Sentences with phrase «workers lack access»

Connecticut: Nearly 600,000 workers lack access to a workplace retirement plan in the state of Connecticut.

With the shift from pensions to individual savings, gone are the days when many retirees could rely on a regular check when they retire — and as many as half of all workers lack access to employer - sponsored retirement accounts at all.

Not exact matches

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed 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.

«Approximately 3.5 million private sector workers aged 18 to 64 in New York lack access to an employer sponsored retirement savings program,» the book states.

«This lack of access is even higher among low - income and part - time workers.

The program would make New York City the first city in the U.S. to offer its own retirement savings program for private sector workers who lack access to employer - sponsored retirement plans, de Blasio and other citywide elected officials said Thursday at City Hall.

The problems cited include employees having access to select agents they were unauthorized to work with; one faculty member performing a recombinant DNA experiment with a toxin, even though the experiment had not gained the necessary CDC approval; workers lacking the appropriate protective gear; three missing vials of brucella; and three individuals whose blood registered elevated levels of the bacterium and select agent Coxiella burnetii, which causes Q fever, a normally treatable disease.

Forty - three percent of all workers also lack access to paid sick leave.

Overall, 39 percent of all workers, and 80 percent of low - wage workers, lack access to paid vacation time.

Moreover, a percentage of the solar systems will also be provided to local primary health care centres that could truly benefit from access to electricity, and to community health workers who bring vital health services directly into homes and schools currently lacking access to electricity.

Folks who lack access may include the self - employed, people on early retirement or contract workers.