Sentences with phrase «rights of workers such»

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A recent report by the workers» rights nonprofit Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United found that 28 % of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's employees surveyed said they had worked off - the - clock and roughly 33 % reported wage theft violations, such as not receiving or overtime pay.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

They look at the origins, work conditions, and precarious lives of farm workers in terms of larger historical forces such as colonialism, land rights, and racism.

- cutting subsidies for social services such as education and health, transportation and even water and irrigation reduction of rights of workers, easier termination of services, with harmful impact on gender, race and ethnic relations

Globalization is the era of mega-competition, in other words, the competition among giant TNCs which accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit by further exploitation of labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers of their labor rights, using cheap labor such as casual and even child labor, and also by further destruction of environment.

I don't blame the jesters but I blame myself for not having the powers to roll back the years to when my darling team was great, to when it was a pride being an arsenal fan was great, when after 90minutes we would have won a lost game and the bragging rights was always on the side of the die hard fans.but that was in the days when men were men and the queen was a follower.I hope such days will revisit arsenal.I now call on everybody that loves arsenal either as a worker or a follower to strive and bring back those days.Arsenal till I die.

It claims that the proposals, which have yet to be approved by the cabinet, would involve a limited number of unskilled workers being offered the opportunity to work in jobs such as fruit picking, but no general right to a UK work permit.

«The NASUWT has warned repeatedly, since 2011, that such poor practices would flourish if the Government continued to present equality and the rights of workers as unimportant and gave excessive freedoms, flexibilities and discretion over pay and conditions given to employers.

The narrator neglects to mention, of course, some of the ostensibly insignificant issues confronting British people at the time, such as the absence of workers» rights, child labour, slum housing and mass poverty.

And a right to organize would raise thorny questions about how to handle conflicts between the claims of people such as Amy and the claims of workers who wish to bargain collectively.

He is also launching a review of employment laws that could see people on «worker» contracts, such as zero hour terms, be given the same rights as most employees.

It is a fundamental concern that such decisions about the rights of British workers can not be made by British courts.»

Hawkins not only supports but organizes on issues such as a $ 15 minimum wage, a ban on fracking, 100 % clean energy by 2030, full public campaign financing, single payer health care, the legalization of marijuana, worker rights, taxing the rich, an end to the New Jim Crow and mass incarceration, universal child care... the list goes on and on.

Without the right to freedom of movement, the government and the companies who rely on such workers will be burdened by new and expansive layers of red - tape while the voters who have been encouraged to expect a dramatic reduction in immigration will find themselves paying for a labour shortage that they probably won't even notice.

Proposals, such as those last week by Iain Duncan Smith to remove workers» rights to sick pay, are just the pointed end of a much longer blade.

These workers, who receive no benefits and have no rights, have been used for years to hide the fact that the state work force has been depleted to such an extent that the agencies are no longer able to deliver promised services to the citizens of this state.

The programme also included a number of previously announced measures, such as giving agency workers equal rights on pay, holidays and basic conditions, and introducing a binding commitment to abolish child poverty by 2020.

The domestic workers» bill of rights codifies issues such as guaranteed days off, overtime and vacation pay, and enhances the ability to seek legal redress against employers who fail to meet their obligations.

These two were among 146 workers, mostly Italian and Jewish young women, who perished in a factory fire on the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street - an event that became a flashpoint in the Progressive Era fight for workers» rights and an ongoing symbol of such efforts.

Michael Mulgrew, president of the UFT, said: «The pension and retirement funds of New York State educators, public employees and unionists should avoid investing in private equity funds, such as New Mountain Capital or other private equity funds, that maximize profits by denying the most fundamental rights of workers.

The agenda, five months in the making, includes bills that call for the creation of a task force to assess the city university system's affordability, admissions and graduation rates, a report on the use of long - acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices, sexual assault awareness and prevention training for cab drivers, a street co-naming for the original Ms. Magazine headquarters and expanding the definition of employer under the human rights law to offer protections for domestic workers.

«Having an accurate overview of how different regions of countries are connected by human movement aids effective disease control planning and helps target resources, such as treated bed nets or community health workers, in the right places.

«Although employers implementing policies such as restricting accessibility to emails outside of office hours take a step in the right direction to ensure a good work / life balance for their workers, such regimented approaches to when you should and shouldn't be working do not work for everyone.

From such standard selections as the Declaration of Independence, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Emancipation Proclamation, to such lesser - read pieces as the Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention, John F. Kennedy's speech at the Berlin Wall, and Csar Chvez's speech to striking grape workers, the documents in this book cover many areas, including politics, human rights, and environmental issues.

An executive order by New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer last month granting family child - care providers the right to unionize is the latest sign of an aggressive push by organized labor to represent such workers, who care for small groups of children in the providers» own homes.

But whichever route you decide is right for you, you can size up the demand for older workers for all sorts of jobs in virtually every industry in your area by going to sites such as RetiredBrains.com and Retirementjobs.com.

Sculptures such as Platano (Carlos Calles) and Saguaro (Nora Oviedo) were completed during a special project called Space in Between in Houston as part of a collaboration with immigrant workers to share their stories and raise awareness about fair working conditions and immigrants» rights.

Such problems within institutional structures are complex when uncredited labor, and violations of artists and cultural workers» moral rights run rampant in a competitive art world.

The same objection is more relevant in the example of trade unions or employer collectives forming to bid up or down the price of labor; if all employers collude to fix the price of labor and lock out all workers, then there is no economic reason to call negotiation of wages fair or just, and the courts long ago found such anticompetitive practices sufficient cause to uphold the right of workers to unionize.

Including celebrities such as Ellen Page and Leonard Cohen, a cross section of organisations working with youth, workers's right, indigenous peoples, art, clean energy, women and food have signed it.

With reproductive rights being such a hot - button topic internationally, it's a wonder why more attention isn't paid to combating pollution on this basis or why those responsible for perpetuating fossil - fuels aren't held culpable for endangering them.Male Infertility Caused by Air Pollution The first study, conducted by urologist Jorge Hallak, coordinator of the Reproductive Toxicology and Andrology, Hospital das Clinicas, examined 748 male workers who inhaled the air of major thoroughfares, according to a report from O Estado.

On the other hand, Remain campaigners such as Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC), warned repeatedly that «working people have a huge stake in the referendum because workers» rights are on the line» and the link between the UK's membership of the EU and better protection of workers» rights featured heavily in campaign material opposing Brexit.

In that decision — which has been criticized by some as hostile to free speech rights and humanitarian efforts — the justices found that a Patriot Act provision that prohibits providing «material support» to designated foreign terrorist organizations could be applied to conflict - resolution advice and legal services provided by human rights organizations to groups such as Turkey's Kurdistan Workers» Party and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Protection rights for employees in the state of Connecticut that work at heights, such as construction workers, are particularly inclusive.

We have a full understanding of the laws and regulations governing workers» compensation in Texas, and protect the rights of people who have been injured in accidents as well as victims of repetitive stress or trauma, such as carpal tunnel syndrome.

Factors such as lack of awareness of human rights laws, age, recent immigration, uncertain employment, reliance on tips, low rates of unionization, and the prevalence of sexual harassment and sex discrimination in the restaurant industry can increase worker vulnerability.

The growth in the digital economy — facilitated by apps such as Deliveroo and Uber — has blurred the lines between the classification of employee, worker and the genuinely self - employed, the latter group having no employment rights.

The courts have already recognised the right of Uber drivers and others such as bicycle couriers to «worker» status meaning they have the right to holiday pay and an hourly minimum wage.

Employment status, and how it is determined, has been under the microscope recently following the emergence of the «gig - economy», where companies such as Uber and Deliveroo have been taken to tribunal by workers contesting their «self - employed» status in search of employment rights.

Article 27 mirrors a typical social right as it is also enshrined in the European Social Charter and the Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers; also, it is the first article in the title «Solidarity» of the Charter; before entry into force of the Charter, the right was already enshrined in secondary legislation such as Directive 2002/14 (para 52).

Article L.1111 - 3 Code du travail is such an implementing act in the wider sense, because it acts as a «channel» to implement the right to information and consultation and is suitable — as a norm that excludes a certain category of workers from the calculation of the number of employees — to violate the content of the principle as concretised substantially and directly by implementing acts (para 72).

Since the inception of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and several additional anti-discriminatory laws such as the Equal Pay Act (EPA), Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the more recent Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA)-- diversity should be embraced by all organizations who employ workers.

The trial court held that the bawdy house provision, which prevented sex trade workers from offering their services out of fixed indoor locations such as brothels, or their own homes, breached s. 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.

We advise clients on legislation affecting employment relationships, such as employment standards, human rights and workers compensation, policing and military employment law, and act for clients in connection with preparation of employment contracts and employee manuals.

When balancing this evidence against the privacy and dignity rights of individual workers, the Supreme Court concluded that the employer had failed to demonstrate a sufficient workplace problem or requisite safety concern which would warrant such an infringement on individual workers.

The CJEU points out that the situation falls within the scope of Article 45 TFEU and that Article 45 TFEU precludes refusing a residence right to a family member of an EU citizen where such would discourage the latter from exercising his free movement rights as a migrant worker.

Dyson LJ emphasised (at para 108) that it is necessary to strike a balance between the rights of care workers and rights of vulnerable adults, such that it could not be said that a care worker had the right to make representations — and thereby delay the process of listing — in all cases.

When a tribunal's focus is to uphold the law in relation to circumstances such as protecting the rights of the worker, the tribunal is in fact protecting the rights of all workers and not just those whose rights have been neglected.

Where a legislative right is afforded to a worker or employee (such as the right to paid holidays under the Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833)(WTR)-RRB- can a person be deprived of that benefit simply because the contract under which he is working expressly denies that he is a worker or employee?

Damages claims will lie for such workers in respect of the breach of their Art 6 (1) rights.