Sentences with phrase «several workers said»

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Kim Peters, an executive vice president at the Great Place to Work Institute, which produces the rankings, says that Whole Foods consistently stands out for several reasons: its willingness to let people's individuality shine through, the sense of teamwork it fosters, employees» belief in the company's mission and purpose, and its propensity for developing workers through cross-training and other means.

One worker said he and several others blocked the road to the mill when they first learned of the amount of compensation.

HOUSTON, Feb 27 (Reuters)- Global commodity trader Koch Supply & Trading has cut dozens of workers across at least four offices worldwide, several sources said on Tuesday, as the firm restructures its business.

HOUSTON, Feb 27 - Global commodity trader Koch Supply & Trading has cut dozens of workers across at least four offices worldwide, several sources said on Tuesday, as the firm restructures its business.

HOUSTON / NEW YORK, Feb 27 - Global commodity trader Koch Supply & Trading has cut dozens of workers across at least four offices worldwide, several sources said on Tuesday, as the firm restructures its business.

HOUSTON / NEW YORK, Feb 27 (Reuters)- Global commodity trader Koch Supply & Trading has cut dozens of workers across at least four offices worldwide, several sources said on Tuesday, as the firm restructures its business.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

Several academics and business people explained to me that this has several benefits, with the main one being that companies are much more willing to hire people when they know they won't be saddled with them if said worker turns out to be a bust, or if an unexpected downturn comesSeveral academics and business people explained to me that this has several benefits, with the main one being that companies are much more willing to hire people when they know they won't be saddled with them if said worker turns out to be a bust, or if an unexpected downturn comesseveral benefits, with the main one being that companies are much more willing to hire people when they know they won't be saddled with them if said worker turns out to be a bust, or if an unexpected downturn comes along.

Mr. Petersen said he had hired several local tech workers at the same time, and Mr. Négri, rather than displacing Americans, brought in more.

Several consulting companies said H - 1B workers were only a small part of their work force in the United States.

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) protect pregnant workers from several forms of discrimination, Martin says.

Several of the 15 subcontractors building the park have added workers or have asked their employees to work longer hours, Dodd said.

In a message passed to Politics.co.uk by Adams, the victim of the attack said that she knew from other women that several other properties had been robbed in a similar way but that sex workers» are often too scared to report it to the police.

Workers say that every few months or so, bosses will make several sackings in one go.

And Transport Workers Union Local 100 President John Samuelsen said he was glad to see that Lhota's vision mirrored several parts of the plan he provided to the Daily News last week.

The management of the company after several calls have refused to reinstate the 32 workers which it said breached its ethical rules.

MIDTOWN — Workers planned to rally at several major fast - food chains throughout the city Monday to demand higher wages and the right to unionize, organizers said.

Tesla says it is looking for several hundred more workers for its plant in South Buffalo, as production of solar panels and solar roofs increases.

The budget backlash continues today as several groups representing education, public employees, and low - income New Yorkers bashed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget, saying there are other ways to close the state's $ 10 billion gap without laying off workers or cutting from education and health care.

Starbucks says it will close its more than 8,000 U.S. stores for several hours next month to conduct racial - bias training to its nearly 175,000 workers.

Hayward responded to the claims in the letter by defending the raises to his staff, saying they hadn't received raises for several years, and that they were paying much more than state workers do in health care costs.

The protesting workers had earlier blamed the strike on the management, saying they violated several agreements on the wage dispute.

The governor said it has become imperative to borrow in order to pay workers who have been owed for several months.

«We are trying to get the entire system up to speed, but we are also developing specialized capacity and identifying certain facilities, certain workers where we can,» Cuomo said during a news conference in Manhattan, alongside several agency heads.

That's not the only foul thing that maintenance workers have to deal with — they say riders use the machines as personal urinals (the article calls out several Bronx stops along the D among the worst offenders).

Fernandez, who said he has been doing «traditional campaigning» with community walkthroughs, has been endorsed by several labor unions, including the District Council 9 International Union of Painters and Allied Traders, the PEF Political Action Committee Region 10 and the Local 46 Metallic Lathers & Reinforcing Iron Workers.

The Democratic governor said he supports raising the wage for all workers to the same level over several years.

Afeez Hanafi A self - confessed serial killer, Adeola Williams aka Ade Lawyer, has owned up to several assassinations, saying he had killed four people allegedly on the orders of a former Chairman of National Union Road of Transport Workers, Lagos State branch, Alhaji Akani Olorunwa.

Speaking to a rally of several hundred union members in front of the hotel's Lodge Street entrance, Sheehan recalled supporting a city tax break package for the hotel, worth more than $ 1 million a year, and said hotel owners United Capital Corp. had «broken their promises» by failing to reach a contract with the Hotel Trades Council, which represents about 140 workers at the hotel.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, said he was happy the final budget agreement dropped several of Cuomo's proposed fees and included changes to the workers compensation system.

The final legislation took some steps to recognize the importance of this partnership, and we will keep a close eye on the impact on our workers in Ontario,» said Smith, who traveled several times to Albany this past spring on the matter.

General Secretary Frances O'Grady said public sector workers would have «no shares» in the UK's economic recovery, but faced «several more years of penny - pinching and frugal living».

Keefe said he and several other volunteers have spoken to roughly 60 people who applied for absentee ballots, recounting their experience with campaign workers who told them it was an easier way to vote.

Several large cohort studies of medical x-ray technicians and nuclear industry workers suggest a slight increase in cancer risk at exposures below 100 mSv, Shore says.

She worked for several years as a social worker, but she didn't enjoy the work and wasn't making much money, she says.

The «pivotal moment» came when workers carried out several pressure tests to check the integrity of the well but ignored the signs that something was wrong, said Paul Bommer, a petroleum engineer at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the panel of experts that produced the report.

This time a broker who recruited several workers for the subcontractor insisted on access to his bank account and then took almost a third of the roughly $ 160 Hayashi was supposed to be earning each day, Hayashi says.

Case in point: While widening a road leading into Iran, Danti says Kurdish workers dug into a 25 - kilometer section of hillside, exposing the buried and burned remains of several stone, adobe and timber buildings from the Early Iron Age.

Bale's transformation into the thin (not «The Machinist» thin), long - haired, struggling blue - collar worker to brutal retaliator is exceptional and his ability to say more through expression than word is unrivaled today (Robert De Niro impressed much the same way several decades ago).

DELTONA - Two dangerous pit bulls that were stolen twice from a Daytona Beach animal shelter while they awaited euthanasia were recovered and destroyed Monday night.Armed with a search warrant, Deltona Animal Control workers and officers from several local law enforcement agencies seized the dogs at 7 p.m. Monday, Deltona Fire Chief Robert Rogers said Tuesday.The dogs - a dark brindle male named Chewie and a white - chested female named Sadie - were found at a Deltona residence and taken to the Halifax Humane Society shelter in Daytona Beach.

Society workers said the men deliberately flattened the dog, which lingered for several minutes before dying.

But kennel worker Jacqueline Wadsworth, in an affidavit filed with the state attorney's office, said she saw two animal control officers pierce several dogs with a large knife after the dogs had been given a lethal injection but before they stopped breathing.

«We've managed to work with plenty of other people with no problems,» she said, adding workers gave Lambert several opportunities to improve his care of the horses.

Colombina, the food company that operates the factory, is the largest employer in La Paila, where Murillo lived until he was 10 and moved with his family to the U.K. Several of the workers in the show, titled «A Mercantile Novel,» are Murillo's childhood friends, the London - based artist said.

During several interviews outside the factory gates, he states that workers would often laugh at the stories reported here in America saying «it's not really that bad.»

«We took this case on because this is an issue that injured worker advocates have been pressing for several years at all avenues without being afforded any kind of effective change until the very recent changes... which was in itself insufficient,» said Goldblatt lawyer Christine Davies, who is working on the case on behalf of Wardle, the Injured Workers Consultants legal clinic, and the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups.

Chicago - based attorney Stephen Hoffman, who specializes in Personal Injury & Worker's Compensation Law, said that he has blogged for several years now and found «it to be a great way to stay in touch with clients, past clients, referral sources, and the like.»

«Several of these companies have found a niche market that may include undocumented workers who are, by law, not allowed to get a driver's license,» Moraga says.

Managers on the trending news team did, however, explicitly instruct curators to artificially manipulate the trending module in a different way: When users weren't reading stories that management viewed as important, several former workers said, curators were told to put them in the trending news feed anyway.

Even with these challenges, there are several strategies that can be used to counteract some of the bias against older workers, said Natalizio.