Sentence examples for compelled workers from inspiring English sources

The city finally adopted a law in 1986 that compelled workers to live in the city unless they were granted exemptions or waivers.

Additionally, by not paying its compelled workers a fair day's pay for a fair day's work, the scheme sets up a parallel employment economy that threatens, for cost-effectiveness, the hard-won award conditions of external workers in comparable and legitimate jobs.

It suggested that low pay compelled workers to put in more hours.

According to a report in the Australian, the government is willing to consider changes including an eight-year sunset clause for the bill and keeping the current requirement for the building regulator to apply to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal before compelling workers or other witnesses to give evidence.

After the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which greatly expanded corporations and unions' political speech, employers can legally compel workers to participate in political campaigns.

Because, claimed the teachers, requiring workers to pay dues to their union compels workers to back the union's political stands, in violation of the First Amendment's free speech clause.

Instead, the justices debated whether, because issues of wages and benefits for public employees are inevitably and intrinsically matters of public policy, compelling workers to pay union dues would be an infringement on free speech and association.

Under the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which significantly expands the political speech rights of corporations and labor unions, employers can compel workers to participate in campaigns -- a fact Romney noted on the call.

Political views aside, if we are a nation of laws and we must uphold them, how do you compel workers to challenge the status quo and report abuses in the workplace when they fear deportation.

He tested his system in 1999 in Guinea, where a painfully slow Internet connection compelled aid workers to pass along floppy disks instead.

This compelled field workers to steer conversations with voters away from major partisan issues to focus on local matters.