Sentences with phrase «protect workers who»

There are also workers» compensation and unemployment laws that protect workers who are injured on the job or laid off.

Our actions will make the nail salon industry safer and fairer, and I am proud that New York is standing up to protect workers who can not protect themselves.»

I took the decision to become active because I wanted to protect workers who were unable to speak up and defend themselves.

Apple and Microsoft pledged on Tuesday to protect workers who face the risk of legal trouble and perhaps deportation after President Donald Trump terminated a major immigration program that had broad support among the business community.

Employers must take every precaution reasonable to protect workers who might be facing violence, such as from a potentially violent spouse or stalker.

Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

If you have employees, workers» compensation insurance is also necessary, as it will protect any worker who becomes injured on the job.

By stiffening the penalties, protecting workers who come forward, and ensuring that unpaid wages are collected, the new law provides the tools we need to ensure justice for the hundreds of thousands of workers in New York who are impacted each year.»

The ESA's reprisal provisions do not currently extend to protecting workers who request schedule or location changes.

Cal - OSHA protects workers who are considered private employees, or state and local government employees.

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Laëtitia Vitaud, a freelance consultant to French startups living in London, argues that the «right to disconnect» doesn't protect the workers in France who need it most.

The rise in contract workers, such as Uber drivers, or those who work temporary positions for companies means that many U.S. workers are not protected by these laws.

Gurley says an intitial public offering is the best way for startup founders who get venture capital rounds to protect themselves and their own workers.

The National Labor Relations Act, passed during the Depression, expressly protects most workers who disclose their salaries.

Turkey suspects the U.S. of having helped to plan the failed coup of President Erdogan in 2016 and claims it is now protecting Turks who were involved; The U.S. says Turkey has flouted due process in its arrest of the embassy worker and that there is no evidence of U.S. involvement in the coup.

Sara Blackwell, the lawyer who represented the Disney workers, said, «I wanted to see if there was any legal avenue we could use to protect our American citizens, but it seems we can't.»

A new effort under President Donald Trump to protect the rights of health workers who object to abortions and other procedures will cost the health care system more than $ 300 million to implement.

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1) Anyone who understands how supply and demand inter-relate should understand that minimum wage laws are not only counter-productive on an economy - wide basis but also cause the most problems for the group of workers they have supposedly been put in place to protect.

My goal would be to both ensure that those who depend on the program are protected, while also balancing the growing cost of Social Security with other pressing priorities — from programs for children, the vulnerable, public investments, and shoring up our education and worker retraining systems.

Moving beyond laissez - faire, democratic governments have also formed safety nets for those who can not compete effectively, regulated workplaces to protect worker safety, and guaranteed universal access to education and health services.

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.

In addition, the WHO Code states that it is the responsibility of health workers to advise mothers on infant feeding — first and foremost by encouraging and protecting breastfeeding, secondly to inform the mother about appropriate alternatives (advantages and disadvantages) which include instructions on how to prepare infant formula in a correct way.

In British Columbia, the British Columbia Human Rights Commission Policy and Procedures Manual protects the rights of female workers who wish to breastfeed.

As well as protecting the right of the mother / child dyad to breastfeed and ensuring mothers who use formula have accurate independent information, it is necessary to ensure mothers have support from health care systems, health workers and mother - support groups, who are not compromised by conflicts of interest.

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Comedian Amy Poehler joined a group of One Fair Wage supporters in midtown to rally for tipped workers to be more fairly compensated and protected against sexual harassment, saying: «Let's just stop under - serving the many people who serve us.»

«By forming a majority coalition, the bold leadership of the IDC — who throughout their existence have carried most of the legislation important to workers — protects the values and visions of the working - and middle - class and ensures that important policy advances in the Senate.

The deal received a mostly positive response from Council Parks Committee Chair Mark Levine, who said in a statement, «I am thrilled that the City Council has restored funding for gardeners and maintenance workers — saving 150 vitally needed jobs, and protecting a critical resource for parks in low - and moderate - income neighborhoods.

While Cuomo and the Senate Republicans want uniform harassment policies in state and local government, the Assembly proposal would mandate minimum standards for harassment policies for public and private employers and broaden the types of workers who would be protected under the state's anti-harassment laws.

«True progress to protect workers from sexual harassment, and overhaul Albany's terrible mechanisms for handling complaints, must include listening to the victims who have actually endured the process,» they wrote.

«These laws will not adequately protect workers, leaving them to navigate an opaque process and in danger of retaliation,» several former female staffers who have accused lawmakers of sexual misconduct and harassment wrote on Friday.

«As a Senator and small business owner who employs union workers, he has taken steps to protect workers; cutting taxes, securing economic development funding to put people to work and giving them greater opportunity to earn a good living and support their families.

The government has used World Press Freedom Day to affirm its commitment to defend and protect media workers, who it claims are too often targeted for their work.

There will be no headline increase in pay for any public sector workers in 2011, except for the lowest - paid one million, who will be protected.

Syracuse, NY — A Syracuse police officer who spent eight years chauffeuring and protecting former Mayor Matt Driscoll retired with the highest pension of 47 city workers in 2009.

Thursday's unanimous vote the Erie County Legislature follows claims - and a notice of intention to file legal action - by a county employee who accuses Erie County of not doing enough to protect workers from sexual harassment.

«The Minister has just said that the Government proposals would provide greater security for postal workers» pensions, but can he confirm that clause 19 (6)(b) of the Postal Services Bill provides that this or a future Government could waive the pension guarantee and vary the terms of the postal workers» pensions without the approval of the trustees, who will lose their power to protect the pensions under the provisions of the Bill?

But women who have worked for the Legislature and have filed harassment complaints against lawmakers criticized the process and the end product, saying the new provisions will not adequately protect workers.

«These are the same people who protected their own pension scheme but cut the pensions of the lowest - paid public sector workers,» he added.

The issue was raised by Green party MP Caroline Lucas, who also warned the bill was scrapping regulations which protected workers from injury, ill - health and abuse.

Chris will be joined by Home Office representatives who will give delegates detailed advice and practical examples of how to protect their businesses, projects and limit the abuse of illegal migrant workers.

And who will stand up to protect the rights of workers if that happens?

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.

«We need amendments to this law to protect us all,» added 32BJ member Eunice Mercedes, who said she knows workers who have lost their jobs in recent months due to gaps in the law.

Councilman I. Daneek Miller, who heads the civil service and labor committee, said he thought the company could be violating its current franchise agreement by bringing in out of state workers — and said the Council was exploring adding provisions to protect employees to the next agreement.

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.

Allies of Uber and the company itself have argued Mr. de Blasio, who has knocked Uber for clogging Manhattan streets and doing little to protect their workers, is killing thousands of jobs for minorities and low - income New Yorkers.

«True progress to protect workers from sexual harassment, and overhaul Albany's terrible mechanisms for handling complaints, must include listening to the victims who have actually endured the process.»

But Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has charged that skyrocketing pension costs are bankrupting the city, dismissed the findings — as well as Liu, who released the study as part of a larger effort to protect public workers» retirement benefits.