Sentences with phrase «public employers did»

For many years, public employers did have all the power and public employees had no free speech rights.

«Public employers do have the right to discipline employees to maintain discipline,» he says.

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But we all know that being cleared by your employer doesn't always mean you're actually innocent, and it certainly doesn't mean the public will move on.

So before taking any action against employees who refuse to work, consider guidance from public authorities and whatever other employers in the same geographic area are doing.

«It becomes a matter of corporate philosophy — does the employer want to get in a public dispute over this?»

France's mostly taxpayer - funded public pension system may do better at ensuring every retiree is sufficiently funded (for now), and America's mostly private pension patchwork may be more sustainable into the future, but our hybrid system of individual -, employer - and government - funded benefits ranks high on both criteria, sufficiency and sustainability — «which is uncommon,» says Morin

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).

That's what you call a code of ETHICS??? So your employer does something terrible and you have to keep quiet about it even if it's in the public interest to know, and you consider it ethical to stay silent?

Though churches are entitled, unlike other private employers, to hire with their own money their own members in preference to others, they are not entitled to do so with the public's money.

A former Methodist minister, presently doing public relations work for a banking firm, made the change because his new employers could accept his drinking and will hide the fact that he is an alcoholic.

Several companies and organisations led by chief executives who have vowed to do more to promote women in business and the public service failed to make a list of the best Australian employers of women.

While we expand the scope of our probe, I urge all public employers to closely examine how they can improve the way they do business for the sake of the state and taxpayers.»

Speaking in the debate NASUWT President Graham Dawson said: «We are proud to serve the public but it is time all employers are made to take their responsibilities seriously and do their jobs as well as we do our own.

Marking Equal Pay Day, Cuomo advanced legislation to prohibit all employers, public and private, who do business in New York, from asking prospective employees about their salary history and compensation, putting the state New York on track to close the gender wage gap.

The new minimum wage tax credit, by contrast, has no caps for employers or the state, is open to any business large or small, and doesn't contain a provision to make information public.

Carl H. McCall will chair a commission composed of experts from the financial services industry, consumer advocates, public officials and State regulators to study available options for the creation of a state - administered retirement savings program for workers whose employers do not offer a retirement plan.

Increased Retiree Health Insurance Premium - Sharing: While most employers — public and private — do not reimburse retirees for the cost of Medicare Part B premiums, New York State pays for the standard premium and the Income - Related Monthly Adjustment Amounts (IRMAA) levied on high - income retirees (couples with incomes in excess of $ 170,000 per year).13 Under the Governor's proposal, the State would cap the amount retirees are reimbursed at current levels and discontinue IRMAA reimbursements for those most able to afford the costs of health insurance.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today advanced legislation to prohibit all employers, public and private, who do business in New York State, from asking prospective employees about their salary history and compensation.

Chief among the report's policy recommendations is to institute a salary history ban that prohibits all employers, public and private, who do business in New York from asking prospective employees about their salary history and compensation.

In public union contracts there is usually a clause to require the same level of benefits so public employers can't do anything but pay the large premium increases.

But some military medical personnel do feel they have a conflicting loyalty to their patient and their employer, and that feeling can be very complex, said Williams - Jones, director of the bioethics program at UdeM's School of Public Health.

Now seeking work «outside the traditional academic sector,» preferably in public health policy, Srinivasan finds that some potential employers «don't believe» all that she accomplished as a postdoc.

«The safety of workers and the public must be central to all workplace policies and employers must clearly articulate that legalization of marijuana for recreational or medical use does not negate workplace policies for safe job performance,» the guidance states.

While the precedent recognizes that public employees do not relinquish their First Amendment rights on the job, it does enable a government employer to regulate the speech of its employees differently from citizens.

There was one example given by a public radio reporter of a maid whose employer did offer insurance — she made $ 1,500 a month and the insurance would've cost her $ 1,600 a month.

A 2004 study by the Genetics and Public Policy Center of Johns Hopkins University found that 92 percent of survey participants did not want genetic information shared with employers; and 80 percent of respondents felt health insurers should not have access to their genetic information.

We also found that for jobs where employers don't require you to have a degree, there wasn't much advantage to having one, including from a public institution.

Two of the main arguments made on behalf of for - profit colleges are that they are responsive to the needs of employers and that they do a better job than public institutions of preparing their graduates for employment.

For jobs in healthcare, employers were substantially less likely to call back applicants with credentials from a for - profit online institution than those from a public institution — but, importantly, only in cases where the job doesn't require an external indicator of quality such as a professional license.

The vast majority of Americans don't get jobs via apprenticeships, so the public, and even many employers, don't know much about them.

Finally, it delivers public subsidies in an arbitrary and potentially unfair manner and would encourage employers to do the same.

As the NELP commentary notes, even if some employers are illegally discriminating this does not automatically imply BTB efforts are misguided; strengthened enforcement of anti-discrimination laws as well as increased public and internal conversations sparked by BTB efforts may lead to reductions in such discriminatory practices over time.

... when checking into his employment you might want to find out what do his peers think of him; what is his relationship with his employer or employees; and does holding a public office help him advance in his job or produce business connections?»

States and districts are under intense pressure from Washington, from major philanthropies such as the Gates Foundation, from civil - rights groups, from employers, and from public opinion to boost their high - school graduation rates — and indeed most have done so.

Summit Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity and / or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, military status, pregnancy, parenthood, citizenship status, creed, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

And as Zimmerman sums up a 2006 Supreme Court case — Garcetti v. Ceballos — «public employees do not have free - speech rights at work; instead, their words belong to their employer.»

The Department issues a PIE with respect to Service Agent Z. Z provides services for DOT - regulated transportation employers, a Federal agency under the HHS - regulated Federal employee testing program, and various private businesses and public agencies that DOT does not regulate.

The type of job doesn't matter when it comes to eligibility — as long as the employer is employed by a public service organization.

If your employer does not provide health insurance, then you might be eligible for financial assistance to pay for health insurance premiums or public benefit programs that provide healthcare for no or low cost.

NOTE: Applicants who are employees, spouses, contractors, and immediate family members of public agencies and non-profit institutions that are recipients of HOME funds will be asked to complete a form allowing NHS of Greater Cleveland to confirm with an applicant's employer that their work does not create a conflict of interest.

If we determine that your employer is not an eligible public service organization, we will notify you that your employment does not qualify.

Note that the 120 payments do not have to be consecutive (nor, then, must be your employment with a qualifying public service employer).

So all you'll get is a bunch of trade lines saying, «NCO Collections» or «Portfolio Associate Collections» and you don't know if that's for medical debt or not, so a lot of medical debt shows up on credit reports and that hurts both credit and apparently employment because half of employers that deny job offers based on credit checks have denied it on debt collection, 25 percent of which they also get public records because we know that employers deny job offers based on both lawsuits filed and bankruptcy.

The prohibition does not apply to: employers that are federally insured banks or credit unions; employers that are required by state or federal law to use individual credit history for employment purposes; public safety officers; or positions for which the information is substantially job - related and the employer's reasons for the use of such information are disclosed to the employee or prospective employee in writing.

«The looming question in the case was not so much the outcome but the Court's rationale... Today, the Court took that very signifiant step, holding that «when public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, the employees are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes, and the Constitution does not insulate their communications from employer discipline.»

Without the promise of confidentiality, companies may worry that if the story gets out that they paid money to a former employee, the public will assume the employer did something wrong; they may also worry that it will create a slippery slope of ever increasing demands for settlement funds when they are required to terminate other employees» employment.

At the same time, Rose says there is plenty that we don't know, such as whether or not it is safer for employers to use fewer words in a termination clause and avoid all - inclusive language, and whether, for public policy reasons, future court decisions will put an onus on employers to make clear to employees the differences between ESA entitlements and the common law before they sign ESA - only contracts.

It is worth noting that Bill 203 applies to private and public sector employers, and imposes wider obligations than does Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, which requires public sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendarpublic sector employers, and imposes wider obligations than does Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, which requires public sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendarPublic Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, which requires public sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendarpublic sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendarpublic the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendar year.

Despite the public support for McMahon, his former employer will not reinstate him — but it does not have to, as a judge will not order a former employee back to the workplace.

«Many Ontario employers, especially small businesses, are now considering closing their business because they do not have the capacity to successfully manage such reforms,» they wrote during the public hearings.