Sentences with phrase «on individual workers»

Quite apart from the devastating effect on individual workers» lives, the results are showing up as cracks in the system:

When balancing this evidence against the privacy and dignity rights of individual workers, the Supreme Court concluded that the employer had failed to demonstrate a sufficient workplace problem or requisite safety concern which would warrant such an infringement on individual workers.

Total FICA taxes on individual workers are 7.65 percent of income; 6.2 percent goes to fund the nation's Social Security system, while 1.45 percent goes to Medicare.

First, it would have a negative effect on the individual workers, who have complicated lung diseases caused by unique exposures and who are often simultaneously suffering from mental health problems.

It also warned that staff's lives were being put at risk due to inadequate security provisions, despite # 250,000 being spent on individual workers based in Afghanistan.

She suggests that neoliberalism's focus on a minimal role for state intervention and on the individual worker as a completely realized market actor capable of protecting her interests through negotiation with an employer is problematic.

Not exact matches

The researchers then examined fluctuations within individual workers, comparing their output on days when they exercised to days when they didn't.

Remember, though, individual tax rates have generally gone down as of Jan. 1 and a new 20 percent deduction on certain income for small businesses (which includes solo workers) could reduce your tax burden even further.

While established companies typically will pay contractors in a timely fashion, some independent workers are relying on individuals to pony up when promised.

Workers in Belgium, Germany, Austria and Hungary face the highest tax burdens, according to the OECD's annual report on individual income taxes.

Japan's government loosened laws on pensions in May, allowing almost all working - age Japanese to join private defined - contribution retirement plans — similar to individual retirement accounts (IRAs) in the United States that allow workers to make regular contributions to an investment fund with tax breaks.

With the shift from pensions to individual savings, gone are the days when many retirees could rely on a regular check when they retire — and as many as half of all workers lack access to employer - sponsored retirement accounts at all.

However, there are reports that the GOP's newest plan is a so - called «skinny repeal» — legislation that would undo: Obamacare's individual mandate requiring people to carry health insurance or pay a penalty; a mandate on employers to cover full time workers; and a tax on medical device companies.

These adjustments can be painful for individuals, and it is incumbent on policy - makers to help buffer the transition by ensuring adequate safety nets for workers and facilitating retraining and relocation.

«We agree on that philosophy — we think that individual workers should have to pay less for healthcare and we want workers to pool together.»

So do companies and individuals posting assignments on crowdsourcing sites like Amazon Mechanical Turk, where hundreds of thousands of workers earn piece - rate wages by completing discrete tasks.

The Labour Watch site provides detailed information and advice to individual workers and employers on how to fight unionization drives and how to decertify existing unions, including by -LSB-...]

But if [businesses] pay [the saved 39 percent] out in salaries and bonuses, whether to fat - cat executives or ordinary line workers, those people pay the individual income tax on that money.

He said gains to workers from a corporate rate cut would have a far greater impact on their living standards than the framework's proposed changes to the individual income tax code, such as doubling the size of the standard deduction.

The workers demanded that they be able to bring their cases together — not in individual arbitrations — which set their case on the path to the Supreme Court.

Likewise, individual workers like Ms. Hobson might not be owed much on an individual basis, making it difficult if not impossible for them to seek justice if they can't join together with coworkers.

Instead of individual artisans producing shoes and hats, workers could be placed on an assembly line.

While workers were being drawn into the industrial labor force as individual breadwinners in Europe during the nineteenth century, for example, other workers in Europe's colonies were being drawn into a permanent state of dependence as producers of raw commodities — in mines and on plantations.

An emphasis on individual economic liberties obscures the question of who sets the menu of choices available to ordinary workers.

Individuals residing in these zip codes as well as disadvantaged workers countywide, already facing challenges in securing meaningful employment and experiencing higher rates of unemployment themselves, will now have opportunities to secure employment on county - bid projects for which they meet qualifications.

The purpose of the Order is to foster construction employment opportunities for qualified local residents, underemployed individuals or otherwise disadvantaged workers on projects bid by Erie County and located within the county.

The purpose of the Order is to foster construction employment opportunities for qualified local residents, underemployed individuals or otherwise disadvantaged workers on construction projects located within the geographic boundaries of Erie County which are bid by the County of Erie.

«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.

This program upgrades the skill sets necessary for aspiring workers to succeed by placing these individuals with companies that build their skills «on the job.»

Not only did the 2,285 workers get paid the money they were owed after the state intervened, but 34 individuals and companies that stiffed them are barred from working on any state projects for the next five years, Gov. Cuomo said.

This has already included national walkouts on budget day on 20 March and a long weekend of action from 5 to 8 April, as well as individual strikes by Home Office workers and last week staff in non-departmental public bodies.

Under the Immigration Asylum Act 2006, firms can be fined for taking on illegal workers, individual officers can be disbarred and persistent offenders can have their assets seized.

Despite more than a decade of gentrification, shifting demographics and a wall of glassy buildings that have gone up on either side of the north - south corridor, most of the passersby were black and Hispanic — ordinary workers, residents and shoppers, with a few obviously mentally ill or under the influence individuals tossed in.

The ad goes on to claim that Faso supported «privatizing Social Security» based on a 2004 op - ed in the New York Times that expressed some support for the findings of former President Bush's bipartisan Commission to Strengthen Social Security, in particular individual savings accounts for young workers in order to preserve the earned benefit and ensure its future solvency.

Social Services Commissioner Dankert - Maurer said, «These long - needed reforms will strengthen CPS investigations by providing workers with accurate and up - to - date information on the individuals and homes they are visiting, toughening penalties against abusers, and fortifying the reporting system to diminish false reports.

The judges commented, «Not only is there a compelling argument presented within this project as to why a heat stress model is so important for workers in Hong Kong, but this project goes further, giving individual companies and policy makers an objective framework on which to base their policies.

• 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.

The Assembly plan would expand the scope of the state Temporary Disability Insurance program to cover paid family leave and would also take contributions from employee paychecks, but would reimburse at a rate of two - thirds of a worker's pay for individuals on leave.

It would be recalled that, the state NLC had recently written to President Muhammadu Buhari, calling on individuals and organisations to come to the aide of Kogi workers, saying, the Civil Servants had practically become IDPs in Kogi.

DAILY POST further learnt that the machines, which have the imputed workers» biodata, were installed in all the ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) which are to be controlled from the office of the Accountant General of the state for the purpose of computing salaries on individual basis.

De Blasio's specific criticisms of the speaker focused on her delay in allowing a vote to guarantee most workers in New York paid sick days, her cautious response in addressing the NYPD's stop and frisk policies, and her use of discretionary allocations to individual members to reward allies and punish dissenters.

«An accurate, rapid, point - of - care test would help public health workers better focus resources quickly on the individuals who need it — including providing directly observed therapy — and avoid unnecessary medications and isolation in those who don't,» Belknap says.

«One of the things that USAID identified very early on is that it doesn't benefit us to have individuals who go to respond as healthcare workers,» Louissaint said.

The British government has apologized for 40 years of postmortem research done on nuclear plant workers — and other individuals — without proper consent.

Also, the Army's EIS «did not adequately document or characterize individual risk of exposure or infection, nor did it consider potential exposures to workers and others on the base itself or how the spread of a pathogen would be affected by population size and density,» according to a press release NAS issued about the study.

The report also points out that RTZ's records on radiation doses show that before 1982 individual workers were exposed to more than the permissible doses in the final processing areas, where ore is roasted to recover uranium oxide.

Researchers note that individual characteristics such as the individual's biological rhythm, disrupted in rotating night shift workers, and information on sleep patterns and quality might modulate CHD risk.

«Every individual worker has their own characteristic and ideas, which we share with each other on a daily basis,» he said.

The Safdie Brothers match Pattinson and Duress» individual and collective performances with visual pyrotechnics of their own, swapping out an early reliance on claustrophobic close - ups, beginning with the notably disorientating scene between Nick and the social worker that opens Good Time, for a cinema vérité - inspired, often exhilarating mix of location shooting, hyper - active editing, and dense, propulsive plotting.

Among the book's more «robust» conclusions, to use the economists» term, is that the high Swedish expenditure on adult education (which is very well developed in Sweden, as a resource for unemployed workers and as a way of upgrading or changing one's credentials) is not warranted by its returns: But how could it be, when, we learn, «individuals received student pay [all students are paid in Sweden — part of the commitment to equality] at the level of unemployment benefits, which in Sweden replace up to 80 percent of forgone earnings.»