Sentences with phrase «work protects workers»
The right to refuse unsafe work protects workers from any form of reprisal for exercising this right, including loss of compensation or benefits.
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Are our strange work hours a simple reflection of tech - enabled flexibility and Americans» passion for their jobs, or a sign that bosses» sanity and workers» rights really need to be better protected?
The source said the pay cap was brought in to «deal with the mess we inherited from Labour» and acknowledged the «hard work and sacrifice» made by public sector workers, saying jobs had been protected and the deficit reduced by three quarters.
Years of pressure from laborer organizers, along with changes from companies like Ford Motor, reformed working conditions in the U.S. and protected workers from schedules that endangered their health and safety.
The rise in contract workers, such as Uber drivers, or those who work temporary positions for companies means that many U.S. workers are not protected by these laws.
Whether it's a failure to protect your workers against carbon monoxide, the silent killer, or a sleep - deprived employee getting into a fatal car accident on the drive to work, every job comes with potential hazards.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, a pro-trade Republican from Texas, said he would work to ensure the tariffs «are narrow and targeted to protect our workers and job creators here at home.»
«Visa programs for foreign workers... should be administered in a manner that protects the civil rights of American workers and current lawful residents, and that prioritizes the protection of American workers — our forgotten working people — and the jobs they hold.»
Despite the fact that the loan guarantees were approved by Congress mainly to protect jobs at Chrysler, the company has sent home nearly half of its employees, cutting its white collar work force by 20,000 and laying off 42,600 of its hourly workers since the loan guarantees were signed into law.
Develop responsible contracting standards for service contracts to ensure that cafeteria workers, janitors, security officers and other onsite service workers are paid a livable wage, receive benefits equitable to those received by directly employed workers, have the right to a voice at work without fear of discrimination or retaliation, do not suffer mass layoffs when contracts change hands, and are protected from misclassification and other forms of wage theft;
The group of MPs are exploring case studies from Northern Ireland, France and Sweden - all countries which have criminalised paying for sex - to see if it helps protect sex workers and minimise the number of people working in the industry.
The convention also obliges governments to protect domestic workers from violence and abuse, and to prevent child labor in domestic work.
With this new national standard, child labor will be prohibited, migrant workers will be protected from exploitation and safe working conditions will be enforced.
But it occurred also because of government laws protecting workers from extreme exploitation and from the organizing work of the employees themselves.
This is what James Eadie QC, Cameron's Government's expensive barrister, told the court (on his behalf): that the refusal to allow an NHS nurse and a British Airways worker to visibly wear a crucifix at work «did not prevent either of them practising religion in private», which would be protected by human rights law.
Palsgaard has been a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2008, and sees the topic of sustainability as an essential issue for protecting the global environment, upholding biodiversity and providing suitable working conditions for local plantation workers.
The Rainforest Alliance is an international nonprofit organization working to build a future in which nature is protected and biodiversity flourishes, where farmers, workers, and communities prosper, and where sustainable land use and responsible business practices are the norm.
This is the Turnbull government that's stood by and done absolutely nothing when it comes to ensuring that workers» penalty rates for working on Sundays in retail and hospitality industries are protected.
Collectively we can work to protect the rights of workers on farms and elsewhere in the food system, and to improve the welfare of animals in agriculture, and to ensure our soils and water are nourished and regenerated.
The workers are calling for five specific changes they plan to present to the school board during a Wednesday meeting: soliciting input from lunchroom staff to help improve school food, offering more training and education for lunchroom workers, adding collective bargaining language that protects workers» right to talk about the food to parents and kids, building working kitchens in all new schools, and ceasing the replacement of fresh food with frozen and reheated fare.
Safeguarding the health of expectant and nursing mothers and protecting them from job discrimination is a precondition for achieving genuine equality of opportunity and treatment for men and women at work and enabling workers to raise families in conditions of security.
LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Protecting Infants in Emergencies in the Developed World.
LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Protecting Infants in Emergencies in the... Read More
We must continue to work with our elected leaders to ensure we have an affordable system that continues to protect workers across New York.»
«We strongly endorse his re-election today and we are proud to continue to work with him to protect the rights of workers across New York State.»
«The Independent Democratic Conference has always supported working men and women and recognizes the importance of protecting worker rights including the right to join a union,» said AFL - CIO President Mario Cilento.
She truly understood the vital role labor unions serve in strengthening our economy, and worked hand in hand with us to improve workplace protections, increase wages for America's working poor and middle class, and protect workers» health and retirement benefits.
«By forming a majority coalition, the bold leadership of the IDC — who throughout their existence have carried most of the legislation important to workers — protects the values and visions of the working - and middle - class and ensures that important policy advances in the Senate.
Where workers» rights are protected - when your food is produced by fully - trained staff working in safe and secure conditions - quality tends to be higher as the managers are forced to look for alternatives.
Cuomo said the work of the Task Force is essential to protecting the rights of immigrant workers.
However, they've stuck around, in part, because LIRR workers have been willing to make concessions that are more valuable to management — such as contributing to health care — in order to protect work rules that benefit fewer workers, but can be very lucrative, he said.
«We are pleased to continue to work with all parties to protect patients and ensure the safety and well - being of thousands of hospital workers and other health care professionals across the state,» the statement issued Wednesday afternoon read.
«In New York, we have achieved nation - leading success in workers» rights, and we will continue to fight to protect all hard - working New Yorkers,» Cuomo said.
«A system of free movement is the best way to protect and advance the interests of all workers, by giving everyone the right to work legally, join a union and stand up to their boss without fear of deportation or destitution.»
His support and leadership on labor issues, including the worker safety bill to protect utility workers and his support of paid family leave made a difference in the lives of working people.
With the current attacks on working people it is most important that the Labour Party and trades unions work effectively together — poor working conditions and low wages require more union organisation and legislation to protect workers.
«As a Senator and small business owner who employs union workers, he has taken steps to protect workers; cutting taxes, securing economic development funding to put people to work and giving them greater opportunity to earn a good living and support their families.
The government has used World Press Freedom Day to affirm its commitment to defend and protect media workers, who it claims are too often targeted for their work.
So he has tabled a parliamentary motion to protect workers from having to work in uncomfortably hot conditions.
She called for a work environment in which workers feel protected as well as a clear policy and process to which everyone adheres.
«With this new partnership, the child protective worker and domestic violence advocate will work collaboratively to support that parent's efforts to protect their child,» said Department of Social Services Commissioner Carol Dankert - Maurer.
ALBANY, NY (01/20/2009)(readMedia)-- «This rule will have a profound impact on the working lives of thousands of public employees and it will save lives,» CSEA President Danny Donohue told state Department of Labor officials today about a proposed DOL rule that would require public employers to put in place workplace violence prevention programs to protect their workers.
But women who have worked for the Legislature and have filed harassment complaints against lawmakers criticized the process and the end product, saying the new provisions will not adequately protect workers.
CPS workers are those that work through the process to try to keep families together, but more importantly, protect the children.
It paved the way for the unyielding efforts to protect workers on the job and reminds us that we must not take work place safety for granted.
The proposed amendments would raise the law's original salary cap for protected workers from $ 25 an hour to $ 35, and include employees who work for an office building tenant with at least 30,000 square foot of space.
The amendments would also better protect workers whose building owners attempt to contract out their jobs, and extend assistance to employees whose work becomes in - sourced from a contractor to property owner.
«They stand with working - class people of color like me on issue after issue including preserving and building truly affordable housing, reforming the NYPD, protecting immigrant families, standing up for workers» rights, and making sure that all people's voices are heard in our democracy.»
«We are pleased to continue to work with all parties to protect patients and ensure the safety and well - being of thousands of hospital workers and other health care professionals across the state.
Such claims, true or not, have the potential to stymie the efforts of aid workers in the field, making water engineers» work more hazardous, and the prospects for protecting water supplies from military attack much harder.