Sentences with phrase «state workers making»

Raise the wages of state workers making federal minimum wage because they aren't included under state minimum wage law.

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China's huge state - owned infrastructure companies, hampered by their own country's gradual slowdown, need projects that will keep their foundries blazing and their workers paid while the nation makes the transition to a less industrial, more consumer - driven economy.

It is the latest successful legislative push targeting union power following a Republican sweep of statehouses in 2010, and if Gov. Mitch Daniels signs the bill as expected it will make Indiana the first Rust Belt state to ban contracts that require workers to pay mandatory union fees for representation.

Fudge's letter was made public by the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), which represents many of the unionized grocery workers in the United Workers union (UFCW), which represents many of the unionized grocery workers in the United workers in the United States.

Ohio is second only to Michigan when it comes to auto - linked workers, so Trump's promises to make Ford move factories back to the United States helps his cause.

States also scrutinize worker classification when claims are made by workers for unemployment compensation and workers» compensation.

Michigan's state legislature is expected to give final approval as early as Tuesday to new laws making it a «right - to - work» state despite protests from thousands of unionized workers.

Japan's government loosened laws on pensions in May, allowing almost all working - age Japanese to join private defined - contribution retirement plans — similar to individual retirement accounts (IRAs) in the United States that allow workers to make regular contributions to an investment fund with tax breaks.

Meanwhile, Maine has become the first state to make it illegal for employers to punish workers for cannabis use during their off hours.

I suspect he refers to the accounts of the failures of economies directed by state elites under the banner of «collective decision making» and «workers democracy», because all the literature on REAL workers» control shows it increases efficiency and, of course, freedom — it eliminates wage slavery.

In a terse decision, Judge Gregory A. Presnell of the United States District Court in Orlando rejected the former workers» arguments that Disney and the two contractors had colluded to make false statements when they applied for temporary visas, known as H - 1B, for the foreign replacements.

The monthlong reprieve prolongs the state of uncertainty hanging over the global economy, making it difficult for businesses to plan and discouraging them from investing in new factories or hiring more workers.

The state's highest court made it much harder for companies like Uber to classify workers as contractors rather than employees.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Utility workers from more than 30 states and Canada made their way to Florida ahead of Irma's landfall to assist with restoration.

Under the Connecticut bill, employees who are at least 19, make at least $ 5,000 a year and work for companies that employ five or more workers and don't offer a retirement plan would automatically be enrolled in the state - run plan (a Roth IRA) at a default contribution rate of 3 %, according to the National Association of Plan Advisors, which cites the Connecticut Post.

The state's new «ABC» test will make it more difficult for companies to defend classifying workers as independent contractors.

The order weighs how to make the country's immigration program «more merit based,» calls for site visits at companies that employ foreign workers, and tasks the Department of Homeland Security with producing a report twice a year on the total number of foreign - born people — not just nonimmigrant visa holders — who are authorized to work in the United States.

A group of workers at Venezuela's state - owned oil company is requesting wages in dollars as well as meal plans and better health insurance to make up for what they called «suffocating» economic conditions.

At least 29 states have made efforts in recent years to expand retirement savings program coverage for private sector workers, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

As a result, unsurprisingly, these states have the lowest percentage of workers making the federal minimum wage.

By contrast, the states with the highest proportion of workers making the federal minimum wage or less are Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and Idaho, where between seven and eight percent of workers make at or below $ 7.25.

Just like today with all the indetured workers making the Gulf states run these Dhimmis of yore artificially propped up the Islamic world.

i bluntly stated that no illegal or undoc - umented worker is going to just come to america and take up a job making $ 50,000 or more a year.

The United States welcomed its immigrants, protected its workers, freed the slaves, enfranchised women, aided the needy, provided social security for the aged, ensured the civil rights of all its citizens, and made public space accessible to the handicapped: all in service to its ideals of justice.

CSEA, the state's largest public - workers union, announced it would suspend its backing of state lawmakers in order to «re-evaluate our political relationships and make judgments about the criteria.»

This has institutionalised «harm reduction» in the laws of the state, and has also made these services available to categories of people, such as prisoners, sex workers and vagrants, who have been otherwise regarded as immoral, deviant and «counter-revolutionary».

He also added that state workers whom his administration has a contractual obligation to pay at the end of every month, and the political class who made it possible to campaign, contest and win elections will be carried along in his administration.

``... While they may not be receiving pay until a budget it reached, they certainly are not offering to make any concessions that would affect their wallets... and they are all making double, sometimes triple, what an average state worker is paid.»

Gov. David Paterson this morning lambasted public employee unions for making an issue of the $ 42,000 worth of raises he granted — and subsequently rescinded — to five members of his own staff at a time when he was pushing for a furlough for state workers.

Gov. David Paterson said the sacrifice state workers are going to make is «only necessary because their union leadership has rejected all other reasonable attempts at compromise.»

Hoyt says this will continue until the Governor stops his furlough of 100 thousand state workers — something he makes clear he disagrees with in a press release he just sent out.

That is already in motion, which means 300,000 fast food workers are on a schedule to make $ 15 by 2018 in New York City, by 2021 everywhere else in New York State.

«The emergency regulation upholds the State's position that home care workers should be paid for 13 hours of a 24 - hour lift - in shift, provided allowance is made for sleep and meal time.

Alhaji Iddris made this known during a Press Confrence at the COCOBOD Headquarters to respond to the claims that workers of the State owned enterprise jubilated upon hearing of Dr. Opuni Frimpong's dismissal as CEO.

Last month, a State Appellate Court ruled in favor of two home healthcare workers who filed suit claiming the 13 - hour rule violated New York State's minimum wage laws, since they were made available to work 24 - hours a day by being live - in home health workers.

The California State Assembly debated legislation Thursday introduced by Democratic Assemblyman Miguel Santigo that would make «International Workers» Day,» a holiday with Socialist and Communist roots, a paid state holState Assembly debated legislation Thursday introduced by Democratic Assemblyman Miguel Santigo that would make «International Workers» Day,» a holiday with Socialist and Communist roots, a paid state holstate holiday.

He made the decision after the state Legislature refused to approve his proposal to raise the minimum wage for all workers.

«The mayor wants to work closely with our state partners, but he wants to make sure that there will not be any sort of chilling effect on medical workers who might want to go over to help,» spokesman Phil Walzak told AP.

Collins was referring to the allegations of Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state worker who claimed in 1994 that Bill Clinton made an unwanted sexual advance toward her.

Our private sector unions develop skilled workers we desperately need to make critical investments in our state's infrastructure.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month announced the state would not defend a lawsuit from the New York Civil Liberties Union against a constitutional provision that makes it difficult for agricultural workers to unionize.

Its supporters claim that it has helped to make Alaska the most equal state in the US, provides a safety net for all citizens, helps to reduce poverty and ease unemployment traps, and promotes worker freedom.

When an hourly state worker is shown to have claimed a few extra hours of payment they are removed from their position and forced to make restitution.

While informal workers and marginal youth are often envisaged as disengaging from, or making their community «invisible» to, a state «which is seen as more repressive than rewarding», young people's visions of a fair polity remained state - centric (Azarya 1994: 83).

But the key factors that could make these structures effective, worker mobilisation, and state action to coerce or incentivise capital to cooperate, are not being discussed.

However, the party said it was in support of the senator's agitation for good welfare for workers and the downtrodden, adding that the state had been made a laughing stock.

Those in the state pension system should be given a choice to opt for a 401 (k)- type benefit, which would make it portable if the worker moves to another job, he said.

«Ironically,» he said, «the provision preemptively limiting worker rights and benefiting the unions could not have made it into the budget without agreement of Senate Republicans — whose slender working majority has been targeted by campaigns funded largely by NYSUT and UFT,» the state and local teachers unions.

She raised the pay for all city of Syracuse workers to at least $ 15 an hour even before Gov. Andrew Cuomo did that for state workers, making Syracuse the first city in the state to do it.