HALIFAX — An independent human
rights board of inquiry has found a former employee of Nova Scotia's Black Educators Association was discriminated against by the organization, which must pay her $ 11,000 in general damages and lost income.
There was cause for concern across the country from employers when early last year a Human
Rights Board of Inquiry decided that a health and welfare plan's denial of coverage for medical marijuana was discriminatory in Skinner v Board of Trustees of the Canadian Elevator Industry Welfare Trust Fund, 2017 CanLII 3240 (NS HRC).
The N.S. Human
Rights Board of Inquiry's determination of Mr. Comeau's complaints remains to be seen.
As community leaders in the Greater Buffalo area served by Catholic Health, we wish to bring to your attention the recent report by the Workers»
Rights Board of Buffalo's Coalition for Economic Justice.
The insured lodged a human rights complaint alleging the denial discriminated against him based on physical disability and the N.S. Human
Rights Board of Inquiry agreed.
On April 12, 2018, the Appeal Court disagreed with the Human
Rights Board of Inquiry's decision that denial of coverage for the medical marijuana under his health benefits plan was discriminatory in Canadian Elevator Industry Welfare Trust Fund v. Skinner.
We regularly prepare responses to human rights complaints and appear before mediators and human
rights boards of inquiry and tribunals on behalf of clients.
Not exact matches
To all
of you who are looking to fill an independent
board seat, my advice is take the time to go out
of your network, and don't stop until you find someone who is just
right.
«The Newell
Board recognizes the importance
of having the
right mix
of skills, expertise and experience and is committed to continuously reviewing its capabilities and ongoing refreshment on behalf
of shareholders,» it said in a statement.
«The
board has an obligation to prevent this violence from happening again and you can't say that you value women's
rights at the same time that you say that these types
of cases have to go into confidential arbitration,» Christensen said.
Right now, he says, «it seems like they have a lot
of good counsel from the standpoint
of the
board.»
Sometimes dysfunctional
boards are a result
of having investors who don't really understand their role on the
board or have the
right skills or experiences to be helpful.
Your
board of directors can be a huge help, but only if you prompt them to provide the
right type
of input.
With four additions to the
Board of Directors in the past two years, we have the
right Board in place aligned with management to execute successfully on our five year plan.»
They don't recognize layoffs for what they too often are: a failure by top executives to properly manage the business and forecast needs — and a failure
of the
board to ensure the
right management is in place.
Terms that dictate
board seats, veto
rights, or drag - along
rights (which may allow an investor to force the sale
of a company) all relate to a company's control.
The best example I recall
of board - director awkwardness was then Google CEO Eric Schmidt's service on the Apple
board —
right up until the moment Steve Jobs got it into his head that Google's Android was copying Apple's iOS mobile software.
Truly inspiring leaders know that taking the
right amount
of time with each communication ensures that everyone is on
board and moving forward.
The
board, too, has been restructured, with nearly half the members having been appointed by KKR, Pessina, or activist investor JANA Partners, which ended up with two seats and the
right to veto a third after buying just 1 %
of the company.
Janet Yellen, chair
of the U.S. Federal Reserve, attends an open meeting
of the
Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve with Stanley Fischer, vice chairman
of the U.S. Federal Reserve,
right, in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015.
You can get so close to a situation you just assume your choice is
right, but your
board of advisers may not have the same context.
«There are a lot
of rights airlines retain including the
right to «involuntarily deny» you
boarding,» he told CNBC.
John Zelinsky, a member
of the Stamford
Board of Representatives, said he's confident a proposed cell - phone crosswalk ban will be adopted and that once text - happy citizens see cops issuing citations —
right now the idea is for the fine to be $ 30 per violation — «they will think twice.»
«We do believe the current governance structure, with Jamie Dimon serving as both chairman and CEO, and an independent minded
board, has served the shareholders well and is
right for the company at this time,» said Lee Raymond, JPMorgan Chase's presiding director and the former CEO
of Exxon Mobil.
The
right structures and procedures need to be in place to make sure (or to make it more likely) that
boards will be diligent and effective in their pursuit and use
of information.
How do you make sure that
boards have the
right expertise to make good use
of the financial information available to them?
«And we got both
of them on
board pretty much
right away.»
As a public company, your
board of directors will become much more visible, so it's even more important to have the
right team.
If they still decide to come on
board, that means that you have the
right caliber
of young, success - hungry people around you.
Assembling your personal
board of advisers will help ensure you're on the
right path to success both personally and professionally.
In March last year, the company assembled Transparent Management Committee, an organization designed to protect shareholder
rights in its
board of directors, appointing an outside director responsible for protecting shareholder
rights.
«Today's action by the
board was the culmination
of a blatant bait and switch, essentially robbing loyal employees, including the more than 200 early founding Uber employees and advisors,
of their hard earned shareholder
rights worth billions in value,» they said.
Today's
boards act like they are vested with similar powers: the divine
right of boards!»
Even if they don't have a majority vote on the company's
board of directors, investors are still part owners and have legal
rights.
That's when Mokhtarzada, out
of his element in the realm
of venture capitalism, took on his first advisory
board member — who quickly posed a fortuitous question: «If you sell this company
right now, what are you going to do tomorrow?»
Although the intention is to avoid the traditional «sin» stocks, such as tobacco, Mobius said he wouldn't rule out investing in a listing
of oil giant Saudi Aramco, depending on how the
board was set up: «Yes, if the conditions are
right.»
• Governance reform: Uber's
board approved governance reforms that are contingent on completion
of the SoftBank deal, including the removal
of super-voting
rights that gave Kalanick and his allies outsized power, adding new independent directors, and increasing the size
of the
board to 17 people.
Berkshire Hathaway needs the
right kind
of board of directors.
The
board at chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) ousted Dirk Meyer, its CEO, on Monday *, a surprise to investors and not a welcome one to many commentators as it had looked as if AMD might be getting on the
right track and pulling out
of a slump.
One
of the new directors, Waleed Al Muhairi, 35, is not considered independent and serves on no committees but is on the
board because of an agreement with investors giving them the right «to designate a representative to our Board of Directors.&r
board because
of an agreement with investors giving them the
right «to designate a representative to our
Board of Directors.&r
Board of Directors.»
Layoffs are often a sign
of failure by top executives to properly manage a business and forecast needs — and failure
of board members to ensure that the
right management is in place.
Watson became the first British citizen and first non-American citizen to be appointed to the
board of directors
of GLAAD, the world's largest LGBT media -
rights advocacy organization, in October 2013.
«However, in the current environment and as the company accelerates its strategy execution, the
board of directors has decided that the time is
right for a new leader to drive the next phase in Ericsson's development.»
After 13 years
of running my own company and being active on several
boards, as both an advisor and
board member, I have learned a lot about the importance
of surrounding yourself with the
right set
of advisors.
While no new directors have been nominated, shareholders who've owned 3 % or more
of the company's outstanding shares continuously for three years did win the
right — widely known as proxy access — to nominate
board directors at this year's annual meeting.
«The
boards looked good on paper, but it's got to be diversity that's
right for the company,» says Dominic Barton, global managing director
of McKinsey & Co..
The National Labor Relations
Board Office
of the General Counsel has investigated charges alleging McDonald's franchisees and their franchisor, McDonald's, USA, LLC, violated the
rights of employees as a result
of activities surrounding employee protests.
If Huawei is
right, more phones will soon come with neural processors on
board, and it'll make sense for developers to make use
of the additional firepower.
Alaska Marijuana Control
Board member Loren Jones, left,
of Juneau and chairman Peter Mlynarik
of Soldotna,
right, listen to assistant attorney general Harriet Milks during a meeting Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, in Anchorage, Alaska.
A few months ago, a fellow I recruited as CEO to two
of my Benchmark portfolio companies told me he never appreciated the value
of the Wealthfront Equity Plan until he joined a
board where the
board members were too cheap to do the
right thing for their employees.