Sentences with phrase «protect workers at»

He said the Parks Department should have tested for contamination before starting construction to protect workers at the site.

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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, a pro-trade Republican from Texas, said he would work to ensure the tariffs «are narrow and targeted to protect our workers and job creators here at home.»

The tourism town, where the majority of Miami - Dade's estimated 11,500 housekeepers and other hotel workers are employed, may soon be the nation's next city to enact laws aimed at protecting hotel workers from assault or improper advances by hotel guests.

Despite the fact that the loan guarantees were approved by Congress mainly to protect jobs at Chrysler, the company has sent home nearly half of its employees, cutting its white collar work force by 20,000 and laying off 42,600 of its hourly workers since the loan guarantees were signed into law.

When this happens and as debt levels rise relative to debt servicing capacity, at some point the major stakeholders — including businesses, creditors, household savers, workers and so on — became uncertain enough about how this gap will be allocated that they take steps to protect themselves from this uncertainty.

Develop responsible contracting standards for service contracts to ensure that cafeteria workers, janitors, security officers and other onsite service workers are paid a livable wage, receive benefits equitable to those received by directly employed workers, have the right to a voice at work without fear of discrimination or retaliation, do not suffer mass layoffs when contracts change hands, and are protected from misclassification and other forms of wage theft;

Mr. Zalesne said he was not sure how many, if any, of the 295 workers at his company's facilities, which fabricate steel for projects like the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site, are protected by DACA.

There's an increased demand for workers for hire to protect specific things, people and places than there are those mandated to protect the public at large.

The government argues it managed to protect pensions for those on low incomes at the expense of increasing contributions for workers and employers and getting rid of early retirement.

The In campaign is urging Britain to remain in the European Union, saying it promotes security and peace by uniting countries which were previously at war, encourages economic prosperity through its free trade agreement, and passes laws which protect workers and environment.

This is what James Eadie QC, Cameron's Government's expensive barrister, told the court (on his behalf): that the refusal to allow an NHS nurse and a British Airways worker to visibly wear a crucifix at work «did not prevent either of them practising religion in private», which would be protected by human rights law.

In this blog, I'll look at what Nestlé is doing, the rules that companies and health workers should follow, where health workers can find independent, accurate information on infant formula, and what you can do to protect the right of health workers, pregnant women and parents to independent, accurate information.

Safeguarding the health of expectant and nursing mothers and protecting them from job discrimination is a precondition for achieving genuine equality of opportunity and treatment for men and women at work and enabling workers to raise families in conditions of security.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order to make permanent his Task Force To Combat Worker Exploitation, which is aimed primarily at protecting immigrant workers, permanent, and would also addressing the misclassification of employees.

Finally, we urge the Akufo Addo government to ensure the completion and full implementation of a number of policy and legislative measures aimed at further protecting the interests of Ghanaian workers.

«We could not even think of abolishing the 50p rate on the rich while at the same time I am asking many of our public sector workers to accept a pay freeze to protect their jobs.

At 2:30 p.m., U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will hold a simultaneous satellite media availability and conference call to announce the «End Outsourcing Act» to protect New York workers and keep jobs in America.

Social workers operate at the fault lines of democracy - and now we must protect those put at risk by a Tory government

At various points, he recognizes the legitimacy of all four common justifications of market regulation: to protect workers from exploitation, to protect consumers, to protect third parties harmed by market transactions (through externalities), and to preserve the stability of the economy or society as a whole (e.g., through regulation of the financial sector).

Speaking at an event celebrating new laws to protect nail salon workers, the Democratic governor asserted the state has a bright history of drawing immigrants and a darker past of mistreating them.

At the heart of my agenda — and at the heart of the AFL - CIO's — is protecting and expanding workers» rights and livelihoodAt the heart of my agenda — and at the heart of the AFL - CIO's — is protecting and expanding workers» rights and livelihoodat the heart of the AFL - CIO's — is protecting and expanding workers» rights and livelihoods.

I join the county executive in his push to see changes at the state level that will help case workers to better do their job and protect children in danger.

He also spoke at the meeting about maintaining provisions that protect the safety of highway workers and bus operators, as well as maintaining «Safe Streets» language, which, according to the release, aims to ensure that new infrastructure is designed in a manner that helps protect pedestrians.

Workers» groups are particularly concerned about the business secretary's consultation on «protected conversations», which would allow employers to have frank discussions with staff about underperformance without worrying that the conversation could later be used in evidence at a tribunal.

President Trump's next nominee for Labor Secretary must be committed to protecting workers» rights, rather than seeking to undermine them at every turn.

A plan to protect operations at a Farmington racetrack not only calls for fewer races but would result in substantial losses for workers, according to a group representing roughly 1,200 people at Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack.

At 11 a.m., AG Eric Schneiderman will announce a new lawsuit to protect workers from wage theft, 120 Broadway, 25th floor, Manhattan.

Also at 10 a.m., the Asian American Federation will partner with the Biking Public Project, Transportation Alternatives, and other advocates to hold the E-Bike Rally to Protect Immigrant Food Delivery Workers to protest de Blasio and the NYPD's planned enforcement of electric bicycle regulations starting in January, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

A decade after his autistic son died at the hands of a care worker, Michael Carey says the state still isn't doing enough to protect its most vulnerable citizens.

«We could not even think of abolishing the 50p [tax] rate on the rich while at the same time I am asking many of our public sector workers to accept a pay freeze to protect their jobs,» he said.

«We're going to protect American workers first, and then look at the geopolitical benefits.

The Senate left late Thursday evening, while the Assembly remained for a few hours on Friday, to approve a bill to protect abused workers at nail salons, one of the few agreements reached in the past several weeks.

The proposed amendments would raise the law's original salary cap for protected workers from $ 25 an hour to $ 35, and include employees who work for an office building tenant with at least 30,000 square foot of space.

ALBANY — A group of women who have accused state lawmakers of sexual harassment joined together Thursday to urge the Legislature and Gov. Cuomo to slow down and get it right when it comes to passing new laws aimed at protecting workers from mistreatment.

But we could not even think of abolishing the 50p rate on the rich while at the same time I am asking many of our public sector workers to accept a pay freeze to protect their jobs.

Cuomo appeared at the South Bronx's Hostos Community College to sign legislation intended to protect nail salon workers and to announce a state government task force «to root out worker exploitation issues in multiple industries in New York State.»

ALBANY, NY (01/08/2013)(readMedia)-- Hundreds of workers, community advocates, and members of several faith communities from Brooklyn and throughout the state joined together at a rally at the Legislative Office Building to protect SUNY Downstate Medical Center and maintain the essential health services it delivers to New York City's most populous borough.

The mayor has also received endorsements from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association and building workers union 32BJ SEIU — similarly reiterating at those announcements events that the city will protect its residents under a Trump administration.

Doctors Without Borders, which oversees many Ebola clinics in west Africa, is sending home recovered Ebola patients with a stack of condoms, and health workers are urging them to only engage in protected sex for at least three months after recovery.

In these phase 2 and phase 3 trials, thousands of people who are at risk of contracting the virus, such as health workers, will receive the vaccine to determine whether it can protect against infection.

The group made its case at a meeting in Brussels late last month, when an amendment to a European directive protecting workers from biological hazards at work came into force.

The leaderless initiative includes a legal defense fund to help working - class women - like cleaners, nurses and workers at farms, factories, restaurants and hotels - protect themselves from sexual misconduct and the fallout from reporting it.

Along with a request that women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes speak out and raise awareness by wearing black, the initiative includes a legal defense fund, backed by $ 13 million in donations, to help less privileged women — like janitors, nurses, farm and factory workers, waitresses, hotel housekeepers — protect themselves from sexual misconduct and the fallout from reporting it; legislation to penalize companies that tolerate persistent harassment, and to discourage the use of nondisclosure agreements to silence victims; and a drive to at long last reach gender parity at studios and talent agencies that reportedly has already begun making headway.

In these circumstances to reserve and to protect Oversees Migrant Workers Rights & the rights of their family, United Nations passed a convention at 18 December in 1990.

«While the government must protect the employment and pensions of Carillion's public sector workers it must also take a long hard look at its encouragement of private sector involvement in schools and the unnecessary risks being taken with children's education and wellbeing.»

But with safety, particularly fire safety, at the top of everyone's agenda, how do you ensure that your next project places the welfare of staff, students and construction workers first, while protecting precious buildings and assets.

He's also implying that he'll stick with his (ill - timed) support for expanded offshore drilling — although obviously with an aggressive clampdown on the oil industry and the agencies that, in theory at least, were supposed to protect workers and the environment.

With the constant reports of poor working environments and wages for assembly line workers overseas, moving assembly to the U.S. means that our computers are put together by workers that are protected by stricter laws here at home.

It may sound a bit unusual, but tests have shown that the thermal blanket may be just the thing to save the region's glaciers from disappearing completely, for the time being, at least.Armed with nearly 970 thousand square feet of 4 millimeter thick thermal material, workers scramble to cover the highly threatened Presena glacier to protect it from the sun's ultraviolet rays.

Friedman - Rudovsky introduces you to Julia and Maria, workers in La Paz who describe the insufficient pay at the factories, strip searches, lack of masks to protect from the dust, and supervisors who yell that if they don't finish their work quickly enough: «The doors are open for you to go.»