «of vulnerable workers»

It is short (30 pages) and provides brief summaries of the research and consultation work done in areas such as globalization and the law, international informal banking, indigenous legal traditions, the definition of «crime», the future of policing, secured financing on reserves, the protection of vulnerable workers, age and intergenerational relationships, and immigrant settlement.

«Top of my agenda will be continuing to expose the plight of the thousands of vulnerable workers whose experience of work in the UK is often one of poverty wages, excessive hours and shocking ill - treatment.

Not exact matches

But the ban may actually backfire, said Human Rights Watch, which warned it could «increase abuses of workers who are forced to resort to unsafe and unregulated channels to enter the country» and thus become more vulnerable to trafficking and other dangers.

As the region with the highest percentage of EEA - born workers, rising from 7 % in 2004 to 14 % in 2016, London is most vulnerable to a drop in migration, the report said.

However, this is the first suit to object to Yelp's utilization of reviewers as unpaid labor, exploiting «a vulnerable and disposable class of workers.»

But these measures are less attractive because these American targets, vulnerable as they are, all employ large numbers of workers in China.

She said she doesn't want any groups of students or young workers unintentionally left behind by whatever changes the Liberals ultimately decide upon, but suggested that future changes would look to target vulnerable populations like indigenous youth and new immigrants, who have a harder time accessing the job market.

Young workers in their 20s and 30s face the prospect of an uncertain economy increasingly vulnerable to financial shocks.

In August, the Law Commission of Ontario released Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work, a study motivated by «the need to reduce precarious work.»

Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»

«They're planning on funding this Canada Job Grant on the backs of our most vulnerable workers,» said Duguid, adding that the program would leave Ontario on the hook for $ 232 million.

Temporary migration leaves these workers vulnerable by controlling the conditions of their work, and sets a dangerous precedent for all workers.

Eroding pension plans by shifting risk onto vulnerable employees and retirees with limited ability to absorb income cuts is quite in keeping with the Harper government's determination to lower the boom on public sector workers and improve the profitability of their corporate friends in the private sector.

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.

Rather, it requires that we give priority to the needs of the most vulnerable in our political community, which today means unskilled American workers.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

But she said social workers had considerable power over the lives of vulnerable people and said trust was a precious professional commodity.

«Social workers have considerable power over the lives of vulnerable service users and trust is a precious professional commodity.»

While corporate re-engineering, with its attendant disruption of work routines and the lives especially of older (and hence more vulnerable) employees, may be necessary, employers must still accept their share of responsibility for an individual worker's employability.

«A large number of employees at the audited sites are young and migrant workers, cohorts that we know to be particularly vulnerable to workplace exploitation and reluctant to complain about mistreatment,» Ms James said.

It builds upon other certification systems, such as the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, and tackles some of the most challenging issues facing the palm oil sector, such as the destruction of high carbon stock forests and the abuse of the most vulnerable workers,» said Matthias Diemer, Chair of the Palm Oil Innovation Group.

The reality is that multinationals are mining the land for a short - term gain, people are confining pigs and poultry in the ammonia of their own excrement in the name of efficiency, and others are exploiting vulnerable migrant workers to ensure there's enough chicken on the Coles rotisserie to feed the insatiable hunger of our convenience culture.

«This places care workers in the invidious position of having to choose between providing lonely and vulnerable clients with care visits that meet their individual needs and fulfilling their payment - by - results contract,» Ryan says.

Surely a system that supports its vulnerable and celebrates its workers is one we all deserve to be part of.

I interviewed dozens of experts, social workers, lawyers and asylum - seeking teenagers and found that, far from being welcomed to safety, vulnerable children face an overwhelming number of obstacles.

NYC workers assigned to help homeless students are desperately overwhelmed, leaving many of those children, among the most vulnerable in the public school system, to miss enormous amounts of school and fall far behind their classmates, two reports say.

George Gresham, President of 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, said, «We commend Governor Cuomo's innovative plan to study and eliminate inefficiencies in Medicaid while preserving the quality of care for our most vulnerable residents.

«Direct care workers work with the most vulnerable of our population every day,» she said.

«Washington's healthcare cuts have put some of New York's most vulnerable communities in danger of losing access to quality care,» said George Gresham, President of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.

«The Democratic field for Mayor this year was comprised of candidates who are passionate about improving the quality of life for workers, the middle class, and New York's most vulnerable, such as the poor and senior citizens,» said UAW Region 9A Director Julie Kushner.

«These sad events shine a light on the onerous responsibility councils bear in working with the most vulnerable children and families, and the equally onerous responsibility we ask individual members of staff, children's social workers especially, to carry on our behalf,» she is expected to say later.

Building a fairer system examines how workers from developing countries become tricked or coerced into paying illegal and extortionate recruitment fees, and, once in debt, become vulnerable to exploitation in their place of work.

The conference is responding to an ongoing push from direct care workers and a coalition of organizations that provide support to the state's vulnerable population.

They are some of the most vulnerable workers in the country.

Elvis Van Lare who bemoaned the recent cases of abuse of workers said workers particularly those in the free zone sector are more vulnerable...

This can only lead to a degradation in the quality and speed of assistance to vulnerable workers.

To detect abuse, the government has given additional funding to double the number of inspectors regulating agencies and the unions have also been handed a further # 3 million through to help vulnerable workers.

Jo Cox chose to live her life standing up for vulnerable people fleeing from dangerous parts of the world, both as a charity worker and then as an MP.

Business secretary John Hutton announced new measures to detect and guard against exploitation of the most vulnerable workers.

We have focussed on ethics in construction which is an environment vulnerable to modern slavery and the abuse of migrant workers, poor payment practices and money laundering; so it is particularly pleasing that the work of the CIOB Academy has been recognised at these awards.»

A decade after his autistic son died at the hands of a care worker, Michael Carey says the state still isn't doing enough to protect its most vulnerable citizens.

«We know that the government's policies in the policing and crime bill although they are described as intending to protect vulnerable women, they will in fact increase the level of violence sex workers experience - both indoors and out.»

The minister told health workers in the region that the government is aware of the numerous challenges facing them in their quest to provide healthcare for the people, especially the vulnerable in the rural communities.

This is our opportunity to lift these workers out of poverty - level wages by putting an additional $ 5,000 in workers» pockets, and to provide a better quality - of - life for those that we trust to care for our most vulnerable.

«New Yorkers will be at risk of losing their healthcare, hospitals will be forced to lay off workers, and our vulnerable elderly will find it much harder to afford nursing home care.»

Buhari said his government was committed to the fight against terrorism and insurgency, adding, «The security services have since been directed to put in place further measures around all schools vulnerable to attacks to ensure the safety of our pupils / students and teachers and school workers.

It is worrying that, whether intentional or not, the effect of the Government's measures will be to weaken the rights and ability of already vulnerable workers to defend themselves from predatory and exploitative employers.»

Direct care workers take care of New York's most vulnerable citizens and deserve higher wages.

Based on the governor's numbers, one management position could save the jobs of four workers delivering essential services and taking care of our most vulnerable people.

Casualties of the Chancellor's budget The battles lines have been drawn in the government's first budget, and public sector workers, the vital services they provide, and the poor, sick and vulnerable people who depend on them, are in the firing line, writes Dave Prentis, general secretary of UNISON, for Channel 4 News.