Sentences with phrase «pregnant workers from»

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) protect pregnant workers from several forms of discrimination, Martin says.

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Aside from radiation, few U.S. organizations have policies regarding pregnant lab workers, which means women are on their own when it comes to worrying about exposure during pregnancy.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

She plays a pregnant fast - food worker who falls in love with the stepson of the louse who got her pregnant, after the stepson (Luke Wilson) and his no - good brother (Jake Busey) have scared the guy to death on instructions from their creepy mother (Catherine O'Hara).

That's not a life - or - death choice — paying for his pregnant wife to cross over from Mexico might be — but that's part of McKay's point: it's taken for granted that Jose has the right to fun and rest, flying in the face of the blame - the - worker «self - reliance» arguments of political debates.

The odds that a child of non-English-speaking immigrants with seventh - grade educations, a child raised by factory workers in a low - income community, a child who was pregnant at 15, would now have a doctorate from Harvard?

When Compassionate Animal Rescue Efforts workers pulled and saved a pregnant mom dog from a crowded shelter, they had no idea what was to come.

Pregnant casual or temporary workers in Quebec have the right to withdraw from unsafe work environments just as permanent workers do, according to the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in Dionne v. Commission scolaire des Patriotes, 2014 SCC 33 (CanLII).

Primarily, this act means that an employer can not treat a pregnant employee differently from other workers.

Under sections 40 and 41 of Quebec's Act respecting occupational health and safety combined with the Act respecting industrial accidents and occupational diseases and the Regulation respecting the certificate issued for the preventive withdrawal and reassignment of a pregnant or breastfeeding worker, pregnant employees with a doctor's certificate can withdraw temporarily from the workforce to avoid unsafe work.

Our attorneys have been helping pregnant women, new moms, and other New Jersey workers for many years who have suffered from discrimination at work.

The province of Quebec allows pregnant workers to exercise a right of withdrawal from dangerous work environments.

According to an Advocate General, pregnant workers are protected from the beginning of their pregnancy, even before the employer is aware of the pregnancy.

Home visiting programs consist of visits from social workers, parent educators, or registered nurses to low - income families with pregnant mothers and babies in the home.