Sentences with phrase «said migrant workers»

Today, immigration minister Liam Byrne said migrant workers made a «vital contribution to the UK economy», with workers from accession countries having boosted it by # 4 billion.

«I'm less than a farm implement,» says the migrant worker.

Those trying to leave abusive employers will be locked in,» says migrant worker advocate Chris Ramsaroop from Justicia for Migrant Workers.

Banning recruitment fees for all migrant workers; removing the arbitrary monetary cap on reclaiming unpaid wages and tougher penalties for employment standards violations announced today means that migrant workers gain a few more protections today, but comprehensive changes are still needed says the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC), Canada's largest migrant worker advocacy coalition.

Not exact matches

«Migrant workers are a very elastic part of the labor pool that aren't captured anywhere (in official statistics),» said Julia Wang, an economist with HSBC in Hong Kong.

While Hungary may be concerned about migrants, economists say ageing Europe could well do with an influx of young, eager workers.

«While enhanced training of UK nationals and automation might be a solution in certain sectors if we look 10 - 20 years ahead, realistically they're unlikely to make up fully for any large reduction in EU migrant workers over the next 5 - 10 years,» said Julia Onslow - Cole, global head of immigration at PwC.

«This is the day where people can see how much we contribute,» said Alberto Resendiz, who previously worked as a migrant worker in fields as far away as Michigan.

«While Gold Mantis was not subject to the F.B.I. raid,» she said in an email, «the Department of Justice action shows that the pressure on the construction site, across multiple contractors, was to cut labor costs by seeking out migrant workers least able to complain and then pressuring them to work in substandard conditions.»

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

«Under the education umbrella, we've partnered up with a few organizations that are in the communities in which we operate that give our migrant workers access to free English classes before or after work,» Delaney says.

«A large number of employees at the audited sites are young and migrant workers, cohorts that we know to be particularly vulnerable to workplace exploitation and reluctant to complain about mistreatment,» Ms James said.

She said some of the Fair Work inspectors, when investigating serious underpayments, said they had been told by migrant workers that they «rang around» to find out the «market rate» for Korean or Chinese workers.

«We will act to end the exploitation of migrant labour to undercut workers» pay and conditions,» he is expected to say.

Her great grandparents emigrated from Mexico and her grandparents were migrant workers, she said.

Nathan Berger, the Long Island coordinator for the Justice for Farmworkers Rural Migrant Ministry, says they are seeking an eight - hour day, overtime, and one guaranteed day off per week, as farm workers are exempt from many state labor laws.

The same standards of treatment apply to the workers who toil for the supermarkets, especially in meat and poultry processing, where unions say agency and migrant workers are subject to mistreatment and exploitation.

He said: «Don't be angry at the privatisers profiting from our public services, they whisper, be angry instead at the migrant worker just trying to make a better life.

After I'd been in parliament 25 years they gave me this to say thank you for all the help I've given Latin American workers and migrant workers, particularly in Britain.

Along the polluted 18 - Mile Creek in upstate New York, migrant farm worker Oscar Puente said he fishes to put food on his family's table — even though a state advisory warns against consuming any fish there.

«Nobody realized the dangers about pesticides and migrant workers for a long time either,» she said.

The actor Gael Garcia Bernal, co-presenting the award for best animated feature, slipped in a quick statement, saying, «As a Mexican, as a Latin - American, as a migrant worker, as a human being, I'm against any form of wall that separates us.»

She went on to say that the situation is «exacerbated» by the government's migrant worker cap which requires the deportation of workers who fail to reach an annual salary of # 30,000 in five years», with such salaries being but a «pipe dream for most teachers».

Shen Jun, Qiangwei's principal, who has overseen its transformation in a decade from a low - performing to a high - performing school — even though 40 percent of her students are children of poorly educated migrant workers — says her teachers spend about 70 percent of each week teaching and 30 percent developing teaching skills and lesson planning.

It is not that the federal government was saying the Connecticut's State Department of Education stole the funds or spent them on non-education expenses; the problem appears to be the programs being funded may have helped children other than just the children of migrant workers.

The Treasury and Revenue and Customs should critically consider the consultative processes, the report says, and open discussions to develop an agreed code of practice on consultation on tax policy initiatives On CGT, it says there is a strong case for widening the new entrepreneurs» relief and it highlights the compliance difficulties which the new residence and domicile provisions will cause, particularly for lower income migrant workers.

Join us for this great event as we hear from injured migrant workers who have taken a stand to say no one is disposable!

Beech says: «Thousands of EU migrants, currently in UK company roles, will potentially have to exit in the future if they fail to qualify under the current Points Based System that we use for workers outside the EU.

While the government argues this is an important step in deterring rulebreakers, lawyers who work with migrant workers say the effort barely scrapes the surface.

Shahram Taghavi, head of immigration at Charles Russell, who acted for Dr Zhang, said the decision means resident family members of investors, entrepreneurs and skilled workers will be able to switch from their current visa into a «Dependant of a Points - Based System Migrant» visa from within the UK, rather than having to leave the UK and apply from abroad.

Legal chiefs say the Government should give EU citizens unrestricted access to UK jobs in post-Brexit Britain and claim that British workers do not lose out to EU migrant labour.