Sentences with phrase «other job protection»

The judge ruled that the tenure and other job protection laws for teachers violate the state constitution's guarantee that children receive «basic equality of educational opportunity.»

A California Supreme Court majority declined to hear Vergara v. California, the case that challenged teacher tenure and other job protections for teachers.

The Washington Post reported that the court decided «tenure, seniority and other job protections for teachers have created unequal conditions in public schools and deprive poor children of the best teachers.»

Teachers unions, who have the money and the membership to exercise considerable clout in many state legislatures, defend tenure, seniority and other job protections as simply guaranteeing due process.

Anyhow, as summarized (and celebrated) in this piece, the Vergara judge found that (1) «[t] enure and other job protections make it harder to fire teachers and therefore effectively work to keep bad ones in the classroom,» and (2) «[b] ad teachers «substantially undermine» a child's education.»

The Incite Agency, founded by former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and former Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt, will lead a national public relations drive to support a series of lawsuits aimed at challenging tenure, seniority and other job protections that teachers unions have defended ferociously.

Ruling in Vergara v. California, Treu struck down five decades - old California laws governing teacher tenure and other job protections on the grounds that they violate the state's constitution.

That agreement, which took two and a half years and a mediator's help to negotiate, gave teachers a 21 percent raise over five years while weakening seniority and other job protections.

Not exact matches

Oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would create jobs and enhance energy security, while maintaining important environmental protections and conserving caribou and other wildlife, Alaska's governor and congressional delegation said...

Protection from inexperienced or subpar financial services providers: Let's face it: some people are just better at their jobs than others, and, when it comes to financial services, there's a lot riding on the people who you are working with to keep your business processes running smoothly.

Yet the draft describes wide - ranging protections, saying, «Persons and organizations do not forfeit their religious freedom when providing social services, education, or healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with federal, state, or local governments.»

This would allow either parent who is away from the waged workforce caring for children to receive child - care payments, children's allowances, job training and other protections against long - term financial and job vulnerability.

I have never heard money cited by a friend as a reason not to have kids but we have generous maternity leave entitlements and protection for our jobs in our country (Australia) so maybe that isn't so much of an issue here as in other countries.

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection has alleged that the Northern Regional Chairman of the ruling party, Bugri Naabu has collected people's monies, goats, cows among other goodies and promised them jobs with the School Feeding Programme.

He says all of the other public protection employees in New York receive 75 % of their pay if they become disabled on the job, but in New York City, they receive only 50 %, with a deduction for any social security payments..

We have therefore agreed that there will need to be: - a significantly accelerated reduction in the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes; - arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and - protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

Other members of the Connecticut's congressional delegation have expressed concerns about the trade pact's possible effects on jobs and want a series of protections.

Other changes include Kyam Maher taking on the job of Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation and Deputy Premier John Rau taking on the new portfolio of Child Protection Reform.

While other districts have put performance - pay systems in place and others still have relaxed seniority rules, the initiative coming out of the nation's capital would, in one stroke, swap job protection for salaries that outpace what most...

When you have so many hard - working, capable people in myriad other professions getting laid off and struggling to survive, it becomes more difficult to ignore that teachers have life - long job protection whether they are effective or not, and even sometimes when they have lost or been removed from their actual positions (did I mention a surreal quality to this work?).

Boulos concludes that the contract's job protections — including seniority, job definitions, tenure, and others — «collectively contribute to poor student achievement and a failing school system.

The other provides unpaid job protections as a federal regulation.

On the other hand, if you think you might have trouble repaying your loans — perhaps your job is unstable or you're thinking about going back to school — you might want to choose a lender that offers some flexibility when it comes to repayment protections.

The interest is low and this is your protection against job loss and / or other sudden need for money.

He's assigned to protection, and his job is to keep the emergency responders safe from explosives or other such threats that may be found at a disaster scene.

That way you will be covered after the 60 - day, credit card protection passes, as well as against other problems that could arise, such as loss of job, injury or sickness, or change of mind.

Jeffrey R. Holmstead, a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani representing energy companies and other clients, who was formerly Mr. Bush's lead regulator of air pollution at the Environmental Protection Agency, said he thought Mr. Bush could have done a better job pointing out the high costs of climate bills being pushed by Senate Democrats and some moderate Republicans.

There are other issues that are important to a lot of people and their numbers are increasing as they learn about the other issues: health for humans and animals, job creation, protection of the environment, balance of trade deficit due to imports of oil, preservation of natural resources that have better uses than just being burned, energy independence, global warming, the prestige that early adopters enjoy and the good feeling some people get from knowing that they have made a decision that is good in some way.

Workforce Protection: There will be continued employment at the plant throughout the closure process (through 2021), and under the terms of its agreement with New York State, Entergy has committed to offer plant employees new jobs at other facilities.

Nuclear power has multiple subsidies in the form of: - direct payments for new nuclear plants of 2.3 cents per kWh generated for the first ten years (in the US), — this is US$ 2 billion for a 1000 MW plant after ten years operation, - complete indemnity under the Price - Anderson Act for harm caused by a radiation release (above a modest insured amount), - changes to safety regulations to allow continued operation, - new plant construction loan guarantees, - direct subsidies for existing plants to keep operating as a jobs - protection program, and others.

However, demonstrating discrimination during a job interview is nearly impossible to prove and outside of the specific grounds delineated in human rights codes, other very personal information receives absolutely no protection.

Job creators don't get minimum wage, overtime pay, paid vacation, employment insurance, maternity benefits, health benefits, the protection of employment standards acts, consistent paycheques every two weeks, paid sick days, the right to unionize and other benefits available to salaried employees.

Democrats on the Committee did their jobs by asking tough questions about important issues: civil rights, privacy, environmental protections, the danger of unchecked presidential power and others.

Performers are paid to perform and they are entitled to the same on the job protection that every other person enjoys.

It is therefore important for immigrants and other low - income workers to know that there are laws in Ontario that provide basic protection for most employees, including those who work part - time, as well as those who find their jobs through temporary agencies.

They won before the tribunal (potentially at great financial cost to the union), but then the EAT allowed the union's appeal by a whisker, holding that there was indeed indirect discrimination in the union sacrificing certain (female) members» full legal rights for the greater good of job protection and pay protection for other members but that it was justified — the union's «greater good» argument was a legitimate aim and (more controversially) its means were proportionate, even though it had been distinctly «hard» in its treatment of the refusenik members.

Because more risk is involved in some jobs than others, having enough life insurance protection becomes a major concern for most emergency workers.

Mortgage protection insurance, on the other hand, will cover your mortgage payments if you lose your job or become disabled, or it will pay off the mortgage when you die.

As part of an overall package of protection a WI plan like this does a great job addressing things that other policies simply leave behind or ignore.

Even cheap power strips will do a decent enough job protecting against the power surges, but they offer no protection against drops in line voltage, brownouts, blackouts, and other power supply issues.

According to recent benchmarks published by the German antivirus testing firm AV - Test, paid products for both Avira and Bitdefender won top marks on all three of the firm's major testing categories including protection, performance, and usability; both did a perfect or near - perfect job at stopping malware and other threats.

Other Duties as assigned Qualifications Licenses / Certifications / Registration: * Required Credential (s): * Licensed Pharmacist credentialed from the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.

Through early childhood education, adult and child protection, job training, food assistance, Medicaid, mediation and other programs, Human Services helps people build better, safer lives.

Gloves, ear protection, proper footwear and other protective garb or equipment can also be important, depending on the job.