Sentences with phrase «set by workers»

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In reality, a scene set on farmers» fields across the country should show that a great deal of agricultural work in Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workers.

Top executives at Uber used the encrypted chat app Wickr to hold secret conversations, current and former workers testified in court this week, setting up what could be the first major legal test of the issues raised by the use of encrypted apps inside companies.

While some startups, such as Taskrabbit, have attempted to address some of the inequity invovled in being a contract worker, for example by setting a wage floor of $ 11.20 an hour — higher than the proposed national minimum wage of $ 10.10 — and providing some discounts for health care and transportation, contractors clearly need a lot more.

Here, in the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of government workers face a daunting task: By Jan. 1, craft regulations and rules that will govern the state's emerging legal pot market, from where and how plants can be grown to setting guidelines to track the buds from fields to stores.

For U.S. workers, another benefit for a shorter work day is reduced stress, as many tend to work far beyond the work - life boundaries set by many other countries.

Minimum wage levels are set by the provinces, and Ontario's decision to raise its baseline requirement to $ 11 an hour earlier this year sparked significant debate about the economic impact on workers and employers.

By 1979, it took American workers three times as long to assemble their sets.»

As far as Clinton's proposal goes, she'd give companies an expense incentive to set up a profit - sharing plan by offering a tax break of 15 percent on gains shared with employees, capped at 10 percent of a worker's salary.

Canadian immigration lawyers have reportedly seen an influx in interest from non-citizen tech workers in the U.S. Meanwhile, a company named TrueNorth has been set up to help businesses move employees potentially affected by any H - 1B visa changes over to Vancouver.

The union that represents Ford Motor's Canadian manufacturing workers reached a tentative contract agreement on Tuesday, averting a strike but setting up what may be a difficult campaign to get the deal approved by members.

We are not talking about platitudes here — a sincere recognition and reward has incredible staying power and can motivate other workers to reach the goals set out by your star performers.

There are particular questions here about the fate of union workers whose pay and benefits are set by multi-year collective bargaining agreements and public sector workers whose pay is set by law.

What happened is that the early privatizers bled their companies while selling shares to the workers at prices that were being inflated by the flow of wage set - asides into the stock market.

The long - awaited proposed regulations (RIN: 1615 - AC04) would allow the DHS secretary to temporarily admit, on a case - by - case basis, entrepreneurs who meet a certain set of defined criteria related to the success of their startup companies and how many jobs they generate for U.S. workers.

Temporary migration leaves these workers vulnerable by controlling the conditions of their work, and sets a dangerous precedent for all workers.

To help remote workers feel in - the - loop, set a great example by staying connected and available as much as possible.

State workers not covered by Social Security would set aside 15 percent of their salary each pay period.

Perhaps we could set up a communal style like they did in China, where everyone eats in massive cafeterias and the children are all raised by nursery workers.

Well you first Love God and listen to him and then start by setting up an «Ethical Stock Market» that serves people, workers and the environment, and not just itself.

Green chemistry, transparent communication, and respect for workers are just some of the criteria set by the Cosmebio label.

Mike Davis took the reigns for all 18 holes on Saturday morning, setting up each by hand with a crew of workers.

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Teachers are set to be joined by other public sector workers in a mass walkout at the end of the month.

It's also by a set of workers who, against the average, are not at all badly paid.

Governor Ganduje while addressing workers at Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano said Kano state has submitted its position on new minimum wage to tripartite committee set up by Federal Government.

«After two decades of dithering by government officials and four years of herculean drilling, pounding, hauling and lifting by 7,000 workers, a new 3.1 - mile bridge is set to open at the Tappan Zee in the early hours of Saturday, the first crossing on that scale that has been built in the New York region in more than half a century.»

For workers in the rest of the state, the minimum wage would increase to $ 9.70 at the end of 2016, then another.70 each year after until reaching $ 12.50 on 12/31/2020 — after which will continue to increase to $ 15 on an indexed schedule to be set by the Director of the Division of Budget in consultation with the Department of Labor.

Cuomo convened the mandate relief council in 2011, and during his first three years in office has helped localities by capturing cost increases in the Medicaid program and taking over its administration from counties, giving school districts more flexibility in how they set up bus transportation and imposing a less - generous pension plan for newly hired workers.

But that anger exploded after the recent release of undercover videos that show ACORN employees counseling people posing as a pimp and a prostitute on how to secure a small - business loan by concealing their purported intent to set up a brothel, pay workers under the table and evade taxes.

The increase, which will impact an estimated 200,000 workers, was endorsed by a state wage board last month and is set to be phased in beginning at the end of the year, pending formal approval by Cuomo's labor commissioner.

This program upgrades the skill sets necessary for aspiring workers to succeed by placing these individuals with companies that build their skills «on the job.»

Companies hired for public works projects in the state are required to pay their workers what's known as a prevailing wage, which is a minimum rate set by the state based on factors like region.

The non-binding budget resolution included such IDC asks as a provision to create an independent monitor to oversee the troubled New York City Housing Authority, diverting more than $ 400 million in city sales tax money to the MTA, and creating a secure choice savings account that would allow workers with no retirement savings plan to set aside money in a fund run by the state.

The prevailing wage is an amount set by the comptroller's office that seeks to provide pay parity between municipal workers and private contractors for doing the same job.

In the document, Milne argued that communism had frightening connotations for most people in Britain «mainly due to ignorance» and he set out a vision where «factories and farms will be run by committees of workers, elected by workers (as in China where this has proved to work very well)».

Every NYC worker will earn at least $ 15 an hour by the end of 2018 under pay raises Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to announce today that will cover 50,000 people and cost $ 200 million over the next four years or so, according to the mayor's office.

He set out that free movement of people would end, and that Labour would clamp down on the use of migrant labour by employment agencies to undercut British workers - a party commitment dating back to Ed Miliband's leadership.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration pushed forward Wednesday with its plan to lay off up to 9,800 state workers, setting July 15 as the date for the first wave of terminations, according to a memo obtained by the Times Union.

The statement added, «The EFCC boss expressed concern over the delay usually experienced in dispensing corruption cases and the conspiracy (in some cases) between the criminals and judicial workers / law enforcement agents to make violators of law escape justice, citing the case of a former governor of Adamawa State, Bala Ngilari, who was set free with the connivance of a prison warder and court registrar after being convicted by court.»

In an interview with Capital, Councilwoman Inez Dickens of Manhattan explained that, despite concerns about «setting a precedent» by approving the bill, she decided to vote yes on the measure because her «main concern [are] the workers and the safety of the children.»

In 2015, New York led the nation by becoming the first state to set a $ 15 per hour minimum wage for fast food workers.

By September 2019, the minimum wage would be set at $ 15.60, providing parity between workers at all the airports, some of whom had received raises as those in New Jersey were paid less.

The day is set aside by organised labour to celebrate workers as well highlight their challenges.

But the $ 15 minimum wage, as pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year after he set the wage for fast - food workers through a Department of Labor board, proved to be an especially bitter pill for some business groups to swallow.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing ahead with plans to lay off up to 9,800 workers by setting a date for the first wave of terminations: July 15.

Every city worker will earn at least $ 15 an hour by the end of 2018 under pay raises Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to announce Wednesday.

The statewide regulations, set to take effect in January after a 45 - day public comment period, supersede rules enacted by New York City this year ending on - call scheduling for retail workers in the city and requiring two weeks» scheduling notice for fast - food workers.

The focus instead is on higher - end, specialized work that can not be easily moved to another country or performed in a low - cost setting by inexpensive workers.

The fines were set by the city's Conflicts of Interest Board, the watchdog agency that disciplines hundreds of city workers for ethics lapses every year.

As the Oct. 7 deadline fast approached, educators at almost 350 public schools across New York City prepared themselves and their school communities for the crushing loss of more than 700 school support staff — including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, crossing guards and others — who were set to be let go by the city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002.