My workplace is a division of the federal government called Statistics Canada. ... Out of this 1,000,000 gross (including children), over 300,000 people work for the federal government. ... This just recently changed two years ago with the high-technology boom that swept Ottawa .These people can be employed in divisions of the federal government that include everything from National Defence to Revenue Canada to Natural Resources Canada to Statistics Canada. ... Simply put there is very little motivation for extra initiative within the federal government. Waiting for the federal government ...

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The employers fighting the unions was part of the problem for unions but this loss of power was due largely to the lack of support, and in some cases opposition, of the Federal Government towards labor unions. ... Another reason for the loss of power of the unions caused by the federal government is in the lack of regulations put on industries. ... Without any government regulation these companies can move to these new areas paying drastically lower wages, giving little or no health benefits, and having poor safety conditions. ... Besides the help of the federal government, large companies a...

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Posing this question based solely on one government program may seem simplistic. ... In 2000 Government spending was just under 3 Trillion Dollars. ... In that same year, between the Federal Government, and State Government, we spent 434.8 Billion Dollars on Welfare programs. ...

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People who use government assistance to support a drug habit are abusing the welfare system. ... Every legitimate working American pays taxes to the State and Federal government, that money must then distributed for different purposes, including welfare. The government does not collect tax money to support the habits of drug users. ... Paying higher taxes takes food and clothing away from the families that are not collecting government aid. ... The intended purpose for government assistance was to encourage self sufficiency, prevent misuse of the welfare system and ensure correct distribut...

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The question is, is it necessary for government to ensure that, low skills worker receive a decent paycheck, or would the economy and low wage earners be better off without government intervention. ... However, opponents such as President Obama, disregard the law of supply and demand by, proposing to increase the federal minimum wage. During his annual State of Union address, Obama stated, "No who works full-time should have to live in poverty raise the federal minimum wage to $9. ... As a society, we must combat the size of government, establish lazier-faire and economic freedom....

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To start, the government has created several new policies and regulations that give more rights to both parties. ... These are not constitutional rights but, rather, legislated rights on a federal and/or state level. ...

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These are as given below: The government Employer associations Trade unions The Federal government and the industrial relations commission of Australia regulates everything from the pay rates and working conditions through to legislation and industrial awards. ... These are as given below: The government Employer associations Trade unions The Federal government and the industrial relations commission of Australia regulates everything from the pay rates and working conditions through to legislation and industrial awards. ...

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The government and business are not doing a good job to help provide opportunities for employment. ... The government must get a more affordable post-secondary education system. ... The government is trying to help with this problem by forming the Public Policy Forum. ... In 1997, the government of Canada gave $90 million to a committee of federal participation in Career Edge, a private sector consortium that provides internships of up to one year for job seekers needing work experience in new careers. This new program will provide internships in the federal public sector for 3000 people aged ...

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These are as given below: The government Employer associations Trade unions The Federal government and the industrial relations commission of Australia regulates everything from the pay rates and working conditions through to legislation and industrial awards. ...

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The Australian Government considers that Australia is poorly served by its waterfront industry. ... "The globalising strategies of both Labour and Liberal governments have intensified the pressure on Australian employers to maintain international competitiveness by cutting costs and increasing productivity." (Wiseman p1) In the lead up to the 1996 federal election, the Coalition advocated the prohibition of union preference with Mr Reith arguing that "where union membership was genuinely voluntary, unions are more likely to be responsive to the needs of their members." ...

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The plaintiff claimed that a 'friend' shared his on-line postings with his government agency employer. The plaintiff claimed that the online posting caused his government agency employer to unconstitutionally and illegally fire him. ... The plaintiff's voluntary sharing of information means that the government never forced him to share the information he posted online and got fired for. ... The federal government is currently investigating whether practices like these violate federal discrimination and privacy laws. ...

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Civil Right and Racial Discrimination The Civil Rights Act of 1866 is applicable to private and public employers (except federal employers) and protects all members of other ethnic groups (i.e., whites, blacks, Asians, etc ) from racial discrimination. ... The Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission states under the Title VII of The Civil Rights Act of 1964, " protects individuals against employment discrimination on the basis of race and color as well as national origin, sex, or religion-(Alexander, 2001). The Federal government also says that, "Discrimination on the basi...

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At this point the federal government responded to the epidemic in tandem, utilizing both instruments coercion and accommodation. Judy Fudge and Eric tucker argue in their book Labour Before the Law that the coercion and accommodation was not contrasting government policies, but a mutually reinforcing strategy, that was designed with the intention to uphold the rights of employers while helping the workers and unions. ...

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To help ensure that raising the federal minimum wage does not result in loss of jobs, legislation must be enacted against the at-will doctrine. Improved government support of education and job training would also be another program that could help make certain that there isn't any loss of jobs due to an increase in wages. ... Workers need to earn a wage to keep them out of poverty and allow them to live more freely, contentedly, and without government subsidies. ...

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It applies to employees of federal, state, or local government agencies, hospitals and schools, and it generally applies to domestic workers. ... She points out that if the government does not get involve and introduce regular increases to compensate for inflation, the real value of minimum wages will drop. ... He also added that the government maintains its position that all wage hikes must be linked to corresponding productivity increases. ...

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(EEOC, 2003) The ADEA applies to employers with 20 or more employees, including state and local governments. It also applies to employment agencies and to labor organizations, as well as to the federal government. ... While this holding does not provide a specific definition of "substantially younger", it does affirm the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) regulation, which prohibit an employer from discriminating on the basis of age even when all parties are in the protected age group. ...

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It also set up the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a federal agency to administer the act. ... While the ramification for workers and employers of this reversal of government policy are obvious, less so are the political effects of Taft-Hartley. ... The government was more concerned with capital than labor. The government's support of management tyranny has all but crushed the once mighty labor movement. ... This represents one of the most substantial examples in history of the current alliance of the U.S. government and transnational corporations. ...

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During the Industrialization several different factors led to the rise of organized labor. The working conditions at the time, especially in warehouses, would be considered unsafe and a very unhealthy places to work. Men and children were employed to work long hours, six days for extremely low wages...

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Over the past fifty years the workplace has changed dramatically, from a place of professionalism, to one where social issues are rampant. What was once being pushed into the dark corners of businesses, is now being brought out into the public eye. These issues encompass discrimination, substance...

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They are to succeed at a professional career, marriage, childbearing and child rearing, on a model of a male life pattern without public support in the form of federal of provincial maternity leaves, childcare, etc. ... With the cut off time of welfare benefits fast approaching the government or private institutions (depending on one's political opinions) must do something to counteract these trends and they must do something quickly, before the feminization of poverty in America reaches epidemic proportions....

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First, testing programs are not governmental actions in the sense required by this Amendment. ... For example the first amendment states that privacy is protected from governmental intrusion. ... A San Francisco Chronicle report in February claimed that Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and other professional athletes received steroids from BALCO, a San Francisco-area nutritional supplements lab that is under federal investigation. ...

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