Sentences with phrase «rights workers say»

Journalists, dissidents and human rights workers say they are often followed or harassed by the Russian spy service.

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Macron, who defeated the anti-Europe, far - right leader Marine Le Pen last month, said that he had always been a defender of globalisation and free trade during his time as minister but that leaders should hear from workers hit by globalisation.

«When we compare that time to today, we find everyone seemed to share in the prosperity, from the corporate executives right down to the assembly - line workers,» Sylla says.

We have always believed that the Employment Tribunal's decision from last year October was entirely correct in saying that our GMB member clients were entitled to workers» right such as the minimum wage and holiday pay,» said Nigel Mackay, employment solicitor at Leigh Day, the firm that represented the union members.

«We are seeing a creeping erosion of employment rights as companies misclassify their workers as self - employed so as to avoid paying them holiday pay and the national minimum wage,» she said.

The CWA said on Saturday that Verizon has not budged from its original proposal which they have said would increase workers» healthcare costs by thousands of dollars, eliminate job security and remove any restrictions on the company's right to contract out or offshore union jobs.

Autonomy breeds more satisfied and productive workers while allowing them to strike the right work - life balance, says Pilz.

Hammond, who has faced calls from fellow cabinet ministers to scrap the 1 % freeze on public sector pay increases, said that the government must continue the «right balance» between what is fair for workers and taxpayers.

The suit, brought by three ex-sex workers, a client, and the Erotic Service Providers Legal, Educational and Research Project, says California's current laws violate the rights of people to engage in consensual sex.

But the ban may actually backfire, said Human Rights Watch, which warned it could «increase abuses of workers who are forced to resort to unsafe and unregulated channels to enter the country» and thus become more vulnerable to trafficking and other dangers.

Boiling this down, if you have the right to say when, where and how the work gets done, likely the worker is your employee.

The difference, says Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and co-director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC), a nonprofit dedicated to the rights of restaurant workers, is that this strike has a much broader mission.

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.

Paladino's Pease says Gen Y workers place enormous value on authenticity and suss out companies that are doing the right things for the right reasons.

Li & Fung investigated and did not find any violations of workers» rights, a spokeswoman said.

Unions say right - to - work laws infringe on workers» collective bargaining rights, and proponents call for a federal law as opposed to the current patchwork of state statutes.

Businesses say they like right - to - work laws because they make it more difficult for unions to organize workers and raise wage and benefit costs.

Right now, the human worker who does, say, $ 50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things.

«And every piece of this produt — the battery, the battery modules, the power electronics, the inverters — was assembled by Tesla workers right here in the US,» Straubel said, seeming to nod to President Donald Trump, who has made examples of US companies that have sent manufacturing jobs overseas.

The USTR's Ambassador Michael Froman said in a statement, «Our GSP [Generalized System of Preferences] statute requires certain basic standards for worker rights and worker safety as a condition of eligibility.

While the tariffs aren't as bad as they were before, they still «represent a burden on forestry workers and communities right across the country,» he said.

Still, pro-worker rights groups such as the National Employment Law Project (NELP) say franchisees and their workers could benefit.

In Bangladesh, workers, mostly women, work long hours for minimum wages that labour advocacy groups say keep those workers trapped in poverty and with few or no rights to organize to improve conditions.

Liss - Riordan says that employee status affords rights — like the right to unemployment benefits, medical leave, or worker's compensation.

«The fact is, what the 40 - year - old state worker should be concerned about right now is getting reform, because if they just put their heads in the sand, then we will have a Detroit - like problem in New Jersey, in Illinois, in California, and lots of other states across this country,» he said.

He said that essentially, the FICA withholding being taken away from workers paychecks is really just a concealed tax, that it was to cut taxes on the rich, and so there really isn't any money to pay social security and he would like to stop it right now.

In addition to demanding a $ 15 minimum wage and union rights, the campaign said it will keep up «unrelenting opposition» to efforts to «block wage increases, gut workers» rights or health care, deport immigrants or support racism or racist policies.»

«There is still a lot of thinking on the right that if big corporations are happy, they're going to take the money they're saving and reinvest it in American workers,» Rubio said in the interview published Thursday.

More than 4.2 million workers are enjoying the benefits right now, economists said, and Americans are starting to see the tax savings on their paychecks.

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

Nearly three - quarters of workers with an advisor say they trust their advisor to make the right choices, the survey found.

Rosales has never filed a claim against a worker who violated a non-disparagement clause with an online post, and in his experience, he said, those clauses don't prevent workers from exercising their rights to speak about workplace conditions.

Speaking to The New York Times about conditions in Bangladesh factories, the executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium said, «There have been substantial safety renovations in factories that have unquestionably made those factories substantially safer.

But, Jesus never said any government had the right to steal, at legal gun - point, from its workers to give to anyone.

She was cared for by first aid workers before going to the hospital, where her father said that «she's doing all right» but that it was still too soon to tell whether surgery would be necessary.

He's right to say that Alexis is a hard worker, but he needs to point the finger at himself if he's talking about people being lazy.

That's when the nursery worker looked me right in the eyes and said, «You need to relax.

«We need a level playing field on parental rights and pay — between those classified as «workers», «employees» and «self - employed»,» says the organisation's Julia Waltham.

Therefore, it falls to everyone who cares about infant health and the right of parents, carers and health workers to receive accurate, independent information to join us in saying these minimum requirements should be respected.

And number five, they say engage with target groups, for example trade unions, workers» rights organizations, women's groups and youth groups to protect the breastfeeding rights of women in the workplace.

«With the right support — from a health worker, a counsellor or another mother — a woman who is already doing some breastfeeding can increase her milk production within days just by feeding her baby more frequently,» says Tomoo Hozumi, UNICEF Representative in the Philippines.

while some might say that professional organizations are unions by another name, workers rights are peripheral and sometimes at odds with workers rights.

Right now, they have cancelled the first one (October 30) and they say that they will «keep updating» about the other days... UPDATE: Some newspaper claimed that, according to unofficial declarations of the organizers, the objective of the strike would not be so much to effectively perform the strike all of those days1 but to provide legal cover for workers to be free to leave their job (to attend protests, etc...)

Mr Moraes said a gap existed between the importance of European issues and their coverage in British reporting, citing temporary agency workers» rights, climate change, and working time as key issues currently affecting the UK.

Campaigners for sex workers» rights say that by focusing on the prosecution and deportation of the worker rather than the attack against her, police were discouraging other women from coming to them for help.

The Hawaii emergency management worker who sent a false alert last month warning of an imminent missile attack says he was convinced the threat was real and «100 percent sure» he was doing the right thing.

The head of the state AFL - CIO and IDC members came out strongly against a convention to develop possible changes to the state Constitution, saying it could lead to a diminishment of worker rights.

Responding to the poster today, Vote Leave chair Gisela Stuart said: «The Labour Party has a proud history of fighting for and securing workers rights - so I am deeply disappointed to see my party belittling what we have achieved.

«In the past four years in the Cuomo administration, Kathy Hochul has been an important part of a team that has delivered progressive gains for New York's working families — an increase in the minimum wage for all New Yorkers, and a historic increase in wages for airport workers — and has been a staunch supporter of civil rights issues that matter to our members and everyone in the state,» said 32BJ SEIU President Héctor Figueroa.

«While Speaker Paul Ryan and Republicans take dead aim at weakening workers» rights, Randy and his team are already standing up for workers by walking the walk,» the fundraising pitch from the WFP said.