Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even when workers know of the regulations which are supposed to protect them, they may be stymied by a system of employment in which the worker hires out through a labor contractor without knowing even the name of the grower. Laborers are often forced to move on, following the harvests, with no ability to follow up on any claims of illness--much less press for safeguards from further pesticide poisoning...
...Metropolitan District Commission, the agency that will build and maintain the Kennedy Park, recently solicited bids for the construction, but has yet to select a contractor...
...their pride in the first President from the region since 1849. Said North Carolina State Senator Harold Hardison of his friends' eagerness to attend the Inauguration: "They'll be there just as sure as a cat's got climbing gear." Added Shelby Smith, a retired building contractor in Helen, Ga.: "It's been a long dry spell for us, and we feel a little like farmers when they get that first whiff of needed rain...
...Mordechai Rubenstein, 40, and Giora Rubenstein, 31, who with their father Aharon operate one of Israel's biggest construction companies, were arrested last month on suspicion of income tax evasion. The Rubenstein firm is a major government housing contractor...
...Affirmative Action program is a set of specific and result oriented procedures which a contractor commits himself to apply every good faith effort. The object of these procedures plus such efforts is equal employment opportunity. Procedures without effort to make them work are meaningless; and effort; undirected by specific and meaningful procedures is inadequate. An acceptable AA program must include analysis of areas within which the contractor is deficient in the utilization of minority groups and women, and further, goals and time tables to which the contractor's good faith efforts must be directed to correct the deficiencies and, thus...