Sentences with phrase «sick leave each year»

BOSTON — President Obama signed an executive order on Monday requiring federal contractors to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave a year, even as he accused Republican congressional leaders of endangering the economy and Republican presidential candidates of undercutting American workers.

The rule, which was issued on Thursday and which the Labor Department estimates will directly affect more than 1.1 million people once fully in effect, enables workers to accrue up to seven days of paid sick leave a year.

Advocates are urging the Philadelphia City Council to authorize up to 72 hours of paid sick leave each year for large firms and 40 hours for smaller companies.

Not exact matches

«The main reasons for the disappointing start of the year in Germany are one - offs, like the harsh winter weather, vacation and high levels of sick leave due to the flu, combined with some sentiment normalization.

My company had a generous sick leave policy of up to three days in a row without a doctor's note, as often as needed throughout the year, fully paid, for all exempt employees.

For years, Rite Aid (RAD) was the sick man of the retail pharmacy industry, after a debt - fueled, pre-financial-crisis expansion left the firm unable to cope with the competitive pressures it faced from online retailers like Amazon.com.

Pointing to a mandatory paid sick leave rule that passed several years back in Connecticut, the President notes:

Restaurant chain Darden joined Disney in Florida to crush efforts to require mandatory sick leave last year.

In February of this year, Facebook (fb) expanded its employee benefits to include 20 days of paid leave to grieve the loss of an immediate family member and up to six weeks of paid time to take care of sick relatives.

But legislation that would mandate paid sick leave nationwide, notably the so - called Healthy Families Act, has stalled in Congress for years, prompting the administration to seek alternative ways of achieving the policy's goals.

The rule, which does not need additional approval, requires that workers in assignments related to many federal contracts receive one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours they work, for up to 56 hours of leave a year.

I am 54 and left the church many years ago because I was so sick of the hypocritical parishioners and the exclusion of anyone who wasn't just like them.

Its kind of an interesting thought but 20 years ago, that generations 20 - 30 something's we're leaving the traditional churches we are going back to because they were sick of the legalistic, formalism, suit and tie, hymnal style church.

This is the reality faced by millions of women who consider abortions each year, and the sad irony is the same pro-life politicians who want to force them to have their babies typically oppose raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid sick leave and parental leave for all American workers, and protecting the 20 million people who can finally afford health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act.

Harris Ranch offers a comprehensive benefits package for managerial employees, including health insurance, employer - match 401k, vacation and sick leave, all backed by a quality of life philosophy and over 25 years of financial growth and stability.

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I'm so sick of people telling those of us who are disgruntled fans to relax and give this club time to correct itself... for anyone who believes that taking a wait - and - see approach is appropriate at this juncture they should take a good long look at themselves in the mirror because they are a big part of the problem... no other «big» club's fans would stand for this shit for nearly as long as we have... think about it, we've witnessed a changing of the guard at every major club in England, Spain, France and Germany in the last several years because those «big» clubs failed to live up to expectations (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, ManU, ManCity etc...)... for some reason, many fans have become as fragile as our current manager, believing that there couldn't possibly be a suitable replacement, even though everyone of these clubs have found multiple replacements and still achieved far more than our club... this mindset has been created by an organization that has been milking it's fans, telling countless lies (no world class players available) and lowering expectations every since they rolled out the biggest lie of all: that we couldn't spend because of the new stadium but once it was paid off we could compete with any team in the world... this organization is rotting from the inside out and if we don't demand that those in charge put soccer first this despicable behaviour won't end with Wenger's ridiculous 2 year contract... I think the real fear isn't that a suitable replacement doesn't exist, but that this organization is so money hungry and poorly mismanaged that we will sink even lower by choosing our next coach the same way they choose our players, on the cheap... even so, we need to see what mustache will do if left to his own devices so he will have to show his true colours... only then can we purge this club and start anew

Wellbeck?give it a couple of games and he, l get injured and be out for a couple of months, window shut, no signing as usual, I'm sick of the sight of this fraud, Greedy Stan, Idle Ivan and Fraud Wenger are milking this club and taking the piss out of the fans, All the time every season we get left further and further behind, top players going elsewhere cos we don't need them, good news though boys, we don't need a defender cos Pers signed for another year, sleep tight!!

When I left health visiting and went to work in NICU for a few years, I became more involved with supporting sick and preterm babies to breastfeed.

Sometimes I think to myself that I have a good 25 - 30 years left of solid work years ahead of me but I have no intention of not being around when my daughter comes home from school or when she is sick or when she just needs me so deciding at this point in my life to go climb any type of ladder is just not going to happen.

James O'Brien, president of the Boston Carmen's Union, which represents T transit workers, blamed the agency, saying that for years managers encouraged drivers to take unpaid medical leave rather than paid sick days.

It was a genuinely radical change after years in which people «on the sick» were effectively left to their own devices.

The Ghanaian journalist battled with cancer for quite a number of years and was off air for over a year, on sick leave.

New York City adopted a paid sick leave law several years ago and now proponents are trying to marshal support for a similar measure in Albany County — which would extend a privilege enjoyed by state workers and lawmakers to the private sector, where part - time and service - industry workers are especially unlikely to have the same perk.

Almost a year after the expansion of the paid - sick - leave law, the de Blasio administration is forming an advisory panel of business leaders to report on its impact.

Retiring Sen. Tom Duane confirms he's leaving Albany after 14 years because he's sick of the commute and ready for something new.

Under a new law that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed on the 16th anniversary of 9/11 this year, municipalities can get reimbursed by the state for the money they spend on sick leave for any firefighters who assisted in the rescue efforts at ground zero.

De Blasio's proposal would expand paid sick leave legislation orchestrated by former Speaker Christine Quinn, passed last year, over the veto of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

De Blasio had made the expansion of paid sick leave a central part of his platform during last year's election.

In an attempt to move the stalled paid sick leave bill, advocates showed up at Central Park yesterday to point out carriage horses get time off (the result of a bill passed earlier this year), but people aren't guaranteed sick time.

At a City Hall press conference two hours after Quinn's appearance, he said, «I think if you ask everyday New Yorkers if you want to wait a year or two for paid sick leave, they'll say no.

Under the bill, businesses would have to give workers 72 hours, or nine days, a year in sick leave.

An illegal war Uncontrolled immigration # billions leaking every year via new quangos Students (in England) now have to mortgage their futures to get to University 24 hour binge drinking breakdown of the family vast increase in licensed gambling External debt quadrupled to $ 11 Trillion making us the second largest debtor nation in the world after the USA at $ 12 Trillion (we may overtake them later this year) Pension funds pillaged for # 5Bn a year Gold reserves sold for a pittance Children leaving school unable to read or write NHS a basket case - 1 in 10 leave hospital sicker than when they went in.

Brewer, who consistently said the speaker continued a dialogue with her over her proposed legislation even while declining to move forward, said, «After three years of non-stop advocacy and coalition building, I am pleased and grateful that we have reached a deal with Speaker Christine C. Quinn on my paid sick leave bill.»

Linn testified that city workers have a number of options for cobbling together leave time as new parents — including comp time, sick time and as much as five weeks of vacation per year.

Chris Quinn, the speaker of the City Council for the past seven years, drew the line at a measure that would help working people — paid sick leave, a benefit provided by virtually every nation in Europe.

ALBANY — Here's one way to interpret Senator Jeff Klein's loud advocacy this season for the Dream Act, paid sick leave, campaign finance reform and other pieces of the liberal agenda that failed to make it into the budget this year:

From the beginning of this mayoral campaign, the public advocate has been using the issue of paid sick leave, and Quinn's increasingly awkward three - year - long - and - counting refusal to allow it to come up for a vote on the Council, as a means of distinguishing himself from her, and of highlighting her sometimes - awkward attempts to placate her party's liberal base without alienating Michael Bloomberg and the business establishment whose support she has courted for years.

Sepúlveda, for his part, noted the mayor's accomplishments such as universal prekindergarten, his push for affordable housing and expanding paid sick leave, saying that de Blasio «has suffered his fair share of slings and arrows that come from being the mayor» but the city is fortunate «to have the right mayor guiding us, especially for the last four years and hopefully the next four years.»

The speech marks the end to a busy first year for Mark - Viverito who has billed herself as a progressive and inclusive council speaker who has pushed legislation on everything from immigration to sick leave and climate change.

Ten - year - old Hailey Bussey, whose PFOA blood level of 51.5 is 25 times the national average, carried a handwritten letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, asking why the administration «left us to die like sick kittens.»

The move to mandate paid sick leave in New York City was propelled last year by the fear of the spread of swine flu.

The 45 - year - old male patient had become so chemically intolerant that he had been on sick leave for two years, had moved out of his home and could only see his children outside, not indoors.

Initially the changes were local, and there is little comfort in reading of concern even 2400 years ago, when Plato wrote «what now remains (of forested lands in Attica) is like the skeleton of a sick man, all the fat and soft earth having been wasted away, and only the bare framework of the land being left».

For years we've been advised to eat a low - fat, high carb diet to stay trim and healthy, but that way of eating has left us fat, sick, and hungry.

im not perfect and seems alot people are pickie im just got out of a 13 year marriage cheated on and left im sick of it... hard trust people yes i have tattoos and bad teeth so if you do nt like that guess move on have 2 kids i will have some times so if you do nt like kids im not the one its what on i...

A man tells a woman and another man at dinner that on the road after a nuclear event, he met a sick 13 - year - old boy who pointed a knife at him and then begged him to shoot and kill him; the man says he left the boy by the side of the road to die and he later tells the woman that the boy may have been her brother (she cries, but forgives the man).

There is no screenwriter this year closer to her central character than Emily V. Gordon, who, with her husband, Kumail Nanjiani, wrote the romantic comedy The Big Sick, based on their real love story and the medical crisis that left Emily in a coma.

Kronholz cites findings from the National Council on Teacher Quality's database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, which show that district contracts give their teachers an average of 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

A new Fordham report finds that 28 % of teachers in traditional district schools miss more than 10 school days a year for sick or personal leave while teachers in charter schools have lower rates absences.