Sentences with phrase «paying living wage»

Bonnie writes «There are so many communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America that are benefiting from the [Fair Trade] movement's commitment to paying a living wage by teaching people to create products that are useful, use local materials, and

Norton Point buys its used plastic through the Plastic Bank, a Vancouver - based social enterprise that turns plastic waste collection into a valuable source of income for locals by paying them a living wage.

It is unreasonable to think that a book written 10 years ago should be paying a living wage today.

Miliband and David Prentis sent out a joint letter to colleges not paying the living wage.

«Unions and the working poor have opportunities to come together and create a society where everybody has an opportunity for a good, solid - paying Living Wage job and everybody has an opportunity to reap the benefits of the social programs that are administered by government and particularly by the State of New York,» Peoples - Stokes explained.

But he is the only Conservative local authority leader to run an authority paying the living wage.

Points out they've been good at paying a living wage.

Tory chairman Grant Shapps said Labour's proposal to give a tax rebate to companies paying the living wage would lead to greater costs for government and taxpayers.

There's strong bipartisan support among the region's state delegation for paying a living wage to Direct Support Professionals — the people responsible for caring for society's most vulnerable individuals.

The pool of labor will increase in relation to jobs paying a living wage, and this will exert further downward pressure on wages.

Look at what the Bible teaches, treatment of the poor, abuses of the wealthy, paying a living wage..

If they truly want to be a witness, they should be taking care of their employees by [1] paying them a living wage and [2] supporting them with health care, not trying to run their lives by denying it because they personally don't believe in birth control *** AHEM HOBBY LOBBY, all you had to do was voice your objection and step aside, and the provider would absorb the cost, but NOOOOOOOOOO, you thought you knew better & said I FORBID YOU TO HAVE IT so your employees lost out on ALL health care, nice work in the name of the Great Physician *** or firing them because they get pregnant BECAUSE you didn't let them have birth control...

«All of the UK's denominations now guarantee a living wage to all their staff, and just last month the Church of England announced that every Church of England school is now going to be paying a living wage to all its staff.»

Not paying a living wage lowers worker productivity and creates stress on employees who should be viewed «as human beings, not just workers,» and the practice, she says, «doesn't serve the company or its brand.»

Trudeau reset the benchmark in Hamburg, Germany on February 17, delivering a direct message to business leaders: «It's time to pay a living wage, to pay your taxes and to give your workers the peace of mind that comes with stable, full - time contracts.»

For people who decide not to pursue a college degree, it might seem challenging to find a job that both is appealing and pays a living wage.

Everyone who works hard wants to be self - sufficient, but until companies pay a living wage «your tax dollars are subsidizing McDonald's (mcd), Wal - Mart (wmt), and Macy's (m),» Crawford told me, adding that she hopes to bring about improvements not only for herself but for those she has met along the way.

«Just because the factories look modern on the inside does not mean the workers inside are being treated fairly — being paid a living wage, or are provided with health care or an education,» Palacios said.

«It's time to pay a living wage, to pay your taxes and to give your workers the peace of mind that comes with stable, full - time contracts,» Trudeau said.

He said efforts to revise the H - 2B guest worker program have been stalled by opposition from labor groups, which have argued that companies don't try hard enough to hire Americans or pay a living wage before turning to the program.

In Metro Vancouver, workers paid a living wage would receive $ 20.91 per hour, according to a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

It's important to me to buy fair trade coffee, to know that the farmers who harvested the coffee beans I take for granted were paid a living wage.

Canavan's third option for dealing with the firm unable to pay a living wage is here identified.

The insufficiency of work to provide self - sufficiency is behind the movement — backed by many religious groups — to ensure that all employers pay a living wage, which is generally understood to be the wage needed to support a family at or slightly above the poverty level.

Pius XI sets up the case carefully, noting that a firm with up - to - date technology, progressive management, and good labor relations, selling its product in a fair market, may nevertheless find itself unable to pay a living wage.

Capitalism (private enterprise) can continue, as long as these private companies pay a living wage.

Outlining its new voting policy, the CIG said its members would also vote against executive pay packages where pay ratios are not disclosed, excessive pensions for chief executives or where financial services or pharmaceutical companies do not pay the living wage.

«All the while ensuring that these employees have to apply for SNAP, (Wal - Mart even gives them the forms) and then kvetching about the «freebies» they're getting because they aren't paid a living wage to actually feed their families.»

If you want more traditional families, pay a living wage so marriages and families can survive.

All those who work in your house should be free people who are paid a living wage for the work they do for you in raising your family, working your farms and defending your property.»

But in a 2,232 omnibus - spending bill, there is something dedicated to minor league baseball players, and it will prevent them from collecting overtime, which will harm their efforts to be paid a living wage.

«But if we really want to improve maternal and child health in this country, let's also focus on things that can really do that in the long term — like subsidized day care, better maternity - leave policies and more employment opportunities for low - income mothers that pay a living wage, for example.»

-- fail to pay a living wage, provide job security or provide enough hours of work.

At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

«At the current rate of progress it will take 450 years for all workers to be paid a living wage in London,» she added.

«Actually what local councils are showing is that there are definitely ways of promoting the living wage and getting contractors to pay the living wage, which are absolutely within EU law.

Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said his department paid the living wage and backed the idea, however.

Ed Miliband's plans to encourage businesses to pay the living wage will «not significantly» tackle lower pay, members of his party warned him today.

The new first source hiring policy will get to the root of the problem, and actively connect residents living in poverty with jobs that pay a living wage.

There are sectors of our economy, where some firms are choosing to pay the living wage and others are choosing not to.

So our last manifesto committed, as a small but important step, to pay the living wage in Whitehall departments.

I urge businesses to examine whether they can afford to pay the living wage, and if they can to move to do so.

The All Progressives Congress lawmaker from Lagos State told his colleagues that aside ensuring that workers were paid a living wage, the bill would address the frequent protests over poor wages and the unwillingness of employers, particularly the government, to raise wages.

Here in Islington, the company that delivered ground maintenance moved to pay the living wage, without extra cost to the local taxpayer or any job losses.

Just before the General Election, Citizens UK came to see me with a cleaner from the Treasury who wasn't being paid the living wage.

Members highlighted good Labour councils such as Manchester and Oxford, which pays a living wage of at least # 8 to all employees, against a few mavericks.

The Bronx, represented by Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. (and at least a handful of Bronx Council members), with backing from the retailers union and the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance (KARA), wants Related to require their Armory mall tenants to pay a living wage ($ 10 an hour, plus benefits).

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have uncovered figures that show nearly 4,000 people working for Plaid Cymru - led councils are not being paid the living wage, despite Plaid Cymru recently writing to organisations urging them to pay the living wage.

Take, for example, the living wage campaign; if you force an employer to pay a living wage then a government would not have to worry about improving in work poverty through tax credits.

Rafael Espinal, who represents the neighborhood that is the litmus test for de Blasio's affordable housing plan, said retail businesses that open as part of the plan should be required to pay a living wage, hire local residents and offer job training.