Sentences with phrase «paid labor force»

STANFORD — Despite an economic downturn and new data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released last month that show no learning gains in math for American 4th graders, the nation's public schools will likely have more money and a larger and better paid labor force than they had in 2009, according to education researchers James W. Guthrie and Arthur Peng of Vanderbilt University.

If one were to place bets based on past evidence, the odds favor America's public schools to operate next year with at least as much and probably with somewhat more money and a larger and (modestly) better - paid labor force than they had in 2009.

Even if the women's stated preference was to stay home, those with good jobs reported the same level of unhappiness as those who chose not to be in the paid labor force.

You have to believe one thing: As long as a billion dollar industry refuses to pay its labor force, this will never, ever stop.

Not exact matches

Labor force participation is down significantly over the past 20 years, but rising pay and benefits could entice some people off the sidelines and back to work.

Those standards include prohibiting child harassment and abuse or forced labor, and ensuring fair pay and benefits.

Wal - Mart's critics — including a group of its workers backed by labor unions - say the retailer pays its hourly workers too little, forcing some to seek government assistance that effectively provides the company with an indirect taxpayer subsidy.

Since you always have a choice of where you spend your money, even though some of us conveniently forget uncomfortable truths, Girlfriend Collective's factory uses no forced or child labor, mandates fair working hours and safe conditions, pays living wages, and allows workers to unionize.

In addition to its corporate diversity, Alphabet Inc. ranked strongly for worker pay and benefits, including a flexible paid time off policy, and a strong 401 (k) savings program, and for its supply chain impact (the company has committed to reasonable worker hours, and to policies such as no forced or child labor).

Third, given more and better capital, workers could produce more for each hour of labor — a force that would allow companies to pay more without raising prices.

After the Labor Department forced the company to pay almost $ 350,000 in back pay, they reportedly cut wages to make up for what they would lose in the federally mandated payouts.

Some of these new, lower - paying jobs are being taken by people just entering the labor force, like recent high school and college graduates.

States and cities are now insisting that bondholders can not be paid without stiffing their labor force.

The reasons are often that the factory is unionized and the workers are well paid, whereas in South Carolina a more docile labor force is willing to work for lower wages.

It is possible to put war criminals on trial, demand that Swiss banks return money to Holocaust survivors or their descendants, and require corporations that profited directly from Nazi forced labor camps to pay compensation for that injustice.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

This will push the issue of employer paid healthcare right to the front burner and topple the stranglehold the capitalists have had over this aspect to slave labor, and help to force a single payor system to our healthcare.

The Los Angeles Times: Scientology did not violate forced labor law, appeals court rules Scientology did not violate a labor law by failing to pay for the work of two former members of the church's Sea Organization - a wing that restricts participants» outside communications, marriage and children, censors mail and monitors phone calls - a federal appeals court said Tuesday.

That also enables him to work successfully with his labor force, which he provides motel - quality housing for and pays $ 2.50 more than the minimum wage.

(For more on the funding issue, check out school food reformer Dana Woldow «s excellent piece on how the new nutrition requirements will effectively force many districts, especially those in which labor and food costs are high, to start (or continue) dipping into classroom funds to pay for school meals.)

Many are forced to work hard labor without pay, or become prostitutes.

Soon after donating to Cuomo, the company filed for bankruptcy after it was forced to pay $ 76 million for using non-union labor in violation of a collective bargaining agreement.

The next mayor is facing a daunting multibillion - dollar bill for retroactive pay hikes because the entire city - labor force has been working for more than two years under expired contracts, the Independent Budget Office warned yesterday.

Two labor unions, 32BJ and SEIU Local 200 United, are poised to launch an on - line advertising campaign in hopes of pushing a bill through the Legislature that would force public utilities to pay prevailing wages and provide health care benefits to their contract employees.

The Florida Forestry Association reported that the pulp and paper product industry supported 72 percent of income paid to the labor force employed in forestry; while forest management and logging accounted for about 9 percent of income.

Pay has become a hot - button issue in Albany as the governor seeks a series of one - day furloughs for 100,000 state workers, after labor leaders refused to forgo a 4 percent raise for the state work force that was largely negotiated under Gov. Eliot Spitzer, or to delay a week's pPay has become a hot - button issue in Albany as the governor seeks a series of one - day furloughs for 100,000 state workers, after labor leaders refused to forgo a 4 percent raise for the state work force that was largely negotiated under Gov. Eliot Spitzer, or to delay a week's paypay.

The next mayor of NYC is facing a multibillion - dollar bill for retroactive pay hikes because the entire city - labor force has been working for more than two years under expired contracts, the Independent Budget Office warned.

«Well the number one thing we could do at a federal level to lift labor force participation is to pass, at a federal level, paid leave.

In another aspect of the alleged schemes, officials at COR Development paid tens of thousands of dollars to Percoco — using Howe as a pass - through to conceal the payments — in exchange for official favors that included reversing a state decision that would have forced the company to enter into a costly «labor peace agreement»; freeing up a backlog of state funds that had been promised to the developer; and securing a $ 5,000 raise for Steven L. Aiello, the son of COR president Steven F. Aiello.

Prosecutors, though, say evidence will show that Percoco was still a powerful force within the governor's office during that period and that he exerted that influence to help those paying him by getting the Empire State Development agency to reverse a decision regarding use of union labor that greatly benefited the Syracuse developer.

«The agreement that we reached today provides a fair and reasonable contract,» said Prendergast, who in recent weeks repeatedly referred to the LIRR's labor force as the highest - paid commuter railroad employees in the country.

In recent years the number of privately employed workers paying dues to labor organizations dropped to below 7 percent of the US work force.

He called on Walker to better articulate what his vision is for the future of state employees and whether he wants Wisconsin to become a right to work state where labor unions can't force employees to be members, or to pay dues, as a condition of employment.

A seven - year exploration of modern slavery — from forced labor to pay off debts to outright bondage — finds it inextricably interwoven with some of the worst environmental destruction on the planet.

The workers are then forced to work until they pay off their new bosses for sharply reduced wages and under conditions that make it hard for them to speak out against abuses, labor activists and workers in Fukushima said.

Real Work for Real Pay: Persons with Disabilities Entering the Labor Force, presented by Paul Wehman, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University, recipient of the 2010 Annual Estabrook Distinguished Research Scientist Lectureship on Friday, March 5, 2010 at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, NJ.

Handed to union officials by Congress in the National Labor Relations Act, monopoly bargaining gives union kingpins the leverage to herd workers into unions and then force them to pay union dues.

Supporters argue no one should be forced to pay union fees if they don't want to belong to a labor group.

Just in time for the holidays, workers at several Amazon retail distribution centers situated throughout Germany have staged a series of one - day strikes in an effort to force the retail giant's hand in terms of labor disputes involving pay rates and working conditions within the factory - like centers.

A joyride through an Oregon bean farm forces tennis enthusiast Jeff McKenzie from the country club onto the fields, where he must labor to pay for damages and where his experiences test his courage and deepen his compassion.

So authors are becoming just another third - world labor force, like the rest of the low - paid, under - employed American workers in a country that has devalued craftsmanship in as many industries as possible, all so that the jobs pay less, the top echelons get richer, the consumers get cheap, mediocre goods, and the workers get shafted.

With so much opportunity in the temp labor force, working as a temp might be a good way to bring in additional funds and pay down student loans.

The forces making the world as a whole better off are making the low - skill portions of the US labor force conform to the pay that they get in the rest of the world.

There have been 14 million new jobs created (mostly low - paying) since the end of the Great Recession, yet 17 million people entered the labor force in the same period.

You're of course found and forced to perform manual labor to pay your way.

Mr. Satyarthi began working for children's rights in 1980 as the general secretary of the Bonded Labor Liberation Front, an organization dedicated to freeing bonded laborers forced to work to pay off debts, real or imagined.

It's often hard to know which companies use child or forced labor, and which stick to paying adequate wages and other fair labor policies.

Ratha, et al v Phatthana Seafood Co.: Mr. Leopold is part of a Cohen Milstein's Human Rights team representing seven Cambodian plaintiffs who, after being promised well - paying jobs, became victims of human trafficking, forced labor, involuntary servitude, and peonage by factories in Thailand producing shrimp and seafood for export to the United States.

According to the Department of Labor, in addition to allowing you to properly bond with your baby and recover at home, paid family leave is important for four main reasons: it increases female labor force participation, leads to better child health outcomes, encourages men to take paternity leave and serve as caregivers, and increases worker retention and reduces turnLabor, in addition to allowing you to properly bond with your baby and recover at home, paid family leave is important for four main reasons: it increases female labor force participation, leads to better child health outcomes, encourages men to take paternity leave and serve as caregivers, and increases worker retention and reduces turnlabor force participation, leads to better child health outcomes, encourages men to take paternity leave and serve as caregivers, and increases worker retention and reduces turnover.

A few years ago, the Department of Labor and the National Equal Pay Task Force asked software developers to create an app to educate users about the pay gap and provide tools to combat Pay Task Force asked software developers to create an app to educate users about the pay gap and provide tools to combat pay gap and provide tools to combat it.