Sentences with phrase «wage employers»

It is striking that while 19 Labour councils are already living wage employers, not a single Conservative council is yet accredited.

Retailers and other low - wage employers strongly oppose the proposal.

Earlier Miliband met with the heads of the growing number of Labour councils which have become living wage employer status.

Our proud and continued commitment as a Living Wage employer means the club raises our minimum rate of pay during Living Wage Week...

The AFL believes many low - wage employers now make the TFWP a centrepiece of their recruitment strategy.

The way to create more jobs is to hire more people, not subsidize private industry, encourage substandard wages, put fair wage employers at a disadvantage, if not out of business, while suppressing everyone's wage.

McDonald's and low - wage employers everywhere are making billions of dollars in profit and pushing off costs onto taxpayers, while leaving people like us — the people who do the real work — struggling to survive.

John Meier seems closer to the intent of the Gospel author when he writes (p. 57), «The stress on the heavenly Father puts the reward idea - which is indeed part of Jesus» moral exhortation - into the context of a gift a Father gives his son, and not a strict wage an employer is bound to give his employee.»

For reasons both similar and different, the governor and the real estate / Wall Street / low - wage employer wings of the Democratic Party in New York would like to see the Working Families Party disappear.

Unless disclosure requirements are clarified, we'll probably never know exactly how much Walmart and other large, low - wage employers receive in government subsidies under New York's new Minimum Wage Reimbursement Credit (MWRC).

Hoyes Michalos signed a Living Wage Employer Declaration as a Champion level employer with Living Wage Waterloo Region on March 8, 2017.

They've framed their scheme in the convoluted way they have because they knew Canadians would be up in arms if they knew that this is really about letting low - wage employers hold on to TFWs for a longer period of time.»

Edmonton — The Harper government has caved in to pressure from low - wage employers who want to hold on to exploitable temporary foreign workers for a longer period of time.

Further evidence showing North Dakota's support for counselors is apparent in the mean annual wage employers pay mental health counselors: $ 60,017, rising to $ 73,688 for experienced counselors, according to the government's website.

Over the last 12 months Labour has increased the number of local authorities with living wage employer status from two to eight, while also adding Birmingham, Oxford and Preston.

Alongside this, we are also proud to be a Living Wage employer and offer sabbaticals for our crew as well as sharing 10 % of the annual profits of our company between everyone who made it happen.

teapigs are super proud to be an accredited Living Wage Employer.

By moving definitively towards becoming an accredited living wage employer, Liverpool FC has committed itself to a significant additional salary expenditure which will see all casual workers benefit from the real living wage in the same way that our directly employed staff already do.

Steve Rotheram added: «As mayor of the Liverpool city region, I am delighted that Liverpool Football Club has taken this step and is now committed to becoming a Real Living Wage Employer.

The savings come from reduced costs for public assistance to low - wage workers — in effect a taxpayer subsidy to large low - wage employers — and increased tax payments by workers benefiting from the wage hike.

Then after I became leader, about a year ago, Citizens UK came to see and said only a couple of councils, both Labour, were recognised as living wage employers.

I am proud to say that since then, Islington and Lewisham have been joined by Labour councils in Birmingham, Hounslow, Lambeth, Camden, Oxford, Preston, Southwark and Hackney, all living wage employers.

Secondly, we should seek to learn from the local government experience with procurement to see whether central government can use its power to insist that large firms that get major government contracts commit to being living wage employers.

Welsh Liberal Democrats have been consistent in promoting the civic role of educational institutions, including successfully challenging all universities in Wales to become living wage employers.

Welsh Liberal Democrats have also promoted the civic role of educational institutions, encouraging all Universities in Wales to become Living Wage employers.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat manifesto recognised the need to support vocational education and invest in apprenticeships, as well as calling for public sector organisations becoming living wage employers.

This is why pay matters and it's why JRF and JRHT took the decision to become a Living Wage employer and we're proud to have received our accreditation from the Living Wage Foundation.

The SQA is a Living Wage Employer and is now being asked if its current payment system adheres to the wage guarantee policy.

Under Tamara's direction, Vancity achieved the highest profits in the organization's 70 - year history and became the first Canadian financial institution (FI) invited to the Global Alliance for Banking on Values; the first carbon - neutral FI in North America; the largest Canadian private - sector living wage employer, and one of the first to create an alternative product to high - interest payday loans.

Hoyes, Michalos & Associates Inc. has, effective today, has become an accredited Living Wage employer.

SSE is a UK Living Wage employer, and Fair Tax Mark business, and it started offering broadband in 2015.

«This is a deal that was cooked up behind closed doors with the federal government, the Alberta government and low - wage employers.

In particular, it is in Alberta where low - wage employers have made the most aggressive use of the program in an attempt to drive down wages.

«Last June, the Harper Government promised to limit the number of TFWs that low - wage employers could use.