And we made sure that workers had basic rights.
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Firms will build factories in difficult places if they have to, but they much prefer places where contracts can be enforced, property rights are secure, taxes are predictable, executives feel safe, and workers get basic social services from the state.
For many years, higher education not easily accessible, affordable, or available for the vast majority of the population has focused on training young workers only in basic technical skills.
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South Africa has increased the basic daily wage of farm workers by 52% following a violent strike in the wine-producing Western Cape region, the labour minister has said.
Garment-makers cannot find enough workers with even the basic literacy they need.
The first is an entry-level initiative designed for illiterate individuals, and the second, an advanced level, targets workers who already have some basic literacy and numeracy skills.
His comments are echoed by a middle-aged South African woman who says foreigners charge too much for basic goods and don't pay their workers enough.
The resolution - adopted on Wednesday - says that 10% of EU citizens do not have access to a basic account for everyday transactions, including expatriate workers, homeless people, students, those on very low incomes, and people with no credit record.
Above all, the manufacturing sector helps support the basic middle-class aspirations of millions of workers, which is why the President and the Vice President are proposing to fix our tax code so it rewards manufacturers for bringing jobs back to America instead of giving them tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas.
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But as aftershocks continued to shake the area late on Sunday, blocked and damaged roads meant that rescue workers were still unable to distribute basic supplies in some of the worst affected areas, where residents were sleeping outside without power and water and with dwindling supplies of food, according to residents and state media reports.
Shortly after taking office, the President signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections against pay discrimination for women and other workers, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which is delivering relief to working families across the country, including tax credits and child care assistance for working families.
The CAB said it had two case workers to deal with clients who needed more than basic advice.
In the Soviet Union, everyone had a job, yet workers had to stand in line for hours for basic necessities.
Some 33.8% wanted to work more to earn more, while 64.3% of workers thought their salary wasn't sufficient for basic needs.
They include such things as paying workers based on a formula that allows them to meet basic cost-of-living needs.
Still, caught in the middle are thousands of U.S. military members, teachers and federal workers who are at the backbone of government's basic ability to function.
"Six years after the launch of the CWU's campaign, hundreds of thousands of agency workers across the UK can now finally look forward to some basic employment fairness, " he said.
Mr Heaton told BBC News it was a basic principle of EU law that there should be no discrimination between migrant workers and those who work in their home country.
The questions were also described as some basic queries now asked of presidential nominees, like whether they ever hired illegal workers or neglected to pay taxes for nannies.
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Obviously, funding the basic pension through the broad-based consumption tax would lower the burden on active workers and employing firms.
The new generation of workers are depicted as a hard-to-manage bunch who are responsible for a basic and new tension at work but recent evidence suggests they are no different from any other generation in just disliking the business of putting down roots.
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Or another way of looking at this is that once you take out those for whom minimum wage is just a basic, before tips and or commissions, we end up talking about 3% or so of hourly paid workers, or something like 1.5% of the total workforce.
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Because when poor workers have more money to spend, they spend it, almost entirely in the local community, on basic necessities like housing, food, clothing and transportation.
It says all health workers who see older patients including primary care physicians, nurses, physicians' assistants and social workers need some training to recognize the signs of geriatric mental health problems and provide at least basic care.
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And in a country like North Korea, which struggles to provide basic food and infrastructure for its citizens, the impact on the families and wider community of those 53, 000 workers is also a risk, as are the effects this sudden suspension may have on other potential investors in the aid-reliant country.
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