Saudi health authorities ordered 11 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine, giving priority to government workers working at the Hajj.
The Chinese government has made it a priority to help migrant workers.
Mr Peacock said he also intends to write to the Scottish Social Services Council, responsible for registering social workers, asking them to ensure that child protection training was a high priority in the future registration of social workers.
But Rosi Edwards, HSE's regional director for Wales, urged employers to make the safety of workers their top priority of 2013.
Klaus Stingl, chairman of the Anglesey Aluminium Metal (AAM) board, said the priority now was to ensure workers were helped to find new jobs.
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But Mr Solbes has said that making it cheaper to fire workers is not a priority.
Aid workers have said their priority is to get food, safe water and medicines to more than 200, 000 people in refugee camps.
In the short term, anti-viral drugs will need to be stockpiled in those countries that can afford them, and decisions will need to be taken about who (eg, health-care workers) should have priority in receiving them.
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"Reducing the turnover of social workers must also be a priority, " she said.
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Keeping workers close seems to be a priority at Facebook and Google, which both use carrots rather than sticks to bring employees into the office.
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Often, the interests of production prevail over concern for the dignity of workers, while economic interests take priority over the good of individuals and even entire peoples.
They said the low dosages of radiation workers were exposed to also underlined the priority given to safety.
When workers spend most of their time on high-priority projects, it's important to designate a time to clear away the cobwebs and resolve any old issues.
In such a case, the priority groups would be pregnant women, health care and emergency services workers with direct patient contact, household contacts of children younger than 6 months, children age 6 months to 4 years and children younger than 19 with chronic medical conditions -- a total of 42 million people.
Mark O'Brien, North American president of ad agency DDB Worldwide, says he got a wake-up call when workers cited "profit" as the company's top priority in a 2011 employee survey.
The joint statement also included references to protections for workers both in the U.S. and abroad, a priority for unions.
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Because more than two million construction workers are out of work, the Council identified ten high-priority infrastructure projects based on their potential to put Americans to work right away -- projects that have already been funded, but are being held up by regulations.
To train our workers for the jobs of tomorrow, we've made education reform a top priority in this administration.
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