Sentences with phrase «sectors of the work force»

In July, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) plead guilty and was fined $ 80,000 for «failing to develop, establish and put into effect measures and procedures including safe work practices» to protect a vulnerable sector of their work force.

Not exact matches

Because that large negative force is now essentially past, it is no longer masking the sources of strength that have been at work elsewhere in the economy for some time, particularly the growth in output and employment that is being driven by our growing service sector.

Blass noted in the letter that while ICI shares «the state's objective of increasing retirement plan coverage for private - sector workers,» the goal «must be achieved in a cost - effective way that reflects the realities of the work force and retirement savings.»

In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

A meeting of the union's national executive committee unanimously agreed that further co-ordinated industrial action should be organised if the government continues to refuse to negotiate on the key issues of forcing public sector workers to pay more and work longer for a worse pension.

In an editorial published in Science in 2015, Mohammad Farhadi, Iran's Minister of Science, Research and Technology, said that sanctions «pushed its science, industry, and service sectors to cooperate in new and fruitful ways and also forced scientists to work more creatively and promote a knowledge - based economy for the first time in Iran's history.»

The initial numbers revealed that of the 2.6 million individuals employed in the federal sector, 5.9 percent are Asian American, indicating that the group is well represented in the overall federal work force.

One of my oldest and best friends, Kyle, is working tech for Tops in Blue, the sector of the Air Force that travels to all of the bases to perform for the troops and increase morale.

These include the preparation of regional reports on the status of civil society (1994); publication and global distribution of Citizens - Strengthening Global Civil Society (1995), the organisation's first world report on the state of civil society; regional consultations of members; two World Assemblies (Mexico City in 1995 and Budapest in 1997) of members and allies; an expanding membership (400 by end of 1997) of organisations and individuals across the world; a growing publications record and groundbreaking work by three special Task Forces in 1996 and 1997 on increasing the understanding and visibility of the sector, the legal principles necessary for the sector's empowerment and enhancing the sector's resource base.

So far, the task force has succeeded in completing the first - ever performance assessment of reform initiatives in the four provinces and continues to work closely with local governments to develop long - term strategy and action plans to improve performance of the education sector.

Now she finds herself working with a task force cochaired by Shahnaz Wazir Ali, special assistant to the prime minister on social sectors, and Sir Michael Barber, former head of the United Kingdom Delivery Unit and current distinguished visiting fellow at the Ed School.

Teach For America takes pains to describe its thousands of alumni as «a growing force of leaders working to expand educational opportunity from a variety of sectors.»

The Task Force should also recommend sources of funding for this work, including state funding but also appropriate private foundations in education, health care, and other sectors who might support programmatic and policy interventions on this subject.

The following resources — some of which are specifically about leading teacher teams and some of which draw from other sectors — provide a range of ideas about how teacher - leaders can lead and improve their own and others» work, expanding their impact on students and peer teachers, without being forced to move out of the classroom.

Public - sector defined benefit retirement plans have a number of structural elements that negatively affect an increasingly mobile teaching work force.

The percentage of the nation's private sector work force that belongs to a union has dropped precipitously.

«Regardless of what the teaching unions might claim, with over 70 % of the new schools being set up by those working within the education sector itself, the reality is that their members are becoming the driving force of new free schools - particularly in disadvantaged areas where the need for good schools is even more pressing.»

While legislation may be brought forward at the federal level to create new student voucher programs, given that California's vibrant and growing charter school sector affords parents their fundamental right to choose where their students go to school, we believe that vouchers would be at odds with the needs of California's public school system, and we will work actively to resist them from being forced upon our state.

Social inequalities can be reduced through the defense of human rights, the rule of law, participatory democracy, universal access to public services, the recognition of personal dignity, a significant improvement in the effectiveness of fiscal and social policies, an ethical finance reform, large scale decent work creation policies, integration of the informal and popular economic sectors, and national and international collaboration to eradicate the new forms of slavery such as forced labor and sexual exploitation.

Since early 2015, China has been working to reform its electric power sector, in keeping with the overall principle of market forces playing a «decisive role» in allocating the nation's energy and environmental resources.

I undertake a limited amount of business coaching for those in strategic leadership positions (in the law, the commercial world, the armed forces and public sector), working particularly with individuals who have reached, or are making a transition to, a very senior governance or leadership position within their organisations and who are facing business or personal issues that are strategic to their organisations.

So my feeling is that a disruptive force like an Amazon or device or Spotify etc will be created by someone who has a knowledge of how this sector works but is not wedded to it.

Basalt, Colorado / Vienna, Austria (May 8, 2017)-- Centrica plc, Elia, Engie, Royal Dutch Shell plc, Sempra Energy, SP Group, Statoil ASA, Stedin, TWL (Technical Works Ludwigshafen AG), and Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) have joined forces to support the Energy Web Foundation (EWF), a non-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the commercial deployment of blockchain technology in the energy sector.

An Air Force veteran of 14 years, she specializes in working with the military community and gains great joy from watching clients successfully transition to government positions and the private sector.

The economy of the state capital of Texas revolves around the state government and the state university but, as mentioned, the tech sector employs tens of thousands while the tourist and service industries provide many jobs for the multicultural work force.

The Task Force acknowledges that RECEs work in a wide variety of programs that support young children and families, with this in mind we endeavoured to develop recommendations with a broad sector lens.

The My Brother's Keeper task force report to the president recommended that «All sectors of society, as well as parents themselves [must] do more to help ensure that parents and caregivers are equipped with the tools to help their children succeed...» The projects funded by the grants announced today embrace this goal and include work in communities that have accepted the My Brother's Keeper Community Challenge, a call to action for cities, towns, counties and Tribal Nations to build and execute plans to ensure that all young people can achieve their full potential.

The median hourly wage in the child care workforce was $ 10.31 in 2013,17 which is nearly 40 percent below the median for all workers in the U.S. labor force, making the pay for work in this critical sector among the bottom 10 percent of all occupations.18

In the early 1980s, just a few years out of the Air Force and working full time in the nonprofit sector, McMillan became interested in real estate investing.