Sentences with phrase «working and living conditions»

In November 2007, the AFL Temporary Foreign Worker Advocate released «Alberta's Disposable Workforce» which examined the working and living conditions of temporary foreign workers in Alberta, documenting serious exploitation and abuse at the hands of employers and the government.

The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) has released this second report on the working and living conditions of foreign workers in Alberta.

The more politically minded among us tend to stress the precariousness of our working and living conditions.

The Montreal SPCA believes it is time for the public, the city and the province to take a closer look at this industry and the working and living conditions the carriage horses are subjected to in the city of Montreal.

One line from «Let It Rock» — «working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer» — led right into a mini-lesson on folktales and heroes like John Henry, and we compared working and living conditions from the past with today, which is California State Social Studies Standards 2.1

Most importantly students were motivated to propose future actions and ideas to improve working and living conditions for fashion industry labourers.

Or would the money be better spent on improving human rights and people's working and living conditions?

► In a story about the animal species that are winning and losing as the Arctic warms, in this week's Science, Eli Kintisch offers a peek into the extreme working and living conditions of some of the biologists, zoologists, geoscientists, oceanographers, and atmospheric scientists conducting this research.

The Chinese government is taking measures to attract them back, including introducing more favorable policies and more flexible mechanisms and creating better working and living conditions for them.

Two board members, Buffalo mayor Byron Brown and SEIU secretary treasurer Mike Fishman, heard testimony from workers, labor leaders, business owners and academics mostly decrying the working and living conditions of minimum wage fast food workers and endorsing economic theories bolstering the case for a substantial increase in the minimum wage.

It will focus on best practices for social audits and issues such as working and living conditions, among other topics.

Ever since learning more about it and more about the working and life conditions of women and families in poverty both in the US and abroad, it has led to her asking, «other than posting articles on social media that has convicted me, what can I tangibly do?»

Migration patterns everywhere are primarily driven by economic factors: the dominant migration system in the world has been movement from rural to urban areas within countries as people seek more favorable work and living conditions.

Not exact matches

When Segen eventually relented, the inspection found poor living conditions and low food inventories — complaints eerily similar to those from refugees who worked for Segen elsewhere in Eritrea.

The RAISE Act's lower quotas and emphasis on English and other skills would make it harder to fill those jobs with immigrants, and thus mean more Americans would be diverted from higher - paid, more productive tasks into cleaning - or else have to live and work in dirtier conditions.

Like Sachs, Whippman believes that «there are many reasons why life in America is likely to produce anxiety compared with other developed nations: long working hours without paid vacation time for many, insecure employment conditions with little legal protection for workers, inequality, and the lack of universal health care coverage, to name a few,» but she stresses that our «happiness - seeking culture» is also part of the problem.

Since you always have a choice of where you spend your money, even though some of us conveniently forget uncomfortable truths, Girlfriend Collective's factory uses no forced or child labor, mandates fair working hours and safe conditions, pays living wages, and allows workers to unionize.

Stress, as defined by the Jobs Rated methodology, is determined by 11 factors: travel, deadlines, working in the public eye, competitiveness, physical demands, environmental conditions, hazards encountered, the life of oneself or others at risk, meeting and interacting with customers and / or the public, and the potential for job growth.

He's dedicated his life to helping others build strength through his work as a certified personal trainer and certified strength and conditioning specialist.

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Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.

They look at the origins, work conditions, and precarious lives of farm workers in terms of larger historical forces such as colonialism, land rights, and racism.

Consequently, even «best practices» that fully enforce Title VII «are insufficient to realize a labor market responsive to the needs of low - income workers for adequate wages, safe work conditions, and work hours and schedules that allow for fulfilling family and civic lives.»

Our mission is to represent all workers in the building, construction, fabrication and maintenance industry and support their efforts to improve their working conditions and quality of life.

When I first started my working life as meat inspector in 1979, meat packing plants and slaughterhouses were very dangerous places, full of fast - moving equipment, sharp blades, and sometimes extreme environmental conditions.

That's why I dedicated this year as Mastery of Fear, which I made a few decisions to put me in an «uncomfortable» condition intentionally, such as committed to work part - time (living on half of the salary) to push me really go out get clients and keep the side business running.

SB 284: Filed by state Sen. Lauren Book, D - Plantation, this bill requires nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have generators that can power air conditioning in the event of a loss of power, and requires the Agency for Health Care Administration to conduct an unannounced inspection at least every 15 months to check and make sure the generator is in working order.

Yanking health insurance from any retiree is bad enough, but these are people who spent their working lives in highly unsafe conditions; many now suffer from black lung and other coal - related ailments.

With courts increasingly willing to nullify popular legislation and proclaim new rights, legislators are encouraged to avoid their responsibility for tackling controversial issues; interest groups are encouraged to take their cases to the courts rather than to try to persuade their fellow citizens; and citizens get the feeling that they have no say in setting the conditions under which they live, work, and raise their children.

«As the treaty goes into effect, millions of women and girls will have the chance for better working conditions and better lives.»

Stating that men have been killed in Chittagong's shipbreaking yards on the coast of southern Bangladesh, he said: «This work is carried out in very hazardous conditions and claims innumerable human lives.»

«Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»

Instead of considering my condition a frustration of life, I could, by the gnostic negotiation, work to see the inherently miraculous nature of my state, and rest upon its indication of being in God.

I'm glad Jesus didn't constantly complain about the pay, living and working conditions while he was on earth.

What we have had in British political life under British common law is a procrustean class system, one of the most fixed in the world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers of the lower class from gaining equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable living standards until the end of the nineteenth century.

So, after affirming a whole range of ways in which various roles and occupations and professions can contribute to our common good she said, «To all of you on this Christmas day, whatever your conditions of work and life, easy or difficult; whether you feel that you are achieving something or whether you feel frustrated; I want to say a word of thanks.

All wisdom is acquired relationally, in the context of family and friends, work and neighborhood, under the conditions of sin and forgiveness, within the complex stories that the Holy Spirit has been writing and continues to write of our lives.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

In Detroit Niebuhr discovered the real cost of industrialization: dehumanization of the worker, nervous tensions, unemployment without compensation, broken bodies, appalling working conditions in the factories, and naive gentlemen with a genius for mechanics deciding the lives and fortunes of hundreds of thousands.

John Paul II wrote in the apostolic exhortation Christifideles Laici: «The common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights — for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture — is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is notdefended with maximum determination.»

It is difficult to see how, if God's relationship to the world is «wholly other» than the relation of creative spirit to its actual working in time (chronos), we can avoid discounting the Christian significance of creative effort, patient workmanship, and that careful assessment of conditions and consequences which make up so large a part of the wisdom of life.

Lives are restricted by harsh working conditions and the common assets of a community are degraded in the pursuit of endless economic growth.

And it's very unhealthy for democracy when the courts — without clear constitutional warrant — deprive citizens of the opportunity to have a say in setting the conditions under which we live, work, and raise our childrAnd it's very unhealthy for democracy when the courts — without clear constitutional warrant — deprive citizens of the opportunity to have a say in setting the conditions under which we live, work, and raise our childrand raise our children.

Given the uniquely close living and working conditions of military life (e.g., on ship or in the barracks), how would the admission of acknowledged homosexuals into the military affect recruitment and retention?

This condition is one factor behind the steady decay of purpose and the decline in identity among mainline denominations: The second volume of the United Methodist Church's «Into Our Third Century» series argues that the denomination's most pressing need as it approaches its bicentennial in 1984 is «to develop a clear sense of purpose and identity for its life and work.»

The communities will specify the conditions under which all producers operate, conditions that favor the quality of life in terms of health, environment, and working conditions.

One who is fortunate enough to have an ideal work situation ought to view with sympathy and understanding the plight of the many who do not; one who must earn his living under unpleasant conditions ought to try to see in his job something more than its irksome necessities.

For Ozick, however, the literary critic is herself the architect of literary tradition, arranging works, authors, movements, and trends in conversation with one another, «teas [ing] out hidden imperatives and assumptions held in common, and... creat [ing] the fertilizing conditions that underlie and stimulate a living literary consciousness.»

In so far as women have to bear the children for life to continue, they should be compensated for the inconvenience and injustice as all workers are compensated for «unsocial working conditions».

In a country of about 9 million people, it is estimated there are about a million Haitians in the Dominican Republic living and working in these horrendous conditions.