Sentences with phrase «worker program does»

Now, businesses are asking President Donald Trump for help, in the hope that the guest worker program doesn't get lost in the administration's efforts to tighten immigration policies.

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There are concerns that in some cases companies have little incentive to do so when they can access inexpensive labour through the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program, which has expanded dramatically over the past few years.

LMO ramped up its emphasis on training and learning through programs like «LMO University,» which communicates what various departments do, trains workers in different skill sets, and shares recent trends in the marketplace.

I don't agree very much with a lot of things our president is doing, but I do agree with his guest worker program, so that people could work here and remit taxes, for crying out loud.

Critics of the program say that large companies abuse H - 1B visas, hiring foreign workers who command lower salaries than Americans would doing the same job.

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 %).

Automation took over jobs during the previous Industrial Revolution, but many of the social program advances that helped ease the pain — unemployment insurance, worker's compensation, student loans and so on — didn't come into existence until much later.

Indeed, James Moore was so eager to pronounce this hypocrisy — apparently related to the temporary foreign workers program — that the Heritage Minister did not even wait for Mr. Trudeau to ask a question this afternoon before doing so.

KKR says it's doing other things to improve employee engagement, including an added focus on professional development programs and efforts to educate workers on how their jobs can have an impact on the stock price.

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.»

This is cold comfort for the more than 40 % of unemployed workers who do not qualify for EI benefits, and for those seeking skills training funded through the EI program.

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.

«Since the province doesn't monitor the use of foreign workers, we only have anecdotal evidence to go on, but we need to know if there is still widespread use of the program in the construction industry,» said Horgan.

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.

As someone who's worked with some of the world's leading organizations to build successful learning programs, I have found that worker preference for learning delivery has much more to do with need and role than age alone.

Just as those glued to their television sets for six or seven hours a night reasonably prefer sets with PIP (picture in picture) which let one see the action of more than one channel at once, to enhance surfing (at the loss of coherence, if you value that), so, too, do workers chained to computer monitors for eight or more hours a day naturally prefer to have a large screen with 16 million possible shades and hues of color, with a number of programs opened at once.

One such project is a «worker equity» program that attempts, as one of its goals, to eradicate from employers» minds the common negative stereotypes of older employees (they are stubborn, lazy, have less energy, do not adapt to new technologies) Another unit of the organizations the Interreligious Liaison Office, is also involved with the non-material aspects of aging.

Now, Ryan supports guest - worker programs so that American employers don't have to be stuck with hiring from America's troubled population of lower - skill workers.

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.

«Many more people qualify for these programs than you'd think,» says Edie Mead, a NICU social worker in Washington, D.C. «Even if both parents are working and you have private insurance, don't assume you won't qualify.»

Bertelsen said prior to the start of the Cooking From Scratch program, LUSD food service workers did little to no actual cooking.

The Doe Fund is best known for it's Ready, Willing & Able program, which puts its «Men in Blue» to work cleaning and maintaining many neighborhoods and business improvement districts while also providing those workers with intensive counseling and development programs.

· 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.

«Many states would be forced to kick low - income and disabled people off their health care coverage once federal funding for the Medicaid program is cut, as this Senate bill would do,» said Chris Shelton, president of the Communications Workers of America.

Carl H. McCall will chair a commission composed of experts from the financial services industry, consumer advocates, public officials and State regulators to study available options for the creation of a state - administered retirement savings program for workers whose employers do not offer a retirement plan.

Banks, however, said the new rules would do little to foster safety, noting that most accidents happen on small job sites that wouldn't be required to employ workers who went through the training program.

They did agree to push a city worker retirement incentive program and feel a boost in parking fees will help.

«You don't want to launch a citywide program and then realize you don't have enough doctors, social workers, and nurses,» she said.

Most private sector workers in New York City do not have any access to a retirement savings program, and low - income, immigrant, minority, and female New Yorkers are disproportionately impacted.

Hundreds of County workers do not need to be laid off, nor essential County programs and services cut, to achieve our goal of financial fitness.

The Cuomo administration has billed the deletion program as a way to improve efficiency, but workers say it's a hinderance and that they don't feel qualified to decide which emails should be saved in case of lawsuits or FOIL requests.

«As we create these hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units, we also make sure they are done by qualified, professional programs and builders and workers,» she said, insisting that union construction is safer and of superior quality.

While front - line workers now need 10 years of service to vest in their modest pension program, the politically favored few can literally take the money and run after just one year of service — so it's like getting a cash bonus windfall they didn't earn.

(5) A program bill for SEIU 1199: A measure backed by powerful health workers union 1199 SEIU that would allow home health aides to perform services typically done by nurses is stuck in the Assembly's rules committee with no Senate sponsor.

New York City private - sector workers whose employers don't offer retirement savings plans would be able to squirrel away part of their paychecks for their golden years under a city - run program Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to create.

The fact is, 100,000 people who provide support, guidance, and quality care to about 130,000 individuals with developmental disabilities in New York state are left out of Cuomo's campaign of «raising opportunity for workers and their families,» because, as it stands, the governor's plan doesn't include the necessary funding for nonprofits to support it, jeopardizing their staff, services and programs.

They'll also talk about the program to offer tax credits to employers who hire inner - city youth and what else her office is doing to support workers and employers in the state.

Mayor de Blasio and City Council leaders have taken policy positions that do just that: committing to non-cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), pioneering an IDNYC program, maintaining strong worker protections, and increasing funding for universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) and the Community Schools initiative.

During the question period, Senator Chuck Grassley (R — IA), the cosponsor, with subcommittee colleague Senator Dick Durban (D — IL) of a bill to tighten the H - 1B program, asked Hira if he could «rebut the assertion that some, including your co-panelist Brad Smith, have made that the U.S. does not in fact have enough highly skilled workers.»

They found that the Part 50 program did not capture about 66 percent of Illinois workers» compensation cases among mining employees from 2001 - 2013.

Workers» compensation cases that didn't have a corresponding Part 50 report were considered unreported to the Part 50 program.

Savings averaged about $ 350 per participating employee, compared to similar workers who did not participate in the wellness program.

The voluntary program was offered to workers, free of charge, at four of the five plants; the fifth did not participate because it used a different health insurance plan, providing a control group for the study.

One thing was clear from the talks: Most companies are focused on increasing the supply of workers with STEM education, but few are doing much to improve demand for such jobs, either by raising salaries for STEM jobs or implementing programs to make these jobs more attractive.

Valor's SEL work is based on ideas that Daren Dickson developed throughout his career as a social worker, clinical and program director, and social justice advocate, including work he did at the nonprofit Seneca Center in the San Francisco Bay Area with vulnerable young people and communities.

Simply put, although the President spoke of restoring millions of manufacturing jobs to U.S. shores, it's hard to picture Apple (or similar firms) responding, since the steps he has in mind to attract them are federal spending and tax programs and have little to do with the «diligence» of American workers, only a bit to do with «flexibility,» and a bit more to do with «skills.»

Newark, New Jersey, superintendent Cami Anderson (see «Newark's Superintendent Rolls Up Her Sleeves and Gets to Work,» features, Winter 2013) recalls that when she served as area superintendent for New York City's alternative schools and programs, the district had two «conventional wisdoms» when it came to evaluating guidance counselors and social workers: «The first was you'd be violating student confidentiality if you observed guidance counselors or social workers interacting with kids one - on - one, and the second was, if you weren't licensed as a clinical supervisor, you didn't have the authority to evaluate or document performance for these people.»

Nearly two decades after they attended an experimental preschool program in a low - income neighborhood in Ypsilanti, Mich., the small group of young people monitored in a now - well - known study continue to fare better as students, workers, and citizens than children from the same neighborhood who did not attend the preschool.

So when the Ed School started looking for funding for the new Doctor of Education Leadership Program, former Harvard Overseer Paul Buttenwieser and his wife, Katie, a social worker at Children's Hospital in Boston, did just that — they stepped up and donated one million dollars to endow a fellowship that will support one student throughout the three years of the pProgram, former Harvard Overseer Paul Buttenwieser and his wife, Katie, a social worker at Children's Hospital in Boston, did just that — they stepped up and donated one million dollars to endow a fellowship that will support one student throughout the three years of the programprogram.

Currently, our system does not guarantee access to student supports that are critical to many students» academic success — including support staff like counselors, school social workers or nurses, targeted strategies to improve school climate and address non-academic barriers to learning, and programming like additional tutoring.