Sentences with phrase «workers on»

They were supposedly paid $ 42.48 an hour, plus $ 27.39 worth of benefits, to deliver coffee to workers on the site.

But Fanjul Corp.'s treatment of workers on its cane farming operations have drawn fines and lawsuits in the United States and opprobrium in Mr. Espaillat's native Dominican Republic.

State workers on the lower reaches of the Empire State Plaza's Corning Tower, which houses the Department of Health, were allowed to leave early Tuesday due to a heating malfunction that caused temperatures indoors to fall as low as 45 degrees in the morning.

«It represents progress,» said Korn, whose union group represents 600,000 teachers and other school workers on the Island and statewide.

It will be good news for workers on minimum wage jobs but the rise is not big enough to keep pace with Osborne's promise that the rate will reach # 9 by 2020.

At 1 p.m. the Committee on Contracts and the Committee on Community Development will meet for a joint oversight on meeting self sufficiency standards for workers on Human Service Contracts.

Fought corruption at source with the introduction of IPPIS technology that eventually eliminated 50,000 ghost workers on the Federal Government payroll.

The Oyo State Police Command on Monday arraigned 22 suspected transport workers who were allegedly involved in the clash between members of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria and National Union of Road Transport Workers on Friday.

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.

Overnight cleaners have already been removed from R line stations on the 9 p.m. - 5 a.m. shift, and the MTA plans to get rid of the late - night workers on five more lines in January and the entire system by mid-2018, the sources said.

«We have the total backing of all Nigerian workers on this strike and mass protest,» the Nigeria Labour Congress's Chris Uyot told the BBC.

And yet this is the same government that passed an emergency budget that could put more than a million workers on the scrapheap, that jacks up a VAT that lands heaviest on those who are the most hard - up, that floats shrinking some public services by up to 40 % — that almost gleefully drops the guillotine of cuts on the necks of the poor.

The agreement would set an average hourly wage of $ 60 for workers on developments in Manhattan south of 96th Street that have 300 or more rental units, and $ 45 in areas along the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront.

Her family has come from North Carolina to help clean up and they are angry because they haven't seen any utility workers on the block.

«Meanwhile, the three tiers of government pay salaries to workers on the basis of N199 per dollar while the worker's pay for goods and services which prices are determined by the open market rate of N400 to one dollar.

A campaign official for Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin issued a quick apology after an email that contained a fundraising link was sent to city school workers on their work accounts.

This came on the heels of the payment of May 2018 salaries to workers on the eve of this year's workers» day celebration by the state government.

Contractors with the county must have NYS Certified Worker Training Programs that actually graduate workers as apprentices, thereby providing local workers with the education and skills training they need to succeed in construction trades now and in the future, while at the same time lessening the need for out - of - area workers on these jobs as local workers gain new skills.

(The Bronx, NY) Congressman José E. Serrano joined hundreds of 32BJ SEIU residential workers on Wednesday March 11 at a rally outside Bronx Borough Hall to demand fair wages and work benefits.

«He was one of the hardest workers on the communications committee, and I am sure he will provide the necessary leadership to revitalize the Reform Party of Florida».

Sen. Charles Schumer (D - NY), sporting protective ear plugs to block out the whirling of machines, shakes hands with workers on the factory floor of New York Air Brake in Watertown.

Further, repeated deductions left the workers on the breadline and their accommodation was so miserable some were forced to sleep on towels after lengthy factory shifts until beds were provided.

If this could be done without sacrificing the right of the very lowest paid to a NIC credit, it would enable workers on low incomes to build up a contributory record at lower cost than at present.»

To call out workers on «essential services» for a national strike without any major trade dispute with their direct employers will be tantamount to blatant violation of our extant labour laws and international labour standards.

Back when we fought Worl War II, our workers were the best and most productive workers on the planet, our planes were the best, our weapons were the best, and products were made with pride and were the envy of the world.

This fits in to the wider pattern of insecure work that increasingly defines our workplaces, where there are nearly 1.7 million workers on some kind of temporary contract, with over a third taken because a permanent position was not available.

But for the thousands of workers on low pay and zero - hour contracts, there couldn't be a worse time for the government to deny them a voice in the workplace.

Legislation Protecting Nail Salon Workers On Thursday morning, Governor Cuomo signed legislation protecting and supporting nail salon workers in New York.

They also signed all the EU Directives that allowed big companies to hire agency workers on the cheap - in technical parlance, known as «The Swedish Derogation».

He further said that the hospital had set up collaboration with NCDC to implement a nationwide training of health workers on Lassa fever clinical diagnosis and management.

'' By the end of the training across the country, we hope to have build the capacity of frontline clinical, laboratory and public health workers on case management, laboratory diagnosis, prevention and control of Lassa fever.

Workers on a building under construction (Photo: Don Emmert for AFP / Getty Images)(Photo: Don Emmert for AFP / Getty Images)

The Ngeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it has begun a nationwide training of healthcare workers on case management, laboratory diagnosis, prevention and control of Lassa fever.

The state Senator who is trying to unseat Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino is calling on the Board of Elections to investigate the use of county workers on his campaign.

Two Milwaukee County supervisors want to amend their living wage proposal to require workers on county contracts be paid $ 11.33 per hour.

Put another way, minorities accounted for only 35 out of 334 workers on the site from January through March this year, according to the state records.Twenty were Native Americans, who accounted for more than half of the minority employees.

YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 % of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).

The Controller and Accountant General's Department (CAGD), has suspended the August salaries of some workers on government's mechanized payroll system.

In the first two months of construction, from May through June 2014, all 14 workers on the job site were white.

So far this year injures of workers on the Long Island Rail Road have increased more than 30 % while passenger injuries have increased about 20 %.

Put another way, minorities accounted for only 35 out of 334 workers on the site from January through March this year, according to the state records.

The number of workers on site is expected to increase sharply by the end of the year, he said, making it hard to predict exactly how the contractors will fare in implementing the goals.

(Observer file photo) But Fanjul Corp.'s treatment of workers on its cane farming operations have drawn fines and lawsuits in the United States and opprobrium in Mr. Espaillat's native Dominican Republic.

The Akufo - Addo administration has announced the implementation of a tax threshold to protect workers on minimum wage as part of its major tax reforms in the 2018 budget.

But Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that any future deal leading to a permanent renewal of the abatement must include some form of prevailing wage requirement for construction workers on projects benefitting from 421a — namely buildings with more than 15 units.

He attacked what he argued are unsafe and unfair conditions for workers on non-union jobs sites.

At a thousands - strong demonstration by building trades workers outside City Hall, Councilman Corey Johnson, a Manhattan Democrat, and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer announced a new bill that would obligate all workers on buildings taller than 10 stories to go through state - approved apprenticeships — training programs administered almost exclusively through unions and unionized companies.

Of the roughly 200 minority workers on site over the summer, 42 percent were Native American, 38 percent African - American, 18 percent Hispanic and 2 percent Asian.

The accord is a far cry from the initial demands of union groups, who sought prevailing wage requirements for construction workers on most projects that qualified for the tax break.

As a result, the government has had to step - in to perform a collective bargaining role as the negotiator of last resort for workers on low pay.