Sentences with phrase «provide such workers»

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Agencies also provide a crucial stepping stone into the job market for groups that tend to have trouble finding their first jobs, such as young workers and new immigrants.

While some startups, such as Taskrabbit, have attempted to address some of the inequity invovled in being a contract worker, for example by setting a wage floor of $ 11.20 an hour — higher than the proposed national minimum wage of $ 10.10 — and providing some discounts for health care and transportation, contractors clearly need a lot more.

She'd also provide greater protections for contract workers in the «gig» economy, while supporting the innovations of companies such as Airbnb and Uber, which have built that new sector.

«At a time when persistent high unemployment is putting enormous downward pressure on wages, such a minimum - wage increase would provide a much - needed boost to the earnings of low - wage workers,» EPI noted in a joint letter addressed to House and Senate leadership.

These workers provide client services — including support for families — in a wide variety of fields, such as psychology, rehabilitation and social work.

Voters in the city approved legislation last year requiring that hotels provide such devices for workers and keep track of guests who have been accused of abuse.

Besides providing such familiar tax incentives as a five - year income - tax exemption for coveted corporations, the government often shares the cost of training workers and even puts up part of the capital for plants and equipment.

It's a small, but fast - growing, niche that's making inroads in a number of ways — such as providing an alternative to overseas outsourcing while offering jobs in domestic areas that often have few employment options, particularly for skilled workers or those with college degrees.

The company said salaries paid to its workers were among the highest in the logistic sector and that it also provided some benefits such as private medical insurance or money to pay for training programs.

And if contract workers lose a contract or are otherwise discriminated against on the basis of age, religion, sex, disability status, or national origin, they have little recourse.15 Moreover, discretionary company - provided benefits — such as paid leave and retirement contributions — are not typically available to independent contractors.

Paid family and medical leave allows workers to take longer leaves of absence for the birth or adoption of a child, to care for a loved one, or to recover from a more serious personal injury or illness.15 Paid family and medical leave can be provided through a social insurance system, as it is in the three U.S. states that have active paid leave programs, or through another type of structure such as a government - business partnership.16

While a tight labor market provides definite advantages — such as employment opportunities for workers who have struggled to find a job — nonetheless, providing too much stimulus from either monetary or fiscal policy at this stage of the economic cycle could threaten to create a so - called «boom and bust» economy, which policymakers certainly want to avoid.

Red Cross disaster workers are also providing health services such as replacing lost medications and eyeglasses, emotional support and spiritual care to people affected by this devastating storm.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

The earlier provision was interpreted as allowing such workers to opt out of a broad range of medical services, such as providing Plan B or other contraception.

Accordingly, if the worker (s) are providing religious services (such as teaching, preaching, conducting weddings and funerals and so on) this rule would apply.

«The draft orders and supporting submissions filed by the TWU and [National Union of Workers] fail to provide any substantive evidence or analysis to support the existence of such cogent links between claims and safety outcomes.»

Not only does the brand ensure that their workers are being paid a fair price, they also re-invest in the community to provide essential services such as education and health care.

Among those shipyard workers from Belfast were men steeped in such traditions and others equally immersed in the Fenianism that provides a savage counterpoint in the Ulster capital.

While formula companies are permitted under the Code to provide scientific and factual information on products to health workers, such support is rarely confined to this.

At such a critical time, it is important for the hospital social worker to let the patient know there are adoption resources that can provide her with complete information about her options so that she can make an informed decision about whether or not she wants to proceed with an adoption release.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

As far as the intangibles that Torres refers to, surely he isn't suggesting that the existing municipal workers provide such astounding services in the community centers that they are truly irreplaceable.

WHEREAS, As part of a comprehensive approach to train the next generation of workers, to aid them in obtaining gainful employment, and to create a pool of skilled workers without whom companies will not be able to operate, it is desirable and necessary to provide enhanced focus upon entry level training programs such as the apprenticeship program required by Local Law 2 - 2006;

«I applaud our elected officials for another on - time budget, and for the wisdom they have shown in certain areas, such as removing the retiree health care increases, stopping the proposed Workers» Compensation reforms and restoring the proposed cuts to the SUNY hospitals, as the services provided by these hospitals are valuable to their communities.

One such opponent of the Related Companies» project is Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, who has repeatedly said that a comprehensive community benefits contract — including a pledge to provide a living wage for workers — is integral to garnering his support.

The Entertainment Industry Group Insurance Trust (TEIGIT), headquartered in New York City, is another of such entities that provides insurance for workers who have no regular employer; the plans it administers cover professionals in show business and the arts.

While improving access to interventions such as ART, condoms and lubricant for sex workers needs to be an urgent priority for health policymakers across the world, the Series shows that a focus on providing greater coverage of biomedical interventions will not be enough.

-- The Secretary shall provide full information to workers about the adjustment allowances, training, and other benefits available under this part and about the petition and application procedures, and the appropriate filing dates, for such allowances, training and services.

The Sri Lankan workers making the boots are provided with benefits like subsidized meals for breakfast and lunch, transport to and from work, a welfare shop from which workers can buy everyday household goods, food and drink at discount prices, insurance options, and access to loans for things such as housing, education, critical illness and distress.

LulaRoe does the best they can to make sure that the factories operate in such a way that they are providing jobs and opportunity where it's needed most and that workers are able to provide for their families in a dignified way.

White Europeans, such as Red Cross worker Ms. Archer (Cara Seymour) and Belgian hotel owner Jean Reno, are provided to register moral superiority and offense while a finger is wagged, with every justification, at an international community led by the United States under Clinton that refused to intervene.

The guidelines say that when complaints of «educational neglect» are brought to the attention of social - service workers, the family - services agency must relay the matter to a juvenile court «so that a determination can be made as to whether such education is substantially equivalent to that provided locally.»

These full - service schools typically provide services such as social workers, physicians, dentists, vision and hearing specialists, grief counselors, and family counselors on site.

(3) other advisory and individual or group counseling assistance to enable students to benefit from the curriculum, to help students develop and implement postsecondary education and career plans, to help students who exhibit any attendance, academic, behavioral or adjustment problems and to encourage parental involvement, provided that advisory assistance shall be provided by teachers or counselors, or by certified teaching assistants under the supervision of counselors or teachers, and that such individual or group counseling assistance shall be provided by certified or licensed school counselors or by certified or licensed school psychologists or certified or licensed school social workers in cooperation with school counselors; and

Befitting his daytime job as a labor historian at Cornell University, Salvatore even manages to provide a strong look at how unions such as the United Auto Workers often discriminated, both internally and in municipal politics, against the black workers whose interests they purported to repWorkers often discriminated, both internally and in municipal politics, against the black workers whose interests they purported to repworkers whose interests they purported to represent.

An end to the «School - to - Prison Pipeline» and the promotion of alternatives such as restorative justice programs, wrap - around services including an adequate guidance and social work staff; an end to racial profiling and Stop and Frisk; and a return to community schools as centers that provide medical care, skills training, and tutoring, with social workers and counselors for students» families and the community.

However, PDPs for such activities may be awarded for school services personnel (e.g., school counselor, social worker or psychologist), provided the district determines participation in these learning activities will enhance the educator's effectiveness based on current job duties.

CPS uses these reimbursements to partially cover the cost of employees who provide the services, such as social workers, speech pathologists, psychologists, nurses, occupational and physical therapists, audiologists, and hearing and vision technicians.

More broadly, states should consider the impact that efforts such as Act 10 would have on all public - sector workers and the services that they provide.

And when I was in Corpus Christi, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands with the Vice President and the Second Lady, I saw the importance of MARAD and the MARAD ships in providing basic services to our first responders and emergency workers so they could help the survivors and others who are trying to recover from such a devastating natural disaster.

After all, e-readers can lower costs and provide previously unthinkable benefits such as putting easily updatable shelves of technical manuals in the hands of field workers.

Usually, 1099 - MISC is issued to workers who provide services to a business but are not considered employees, such as independent contractors or consultants.

-- the level of control the payer has over the worker's activities; — whether the worker provides the tools and equipment; — whether the worker can subcontract the work or hire assistants; — the degree of financial risk the worker takes; — the degree of responsibility for investment and management the worker holds; — the worker's opportunity for profit; and — any other relevant factors, such as written contracts.

For this purpose, the state would have to take some decisive steps, such as providing coverage to workers with a low income through Medicaid programs.

The Social Security Administration already provides such personalized information about the projected annual Social Security retirement benefits that workers can expect to receive if they retire at various claiming ages.

A veterinary assistant is a non-licensed veterinary care worker who, under the supervision of a veterinarian or other professional such as a vet tech, provides supportive animal care services.

Security officers ensure employee safety, human resources pros collaborate to hire and retain workers and service personnel such as housekeepers, food service workers, and plant engineers provide critical behind the scenes support.

Domestic workers are individuals hired in a private household by householders to assist and / or supervise individuals such as children, elderly, disabled persons, or provide housekeeping services.

Properties that sustained less damage, such as Carimar Beach Club on Meads Bay and Shoal Bay Beach Villas, assisted post Irma, providing shelter and aid to locals, relief workers and the British military.