I did free internship after free internship, low-paid job after low-paid job.
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Hospitality industry jobs are traditionally seen as "not good" because they are low-paid, but it's not clear that they are inherently low-paid jobs.
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Pay no attention to the low-paid contractor behind the curtain.
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"They're probably low-paid," said Alicia Munnell, director of the center.
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It would remove 2.4 million low-paid workers from the levy.
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The community is disproportionately represented in low-paid and insecure work.
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Both industries rely on a large number of low-paid workers.
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PSA will also offer 2,000 low-paid apprenticeships to young people.
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More teachers and support for the low-paid are also promised.
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She worked several low-paid jobs, including one as a diner waitress.
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Mostly it will hit those in low-paid, long-hour jobs hardest.
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Low-paid jobs are concentrated in the food, hospitality and retail industries.
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Many are in low-paid professions such as catering, cleaning and security.
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Yet most of the work is part time and relatively low paid.
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For some of the Valley's low-paid workers, there are few alternatives.
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Since Migrantland relies on low-paid work, it probably suffered more than most.
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Those struggling in low-paid jobs in the "gig economy" will be exempt.
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These include in-work benefits, which supplement the income of low-paid workers.
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Companies could outsource low-paid administrative work, which would improve their figures overnight.
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The program will also offer financial support to low-paid juniors and assistants.
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The OET is more expensive, however, making it unattractive for low paid nurses.
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We were just low-paid, underappreciated, exploited moneymakers in a huge moneymaking scheme.
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These jobs are not low value; they are low paid, and unfairly so.
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Pay restraint is not just a problem for German workers, particularly the low-paid.
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Much more low-paid men now work part-time compared with 20 years ago.
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In addition, colleges and universities must reduce their reliance on low-paid adjunct faculty.
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Another common practice that undermines Mexico's efforts is corruption among low-paid police forces.
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Low-paid women and domestic workers are the true face of the Zika virus.
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In some states, voters have forced business to give low-paid employees a raise.
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How much of this low-paid work is the result of the gig economy?
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But for employees with low-paid, or irregular, jobs it can involve real hardship.
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The growth of low-paid work, combined with rising rents, is reshaping German cities.
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"We already have Zimbabweans fleeing Zimbabwe, taking up low paid jobs here," Parks explained.
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Not every crew and low-paid staff member described mistreatment or difficult working conditions.
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The group has started a fund to provide legal advice for low-paid women.
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The majority of the slum's residents are low-paid workers from nearby garment factories.
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Freelancers range from very low-paid workers to very skilled and highly paid workers.
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Underemployed college graduates work in low-paid jobs that don't require a bachelor's degree.
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Some are successful professionals and business folk; others drive cabs or do low-paid jobs.
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Most migrants work in the informal sector doing low-paid jobs shunned by Moroccans, however.
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We do see evidence that they are cutting back on hours for low-paid workers.
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The hospitality sector, for example, is largely staffed by low-paid, low-skilled young people.
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Even now, millions of Greeks face unemployment or low-paid jobs and worsening working conditions.
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Caregiving — a low-paid, low-status job — is also most often done by disadvantaged workers.
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In the U.S., many college graduates have had to take low-paid or unpaid internships.
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We know quite a lot about how to raise the incomes of low-paid workers.
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The pandemic has turned people who fill often overlooked, low-paid jobs into unlikely heroes.
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After publication of this article, Walmart said it was increasing wages for low-paid workers.
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"We were just low-paid, underappreciated, exploited moneymakers in a huge moneymaking scheme," one said.
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Most of the residents are employed as laborers or low-paid workers in nearby markets.
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Headlines - Low-paid workers to get 6.2% rise with plans to lift living wage on.ft.
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She drew strong support from women in low-paid, low-skilled service jobs like cashiers.
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They will be replaced by jobs that can't be automated, in the low paid service sector.
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Spain is still more unequal, has more poor and more low-paid workers than in 2008.
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"Dull and low paid occupations" will go, he writes, and be replaced by more interesting careers.
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More of the low-paid get a bit more say on how and when they toil.
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Policies such as tax credits—wage top-ups for the low-paid—were effective but incomprehensible.
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Of those with jobs, around 80% work in low-paid informal jobs, the finance ministry said.
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Beijing (CNN)Modern Beijing was built on the backs of low-paid migrants like Zhao Guihua.
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But the work is irregular and low-paid, and they do not send back regular money.
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Finally, we now have critical industries asking low-paid workers to continue working under dangerous circumstances.
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The Congressional Budget Office said it could trigger 1.3 million job losses for low-paid workers.
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Voters in some states have forced businesses to give low-paid employees a raise in response.
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They scoffed at the notion of some low-paid Third World clock-puncher taking their jobs.
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LOW-PAID AND EXPLOITED Nepal, home to Mount Everest, is one of the world's poorest countries.
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But a wholesale migration from low-paid private to public employment isn't one of those problems.
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Work there is low-paid and low-skilled, attracting immigrants to the town but leaving it poor.
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Almost all the regulars are employed — using tramadol to push through long, physically demanding, low-paid jobs.
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Her parents struggled to support her and her three older siblings, juggling low-paid part-time jobs.
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As wildfires rage across northern California, a group of low-paid firefighters is on the front lines.
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Wages are growing in real terms with some of the biggest gains going to low-paid workers.
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Young women are denied the most basic safeguards by the increasingly casualized nature of low-paid work.
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He should also look at reversing the changes to tax credits (top-ups for low-paid folk).
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The basis of poverty is not low-paid workers, but those who are not in work altogether.
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Staff positions are low-paid and have high turnover — and moving jobs often requires having a good reputation.
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Since such perks are more common at tech firms and in offices, low-paid workers often miss out.
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Working his way up the ladder, he began performing low-paid magic shows to help pay the rent.
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Women are more likely to be employed in low-paid sectors and rack up fewer hours at work.
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Ferreira settled for a low-paid job as an office secretary last month to pay off her debt.
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The Congressional Budget Office says it could trigger 1.3 million job losses for low-paid workers like Douglas.
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Many aides, who are relatively low paid, cannot afford cars to reach clients in rural areas like his.
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He benefits from others' labor and then turns around and stiffs small businesses and low-paid service workers.
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Shouldn't there be a law against putting low-paid, public-minded workers like me through all of this?
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The migrants, whose story Ms. Lee tells in "Pachinko," congregated in slums and performed mostly low-paid labor.
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Within a distressed labor market, thousands of low-paid home workers create luxury garments without contracts or insurance.
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This, he argues, is partly why tech companies already treat their low-paid workers and contractors as expendable.
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Many are sceptical of the benefits and argue it would create mostly part-time and low paid jobs.
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Women are still far more likely to work low-paid jobs, especially if they are women of color.
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The idea was that low-paid work was better than not having the option to work at all.
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That visa program, which Trump has so far not objected to, allows low-paid laborers to work seasonally.
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I wasn't on an amazing salary as my industry relied heavily on interns so permanent roles were low paid.
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Despite the emphasis on technology, much of the work still relies on low-paid workers to sort through records.
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The exhibition connects Grunwick with today's workers in low-paid, precarious employment—who also tend to be recent migrants.
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Young people were either accelerating along astronomical career paths or stuck in a cycle of low-paid contract work.
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"From the perspective of employers in low-paid sectors, free movement works pretty well," NIESR researcher Heather Rolfe said.
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This may even create perverse incentives, as firms could appear better by outsourcing low-paid jobs done by women.
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Many are in low-paid construction jobs to build stadiums and infrastructure ahead of the 2022 Fifa World Cup.
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There's nothing intrinsically wrong with superstar players and (relatively) low-paid players earning the same pay during the playoffs.
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Most of them do low-paid jobs in sectors which Saudis spurn, such as construction, domestic service and retailing.
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Low-paid temp workers and recent college grads, according to reportBased in New Brighton, Minnesota, LME was a trucking
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But after a string of low-paid jobs, he vacated to Australia for a year, chasing and soul-searching.
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They're often unpaid or low-paid, so that only those with substantial family resources can afford to do them.
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With all those retained profits, Amazon can easily afford to increase the wages of its low-paid workers, too.
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And the $31,200-per-year yielded by Amazon's new minimum wage will remain low-paid work by American standards.
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But Italian garment labels, facing global competition, are using thousands of low-paid home workers without contracts or insurance.
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The warehouse provides more jobs than the mine did, but it is mostly low-paid work in humiliating conditions.
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Many people find themselves carrying school and credit-card debt, and working low-paid, temporary or part-time jobs.
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They wonder why millionaire athletes are given such a privilege while countless low-paid young men have to serve.
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With black people disproportionately likely to be incarcerated, there are racial disparities in this often forced, low-paid labor.
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They form the lower-paid (but hardly low-paid) army of aspirants that once entered Goldman hoping for a career.
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Low-paid workers at the University of California became more likely to seek new jobs after salary data became public.
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It has struggled to pass labor market reforms that address high levels of seasonal unemployment and low-paid, temporary work.
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"Many women are trapped in low paid, part-time work that doesn't make use of their skills," the report reads.
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Many are in relatively low-paid jobs, such as catering and nursing, and face long journeys home to the suburbs.
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They say visas for skilled foreigners undercut American workers by replacing them with low-paid employees shipped in from abroad.
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Crammed at the bottom of the pyramid, the world's poorest are disproportionately women and girls in low-paid, insecure jobs.
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An undocumented person without work authorization can find work to do, but it's typically low-paid under-the-table work.
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Even in the best of times, most women in the low-paid workforce have always lived on a razor's edge.
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With few options, many colleges cut student services and relied even more on low-paid, part-time contingent faculty members.
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More than 40 percent of Europe's young people are now stuck in a revolving door of low-paid, temporary work.
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So, too, will be Mr Fernández's plans to boost wages for public-sector and low-paid workers and raise pensions.
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And with black people disproportionately likely to be incarcerated, there are racial disparities in this often forced, low-paid labor.
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Sen. Sherrod Brown has proposed a "corporate freeloader fee" on large companies that employ large numbers of low-paid workers.
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These people form the "precariat" – a class of workers who have little choice but to accept low-paid, low-skilled work.
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Many lawmakers also want Hammond to make money available to soften a revamp of benefits for unemployed and low-paid workers.
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"At first I saw nothing strange about a housewife doing a low-paid part-time job," 2108.9800-year-old Kasai said.
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The bulk of this will go to fund low-paid internships for CUNY students, which is certainly beneficial for a few.
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But for low-paid workers, especially those earning less than unrealistically high minimum wages, the cost of becoming formal is prohibitive.
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Last week, official advisers recommended prioritizing high-skilled migrant workers coming to Britain after Brexit, alarming companies in low-paid sectors.
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The received wisdom is that work is becoming low-paid and precarious, with jobs lost to automation and the gig economy.
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In Saudi Arabia, for example, it is cheaper to import low-paid workers from India or Pakistan than to buy machinery.
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The abundance of foreign labour in recent years has helped to keep a lid on wages in some low-paid jobs.
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The government should have helped low-paid workers in other ways, says Julie Kwiecinski of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
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Although the migrants found only low-paid jobs, as rickshaw drivers, building labourers and the like, their fortunes had greatly improved.
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In the two decades to 2015 the share of low-paid workers in former West Germany rose from 11.9% to 19.7%.
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" According to the TUC, "Self-employment appears to be a key factor in the UK economy's shift towards low-paid work.
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Many do menial, low-paid jobs; they are regularly stopped by police for document checks, and they often face racial discrimination.
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In addition, wage replacement rates were too low for a worker in a low-paid job to afford to take leave.
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But French thinks they're are more effective long-term solutions when it comes to promoting wage growth among low-paid workers.
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These low-paid workers feel left behind as prices rise, and see Obama's visit as far removed from their difficult lives.
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But less visibly, thousands of low-paid foreign workers on H-1B visa programs also work to keep Silicon Valley running.
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For example, cities and states that have raised their minimum wages have boosted earnings for low‑paid workers and reduced inequality.
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Reversing the cut in Sunday pay rates would raise earnings for hundreds of thousands of low-paid restaurant and retail workers.
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The city snapped into action, moving factories, schools and markets out of the city to force low-paid migrants to leave.
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The New York Times reported that the federal government has rejected more than 80,20173 low-paid professionals from student debt forgiveness.
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Yet, over the past four years, it has fallen to low-paid workers to ensure these corporate promises come to life.
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Wages began rising, particularly in traditionally low-paid industries like retail and food service, and that changed the calculus for employers.
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Prior to the plague, the medieval social model depended on the nobility extracting value from huge numbers of low-paid serfs.
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Of the survivors, most were living unremarkable lives in Edinburgh and further afield, either on benefits or in low paid jobs.
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But psychiatric studies show that even low paid, part-time work can reduce hospital re-admissions and their need for healthcare services.
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It would mean that low-paid manual laborers, a group that's already marginalized in society, would become even more invisible and disenfranchised.
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The change will mostly benefit bank tellers and people who hold other low-paid positions within the company's workforce of 26.5,211 employees.
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The goal is to protect everyone regardless of whether they are climbing the corporate ladder or working in a low-paid position.
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Platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter have faced criticism for subjecting low-paid contractors to content that can be extremely disturbing.
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Worst of all, Stumpf used low-paid workers as the raw materials for this scheme, and as the scapegoats when it unraveled.
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Both the highly paid engineers and the low-paid housekeepers want a seat at the table when it comes to deploying technology.
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Click farms — where low-paid workers are paid to spend their days clicking on content — have become a problem across the globe.
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Kendall Fells, organizing director of "Fight for $15," said the movement combines a push to raise wages and unionize low-paid workers.
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The trade-off is that the people doing the assembly are now low-paid randoms, but hey, that's the gig economy, baby!
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To tell the world often invites jealous, greedy interlopers and back-stabbers, many of who are low-paid bureaucrats and government officials.
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Most of the company's reviewers are low-paid contractors overseas who spend on average of just a few seconds on each post.
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A former waiter, Mr. Ryan said that the skills learned doing low-paid work often prove to be valuable later in life.
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Unfortunately, many times low-income students can't afford to take internship opportunities because they are low-paid or not paid at all.
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He sent me data he compiled that suggests that low-paid service workers are by no means guaranteed to become loyal Democrats.
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As a private employer, his own approach to low-paid labor indicates that model-employer orders would be the first to go.
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"Many of the new jobs are highly unstable, low-paid and temporary," notes Marcel Jansen, a labour economist at Fedea, a think-tank.
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The U.N. accuses Eritrea of rights abuses for indefinite national service, where Eritreans can spend many years in low-paid work under conscription.
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While Trump has pledged to create more opportunities for those "forgotten" Americans, many of the jobs held by unauthorized workers are low-paid.
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Such blockages continue to hamstring efforts to expand India's manufacturing base, Chinese-style, to create plentiful low-paid factory jobs for rural migrants.
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Britain's government points to a deal it has agreed with the EU which will limit migrants' rights to benefits for low-paid work.
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It's also why the low-paid CEOs mentioned earlier can afford to live — and live well — off the company stock they already own.
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The latter includes low-paid, largely undesirable tech work, like what's being done by the "digital janitors" Axios' Erica Pandey profiled last week.
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Meanwhile, apprenticeships for roles such as shop assistants and hospitality staff, which offer little training and lead to low-paid jobs, are proliferating.
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While Trump has pledged to create more opportunities for those "forgotten" Americans, many of the jobs held by unauthorized workers are low paid.
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This lack of flexible jobs can mean that part-time work or low-paid jobs are the only options available to working mothers.
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Its tourism sector—in spite of being, as you called it, a low paid service sector—has tremendous potential for the long run.
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A four-year freeze on things like tax credits (wage top-ups for the low-paid) and housing benefit will start next month.
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Mr. Trump denounced the pact again on Tuesday, saying that it would force American workers to compete with low-paid Vietnamese workers. Mrs.
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And playing up the threat of low-paid foreign workers is political gold for anti-migrant eurosceptic parties such as France's National Front.
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Al Quoz is one of the only points in Dubai where the elite fashion set and these low-paid migrant workers cross paths.
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As Mexican workers have become more productive (while remaining relatively low paid), major automakers have shifted assembly to plants south of the border.
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Last month, four men were also convicted for trafficking Polish workers into Britain, tricking them into low-paid jobs and taking their wages.
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A new form of fraud Click fraud usually refers to the practice of hiring low-paid laborers to click on profitable internet links.
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And after Frankie is fired, she joins her three friends as low-paid nighttime janitors who are verbally berated by their male boss.
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But, government Housing Bank Chairman Surachai Danaitangtrakul has already deemed the scheme launched five months ago to help the low paid a success.
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If she is unable to renew her lease, Kavita said she would have to seek low-paid menial labor to make ends meet.
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They want to pursue their careers but feel discouraged by a system that offers low-paid jobs and little opportunity to better themselves.
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While airline profits have become robust since that period, airport worker pay has stagnated, like the wages of so many low-paid Americans.
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Ms. Mangayan is a personal care aide, a grueling and low-paid profession that happens to be one of the country's fastest growing.
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Many would be competing for low-paid jobs in a new place where they can't afford to live because of skyrocketing housing costs.
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His union paycheck (along with my mother's low paid, nonunion job), financed a house, a car, and Catholic school educations for three daughters.
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The book is an illuminating window into the mundane, low-paid service work that much of America never notices or chooses to ignore.
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Social workers, not doctors, perform assessments, and low-paid technicians with little training apply the methods to patients, including children with complex problems.
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The West offers capital and much-needed technology, while China's rulers supply a vast, captive, hard-working, low-paid and unprotected labor force.
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When they arrive in Italy, they are made to do low-paid, exploitative work to recoup their fare—or forced into sex work.
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"If you're a low-paid worker, the cost of arbitration will most of the time outweigh any potential recovery," he told Gizmodo by phone.
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Now it is nearing 3%, the purchasing power of everything from tax credits (top-ups for low-paid folk) to housing benefit is falling.
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The Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown boosted in-work benefits such as tax credits (wage top-ups for the low-paid).
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I badgered major corporations for $100 checks and emailed publicity departments for review copies and generally liked my low-paid and commute-free life.
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At the far end of the supply chain, such considerations weigh little for low-paid soldiers with more to worry about than foreign donors.
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The office specifically picked studies that recorded the short-term impact of minimum wage hikes on job losses and gains in low-paid industries.
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The difference is one of perspective: for grassroots groups relying on volunteers and low-paid staff, it's an eye-wateringly vast sum of money.
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In China, for example, the government wants to automate more low-paid work, to counterbalance a shrinking working age population and rising pay levels.
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Income-tax cuts or increases in tax credits should be skewed towards those (typically the low-paid) who are more likely to spend them.
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Every tech job, in turn, creates 4.3 other jobs, often low-paid, according to a report by an advocacy group for American tech firms.
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In the cases of low-paid workers who need the extra time to care for relatives, employers would help make up the pay shortfall.
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More and more of us are doing precarious, low-paid work where we answer to a boss and have scant access to labor rights.
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But the work itself is grueling and low-paid, without federal labor protections including minimum-wage laws or basic benefits such as sick leave.
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American workers who increasingly compete with very low-paid workers abroad should be given much more extensive transition support if they lose their jobs.
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But Italian garment labels, facing global competition, are using low-paid home workers earning as little as €1 (or just over $1) an hour.
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Sanders had opposed a 2007 immigration bill and spoken of his concern that low-paid migrants pushed down wages for other workers in America.
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In fact, the evidence suggests that increases in wages — especially to low-paid workers — end up helping companies, cities, and the economy at large.Why?
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It raised the price of gasoline, to about 21 cents from 16 cents per liter — still extremely cheap, but expensive for low-paid Egyptians.
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Critics often challenge stadiums and arenas as a giveaway to team owners in return for a relatively small number of low-paid seasonal jobs.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Catholic Church does not want people to donate "dirty money" earned by abusing low-paid workers, Pope Francis said on Wednesday.
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LONDON -Four times more men in low-paid jobs now work part-time compared with 20 years ago, driving inequality, according to a new study.
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Macron, often criticized for being disconnected with low-paid workers who struggle to make ends meet, says he wants to channel their anger into solutions.
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And even as service sector jobs have grown they've remained nonunion and often low-paid, despite recent attempts to unionize places like fast-food restaurants.
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Lots of jobs that are being created are in or near flourishing cities like Madison, where low-paid workers are squeezed by high housing costs.
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Industries that rely heavily on low-paid migrants have already voiced their worries about the departure of Europeans, warning of strawberries rotting in fields, unpicked.
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Nothing in life is certain, but for the foreseeable future, logic suggests a stagnating western economy, dominated by low-paid, unfulfilling jobs in personal services.
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I have seen the future, and it's just rows and rows of low-paid workers in endless warehouses being told to stop picking their noses.
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To characterize H-1B workers as low skilled or low paid without appropriate, impartial study is likely to be highly detrimental to our national interest.
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The advisory body argues that focusing on getting women into boardrooms and executive roles disregards the huge numbers of women in shitty low-paid jobs.
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By contrast, male college graduates with a music degree are more likely to work as a sales associate, assistant or landscaper, generally low-paid jobs.
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There were tales of children bullied because of their parents' income, low-paid workers shamed and crooks using the information to plan their next hit.
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Couples who both work in low-paid irregular or contract jobs, which now make up around two-fifths of all employment, are particularly badly off.
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WeWork, a fast-growing rental office space startup, publicly clashed with comparatively low paid cleaners who were hired to clean those offices through a contractor.
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In Singapore foreigners who make more than S$6,000 a month are allowed to bring their families, but low-paid workers like her are not.
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Executive pay includes stock grants, often with multiyear payouts and performance targets, while low-paid workers rarely receive stock, let alone long-term incentive packages.
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But seldom do studies analyze the effects of minimum-wage hikes on the employment levels and income levels of individual workers in low-paid industries.
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Borrowing continued to rise, and while Britain's unemployment figures are among the lowest in Europe, many new jobs are low paid, and productivity remains poor.
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All of this says nothing of the army of contractors -- from the low-paid janitor to the high-paid executive -- who subsist on federal contracts.
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They persisted even after charges against them were dropped, Dr. Alzona said, repeatedly appearing with high-priced lawyers even though they were low-paid workers.
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The lawyer and organizer Saru Jayaraman joins the Sugars to discuss the power dynamics between low-paid employees and the people who sexually harass them.
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And we know that for people in low-paid jobs, wages are forced down even further while some people are forced out of work altogether.
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The allegations against him should remind us of the vast economic disparities that make low-paid women especially vulnerable to misconduct by their wealthy bosses.
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Researchers overseeing the program were instructed to test whether the unemployed could be encouraged to take up low-paid work if they didn't lose benefits.
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But Italian garment labels, facing global competition, are starting to use low-paid home workers earning as little as €1 (just over $1) an hour.
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So the responsibilities for quarantining nearly 2,700 passengers fell mostly to about 1,000 low-paid ship workers who were given inadequate safety gear and guidance.
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The unpaid internships and years of low-paid service required to get ahead in the congressional staff corps leads to a glut of rich kids.
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Free trade and globalization have left too many Americans with no jobs or low-paid jobs, while corporate executives and investors have done quite well.
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But the policy also drew heat among local politicians for forcing people to accept low-paid, low-skill work that might keep them in poverty.
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Supporters say such measures are necessary to help low-paid workers who have been slipping into poverty due to stagnant earnings and rising living expenses.
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But A.T.M.s, direct deposits and electronic banking have diminished tellers' importance, to the point that their work is now low paid and, prosecutors say, occasionally criminal.
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Low-paid actors who roughly match the proportions and appearance of big stars might work as human puppets, their features and voices digitally replaced after filming.
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But capitalism abhors a vacuum, so over time, more and more low-paid workers found themselves in the category of being salaried and ineligible for overtime.
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At the time this newspaper was among those worrying that the imposition of a wage floor would hurt low-paid workers more than it helped them.
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Falmata mainly stays in the camp with her four children while Habu does low-paid jobs, often helping with the construction of tents in the camp.
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Like many colleges and universities, Yale relies on graduate students and other low-paid contingent faculty members, like adjunct professors, to teach much of its coursework.
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Social homes are now the only way for many low-paid workers to afford any accommodation in the capital, said Warren Kenny, secretary of GMB London.
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Wage growth has picked up, especially for blue-collar workers and those in traditionally low-paid occupations, but nowhere near as much as corporate profits have.
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Let's choose to tether their fates and make it more difficult to leave that low paid worker out of consideration when any important decisions get made.
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A UK government review into the modern workplace has recommended a range of measures intended to help low-paid workers employed by companies like Uber and Deliveroo.
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When he began investigating the market, he started hearing rumors about "Chinese gold farms" where low-paid workers gathered in-game resources to sell to wealthier players.
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Since his mom worked a low-paid job all day at the Star Alliance, the world's largest airline conglomerate, Harry spent most his time at home alone.
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With more than half a million unfilled jobs, low-paid workers and potential job candidates are in a better bargaining position than they have been in years.
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Kaliningrad should not aim to become a manufacturing hub assembling products from imported EU materials, which would only be sustainable if workers stay low paid, he said.
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The fact that university faculty and research labs face immense pressure to publish — but have limited funding — makes it highly attractive to rely on low-paid postdocs.
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The JioPhone, they say, creates a new phone segment aimed at millions of low-paid Indians, currently caught between basic, calls-and-text devices and fancier smartphones.
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It prompted her to create Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a national organization that advocates for the rights of low-paid staff in the food and beverage business.
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Clothes are easy to ignore because they are made far away and have throughout history been made by enslaved, unpaid and low-paid laborers, often by women.
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No sooner did the workers receive their amnesty than they quickly abandoned low-paid farm jobs for more desirable jobs in other sectors of the labor market.
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Low-paid health workers in Britain who could be at risk of contracting the coronavirus say they will show up to work even if they fall ill.
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It would amount to a brief suspension of the harsh and dangerous reality that most low-paid workers cannot afford to stay home when they are sick.
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"Due to the historical association of women and childrearing, childcare today remains a low-paid, feminized occupation," says Rene Almeling, associate professor of Sociology at Yale University.
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The growing army of low-paid workers has led unions to prioritise addressing the income gap between permanent employees and others, rather than broad uniform pay raises.
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China is also a key producer of the chemicals that go into making drugs, and home to a vast supply of well-educated but low-paid scientists.
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And it may be that the new industries in technology create a small number of well-paid high-skilled jobs, leaving the rest to low-paid service jobs.
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There is little talk of tax credits, wage top-ups for low-paid workers, the expansion of which was a successful policy of Labour governments in the 2000s.
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But officials have said little about the risks posed to low-paid contract workers like Al-Hakim, who constitute a growing number of the health service's work force.
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And a News Deeply report last summer found that those in camps are uniquely vulnerable to exploitation, with many refugees being used as low-paid migrant farm workers.
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Given evidence that public sector unions reduce wage inequality by compressing the wage scale and pushing low-paid workers up, that could have major economic consequences for Wisconsin.
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The company should continue this strategy, making it a top priority to bring the pay of its low-paid employees closer to a middle-class standard of living.
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Other ideas include cutting taxes on Germany's army of low-paid workers or its corporations, or introducing incentives for climate-friendly policies like retrofitting buildings and clean fuel.
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Some of the few visible representatives of private enterprise were delivery drivers on scooters, a low-paid group once praised by Mr Xi for being like diligent bees.
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So Adams followed the story 8,000 miles back to the US. That's where she found the tear gas is made by low-paid workers in potentially dangerous conditions.
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In his early career, Martine worked low-paid jobs in the private sector, including as a nightclub bouncer and driver, often away from home and with little stability.
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While their stated goals might have been lofty, the consequences of founder dreams have been low-paid gig economy jobs, misinformation campaigns, and the theft of our attention.
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What if we thought of MFA students — taking on debt, rarely getting shows, and then supporting art institutions in low-paid, often hidden administrative positions — as dark matter?
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She has also, he demonstrates, purchased more extensive and expensive real estate than could be supported on a normal translator's salary (translating being a notoriously low-paid profession).
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The report said women facing discriminatory dress codes tended to be young and in low-paid jobs with precarious contracts, making it difficult for them to challenge company practices.
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Some 800,000 Afghans have been sent back from Pakistan and Iran, many of them left to rely on subsistence income in rural areas or low-paid work in towns.
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With phone response rates declining and at-capacity calling houses relying on lightly trained and low-paid interviewers, the well-documented issues with phone polling aren't getting any better.
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We had had enough of the absence of women at the top of major businesses and the huge numbers forced into low-paid work or unpaid employment as carers.
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But the majority of the foreigners in the United Arab Emirates are low-paid Asian laborers, and it remained unclear how interested the state was in increasing their happiness.
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One would be to boost the provision of targeted in-work benefits such as tax credits (wage top-ups for the low-paid), as Mr Blair's Labour governments did.
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In other words, there will still be work for most people, but it'll be increasingly low-paid and unstable; without benefits such as paid vacation, health insurance, or pensions.
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It now has an army of 15,000 content reviewers, many of them low-paid contractors, charged with checking posts that are reported for violations and deciding what to remove.
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And although Africans are more likely than whites to be in low-paid work, the gap disappears once factors such as age, occupation and language have been controlled for.
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And for just as long, many customers of these businesses have tried to assuage some of the guilt that comes with knowingly using low-paid labor by tipping well.
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Nationwide, the issue of scheduling is becoming a new battleground in the fight to boost living standards for low-paid workers, waged largely by the "Fight for $15" movement.
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A study of the federal minimum wage hike from $2628 to $28503 in 22019 by economists Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Wither estimated the hike cost 800,000 low-paid jobs.
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The report urged sweeping policy changes, like ending some licensing regulations for careers like hairdressing, or wage subsidies for low-paid workers, to adapt to the new economic infrastructure.
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On many campuses, teaching and research assistants are essentially low-paid, white-collar workers, typically earning around $30,000 a year, most of whom will never get tenure-track positions.
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However, she said, the government should extend sick pay to cover the UK's five million self-employed workers and two million low-paid employees who do not currently qualify.
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Obviously Julius Fromm was one of these young Jewish men who worked hard and wanted to make something out of his life by not staying in low-paid work.
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While we were together, my fiancé gave me a loan to help with rent while I was on a low-paid work assignment as part of a graduate program.
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Many districts have made lunches available for pickup, but preparing them requires low-paid staff or volunteers, who may face the same hardships as the people they are feeding.
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Instead, companies are bulking up their warehouses to compete with Amazon, slotting in tens of thousands of relatively low-paid pickers, packers and stockers over the past several years.
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"African youngpreneurs" The focus of Aim Higher Africa is to equip young people with skills in ICT and entrepreneurship to help tackle persistent high unemployment and low paid jobs.
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A Walmart greeter who welcomed customers to the store, Ms. Dukes was portrayed as the epitome of a low-paid female retail worker taking on a huge multinational corporation.
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One expert estimated that across the global internet, "well over 100,000" people, many of them low-paid workers in countries like the Philippines, are paid to police online content.
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In a humorous tone, the clown discusses the diseases you can get from eating a hamburger at the fast-food chain, and details the low paid labor of its employees.
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A rare wobble in Mrs Merkel's campaign came at a live discussion with voters when she was confronted by Petra Vogel, a low-paid cleaner facing a hard-up retirement.
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But European countries have shown that it is possible to accommodate an influx of low-paid workers without either driving people permanently out of work, or forcing their wages down.
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The credit boom before the crisis had helped to mask the problem of income inequality by boosting the price of homes and increasing the spending power of the low-paid.
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"I want to make my parents happy and I want to have a baby," says a 30-year-old woman in Beijing who works as a low-paid office assistant.
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This is because workers in less-developed countries have to take work just to make ends meet and, with few choices, end up in low-paid jobs with no security.
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Last year Tchen co-founded the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund which provides legal and public relations support for victims of sexual harassment, most of them in low-paid employment.
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At one point Miller suggested The New York Times could hire "less-skilled, low-paid workers from other countries" if the media outlet disagrees with the administration's new immigration policy.
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The Time's Up Legal Defense Fund raised more than $22 million since its January launch and received complaints from more than 753,700 workers, mostly low-paid women, the group said.
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"I knew it wasn't going to work as soon as they said it," he told me, because a handful of agents with low paid rates could ruin everyone else's chances.
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Mr. Sanchez insists that the plan will underpin growth by putting more money into the pockets of low-paid workers, which will flow back to the economy through increased spending.
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The suits outline a familiar pattern: Chronic underfunding has led to low-paid and overworked caseworkers who don't have the time they need to truly care for children's best interests.
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The people who have been most hammered by "shareholder capitalism" have been low-paid employees, many of whom are now paid so little that they&aposre below the poverty line.
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Robinson, who was then in her mid-20213s, had been bouncing around a series of low-paid retail jobs when she learned the giant factory down the road was hiring.
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"Big-box stores were predicated on being low paid, non-union, and hostile to unionized department stores," said Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Dukes, was thrown out, Ms. Duke's legal effort helped draw attention to the working conditions of low-paid workers in so-called big box stores that dominate the retail landscape.
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The report, from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, found that one in five low-paid men work fewer than 30 hours a week, up from one in 20 in the 1990s.
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Compare and contrast that with Facebook and Twitter, whose moderation teams are generally low-paid contractors who are constantly darting around the vast platforms and have little time to make decisions.
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But Agenda 2010 also increased the number of low-paid and part-time workers who now face a higher risk of falling into poverty during their active years or after retirement.
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That thrilled Mr Sanders, a curmudgeonly socialist senator who just last month introduced a "Stop BEZOS Act" which would tax the company for the public benefits received by low-paid workers.
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"We need systemic, lasting changes that deter bad behavior and protect everyone, from professionals climbing the corporate ladder to workers in low-paid positions who often have little power," Sandberg said.
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Many low-paid folk are second earners in middle-income families (think the mum with a part-time cleaning job), whereas many of the poorest households do not work at all.
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Instead there is a case for stimulus, focused on two areas: more public spending on infrastructure and a reversal of the planned cuts to in-work benefits for the low-paid.
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This enabled them to enjoy both the dignity of work and a simultaneous increase in subsidies for low-paid work, including tax credits, which last year were worth around $70 billion.
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Mr Osborne took this as an opportunity to cancel a number of proposed belt-tightening measures, including a much-disliked cut to tax credits (wage top-ups for low-paid workers).
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In the United States, tipped jobs have a special reduced minimum wage, though the government still offers some protection to some of the generally low-paid workers in these service professions.
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Despite the recent tax cut, high taxes on investment and labour and burdensome rules continue to discourage firms from growing, constrain their productivity and keep workers in low-paid informal jobs.
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Financial assistance provided by the government usually doesn't cover the losses, and some farmers have migrated to urban areas for low-paid jobs, even selling their blood to make ends meet.
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The fact that many Russians – not just billionaire oligarchs – were laundering money through Estonia makes it clear that money laundering is a survival mechanism for Russian businesses and low-paid bureaucrats.
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We're now nearing the end of that gold-rush cycle, when lone miners with pickaxes and pans are getting replaced by corporate syndicates plundering with machines and a low-paid workforce.
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These requirements elevate work of any kind — and what we know from the 1996 welfare reform is that it's destined to be low-paid, low-quality work — over any other consideration.
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"The people who have been most hammered by 'shareholder capitalism' have been low-paid employees, many of whom are now paid so little that they're below the poverty line," he wrote.
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By day he may look like a low-paid elderly Indian gentleman of no fixed abode, but by night he is "Dorothy contemplating a permanent move to Oz." Quichotte is damaged.
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It is particularly prevalent in countries such as India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and China, where millions of low-paid and predominantly female home workers are among the most unprotected in the industry.
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It exempts certain white-collar workers like doctors and accountants, but it extends legal protections to tens of thousands of low-paid workers in fields like construction, janitorial services and hairstyling.
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Seymour is about 85% white, though its Hispanic population has more than doubled in a decade, as migrants from Guatemala and other countries filled low-paid jobs in industries like egg-processing.
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Raising Congressional salaries to track other federal officials would mean that low-paid staffers don't feel compelled to audition for jobs with influence peddlers when they should be standing up to them.
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There has been increased attention turned toward Congress, where the striking power imbalance between low-paid employees and the nation's most powerful politicians all too often allows for unfettered corruption and misconduct.
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Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world with over $164 billion, has come under harsh criticism for employing a low paid workforce, many of whom rely on food stamps to survive.
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Rohingya refugees in India are very poor, have limited education and skills and work in low-paid, informal jobs where they are sometimes harassed and exploited, said UNHCR policy associate Ipshita Sengupta.
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One reason why a Singaporean hotel might be so keen on employing Relay is that it has a shortage of people willing to work in Mr Cousin's "dull and low paid occupations".
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Meanwhile, graduates who entered the U.K.'s labor market during the same period were a third more likely to be in low-paid work up to seven years on from the downturn.
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With the average pay-cheque now growing faster than at any time since 2009—when layoffs of low-paid workers were artificially boosting average wages—that argument is getting harder to make.
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Much of the €10bn he is giving the left-behind is in the form of a wage subsidy for low-paid workers, which boosts their incomes without eroding the incentive to work.
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It might aid those middle-income households that contain a low-paid second-earner (so long as the higher minimum did not destroy their job by making it unprofitable to employ them).
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Some adjustments were also made to pensions for low-paid workers, although a union demand for more wide-ranging pension reform was rejected and will be subject to a future government study.
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A bunch of low-paid workers happened to move into Miami at the time of the boatlift, and Borjas mistakenly interpreted that as the boatlift lowering the wages of people already there.
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California farms are heavily dependent on immigrants to fill their physically demanding and often low-paid jobs, and it is no secret that many of those immigrants are in the country illegally.
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"Both the Norwegian employer and the Polish worker would rather have low paid jobs," said Jan-Erik Stostad, general secretary of Samak, an association of national unions and social democratic political parties.
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Despite the country's economic advances, women are among the most excluded groups in India, with many stuck in low-paid or unpaid domestic work and with limited access to their own money.
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Put your money in a savings account, so that eventually, you can afford to take on a low-paid (or unpaid) summer internship that is more directly related to your chosen field.
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In her story "A Moral Tale," Ms. Hawkins recalled her boss's offer of a bonus in her low-paid job in television advertising sales if she consented to escort visiting company executives.
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A White House aide on Wednesday said The New York Times could hire "less-skilled, low-paid workers from other countries" if the media outlet disagrees with the administration's new immigration policy.
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Burke is one of about 15,000 low-paid moderators who work for third-party companies that Facebook relies on to keep its platform from turning into a pedophilic and porn-infested hellhole.
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It's become common, especially since the 2016 election, to lament that TV doesn't spend a lot of time dipping into the world of red state America, or of low-paid blue-collar workers.
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Moderators should have the resources needed to get the job done — not hundreds of low-paid contractors given a few seconds per post to make assessments that can literally mean life or death.
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Government statistics show that 440,000 EU migrants claimed benefits in January in Germany, although the figure includes those claiming 'top-up benefits' for doing low-paid work, according to the The Financial Times.
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They argue that Uber's business model enriches the company's executives at the expense of low-paid drivers who are classified as independent contractors, making them ineligible for the benefits of full-time employment.
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It will be expensive, but some form of earned-income tax credit is needed: a proper wage subsidy for the low-paid that enhances their incentive to work, rather than draw the dole.
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I was paid a stipend and they matched part of my graduate school tuition which was great because I was working as a low paid School Psychology intern each year of my program.
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The comments were the second time in less than a week that Duterte expressed anger about alleged abuse in Kuwait, where he said low-paid Filipinos were made to endure rape and starvation.
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This state of rampant uncertainty and inscrutability is precisely how DoorDash—and nearly every other app-based company that uses an algorithm to connect independent contracts to low-paid gig work—prefers it.
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INDRAMAYU, Indonesia, Nov 19 (Reuters) - An Indonesian workshop is turning industrial waste and chicken feathers into decorative models of roosters, in a bid to reduce waste and generate income for low-paid workers.
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What's more, changes in the American economy that stretch back decades — from globalization and automation to the outsourcing of low-paid work and the rise of dominant companies — have deprived workers of leverage.
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Abrunhosa, a unionist who was born in Portugal, says the European project was a good thing, but that competition with low-paid eastern European workers was killing what's left of France's industrial heritage.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will provide measures worth several billions of pounds to support low-paid workers and those on welfare benefits who become ill with coronavirus, finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday.
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Warner said that workforce adaptations and support are needed for workers in contract or low-paid jobs, and those who could most easily be affected by job loss as a result of automation.
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But in Japan, the focus is on narrowing the gap between permanent employees and low-paid part-timers and contractors, who make up about 40% of the workforce, often working side by side.
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Mr. Cameron wants Britain to be able to restrict one class of social welfare benefits — those that typically supplement low-paid work — to non-Britons arriving in the country from other European Union nations.
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Economic consultant Christopher Thornberg, founding partner at Beacon Economics, said increasing the minimum wage would not reduce poverty because low paid workers were most at risk of losing their jobs when employers cut positions.
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Of these, 221,000 were in the country on an employment-permit system that has, since 2004, allowed unskilled workers from 15 Asian countries to fill yearly quotas for dirty or dangerous low-paid jobs.
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For new retirees who claim benefits at 66, the current full retirement age, monthly benefits range from about $840 for low-paid workers to $2,950 for those who consistently earned the maximum taxable amount.
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In recent years mandatory pensions across the OECD, net of taxes and social-security contributions, averaged over 70% of previous net earnings for people on average pay and over 80% for the low-paid.
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That appeals greatly to those who fear automation and the gig economy are combining to create a glut of low-paid workers without bargaining power (in Britain, such workers have been dubbed the "precariat").
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According to the Human Rights Watch World Report 20173, low-paid migrant workers in Dubai and throughout the UAE have been subjected to abuses that constitute forced labor while building the country's magnificent skyscrapers.
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Though long-haul employment is plentiful — there are 3.5 million trucker jobs in the U.S. — it's grueling and low-paid work, contributing to turnover rates of 71% a year, according to American Trucking Associations.
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Some 57% of the new jobless will be women, many of them falling out of low-paid occupations, according to the report, whose analysis draws on data from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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It was made all the more relevant three years later when a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory killed 146 low-paid, mostly female employees, sparking a transformation of labor rules and working conditions.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A British court jailed four men on Tuesday for their involvement in trafficking Polish workers into the UK, tricking them into low-paid jobs and taking their wages, prosecutors said.
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A proposal by IG Metall that employers help make up the pay shortfall for low-paid workers who need the extra time to care for relatives could be a dealbreaker in negotiations, he said.
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Critics pointed out that two million low-paid workers — those who earn less than 118 pounds weekly, or about $153 — did not make enough money to qualify for the help under Mr. Johnson's plan.
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After a high-profile battle, she won an apology from the broadcaster and donated her back pay of 361,000 pounds ($443,200) to gender equality charity Fawcett Society to help low-paid women fight discrimination.
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Mexico has rejected that suggestion outright, challenging the fairness of shielding a slice of laborers from low-paid foreign competitors, in a trade deal meant to allow most everything to flow freely across borders.
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The Verge's investigation last month into Accenture's Austin site described hundreds of low-paid immigrants toiling in what the company calls its violent extremism queue, removing videos flagged for extreme violence and terrorist content.
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The low-paid, low-turnout service sector offers the Democratic Party the potential to go beyond their coastal deadlock and break into Republican-leaning districts where white working-class voters have dominated close elections.
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For politicians looking to improve the fortunes of low-paid workers, signs that higher minimum wages lead to job losses will suggest that other tools, such as wage subsidies, must be relied on more heavily.
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Driving the unrest is anger, particularly among low-paid workers, over a squeeze on household incomes, and a belief that Macron is deaf to citizens' needs as he enacts reforms seen as favoring the wealthy.
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Mr. Cameron wants the authority to limit those benefits, which typically supplement the income of people doing low-paid jobs, for European Union migrants who have been in the country for less than four years.
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These postsecondary degrees can unlock opportunities in fast-growing occupations — like medical assistants, phlebotomists, HVAC installers, and web developers — that are a big step up from the low-paid jobs available to high school graduates.
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The public response was an immediate deployment of their armed response units and the military to create a heightened presence, but the private response was simply enhanced bag checks by low-paid, unarmed security guards.
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Despite a tightening labor market and efforts across the country to raise wages of low-paid workers, there isn't a single county in the U.S. where minimum wage workers can afford a two-bedroom apartment.
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But there are low-paid minor league baseball players who need money for rent and food, and college field hockey teams that depend on money from the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament to fund their own seasons.
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Lenders clustered around big military bases throughout the South, where they could target service members, most of them young, low-paid and living the kind of peripatetic lives that made them ideal payday-loan customers.
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LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) - Britain will provide measures worth several billions of pounds to support low-paid workers and those on welfare benefits who become ill with coronavirus, finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday.
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Cameron wants to discourage other Europeans coming to Britain by excluding them from the tax credits, child allowances and other non-contributory social benefits attached to low paid British jobs for at least four years.
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Yet because of greatly expanded anti-poverty programmes, such as food stamps and the earned-income tax credit, which tops up the wages of low-paid Americans, only 13.9% are poor after taxes and transfers.
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There's been a huge proliferation of various kinds of on-demand delivery apps (for laundry, food, booze, etc.) that leverage a little bit of technology to connect consumers with low-productivity, low-paid irregular labor.
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The past few years have produced a series of employment tribunals, settlements and high-profile campaigns against low-paid bogus self-employment, which have caused companies to review the pay and conditions offered to their workforce.
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Besides giving people more energy, confidence and ability to take risks, a BI would remove the poverty and precarity traps embedded in existing means-tested systems that are major disincentives to taking low-paid insecure jobs.
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Small business and tourism associations have warned of labour shortages already occurring for remote, low-paid work such as food processing and hospitality which are key to Scottish economic success and depend heavily on EU workers.
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David Howell, a professor of economics and public policy at the New School, says that raising wages significantly for those at the bottom of the income distribution is more important than simply preserving low-paid employment.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A center for transgender school dropouts is set to open this week in India to help address the challenge of a lack of formal education that forces them into low-paid jobs.
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This may have been the result of a decline in religious belief; the shift of women into the workforce, where they found themselves in low-paid jobs; and the rise of feminist issues such as abortion.
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With Pied Piper currently downshifted to the core staff at Erlich's incubator and a network of low-paid engineers working from abroad, "Bachmanity Insanity" has more freedom to fool around with observational comedy than previous episodes.
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As manufacturing's share of jobs dropped to 2200 percent from 26 percent over the last four decades, millions have been relegated to a low-paid service economy with no benefits, uncertain hours and little job security.
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It could help a childcare worker, waitress, health care aide -- and so many other low-paid workers -- put food on the table, pay for medication and other health care expenses, or cover rent and avoid eviction.
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"Women are over-represented in the low-paid service economy jobs that are really getting slammed right now with layoffs," said Emily Martin, vice president of education and workplace justice at the National Women's Law Center.
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They fill most of the grueling, low-paid jobs at the pork, egg and turkey plants; they spend money at local shops, and open restaurants and grocery stores; they fill church pews and home-team benches.
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"Her missing her flight was not my original intention, but it would be a fine punishment for her being so rude to everyone and making a low-paid stranger clean feces off the floor," Hofstetter wrote.
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In recent years, though, border security has tightened considerably, a strong economy has driven down unemployment, and many employers, particularly those offering low-paid jobs, say there are few alternatives to hiring workers without legal documents.
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"McDonald's is walking away with a get-out-of-jail-free card after illegally retaliating against low-paid workers who were fighting to be paid enough to feed their families," the group said in a statement.
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" When Dukes died in 22011, an obituary in the New York Times wrote that she "helped draw attention to the working conditions of low-paid workers in so-called big box stores that dominate the retail landscape.
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Driving the unrest is anger about rising living costs - particularly among low-paid workers - and a perception that President Emmanuel Macron is deaf to their needs as he presses on with reforms seen as favoring the wealthy.
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Its transformation from a low-skill low paid nation with high levels of illiteracy fifty years ago to a first world economy today with a 1 per cent unemployment rate provides inspiration and hope for policymakers everywhere.
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Gilroy lards him up with character traits: He's a former civil rights activist turned low-paid lawyer, with a passion for defending those the judicial system saddles with unfair verdicts and/or the whole plea bargain system.
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The family heiress, filmmaker and activist says she was prompted to take a secret trip after a park employee messaged her on Facebook, and she was shocked at the working conditions that low-paid park workers described.
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"Maybe we'll make a carveout in the bill that says 'The New York Times' can hire all the less skilled low paid workers from other countries and see how you feel about low wage substitution," Miller replied.
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Of course in many cases, allowing immigrants to enter is of benefit to the receiving society, as they bring in professional or entrepreneurial skills, or take on low-paid jobs that native workers are reluctant to fill.
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But critics argue this risks giving companies tax credits for hiring they'd do anyway, and also that companies can get the tax breaks by hiring just a few high-paid executives and many low-paid frontline workers.
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Puzder is a sworn enemy of these efforts and the Fight for 15, the nationwide movement launched in 2012 to win $15 per hour plus a union for fast-food and low-paid workers in other sectors.
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So the notion of parents' going out to work in a job past the retirement age, particularly in physically demanding, low-paid jobs like the food-hall cleaners' work, sits uneasily with traditional ideas of filial duty.
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Other parties will also be allowed to offer legal arguments this week, including the devolved Welsh government, a group of expatriate Britons, and the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain which represents mainly low-paid migrant workers.
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Low-paid temp workers and recent college grads, according to reportThe New York Times reported on Saturday that Boeing had kept FAA engineers in the dark about the importance of the MCAS before releasing the plane commercially.
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Those who will be allowed to put forward legal arguments include lawyers for the Scottish and Welsh devolved governments and the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain, whose members are mostly low-paid migrant workers in London.
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For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that wage growth had slowed because of rising competition from low-paid workers in foreign countries (globalization), as well as the replacement of workers with machinery, including robots (automation).
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Low-paid health workers in Britain, where there have been 210 cases so far, say they will show up to work even if they are ill, because they cannot afford the lost wages if they quarantine themselves.
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"Maybe we'll make a carve-out in the bill that says The New York Times can hire all the less-skilled, low-paid workers from other countries and see how you feel about it then," Miller responded.
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"The initiative aims to reduce unemployment and poverty while cutting red tape, allowing people to pursue the dignity and purpose of work without the fear of losing their benefits by taking a low-paid job," Branson says.
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Someone who had, say, graduated in 2006 with a Federal Family Education Loan and become a low-paid schoolteacher could "consolidate" by taking out a new Direct Loan and using it to pay off an F.F.E.L. loan.
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Someone who had, say, graduated in 2006 with a Federal Family Education Loan and become a low-paid schoolteacher could "consolidate" by taking out a new Direct Loan and using it to pay off an F.F.E.L. loan.
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Although large street protests have fizzled out, a disparate opposition composed of disgruntled low paid state employees and middle class activists continue to hold small protests against government policies blamed for rising poverty and growing unemployment among youths.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Having quit his low-paid job with a contractor in Qatar, electrician Kurian Joseph scrabbles for work each day in his hometown in Kerala, a southwestern state that has one of India's highest unemployment rates.
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Carlson revealed that Reid's blog argued that, among other things, native-born Americans, not "low-paid Mexican workers" should rebuild New Orleans, agreed with Lou Dobbs on immigration, and even criticized flying the Mexican flag on U.S. soil.
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"Displaced workers without the skills to adapt or the cushion of social security will have to compete for a diminishing supply of low-paid, low-skilled work in what will likely be an increasingly exploitative environment," she said.
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Yet in an atmosphere of economic stagnation and building discontent, even these tame elections turned into a form of protest for voters who have traditionally supported Mr Putin—pensioners, low-paid workers and the young from provincial towns.
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But as long as there's a deepening income divide in the US and an increasingly two-tiered labor system, the long-term fight over worker pay at tech companies that rely on low-paid contract labor will continue.
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While the median salary at Facebook, a company full of well-fed engineers, is a whopping $240,430, Amazon's median worker salary is only $28,446, reflecting its reliance on an army of low-paid workers at its fulfillment centers.
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Other parties will also be allowed to offer legal arguments this week, including the devolved Welsh government, a group of ex-patriate Britons, and the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain which represents mainly low-paid migrant workers.
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Couldn't the university find some savings in its football program to pay overtime to low-paid food service managers and admissions staff, or PhD researchers who earn less than $28503,22019 and frequently work 55-60 hours a week?
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There are concerns in eastern Europe that a deal to help Cameron cut immigration, by barring low-paid EU migrant workers from British welfare benefits for up to four years after they arrive, years would hurt their citizens.
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Open Europe said countries such as Canada, Norway and Switzerland, which have been cited as models by the "Out" campaign, have higher levels of immigration than Britain and that it would still need low-paid workers from abroad.
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Thirdly, the issue of low-paid or forced prison labor received a national spotlight last year when inmates across the country launched coordinated strikes and protests, with demands including an end to forced prison labor and better wages.
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While some 800 million people in China have been lifted out of poverty in the last few decades, the economic reforms have produced a new underclass of low-paid urban workers, including migrants from the country's rural areas.
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"I worked two low-paid jobs, seven days a week," said Ms. Omar, whose monthly payments of $70 came on top of bills, rent, child-care costs and the money she wired to her parents back in Kenya.
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Hundreds of thousands of federal workers missed two paychecks (though they will be repaid), and even more federal contractors also went without pay (and they will likely not be compensated) — many of them low-paid workers of color.
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Something much milder, like making employers of foreign-born workers pay an extra payroll tax, with the money used to plug the Social Security funding gap or subsidize low-paid workers' wages, would leave absolutely everyone better off.
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According to union representatives and former Avtovaz staff, some found low-paid work as night watchmen or taxi drivers, some were eking out the modest payoffs they were given when they were let go, others are surviving on loans.
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He says the right to curb social payments to EU migrants will reduce the flow, but is struggling to debunk a perception that unfettered movement across the bloc favors low paid workers from abroad despite data challenging that argument.
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Paris has long complained that central and eastern Europe gains an unfair advantage from the "social dumping" of cheap labor, arguing the posting of low-paid workers hurts local jobs and erodes labor protections in higher-wage member states.
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Several east European leaders, whose citizens have been the main focus of British unease at an influx of workers benefiting from income top-ups in low paid jobs, have said this month they could support some kind of brake.
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The £86 billion that HMRC loses in the personal allowance is almost triple the £30 billion it spends on the entire tax-credit system, which does much more to improve the finances of the low paid, and incentivise work.
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STEPHEN HANDChipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire In the same edition, you reported on excessive executive pay, increasing levels of poverty among low-paid workers and your astonishment at the vote to leave the EU. Perhaps you should have joined the dots.
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The mayor's aides, contacted for this article, said he pursues all policies on their merits, and pointed out that initiatives like raising wages for low-paid bus drivers are consistent with his goal of helping working-class New Yorkers.
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Estimates put the number of new jobs — many of them low paid — that are created indirectly for each new tech worker at between two and five, adding to the housing squeeze and greatly magnifying the impact of tech expansion.
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BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron urged the European Commission on Thursday to do more to curb an influx of low-paid east Europeans working on temporary assignment in France, warning that it was sapping support for the European Union.
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As sexual harassment awareness grows as a national flashpoint, there has been increased attention turned toward Congress, where the striking power imbalance between low-paid employees and the nation's most powerful politicians all too often allows for unfettered corruption and misconduct.
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Reporting over the years has revealed that many of the largest companies outsource their moderation teams, letting low-paid international workers—who may not have intimate knowledge on US social mores—view the very worst posts, day in and day out.
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The authors propose one benign explanation for the apparent negative pre-natal impact on earnings: the introduction of maternity leave could have led some women to join the labour force in low-paid jobs before pregnancy, so lowering average earnings.
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The greater threat, say some experts, is not unemployment, but bad employment, as automation creates a small number of high-skilled, high-paying jobs, but pushes others into low-paid and precarious work that only look peachy in labor statistics.
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Postdocs typically work long hours and are relatively low-paid for their level of education — salaries are frequently pegged to stipends set by NIH National Research Service Award grants, which start at $43,692 and rise to $47,1003 in year three.
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Residents said the employment training they received as part of their relocation package failed to prepare them to compete for jobs in the SEZ, leaving only low-paid jobs open to them, such as clearing rubbish or working as security guards.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should slow the rate at which it increases its minimum wage to avoid the risk of low-paid workers being priced out of a job during the next recession, an anti-poverty think tank said on Thursday.
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"The focus on low-paid work, particularly in the care sector, is essential if we are to address the undervaluing of work traditionally done by women," Sam Smethers, the chief executive for the women's rights organization the Fawcett Society, told Broadly.
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Women should go into it anyway Low-paid workers are leading in wage gains At least eight other states are considering similar measures — Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, according to law firm Fisher & Phillips.
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In the film, Kenneth grapples with his fading ambitions of becoming a professional footballer, returning from scoring goals at matches watched by hundreds to his low-paid job on a construction site and a cramped room in a desert labor camp.
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The heart of the Queen's Speech was its raft of compassionate social reforms: it proposed, for instance, to improve prisoner rehabilitation, build 1m new homes (believe that when you see it) and help the low-paid establish a rainy-day fund.
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Predictably, multinational corporations are howling with rage and fear, worried that they may lose important weapons in their perennial battle to reduce their U.S. costs by shipping jobs overseas and forcing U.S. workers to compete with low-paid foreign workers.
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In effect, the workforce bifurcates into two groups doing non-routine work: highly paid, skilled workers (such as architects and senior managers) on the one hand and low-paid, unskilled workers (such as cleaners and burger-flippers) on the other.
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Another potential source of talent are the more than 4m Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, over 50,000 of whom are already allowed to work in Israel, but mainly on building sites and other low-paid jobs.
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That would mean tariffs of up to 13 percent on some dairy imports while some meat would face a 37 percent levy, researchers from the University of Sussex and the Resolution Foundation, a think tank focused on the low-paid, said.
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Pay rises have more than halved and unemployment has shot up as many high-flying mine workers who once made A$200,000 ($145,000) a year with access to resort-style housing were forced to turn to low-paid day laborer jobs.
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Before the economic slowdown, about 10 million foreigners — largely from South Asia, Southeast Asia and other parts of the Middle East — worked in Saudi Arabia, many in low-paid jobs in sectors Saudis spurn like construction, domestic service and retailing.
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This theory supposes, unrealistically, that entry-level workers already know how well they will be treated when they apply for jobs at different workplaces, and that low-paid workers have ready access to decent working conditions in the first place.
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With median pay of its United States full-time employees at $34,123 in 2017, almost half of those workers are in the low-paid ranks, meaning a job that pays less than two-thirds of the median wage for men.
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But by being different, and choosing to reinvest profits in the current "financialized" business environment, Amazon, and other large American companies, can make a difference for the tens of millions of low-paid workers who have thus far been left behind.
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Mr. Hamon strongly endorses a stimulus approach to improving the economy and has promised to phase in a universal income, which would especially help young people looking for work, but would also supplement the livelihood of low-paid French workers.
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"I feel particularly concerned about low-paid women who may not be able to afford legal advice, and I hope support from our new Equal Pay Advice Service will help give them the confidence to pursue their rights," she said.
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When it comes to those A.T.M.s, there has, in fact, been a recent steady decline in both the number of bank branches and the number of bank tellers, even as the number of low-paid workers in remote call centers has grown.
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And is this another example of tech privilege, where those in the know can offload boring conversations they don't want to have to a machine, while those receiving the calls (most likely low-paid service workers) have to deal with some idiot robot?
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The 41-year-old former investment banker pushed a reform blitz during the first 18 months of his presidency that impressed investors but infuriated low-paid workers, who feel he favors big business and is indifferent to their struggle to make ends meet.
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The job would let her break free from a cycle of low-paid drudgery at her spinning mill in Rajapalayam, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and give her new-found stature and the chance to escape a traditional female destiny.
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The 39-year-old self-taught software engineer wound up working a string of low paid jobs, including at a pizza delivery business and fast-food chain McDonald's, when he found himself unable to meet the application requirements for any technical jobs.
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Not all of these jobs will be well paid, especially for women, says McKinsey—just as, according to left-wing critics, the jobs boom of recent years has been in low-paid work (though data suggest that high-paying ones also rose fast).
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"The hardest hit would be the rank-and-file civil servants working and living in major cities like Kuala Lumpur or Penang," Adib said, adding that civil servants had less flexibility to take part-time jobs than other low-paid urban workers.
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The Treasury also said in a statement that low-paid workers would lose tax credits at a slightly slower pace as their earnings rise, softening some of the impact of a sharp rise in inflation caused by the Brexit hit to the pound.
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Because a growing number of large employers — including Amazon, Target and McDonald's — and some states have raised minimum wages up to $15 per hour, or are attempting to, there is increased competition for low-paid workers, more so considering the tight labor market.
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"The low paid workers voted unanimously to strike over the company's refusal to pay wages in line with similar companies at Stansted, the refusal to recognise Unite as a trade union for collective bargaining purposes, and a breakdown in industrial relations", Unite said.
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While some of the plaintiffs in the cases decided by the Supreme Court on Monday were "low-paid people being deprived of relatively small sums of money," as Becker put it, others had worked as accountants at blue-chip firms like Ernst & Young.
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An alternative — working with professors whose backgrounds aren't suited to a student's dissertation subject — can hamper a student's chances on the academic job market, which has grown intensely competitive in many fields as universities rely increasingly on part-time, low-paid adjuncts.
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"They're hiding the fact that that's a huge downside by trying to create a dichotomy between supposedly low-skill, low-paid, family immigrants and high-tech, high-wage, not-jobs-stealing, merit-based immigrants," Doug Rand, a Boundless co-founder, told Recode.
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One possible benefit to such a program is that it could provide an alternative to low-paid work bound up in carbon-intensive supply chains like those at McDonald's and Walmart—currently the only employment on offer in many communities around the country.
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Over the past five years, alumni and parents have donated $4 million to Colgate University, enabling it to support some 200 students each year who want to take unpaid or low-paid internships, typically with nonprofits, the creative arts or to do research.
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"We are improving the lot of low-paid service workers; however, we haven't attacked this fundamental problem of them giving their work, giving their time, and not getting compensated for it," said Assemblywoman Linda B. Rosenthal, a Democrat who represents parts of Manhattan.
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The Resolution Foundation, an anti-poverty think-tank, said in May that Britain should slow the rate at which it increases its minimum wage to avoid the risk of low-paid workers being priced out of a job during the next recession.
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On most predominantly white campuses, people of color are overwhelmingly represented in food service, grounds keeping, custodial roles and fairly low-paid secretarial roles; and they are tragically underrepresented among tenured faculty members, deans, provosts and presidents, people who are in power.
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Just sticking with the plans Osborne set out in March means borrowing is likely to overshoot its target by tens of billions of pounds as tax revenues fall and spending on social security for the low-paid and unemployed rises, Johnson said.
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Liberals now believe that no job at all is better than any low paid starter job, just as they have concluded that no health insurance at all is better than an affordable plan that does not provide vision, dental, and mental health coverage.
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Poskitt's farm - a supplier of vegetables to British supermarkets and caterers - is typical of many businesses in agriculture, hospitality and construction who rely heavily on low-skilled, low-paid workers from poorer parts of the EU to staff long shifts, often at anti-social hours.
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As sexual harassment awareness grows as a national flashpoint, all eyes are on the high-stakes, high-pressure environment in Congress, where the striking power imbalance between low-paid employees and the nation's most powerful politicians all too often allows for unfettered corruption and misconduct.
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Low-paid workers who do not have executive decision-making power and do not manage a staff, according to the Department of Labor's criteria, shouldn't be classified as exempt, but some employers put them in positions that are nominally managerial to escape overtime regulations.
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He began making good on those campaign pledges in a reform blitz during the first 18 months of his presidency that impressed investors but infuriated low-paid workers, who feel he favours big business and is indifferent to their struggle to make ends meet.
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To help pay for easing problems of those in low-paid jobs, Hammond could freeze the 2017 rise in the income tax allowance threshold — the benefits of which will go mostly to higher earners — and drop a plan to cut corporation tax, it said.
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Simply making low-paid labour more expensive is not the answer and the Government shouldn't be surprised if some employers choose easier options, such as reducing hours, chipping away at other benefits or making a less generous pay award the next time pay is reviewed.
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Not only is the weed industry indirectly poaching low-paid employees at restaurants, it's also doing so directly, according to Jennifer Jasinski, a Denver restaurateur, with some skilled pastry chefs leaving kitchen work to ply their trade making medicated pastries and candies of all varieties.
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In France, what started as a grassroots rebellion by low-paid workers to protest taxes on diesel fuel and a squeeze on household incomes has morphed into an assault on President Emmanuel Macron and his reforms, seen by the protesters as favoring the wealthy.
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And in this election year, it forces politicians to choose—not just between labor and management, but between a future of shared prosperity for workers and one in which a lot of low-paid service employees cater to the bidding of the ultra-rich.
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It's almost certain to put the brakes on a rule change that would have made 4 million low-paid salaried workers eligible for overtime, and to make it easier for companies to classify employees as "subcontractors" to get out of their legal responsibilities as employers.
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Retail, which accounts for just under 10 percent of jobs in Britain, has a lot of low-paid jobs that have been affected by rapid rises in the minimum wage in recent years, as well as a new government training levies and pension requirements.
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Even without crime, life is tough in Ecatepec thanks to patchy services in everything from inadequate drainage to sub-standard schools, as well as extreme environmental degradation, and the four hours many spend traveling to and from low-paid jobs in the capital every day.
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Mary Kelly first came into my consciousness after I stumbled across the transcripts from Nightcleaners, her 290 film about women forced up take up low-paid cleaning jobs at night so they could look after their families in the basement of the Women's Library.
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But policy solutions that might help a low-paid, precariously employed fast-food worker, such as employment protections that allow her to report a male supervisor's inappropriate behavior without fear of being fired in reprisal, are likely to be considered an inconvenience by female CEOs.
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Damage to the financial sector from the 2008-09 crisis, a fall in North Sea oil production and a big rise in the number of people in relatively low-paid work have also been identified as factors by the Bank of England and academic researchers.
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He began making good on those campaign pledges in a reform blitz during the first 18 months of his presidency that has impressed investors but infuriated low-paid workers, who feel he favors big business and is indifferent to their struggle to make ends meet.
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It is particularly prevalent in countries such as India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and China, where millions of low-paid and predominantly female home workers are some of the most unprotected in the industry, because of their irregular employment status, isolation and lack of legal recourse.
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Yet companies that turn to labor recruiters like Ray Wiley tend to have an especially tough time: The jobs they offer are in out-of-way places; the work is low-paid and disagreeable; and native-born Americans, particularly white men, are generally not interested.
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Besides cooking, cleaning and caring for children and elderly family members, Indian women also perform unpaid work in family businesses and low-paid labour in factories and enterprises in the so-called informal sector, where they are discriminated against and paid less than men.
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Millions of foreigners from south Asia, southeast Asia and elsewhere flocked to work in Saudi Arabia during the economic boom of the past decade, filling relatively low-paid posts in the oil industry, construction and services as well as many middle-management and professional positions.
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A lack of employment opportunities - linked to years of political instability following a Maoist insurgency - pushed around half a million people from the South Asian nation of some 26.5 million to leave home in 2014 for low-paid, often risky work abroad, government figures show.
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In hours of wrangling with central and east European countries that provide many of Britain's low-paid immigrant workers, he secured the right to curb in-work benefits for up to four years and scale back child benefit for workers whose children remain abroad.
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He still has friends in the coaching business—most notably Ohio State's Thad Matta, who was a low-paid assistant coach on that Western Carolina team—but he doesn't stay in close touch with most of them, largely because he doesn't like to be a bother.
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Ann Pettifor, an economist, argued that it is possible by replacing low-paid insecure employment with full-skilled well-paid employment, government would expand tax take and could cut taxes That certainly would be an outcome everyone would favour but it is not so easily done.
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The situation is not likely to change: Though policymakers have talked for years about shutting off the influx of undocumented workers, the economy has grown to heavily rely on them, particularly in low-paid, low-skilled jobs, which employers often have trouble filling with American workers.
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Among the details, there will be debate over the wording of the safeguards for London's financial sector, on any commitment to future amendments of the bloc's founding treaties and on how long Britain can apply a measure to curb welfare payments for low-paid EU workers.
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The company uses AI for much of its content moderation, but it still relies on thousands of low-paid contractors working in subpar conditions and exposing themselves to content that scars them, as Casey Newton of The Verge demonstrated in his excellent profile of Facebook's content moderators.
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Of course, there are many valid criticisms of Amazon, including how it treats small firms that sell products on its website, the demanding pace of work for its employees, and the fact that it has not yet gone very far in raising wages for low-paid employees.
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I scoured the city and encountered an article about a photo studio in the city's sprawling Little India neighborhood that catered to the thousands of migrant workers in Singapore, mostly young men from India and Bangladesh who form the low-paid backbone of the city's work force.
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One of the S.E.I.U.'s biggest initiatives in recent years has been the Fight for 15 campaign, an effort to raise wages and win union rights for low-paid workers that began in the fast-food industry and has helped win minimum wage increases across the country.
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A former journalist from central China, now working for a big technology company, describes friends who took low-paid jobs with a party newspaper, then a year's sabbatical to pursue a master's degree overseas—a double-manoeuvre that earned them hukou in Beijing on their return.
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Caught between the fear of a profit squeeze and the need to raise pay scales for low-paid part-timers and those employed at small firms to address the country's labor shortages, Japanese firms cannot afford to hike wages much for full-time workers, analysts say.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The rise of robots in manufacturing in Southeast Asia is likely to fuel modern slavery as workers who end up unemployed due to automation face abuses competing for a shrinking pool of low-paid jobs in a "race to the bottom", analysts said on Thursday.
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The IWGB is holding a public meeting in North London this evening to solicit wider support for the Deliveroo campaign, and is also crowdfunding to support all its work on behalf of low paid migrant workers — and "those precariously employed" in the gig economy, as it puts it.
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But as a report this week by Sean Sullivan at the Washington Post revealed, Sanders's campaign pays many of its staffers — primarily in the traditionally low-paid field department — less than the $15 per hour he (along with most Democrats) has set as a proposed national pay floor.
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His assertion that "exam-passers" gain "access to a world that is protected from the downside of globalisation" will come as a surprise to the army of graduates who grapple with insecure, low-paid jobs, high levels of student debt and house prices that are way beyond their means.
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She is donating the money—the "holy grail" settlement, likely to be more than four hundred thousand dollars—to the Fawcett Society, a charity established in 1866 by suffragettes, with the stipulation that it be used to provide legal assistance to low-paid women and to fund strategic litigation.
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Other studies have found similar connections between women's (poor) health and the circumstances that produce the gender wage gap, including discrimination against women returning from maternity leave, the greater representation of women in low paid industries, part-time work due to caring responsibilities, and male domination of senior roles.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has suddenly exposed the brutal economic reality of low-paid women workers who are on the frontlines of this crisis -- and I feel an increased sense of urgency to close the wage gap that continues to shortchange them when they can least afford it.
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A handful of companies — such as Darden Restaurants, Walmart, McDonald's, Uber and Lyft — have declared a change their policies to allow COVID-6900 paid sick leave; but that won't solve the problem for the over 2628 percent of U.S. workers in low paid and insecure frontline service jobs.
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Many low-paid employees currently treated as exempt, especially in retail and food service, need the protection that the updated rule will provide to ensure overtime pay for overtime hours, or less unpaid overtime and more time for themselves, their families or other pursuits, including education or second jobs.
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But there's also no getting around the ugly externalities of app-based ride-hailing: hundreds of thousands of low-paid drivers at the mercy of an uncaring algorithm, women passengers subjected to sexual assault and rape, cities choked with traffic congestion, public transportation systems struggling to maintain ridership.
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Ian Hodson, president of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, who called the strike, said on Twitter: "Cambridge standing up for low paid and exploited workers in the U.K." Workers are also striking for a £10 ($12.95) an hour minimum wage and local grievances, a union flyer showed.
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In his widely discussed and controversial stance on immigration, Trump has proposed building a wall along the southern border of the U.S. to keep low-paid foreign labor from entering the U.S., and he has criticized the H-1B visa program that allows employers to hire temporary foreign skilled workers.
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About one million Britons live in Spain, about 255,000 in Ireland and about 175,000 in France Britain has taken substantial measures to try to reduce immigration, raising the skills requirement for non-European Union citizens and reducing incentives for European Union citizens coming into the country for low-paid jobs.
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Neither faction is well aligned with Labour voters in cities like Sunderland and dozens of other towns across the north, who are more likely to work in low-paid jobs, more likely to be socially conservative and less likely to be interested in Talmudic debates about the nature of socialism.
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The Saturday Profile KABUL, Afghanistan — In the early days of Taliban control in the 235s, a low-paid agricultural worker began traveling from village to village in Afghanistan's west with an unlikely pitch to farmers: switch from their traditional wheat crop and focus on saffron, the notoriously labor-intensive spice.
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Research by Jae Song of the Social Security administration and four colleagues found that most of the rise of inequality in pay from 1978 to 2013 was because some companies were paying more than others — not because of a wider gap between high-paid and low-paid workers within a company.
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WASHINGTON — When Congress created a student loan forgiveness program in 2007, lawmakers wanted to draw people to vital but relatively low-paid careers with a promise: after a decade, if borrowers faithfully paid their debts and pursued their work, they would have the remainder of their student loans written off.
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The EITC and Child Tax Credit are especially helpful to African American and Hispanic women, largely because people of color are far likelier to work in low-paid occupations, work part-time or part-year instead of full-time and year-round, and have lower wages within a given occupation.
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Many say they were misled by their student loan servicing companies about whether they qualified for the program, which is designed to encourage workers with student debt to remain in jobs that may be low-paid but serve the public, including teachers, primary care doctors, public defenders and social workers.
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"I've heard a lot of talk about how Brexit campaigners want to protect British jobs from low-paid foreign workers, but it works both ways – Brexit could limit the job opportunities for talented, British people who might want to work for companies based outside the U.K.," Arnesson told CNBC in an email.
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It also recommends the introduction of three months of non-transferable, well-paid leave for fathers and second parents; a scheme to allow women to return to work after leaving the labour market; and the improvement of pay for women in low-paid, "highly-feminised" sectors, such as social care and retail.
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It also calls on the government to introduce three months of non-transferrable leave for fathers and second parents and create a scheme to allow women to return to work after time out of the labor market, as well as establish "industrial strategies" for low-paid, "highly feminized" sectors to improve pay.
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But experts say his decision frees up federal funds that can be spent elsewhere, resulting in no specific savings, and setting up a skirmish with Congress (The Hill) … The U.S.-Mexico trade pact announced this week is unlikely to lead to higher wages for low-paid auto workers in Mexico, according to analysts.
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She noted while New Zealand had just marked its 125th anniversary of women's suffrage — it was the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote — it has also struggled with a gender pay gap, a disproportionate number of women in low-paid work and high levels of domestic violence.
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That's not so much because the best universities are always in urban areas – Harvard and Yale are in relatively small cities, as are Oxford and Cambridge in the UK – but their alumni cluster in the big metropolitan centers, push up housing costs, and push out the low-paid workers who service them.
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The wage pattern Mr. Autor describes looks startling to many economists in part because he has taken a well-recognized divergence in the labor market — between the boom in highly paid jobs for college graduates and the growth of low-paid service-sector work — and mapped it onto the country, by population density.
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In April this year it emerged that low-paid staff in the midst of pay disputes at Tate Modern had been asked via a letter posted to a notice board in a communal workspace to donate money for a leaving present for Serota as outgoing Tate director: a boat for his retirement.
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Armed with the knowledge of just how much it took to get to this point in her career (doing several low paid jobs in order to be able to work for free for two years on a fashion magazine) Ormerod is under no illusion about the 'glamour' that comes with life as an influencer.
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A major investigation into working conditions for Facebook's content moderators by The Verge's Casey Newton earlier this year described the psychological trauma of low-paid contractors who spend their days reading and watching some of the darkest content on the internet, including wild conspiracy theories, disturbing pornography, and gruesomely violent videos depicting suicide and murder.
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It has also turned the people who fill often overlooked, low-paid jobs into unlikely heroes in the battle with the virus, through no choice of their own, but rather because of the world's suddenly topsy-turvy circumstances and the nature of their work, which requires constant contact with people from all walks of life.
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Ms. Reno met many detectives in her home as a child — her father had been a police reporter in Florida — and for her, it was important that the public realized they were hardworking, low-paid, great people, said James Doyle, a lawyer and author who interviewed her for "True Witness," a book about eyewitness procedures.
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Key issues unresolved include: concerns in eastern Europe that a deal to help Cameron cut immigration by barring low-paid EU migrant workers from British benefits will hurt their citizens; French insistence the City of London match euro zone regulation; efforts to ensure British exemptions from closer EU integration do not become more widespread.
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We are so bummed to have to say goodbye to our good friends at the Fire Department, but it is with the utmost respect for the work they did that we will continue their efforts with a smaller, nimbler team: one low-paid grad student named Devlin who will make compilation vids of big fires and explosions.
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Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' The exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Warren offers plan to repeal 28500 crime law authored by Biden MORE (I-Vt.) has once again demonstrated that he understands the struggle facing millions of low-paid workers.
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"The dollar's initial gains evaporated as market participants made a more sober assessment of the jobs report and realized that the sharp rise in average hourly earnings may have been driven by a sizable drop in low-paid and hurricane-hit jobs rather than an actual rise in earnings," said Fawad Razaqzada, technical analyst for Forex.com.
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If the demise of manufacturing jobs in the United States forced many workers into low-paid retail jobs and the like, imagine the challenge in a country like India, where factory employment has already topped out, yet income per person is only one twenty-fifth of what it was in the United States at its peak.
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Journalists have reported that Mr. Prigozhin engaged in another recent Russian experiment in restoring influence abroad while keeping costs down: He set up a factory of so-called internet trolls in St. Petersburg, an office packed with low-paid people posting online under assumed identities to influence public opinion in foreign countries, including the United States.
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Those challenges include the sheer volume of posts; the need to train a global army of low-paid workers to consistently apply a single set of rules; near-daily changes and clarifications to those rules; a lack of cultural or political context on the part of the moderators; missing context in posts that makes their meaning ambiguous; and frequent disagreements among moderators about whether the rules should apply in individual cases.
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An initial set of options here includes reforming the national-insurance contributions base along progressive lines, guaranteeing paid work for those at risk of long-term unemployment, equipping low-paid workers with the tools they need to advance in the labour market, aligning benefit levels for families with children with the cost of living, and rolling out a "yellow card" warning system to protect vulnerable people from the heavy-handed enforcement of conditionality.
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A. Mr. Cameron's demands go to the fundamental nature of Britain's relationship with the European Union, including the rights of Europeans who move to Britain and the relative power of countries that use the euro as their currency versus those, like Britain, that do not: ■ The right to restrict welfare payments for four years for European Union citizens who move to Britain to work, including "in-work benefits" that typically supplement low-paid employees (this is sometimes referred to as an "emergency brake").
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The typical German woman's career is still this: get educated for a low-paid job in the social, medical or educational sector, take time off for children, return to work part time (doing more hours than you're actually paid for, but getting less recognition than your full-time male colleagues), take time off to tend to elderly parents, return to your job part time and then, when you're retired, take care of ill husband and stressed-out children's children, all while dwelling on a mediocre pension.
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Low-paid temp workers and recent college grads, according to reportFamilies of 737 Max crash victims say Boeing has not contacted them, offered support, or apologized since the disastersDelta CEO says airline industry is 'traumatized' after Boeing 737 Max scandalAmerican Airlines plans to use its execs as guinea pigs to convince people that the Boeing 737 Max won't crash againBoeing is crowding its employee parking lot with undelivered 737 Max jets, and the company says that's part of its 'inventory-management plan'The Justice Department is looking deeper into Boeing while the company scrambles to get its troubled 737 Max plane up and running again'I could never live with myself': The parents of a Boeing 737 Max victim explain why they chose to campaign to prevent another disaster, rather than 'go to bed' and grieve
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