Sentences with phrase «paid women workers»

«They are mainly low - paid women workers, stressed and demoralised, and they deserve better from their employers and from this government.

Not exact matches

Oxfam said that women workers were worst hit by global inequality as they consistently earn less than men and usually have lower paid and more insecure forms of work.

If this is the case, we would observe that workers in industries where sexual harassment is pervasive — mining sees the most complaints from women, and the second-most from men behind only the information sector — are paid lower wages.

According to data from the American Community Survey, in 2014, the pay gap for full - time workers was smallest in Washington, D.C. (There, women were paid 90 percent of what men earned.)

And a Labor Department study points out an earnings anomaly: while self - employed men earn as much as or more than similar workers paid a wage or a salary, self - employed women earn substantially less than their wage and salary counterparts.

And a 2010 survey by the Institute for Women's Policy Research revealed nearly half of US workers reported they were either «contractually forbidden or strongly discouraged» from discussing pay with coworkers (although, as of 2014, 10 states had passed laws protecting employees» rights to discuss salaries).

According to a 2011 Institute for Women's Policy Research report, the gap for full time - workers was 23 %, compared to 11 % in the federal government, where pay is public.

The tea farm only employs women, pays them 36 percent above the industry standard and, to give you a sense of how dire worker conditions in the tea industry are, they can go home at night.

The pay gap isn't just between men and women: Overall, top executives in the U.S. earn roughly 300 times more than the average worker, according to The New York Times.

While a majority of those surveyed believe that the pay gap is real for both women and minorities, not everyone understands that black workers — specifically women — see more obstacles to racial equality and barriers in the workplace.

Canada's 100 highest paid CEOs made 195 times more than the average Canadian worker and 237 times the average Canadian woman.

If women, seniors and immigrants, collectively, were employed at their level of education, earning equal pay to men born in Canada, personal incomes would increase by $ 174 billion, or an equivalent of 1.6 million more workers.

Further to my earlier post showing that the public / private sector pay gap is mainly due to more equal pay for women in service jobs, Â a recent piece from Canadian Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized workers and non racialized workers exists almost entirely in the private sector and not in the public sector.

This is the reality faced by millions of women who consider abortions each year, and the sad irony is the same pro-life politicians who want to force them to have their babies typically oppose raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid sick leave and parental leave for all American workers, and protecting the 20 million people who can finally afford health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act.

Kate Ward, a Release worker whose name has been changed, said: «He will be paid, according to our information, # 1500 for a non-educated woman or # 3000 for an educated woman.

The main burden still falls on women to raise children and to care for the sick and elderly, but most of these women are now also working outside the home at jobs where their pay, status, and security are inferior to those of most male workers.

but the WHOKLE of Bible showsotherwise (BOT man and woman made in image of God) in gensis Proverbs 31 is of a woman who works for her pay (NOT a stay at home mom) Paul refers to WOMEN as being his fellow workers!

Agricultural workers in particular, including migrants and women, are some of the poorest paid and most exploited workers in the world.

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.

These investments to expand and strengthen child care and early education programs complement the Administration's other efforts to help working families, including offering workers the opportunity to earn paid sick and family leave, a higher minimum wage, and equal pay for women.

Instead of spending the money on high paid social workers and legal systems to take these women's children away and place them in foster care, why can't we use that money for child care, parenting classes, decent housing, job training for single moms.

campaign Despite having equal pay legislation for over 30 years, there is still a gender pay gap between men and women workers.

So the workforce is reduced and care workers — overwhelmingly women on low wages with family responsibilities — are paid on a «task and tick» system.

Today marks Equal Pay Day, the day campaigners calculate that women start working for free when compared to male workers.

The staunch defence of trade unions offered hope to lower paid workers, most of whom are women, and a real living wage would improve women's economic equality.

In Albany County, 40 percent of workers in the private sector don't have access to paid sick days, according to an analysis by the Institute for Women's Policy Research.

As the tension mounts in Albany over the late budget and thousands of state workers forced to cut their hours and pay, the AFL - CIO is targeting individual lawmakers this election year who they say aren't looking out for the interests of working men and women.

We need workers on boards, more employer - employee partnerships, more women in senior management and real transparency around corporate tax and pay.

The Times Union reported that the Institute for Women's Policy Research estimates that «roughly 40 percent of workers living in Albany County have no paid sick days.»

«The results have not been good for California's women and children, for workers, nor for California's economy, especially if you measure a thriving economy by the number of good - paying middle class jobs.»

that the Institute for Women's Policy Research estimates that «roughly 40 percent of workers living in Albany County have no paid sick days.»

«For low - wage workers, two - thirds of them women, not having paid leave creates a «sticky floor.»

In my three plus years in the Senate, I've delivered on my promise to ensure our region gets its fair share, which includes record school aid, lowering middle class taxes, enacting equal pay for women, and supporting a better business environment while protecting the rights of workers.

In her statement announcing her support for Cuomo, she pointed to the fact that he raised the minimum wage — of which women make up two - thirds of earners — as well as his work in enacting paid family leave and making it harder for individuals to discriminate against pregnant workers.

I agree with groups like the National Organization for Women and the Food Chain Workers Alliance that want to eliminate the tip deduction that allows employers to pay tipped workers less than the minimuWorkers Alliance that want to eliminate the tip deduction that allows employers to pay tipped workers less than the minimuworkers less than the minimum wage.

Some argue a federal law would be a fairer road to travel down - at a time when women's issues are high on the politcal radar, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says lack of paid leave in the United States hits low - income workers and women the hardest.

She notes that a study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research finds that an estimated 40 percent of workers living in Albany County lack even a single paid sick day.

• What I've picked up from the Liberal Democrat conference so far is that Nick Clegg wants to cut the pay of classroom assistants, home helps, lollipop men and women and other low - paid public sector workers, to means test middle - class mums to decide whether they deserve child benefit, and to keep tuition fees.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Not enough employers pay attention to the individual needs of workers, and obviously if a woman is going through a difficult menopause then it's not good for her, her employers, and perhaps even her co-workers.

However, research from the Garment Worker Diaries has made me concerned that the women who make my clothes are not paid enough to afford life's necessities and support their families.

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They were motivated by the stark divide between male and female workers in the plant, where women were paid 15 % less and considered «unskilled» workers.

The topic was brought up at Unison's national delegate conference in Brighton, with the union highlighting that a large amount of school workers, the majority of which are women, are effectively paid for just 10 month's out of the year.

The agreement, stemming from the union's lawsuit charging that the state discriminated against women workers by paying them less than men doing comparable jobs, will affect more than 35,000 employees, including non-professorial and non-administrative workers in state colleges and universities.

Second, outside of teaching, college - educated women have achieved greater parity in their pay vis - à - vis male workers, luring more able women to alternative professions.

Intertwining myriad voices, Wiley Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth - century America - and pays tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers.

The Tesco workers argue that the only reason for the pay difference remains a gender reason; historically and continuously the women have been paid and continue to be paid less than the men.

On average, unionized workers across Canada earn $ 5.17 per hour more than non-union workers; women in unions earn $ 6.89 per hour more and get paid more fairly; and young workers (aged 14 to 24) earn $ 3.16 per hour more when they work under the protection of a collective agreement.