Sentences with phrase «worker program by»

This could limit legitimate use of the temporary foreign worker program by employers who are innovating or moving into new fields or emerging markets that necessitate the hiring of outside talent.

That changed in 1986, when the H program was split into the H - 2A agricultural and H - 2B non-agricultural temporary worker programs by the Immigration Reform and Control Act, creating the categories still in use today.

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Unpaid internships depress wages by creating a pool of workers willing to work for free — and for no benefits, making them akin to the labourers brought to Canada under the much - maligned temporary foreign worker program.

Originally announced in December by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, the changes to Canada's Federal Skilled Worker Program aim to improve the economic suitability of new Canadians.

As well, ineligible firms can make themselves eligible for the program by firing workers and cutting salaries, giving them a $ 2200 tax credit they would not have otherwise receive.

The firm is already helping a variety of major cancer centers with its tech; the new worker benefit program will allow employees to consult with their doctors by giving them their medical history and getting their specific cancers genetically sequenced.

When the U.S. ended the bracero program 1964, which had allowed large numbers of Mexicans to work on U.S. farms, neither the wages nor the employment rates of U.S. farm workers rose, according to recent research by economists Michael Clemens, Hannah Postel and me.

According to a new study for the Labor Department conducted by Sanat Monica, California - based nonprofit research firm the RAND Corporation, nearly half of U.S. employers with a minimum of 50 workers offered workplace wellness programs in 2012, while 90 percent of companies with greater than 50,000 workers offered the programs over the same period.

Prized by the business lobby, loathed by unionized labour, the temporary foreign worker program is either a solution to or an exacerbation of a problem that may or may not exist.

Last April, facing a Federal Court lawsuit launched by unions over the HD Mining workers, the federal government introduced reforms to the program, including removing a provision that allowed employers to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15 per cent less than the prevailing Canadian wage.

McGowan said the government must scrap low - wage jobs from the program and suspend its use for medium to high - skilled workers pending an investigation by the auditor general.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1,385 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the majority (51 %) do not agree Canadian employers should be able to hire temporary foreign workers (a federal program which has just been curtailed), while fewer than this agree (45 %).

Expanding community health worker programs could save more than 3.6 million lives each year, according to a study by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program: This program is open to any worker who is employed by a federal, state, or local goveProgram: This program is open to any worker who is employed by a federal, state, or local goveprogram is open to any worker who is employed by a federal, state, or local government.

Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder was revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.

Agricultural workers were also eligible to work legally under the temporary worker — H class visa — created by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952, although this program was primarily used for nonagricultural workers.

Industry trade groups like ICI have taken issue with the DOL's plan to boost workers» access to retirement plans through state - run programs, arguing that such plans will spur a «confusing, state - by - state patchwork of savings programs» that could lack strict federal controls.

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, Infosys ranked first with 6,269 H - 1B petitions approved by the government, and Tata ranked second with 6,193... these leading offshore outsourcing firms use the H - 1B program to replace American workers and to facilitate the offshoring of American jobs... they don't use the H - 1B visa as a way to alleviate a shortage of STEM - educated U.S. workers; they use it primarily to cut labor costs.»

He said efforts to revise the H - 2B guest worker program have been stalled by opposition from labor groups, which have argued that companies don't try hard enough to hire Americans or pay a living wage before turning to the program.

«Premier Christy Clark needs to honour her commitment to put B.C. workers first by reviewing the effect of this program on B.C.»

Even the establishment of a new and more robust temporary worker program and the reallocation of Diversity Visa quotas to other programs does not alleviate the significant concerns associated with the reduction of legal immigration levels by more than 400,000 family and diversity visas.

Pepito and his girlfriend, Heidi Kibanoff were hired in 2009 under Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFW) by Pierre Pelletier, owner of the Fernie Tim Hortons franchise.

The Ports Automobile Import / Export facility, which currently processes 150,000 cars and employs more than 300 direct workers will also benefit by receiving about $ 90 million of the Governor's Capital Investment program.

August 4, 1942 — the Mexican Farm Labor Program Agreement is signed by the governments of Mexico and the United States, the first establishing the legalization and control of Mexican migrant workers along America's southern border area

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

By not taking on the guest worker program, by not focusing on internal enforcement, and by coming out for increased low - skill immigration, Jindal basically agrees with the Chamber 0f Commerce - Chuck Schumer Axis that produced the Gang of Eight plan while offering conservative opponents a border certification procesBy not taking on the guest worker program, by not focusing on internal enforcement, and by coming out for increased low - skill immigration, Jindal basically agrees with the Chamber 0f Commerce - Chuck Schumer Axis that produced the Gang of Eight plan while offering conservative opponents a border certification procesby not focusing on internal enforcement, and by coming out for increased low - skill immigration, Jindal basically agrees with the Chamber 0f Commerce - Chuck Schumer Axis that produced the Gang of Eight plan while offering conservative opponents a border certification procesby coming out for increased low - skill immigration, Jindal basically agrees with the Chamber 0f Commerce - Chuck Schumer Axis that produced the Gang of Eight plan while offering conservative opponents a border certification process.

The demagogues and flakes have many vices, but at least they don't pretend that our problems will be solved by reducing the top income - tax rate and increasing low - skill guest - worker programs.

Only 5.3 percent of the professionals identified by the study reported that they watched religious programs regularly compared to 30.4 percent of blue - collar workers and 25.3 percent of «others.»

... Our church would be run by social workers, nurses, teachers, program coordinators, and public health professionals.

The program followed workers hired by KC Fresh Choice, a labour hire firm subcontracted by chicken giant Baiada, which turned over $ 1.3 billion in 2013 and whose family owners were valued at $ 523 million in last year's BRW Rich List.

Ben & Jerry's has agreed to implement the Milk with Dignity (MD) Program, a multi-year plan created by Migrant Justice in 2014, which aims to improve working conditions of dairy farm workers who supply the milk for the ice cream manufacturer.

Every step of your surrogacy journey — from the fertility process, pregnancy, delivery and post-delivery — will be carefully guided and coordinated by our experienced social workers and program coordinators.

The Chicago Food Policy Action Council and the Food Chain Workers Alliance have played a leadership role in the City's adoption of the Program by supporting the Chicago Good Food Taskforce organized by the Mayor's Office including multiple City of Chicago Sister Agencies (Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Park District, Chicago City Colleges, Chicago Housing Authority) and Departments (Department of Public Health, Department of Family and Support Services, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Aviation, and Procurement).

School social workers can help increase school breakfast participation by encouraging schools in their district to implement a breakfast after the bell program and to offer breakfast for free to all students (particularly in schools or school districts with high concentrations of students certified for free and reduced - price school meals).

Authoring organization (s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health - Published: 2006, 2008 Summary: These materials include clinical algorithms geared for health workers (not lay counselors) to use to counsel mothers and determine the most appropriate time to stop breastfeeding; an adaptation and finalization of the World Health Organization (WHO) Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling: An Integrated Course, including new chapters on complementary feeding and country - specific recommendations; adaptations and local drawings / graphics inspired by the WHO counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement feeding.

Helping Mothers Survive (HMS) Developed by Jhpiego, HMS training programs are designed to equip frontline health workers with the knowledge and skills they need to prevent mothers from dying on the day of birth.

The Board also took the first step toward expanding its social worker program to meet the explosive student enrollment growth experienced by CCSD over the last two decades by hiring a third social worker: Dr. Tara Quinn - Schuldt, who has worked as a social worker in Carroll County's school system for 13 years.

She hated the idea that dedicated cafeteria workers around the country were being implicitly maligned by media stories about «miracle schools,» because those stories almost never disclosed the hidden advantages that made those fabulous meal programs possible.

Every step of your surrogacy journey - from the fertility process, pregnancy, delivery and post-delivery - will be carefully guided and coordinated by our experienced social workers and program coordinators.

The program is designed to be run by a professional who is familiar with this age group such as a school social worker, school psychologist, guidance counselor, teacher, or school administrator.

As part of the agreement, labor unions have also said they would hire workers who take part in training programs sponsored by the JSCB.

AG Andrew Cuomo just announced he has filed a second lawsuit against Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., this time accusing the Bronx Democrat of violating labor laws by creating a sham job training program that cheated workers and shortchanged state coffers.

State workers can save their emails by printing them out, pasting them into Microsoft Word documents or placing them in a special folder in the email program itself.

Cuomo convened the mandate relief council in 2011, and during his first three years in office has helped localities by capturing cost increases in the Medicaid program and taking over its administration from counties, giving school districts more flexibility in how they set up bus transportation and imposing a less - generous pension plan for newly hired workers.

Local government leaders have been warning that the 2 percent property tax cap imposed by Cuomo and the legislature last year will severely squeeze their finances, and that key programs and workers will have to be cut.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Comprehensive supportive services provided by Lantern at Prospero Hall are delivered by a team of Social Workers and Program Specialists dedicated to helping clients improve their physical and mental health, reinstate themselves into the community and job market, and advance towards their individualized goals while also achieving housing stability.

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This program upgrades the skill sets necessary for aspiring workers to succeed by placing these individuals with companies that build their skills «on the job.»