...1997. Many policy initiatives have been introduced in terms of financial support, better housing, and long-term care services. For active ageing, an innovative project known as the ‘Elder Academy’ aimed at promoting intergenerational cohesion, which is now under threat owing to changing social patterns. With the rapid increase in the number of ‘old-olds’, more resources on dementia care, community support, professional staff development, carer training, and coordination of care are necessary. In terms of financing, shared responsibility is the only viable option. In the 2012-13 budget speech, a pilot for community care service voucher as a means of promoting ageing at home was announced. As the coming cohorts of elders are more affluent and knowledgeable, they tend to be healthier and have different demands and expectations, such as independent living with better quality of life. The private sector may explore the markets of community care services and elder-oriented products. To meet the emerging needs, a holistic approach should be adopted, with modifications of the labour laws to make use of the talents of elders and to provide more flexible work arrangements for family members to care for elders. Key word: Health services for the aged AN UNFORESEEN SITUATION “Population ageing is first and foremost a success story for public health policies as well as social and economic development.”1 Population ageing is attributable to the...
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...Labour Conditions in Ikea’s Supply Chain Case Studies in Bangladesh and Vietnam August 2006 Esther de Haan & Michiel van Dijk Labour Conditions in Ikea’s Supply Chain Labour Conditions in Ikea’s Supply Chain Case Studies in Bangladesh and Vietnam Esther de Haan & Michiel van Dijk Amsterdam, Augustus 2006 2 Colofon Labour Conditions in Ikea’s Supply Chain Case Studies in Bangladesh and Vietnam By: Esther de Haan & Michiel van Dijk August 2006 This document is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivateWorks 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5 This report was commissioned by: Oxfam-Magasins du Monde Published by: SOMO Centre for research on Multinational Corporations Keizersgracht 132 1015 CW Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31(20)6391291 Fax: +31(20)6391321 E-mail:info@somo.nl Website:www.somo.nl Subscribe here to the SOMO quarterly newsletter to keep informed of SOMO news and activities. 3 Labour Conditions in Ikea’s Supply Chain Contents Chapter 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................5 Chapter 2 Bangladesh....................................................................................................7 2.1 Employment is freely chosen...............................................................................7 2.2 There is no discrimination in employment .................
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...INTRODUCTION Background of Study Prostitution is the performance of sexual acts for payment. It exists throughout the world, largely in urban areas. Some prostitutes work for themselves. Others work for men known as pimps or for woman called madams. Some prostitutes seek customers on streets and in other public places and this happen especially in developing countries where poverty is the main reason. (Shedlin, Michele G, World Book p.15, 2007) The idea of sex workers fighting for their human rights is a foreign concept to most people, even those who identify politically as progressives or feminists. Sex workers have lived on the margins of society through most of human history, and despite the prevalence of this work all over the world, sex workers are often treated as less than human, both in cultural attitudes and public policy. In fact, it cannot be said enough: sex workers are people—friends, neighbors, family members, wage earners, and parents—and they deserve the same human rights as everyone else. (http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/july08/july2008_1.php) Feminists and advocates of all stripes have argued that they want to work for the human rights of sex workers, often without an analysis of what human rights for sex workers might look like. While many people would agree that access to human rights includes the right to be free from harm, to have access to health care and housing, and to seek safe employment that pays a living wage, there is fierce...
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...There are Not Enough Shelters for the Homeless Jacob Hogue Sean Smith English 111-61f April 13, 2016(2206) Abstract Department of Housing and Urban Development should allocate enough money to The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority to build enough shelters for homeless people in Indiana to get off the streets. There are all kinds of costs that come along with arresting a homeless person like court costs, booking costs and even paperwork. If enough shelters were built for the homeless people, they would be less likely to be committing crimes and therefor would be costing the state less money to book them. Working and keeping up homeless support administrations projects, for example, homeless safe houses, day focuses, homeless therapeutic administrations etcetera are exorbitant endeavors. The public does because these stores then have to raise the prices of the clothing and food to pay for the food and clothes that were stolen by the homeless people. Department of Housing and Urban Development the death rate of homeless people with be dramatically reduced. If the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority gets the funding from the U. If not things like homeless starvation, drug overdose, public urination, and stealing from stores will never stop happening. S. Guess who pays for that. There are many shelter homes for homeless people in Indianapolis. Although there are many shelters there are still many people that are homeless. One of the many...
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...Case 15-1: The Union’s Demand for Recognition and Bargaining Rights In case study 15-1 a union representative made claims against a company of unfair labor practices. The Union also claimed that this was in violation of Section 8(a)(1) of the LMRA. The Union organizer claimed that the company had interrogated the employees to decipher if a union was being established in the company. Melton, the supervisor of the employees at the time of these discrepancies, did engage in questioning three employees of their union activity within the organization. The Union organizer also argued that the company had threatened employees. The Union rep was based this argument off of the comments of the new supervisor of these employees when he made the comment that if a Union was elected the janitors helpers would lose their rent free apartments and the janitors charged for second bedrooms. My opinion is this was a statement by the supervisor but did seem intended to coerce the voting. The last argument that I find most persuasive for the favor of the Union is the unique timing of new health benefits of the company (Schoen & Gilbert, 1989), which seems to be a direct persuasion to the employees to not vote for the Union. As with all arguments there is a different view point. The company believed that because Melton’s comments were not intended to coerce employees this was not in violation. I tend to agree that despite the inquiries Melton never indicated any loss of benefits to employees...
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...of identification of the various factors that affect the health of an individual in the community and to detect certain problems that a community has. As a community it involves all the individuals that are living in it. Assessment of these factors is done by the Public Health Nurse. It is not an easy task for it requires thorough investigation by surveying families present in the community. Identification and solution of these problems is the main concern of a community diagnosis. To attain optimal health and wellness of each and every individual in the community regardless of its race, age, sex, etc. the public health nurse must help these individuals to solve whatever existing health problems they have. RATIONALE The study was done to be able to know the...
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...Prison reform, the endeavor of enhancing the conditions within detainment facilities likewise to set up a more helpful punitive framework or actualize helper to detainment; helps the detainees to get ready better for their second life after their time serving in jail. At the NAACP's 106th national tradition, on July 15, 2015; Mr. President Obama recorded a bundle of reasons that the United States ought to change the criminal equity framework. What's more, a few reasons that the legislature will look more into the American groups and attempt to give more open door and more rights to every one of the general population in the country. President Obama has officially investigating the circumstance. The quantities of steps are “signing the Fair...
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...1 Davis-Bacon Act Elizabeth Wiedemeier Business law Kenneth Lynch (Instructor) Park University Explain what you are going to do. Will you prove a point? Will you be looking at various opposing views and weighing up the merits? Spell out exactly what you will achieve in your term paper right here. * A brief explanation of the problem * Aim of your term paper * What questions will be answered in the term paper * A brief outline of current research * Relevance of the term paper topic * The research process Introduction: Contractors bid on U. S. Federal Construction projects and most contracts for federally assisted constructions exceeding $2,000 required to pay their employees the standard wage and benefit package that workers in the area performing similar work are earning the “prevailing wage”. Prevailing Wage typically means the local union wage. In government contracting, “a prevailing wage is the hourly wage, benefits and overtime, paid to the majority of workers, laborers, and mechanics within a particular area”. The culprit of all of this is the “Davis Bacon-Act” (DBA) The act was amended several times and has been attacking by opponents claiming its racist, unnecessary, expensive and costing taxpayers and the government a lot of money. Republicans have been attacking and trying to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act on the grounds that it is outdated, expensive and bureaucratic. Their latest effort last year was claiming, the repeal will...
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...This human T cell (blue) is under attack by HIV (yellow), the virus that causes AIDS. Page Number: 3 6 8 9 Page Number: 3 6 8 9 Contents: 1. Biological Problem 2. Pathology 3. Solutions for HIV: 4. 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 23 8 9 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 23 8 9 Main Solution: Stribild or Quad study 102 and 103: 5. Evaluation of Stribild: Are the processes and methods appropriate for producing valid and reliable data and effective solutions? 6. How Stribild works 7. Limitations of Stribild 8. Benefits and Risks of Stribild to humans 9. Alternate solutions 10. Conclusion 11. References 12. Evaluation of sources What are scientists doing to solve of the problem of HIV? Biological Problem: HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus which attacks the immune system, and weakens your ability to fight infections and disease and the final stage of HIV; AIDS (acquired immune deficiency) is when your body can no longer fight life-threatening infections. Majority of HIV suffers will not develop AIDs if diagnosis is fast and treatment starts early. [22] The main biological problem with HIV is the fact that it effects almost 35 million people and the majority of who live in less developed countries (refer to figure 1 and 2) where people may find it hard extremely hard to afford treatment. This makes...
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... | |A Case Study Report | |An Investigation on Small and Medium Enterprise | |(Bee Fresh Laundry) | | | |Prepared for Riana – Lecturer (D3261) by Ester – (NIM: 1901459226) | |4/11/2015 | |This is a Case Study Report submitted for the Mid-term Test Assignment for the Subject of English for Business Presentation (LA23) - ( | |ENGL6130) of Even Semester 2015/2016, at BINUS University. | [pic] Contents Executive Summary 3 1. Introduction 3 1.1 Purpose 3 1.2 Scope 4 1.3 Method 4 1.4 Limitations 4 1.5 Assumptions 4 1.6 Background...
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...THE 10 YEAR PLAN 1. Strategic Plan to Address Homelessness……………………………………Tab 1 a. Context b. Synthesis of Research Findings c. Strategic Plan Goals d. Summary of Year 1 Action Steps e. Funding Requirements f. Summary of Data Report Findings g. Models used to Develop Plan 2. Summary of System Management Function…………………………………Tab 2 3. Enumeration and Needs Assessment………………………………………...Tab 3 a. Enumeration b. Community Profile c. Profiles of Specific Sub-Populations d. Conclusions e. Recommendations 4. Gaps Analysis……………………...………………………………………...…..Tab 4 5. Rapid Re-housing Demonstration Report………………………………….....Tab 5 a. Pierce Intervention Evaluation 6. Open Doors Report………………………………………………………………Tab 6 a. Rapid Assessment of Needs of Hurricane Evacuees Blue Ribbon Commission to End Chronic Homelessness Anna Babin United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast David Benson Harris County Commissioners Court David S Buck, MD, MPH Department of Family & Community Medicine Baylor College of Medicine James Calaway Center for Houston’s Future Robert Eury Central Houston, Inc. The Most Reverend Bishop Fiorenza The Diocese of Galveston – Houston Skip Kasdorf Greater Houston Partnership Richard Lapin City of Houston Anna Leal Houston Endowment, Inc. The Honorable Pat Lykos Harris County Anthony Love Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County Barry Mandel Houston Downtown Alliance Jackie Martin J.S. Martin Associates, LP Vickie L. McBride City of Houston Department of Housing & Community Development...
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...that helps them fight disease. The immune system involves structures such as the skin to keep away entry bacteria and other pathogens. The environment we live is full of micro organisms some living in the air, others water and others in food. Our bodies are well adopted to keep away these micro organisms. D – Deficiency. When it comes to HIV AIDS there is deficiency of adequate immunity. HIV virus infect immune cell (to be particular T-helper or CD4+ cells). T - Helper cells are very instrumental in the immune system thus when they are attacked by the virus they deplete in number. S - Syndrome: A variety of different symptoms and illness. The grouping of well recognized illness connected with AIDS makes a syndrome. TYPES OF HIV Two types of HIV are currently recognized: HIV-1, HIV-2. - Transmission of both of virus is by sexual contact, through blood and from mother to child. - They cause the same clinical symptoms. HIV – 1 - It is the most predominant virus. - It is responsible for the many cases of AIDS in the US, Europe and Africa. 1 - It is divided further into subtypes; - These subtypes are named A – J. - These subtypes are unevenly distributed throughout the world....
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...scholarships * Loans * Uniform for workers * Leaves GROUP LIFE INSURANCE * INSURANCE POLICY a) The SNGPL provides group life cover to employees. Premium is paid by the organization. The HR department is responsible for coordinating settlement proceedings and providing assistance to an employee in lieu of any claim filed under the scheme. b) This benefit becomes effective from the date of becoming the member of the group insurance scheme. On confirmation, employee is required to nominate names of beneficiaries who would be entitled to receive payments in event of his/her death. c) Payment is made only in case of in-service death of an employee. Death after retirement would not entitle the surviving spouse or family members, as the case may be, to any benefits. One time lump sum payment is made equal to the sum assured. * INSURANCE PROCEDURE Head of HR function * Receive written consent from the employee for becoming member of the life insurance scheme. * Coordinate with the employee intending to avail group insurance facility to fill out and sign the insurance documents. * Receive the signed insurance application form stating the name of persons nominated by the applicant as beneficiaries. Head of HR function * Receive written consent from the employee for becoming member of the life insurance scheme....
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... | 1 | Abstract and Introduction | 2 | 2 | Literature Review Situation of Working Poor in Hong Kong Introduction to Asset Building Asset Building Policies in Hong Kong Theory of Determinants of Asset Accumulation Conceptual Framework for Determinants on Asset Building Barriers to Asset Building in the US Context | 3 | 3 | Research Objectives, Questions, and Design | 8 | 4 | Research Findings Situation of Asset Building of Working Poor in Hong Kong Barriers to Asset Building of Working Poor in Hong Kong | 9 | 5 | Discussion and Summary | 17 | 6 | Policy Implications | 17 | 7 | Limitation of the Research | 19 | 8 | Conclusion | 20 | 9 | References | 21 | 10 | Appendixes | 24 | 1 Abstract - It is widely acknowledged that the numbers of working poor in Hong Kong is tremendously increasing. This paper looks at the barriers of working poor’s asset-building which haven’t intensively discussed by both the government and academicians in Hong Kong. I conducted survey of 45 working poor and 6 intensive interviews. Results revealed that financial vulnerability, poor social network, lack of information to access social welfare, and lack of incentives are major problems in building assets. Thus, this paper recommends increasing the supply of public housing, injecting...
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...MOODULE 2: THEORIES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELLING THE BEHAVIOURIST THEORY OF COUNSELLING Introduction to Theories A theory can be defined as a systematic way of explaining a fact or an event. It refers to procedure that has been put forward empirically tested that explains a situation as a phenomena. Importance of Theory in Counselling Theories help a counselor to; • Explain the existence of a behaviour by understand if how it’s conceptualized, perpetuated and its manifestations. • Theories also help a counsellor to predict behaviour. The prediction of behaviour is quite important in the cases where a client manifests destructive behaviour. • Finally theories also help a counsellor to control behaviour. This is also important in cases where behaviours are destructive. Each theory has stipulated techniques which are meant to control behaviour. Types of Theories There are several types of theories which helps a counsellor to understand, predict and control behaviour. But for this course, emphasis will be placed on the following theories: • Psychological Theory • Behaviour Theory • Poison Centred Theory • Cognitive Behavioural Theory THE PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Background Before the development of the psychological view point in terms of understanding, the human behaviour, in the late 18th Century and Mid 19th Century by Mesmer, Dr. John Breur, Dr. Jean Charcot among others. Psychological disorders and disturbances was mainly looked...
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