| Though more public attention has been drawn to homeworkers, eight years later, their situations have barely improved. |
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| But some technological changes resulted in new forms of homework or a greater demand for certain traditional tasks performed by homeworkers. |
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| Up to 170,000 homeworkers could get more money under new minimum wage regulations. |
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| Some employers have been using the system to cheat homeworkers out of their hard-earned cash, but this should make it more difficult to do so. |
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| Women are disproportionately employed in the so-called atypical workforce of part-timers, temporary workers, and homeworkers. |
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| It is estimated 70 per cent of garment workers are women, working in factories, sweatshops, or as homeworkers. |
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| The government needs to look at the status of homeworkers as they have no protection at the moment. |
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| The researchers will also be giving information and support to homeworkers who want to try to fight for their right to the minimum wage. |
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| Research is showing that higher productivity levels are achieved by homeworkers. |
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| In its heyday, the garment industry became the leading employer of homeworkers. |
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| Freelancers and homeworkers can also lose the habits of deference that oil the wheels of office life. |
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| Rarer still – if at all – do companies report the energy use of homeworkers. |
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| Employers will no longer be required to obtain Ministry of Labour permits for homeworkers. |
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| Examples include means-tested benefits, childcare, care work, low paid jobs, precarious and informal work and homeworkers. |
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| The essential tool was the sewing machine, which was relatively cheap, so little or no capital was required to set up a small workshop and also find homeworkers. |
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| Access to the internet for one, dozens or hundreds of employees or for homeworkers. |
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| According to the study, BT homeworkers save on average 5,000 Km of commuting every year. |
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| Included are the costs for all employees including homeworkers and apprentices. |
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| Before that, she spent a year studying the plight of women dressmakers and homeworkers in the black economy in Italy. |
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| Only homeworkers who appear on the payroll of the observation unit should be included. |
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| Few homeworkers have the legal status of employees and their bargaining power tends to be very weak. |
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| Despite being present in so many global supply chains, homeworkers themselves are not visible to the eyes of the consumer, and often not visible to the brands they produce for. |
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| Those are the homeworkers, both men and women. |
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| All employees are to be counted for the purpose of the 50-employee threshold, including homeworkers, casuals, probationary employees, and employees who are laid off, on strike or locked out. |
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| The Employment Standards Act was amended to eliminate exclusions from overtime pay and public holidays for homeworkers and employers were required to provide homeworkers with written details concerning their work and pay. |
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| This was very much a working home office blending beautifully into a garden atmosphere, somewhere homeworkers could make a video conference call while also harvesting fresh tea from the living wall for their elevenses. |
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| Telenet offers you customized solutions for broadband internet access, as well as for homeworkers, self-employed people, SMEs, large companies and the public sector. |
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| The case of Mme Binet's mother, a young widow who worked as a seamer at home, reveals how this system affected homeworkers. |
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| Since the threads produced by the spinning jenny lacked strength they were an ideal complement to those produced on the water frame, and the machine was used for decades by homeworkers. |
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