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Pierre-Marc Johnson

Johnson served as Minister of Labour from 1977 to 1980, Minister to Consumers, Cooperatives and Financial Institutions from 1980 to 1981, Minister of Social Affairs from 1981 to 1984 and Attorney General from 1984 to 1985.


1911 United Kingdom heat wave

Also in August, striking became common, most notably in the Victoria and Albert Docks, where the entire workforce of 5000 people walked out, because of the intolerable heat, meaning the whole area came to a standstill.

Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development

Under the brand name Serena, TPS constructs and maintains a multitude of resorts, hotels and other tourist attractions that serve to stimulate local economic growth through increased employment, development of a skilled workforce, increased productivity of local businesses (particularly in the design and craft spheres) and the general development of given areas.

Antonio Salinas y Castañeda

As an important landowner, he led the meeting of the main landowners of the country for an indemnity after slavery abolition and ruled, next to Manuel Pardo y Lavalle the commission who promoted the Rural Police Force and the immigration of Asians to replace former slaves as a workforce during Ramón Castilla government.

Backworth Colliery Band

The band was definitely formed out of the workforce from the surrounding pits, and sponsorship was won from the National Union of Mineworkers before the nationalisation of the coal companies in 1947.

Better Off Ted

In season 2's episode 6, "Beating a Dead Workforce", we learn she was a member of Mossad.

Betty's Hope

It flourished as a successful agricultural industrial enterprise (because the workforce, being forcibly imported African slaves, were unpaid), the first large-scale sugar plantation to operate in Antigua, starting with Codrington family's ownership in 1674, which lasted till 1944.

Boutique Week

Boutique Week also raises money for Nancy Lublin's non-profit organisation Dress for Success, supplying women with interview suits and resources they need for success in today’s workforce.

Carrosserie Pourtout

Marcel Pourtout started in 1925 with a small workshop in Bougival and a workforce of twelve.

Certificate of Initial Mastery

The Report of the Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, published in June 1990 by the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), led by Marc Tucker.

Cessna

The Cessna factory at Independence, Kansas, which builds the Cessna piston-engined aircraft and the Cessna Mustang, was not forecast to see any layoffs, but one third of the workforce at the former Columbia Aircraft facility in Bend was laid off.

Charles I. Ecker

Co-Chair, Economic and Workforce Development Task Force of Commission on the Future of Howard Community College, 1998-99.

Christopher G. Donovan

119, to be codified as amended at scattered sections of 42 U.S.C. contains provisions related to health care workforce, long term care, slowing cost growth, prevention and wellness.

Clearview, Ontario

As of 2006, compared to Ontario as a whole, Construction, Agriculture, and Manufacturing industries employ a greater than average percentage of the workforce (Business, Finance and Real Estate employ smaller than average).

Commuter town

For example, the resort town of Jackson has spawned several nearby bedroom communities, including Victor, Idaho; Driggs, Idaho; and Alpine, Wyoming, where the majority of the Jackson workforce resides.

David A. Siegel

During the 2012 United States elections, Siegel caused controversy and public debate when he sent a mass email to his employees, suggesting that they vote for Republican Party candidate Mitt Romney or he might have to take drastic measures in how he operated the company (including cutting back on his company's workforce).

Disability in children's literature

Beginning in the 1970s, the United States Congress passed several Acts to legally protect the right of children and adults with disabilities to be included in schools and the workforce, first with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and then the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975.

East Tilbury

A sizeable Czech workforce was relocated here, and has merged into the local community after connections were lost with Czechoslovakia after the Second World war.

El Paso Community College

Realizing the importance of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its regional impact, EPCC created the Institute for Economic and Workforce Development in 1995 to organize and intensify its service efforts in training the emerging workforce and providing education and expertise to area business and industry.

Félix Ortiz

Assemblyman Ortiz serves as President of the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators, Vice-President of COPA USA, Chair of the Labor and Workforce Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), and Executive Committee Board Member of the Council of State Governments (CSG).

Frankenthal Porcelain Factory

Karl Hannong transferred his business to an empty barracks in Frankenthal and staffed it with his Strasbourg workforce, under privilege from Elector Carl Theodor of Bavaria, who visited the factory himself in the following year, once production was well under way.

Ginninderra

Much of the local produce supplied the large workforce at the region's goldfields located at Braidwood and Major's Creek.

H. V. Burlingham

Like rivals Thomas Harrington Ltd in Hove and Plaxton in Scarborough, H. V. Burlingham understood that a seaside resort offered advantages for the highly seasonal trade in luxury coach bodies in that the workforce were able to take other jobs during the summer when there was no work for them building coaches.

Hans Blumenberg

Back in Lübeck he was enrolled in the workforce at the Drägerwerk AG.

Historiography of science

The influential bureaucrat Vannevar Bush, and the president of Harvard, James Conant, both encouraged the study of the history of science as a way of improving general knowledge about how science worked, and why it was essential to maintain a large scientific workforce.

Human resource

Human resource management, the field or department that handles the management of an organization's workforce

Human resources is the group of individuals who make up the workforce of an organization.

José La Luz

He also began a career as an organizer for several unions, which sought to organize the growing Hispanic workforce in the low wage manufacturing and service sectors.

Joseph Abruzzo

Additionally, Abruzzo worked with State Representative Joe Saunders to propose the Competitive Workforce Act, which would "update the state's Civil Rights Act of 1992 to include protections against discrimination for reasons of sexual orientation and gender identity," which a University of Florida poll suggested that 73 percent of Floridians supported.

Joseph Manton

His workforce included: James Purdey (who went on to found Purdey's), Thomas Boss, Joseph Lang, William Greener and Charles Lancaster.

Kimble Ainslie

Ainslie criticized the George W. Bush Administration for insufficient attention to small business, for socializing workforce policy, for pressuring single mothers on social assistance to commit to marriage, and he encouraged the use of asset development for the working poor.

Manuel Saumell

A workforce of black slaves sets up the machinery of one of El Cerro's first sugar mills.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard

Mare Island's military and civilian workforce raised almost $76M in war bonds; enough to pay for every one of the submarines built at MINSY prior to VJ Day.

Media Access Australia

People with disabilities, particularly those who are Deaf, hearing impaired, blind or vision impaired, are in many cases excluded from mainstream audiovisual media, with often profound implications for educational outcomes, workforce participation and social inclusion.

Milwr Tunnel

Low lead prices in 1938 caused the majority of the workforce to be temporarily laid off, but Pilkington's Glass began using the tunnel to excavate high quality limestone from 1939; this quarrying continued until 1969, creating large artificial caverns west of Olwyn Goch.

MyMobileWorkers

Variations of the MyMobileWorkers workforce management software applications include field service, proof of delivery and collection and mobile delivery.

NHS Grampian

NHS Grampian is also very closely linked with both the University of Aberdeen and The Robert Gordon University, especially in the fields of research, workforce planning and training.

Open-source unionism

Freelancers Union - A non-profit organization in the United States that represents the needs and concerns of the independent workforce through advocacy, information, and service.

Richard Bloomingdale

He has lectured on the topic of "workforce development" at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Sabath

A. J. Sabath, former Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development in New Jersey

Slavery in Niger

In the Zarma speaking regions in the west of Niger, slavery provided the crucial workforce in agriculture.

Socialism or Barbarism

What Mészáros prescribes is a labor union socialist solution, specifically the syndicalist form of socialism that Samuel Gompers had abandoned when the AFL provided the a workforce for the U.S. involvement in World War I.

Tay Bee Aye

As she could not afford herself an art education, art took a backseat, and she joined the workforce soon after finishing her Cambridge GCE O Level Examinations, to help support her family.

The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

It is also undertaking a panel study of General practitioners examining the determinants of medical workforce shortages, undertakes detailed labour market research, is examining the relationship of poverty and human capital and examines the economic impacts of intellectual property.

United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census

The Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy is a subcommittee within the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Vanessa Howard

Following her divorce, she worked with California programs dedicated to helping recently divorced homemakers reintegrate into the workforce, including the Mission Valley Regional Occupation Center in Fremont.

Vietnamese people in Bulgaria

According to an international agreement of 1980, Bulgaria, along with other Comecon members such as East Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, accepted Vietnamese guest workers in the country as a relatively cheaper manual labour workforce.

Zeballos, British Columbia

With the onset of World War II, Zeballos lost significant numbers of its workforce to the Canadian Army.


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