Sentences with phrase «local government policy unit»

Local Government The FSB's Local Government Policy Unit works to ensure small businesses can compete and grow locally and are treated fairly by local authorities and Government regarding rates, business taxes, planning and procurement.

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The measure mirrors Gov. Cuomo's plan to create an investigative unit solely for sexual harassment complaints within the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and creates one policy for all state and local government entities, including the legislature.

This legislation would: create a uniform policy for all branches of state and local government and establish a dedicated unit to receive and investigate sexual harassment claims, ensure individual liability to promote greater accountability, prohibit confidentiality agreements unless the victim requests that his or her identity be kept private, and put in place necessary safeguards to allow government to recoup monies to rightly protect hardworking taxpayers from being on the hook for individual acts of sexual harassment.

While state governments have had a heavy hand in teacher preparation, licensure, and certification policy for over a century (American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, 1990; Hawley, 1990), states have traditionally delegated teacher tenure and evaluation policy to localities, often in conjunction with local collective bargaining units (Ballou, 2000; Cohen - Vogel & Osborne - Lampkin, 2007; Hannaway & Rotherham, 2006; Hungerford & Blom, 2014; Strunk, 2012).

John Fowler, a policy manager at the Local Government Information Unit, pointed out that the education secretary has the legal power to revoke an academy order in case it closes instead.

With the implementation of encouragement policies by the central and local governments, China is expected to have over 10 million units of clean - energy vehicles by year 2020, the largest number in the world.

And, yes, the state says that the state regulations regarding disciminatory practices «supersede and preempt any ordinance, regulation, resolution, or policy adopted or imposed by a unit of local government...» effectively invalidating Charlotte's ordinance.