Sentences with phrase «against private companies»

Climate - related litigation is a reality, particularly in the United States where action has been taken against private companies, administrative decisions and government agencies... In relation to the impacts on Indigenous peoples, in February 2008 the Alaskan native village of Kivalina filed a lawsuit against a number of oil, coal and power companies for their contribution to global warming and the impacts on homes and country disappearing into the Chukchi Sea.

Roughly 41.5 % of employee lawsuits are brought against private companies with less than 100 employees.

Interestingly, our colleagues at the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide have identified Ecuador as a country with laws that might support a lawsuit against private companies for climate - related harm.

Every year around this time, there is a common refrain in some circles of Christianity that calls for boycotts against private companies that do not use the term «Christmas» in displays, advertising and interactions between customers and employees.

George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.

Indeed, generally speaking, you can't bring a federal sex discrimination lawsuit against a private company without first presenting it to the EEOC.

«Every time you have a situation where members of First Nations have been counseled to take action against a private company, maybe the company will say we have done everything right — they will argue the province or federal government has a responsibility.

Not exact matches

That order came as a result of charges the Federal Trade Commission levied against Facebook alleging that the company had deceived consumers about their ability to keep information they posted on the service private.

But he concluded with a warning, writing he would «strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.»

Zimmer explained that when motivating employees of Lyft to work hard against Uber — which has six times the funding of Lyft, and is the highest - valued private startup in the world — he focuses on the company's «humanity:» the fact that it values person - to - person interaction.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

Stripe, a private company recently described by Bloomberg Businessweek as a $ 9 billion startup, is unusual in not having a policy against working with hate sites.

But it appears that treason is the very charge threatened against U.S. technology companies if they meddle in the federal government's attempt to collect private data on millions of Americans.

Many companies will benefit from using a virtual private network (VPN), which secures web traffic and provides an additional layer of protection against attacks.

It's the tech bro equivalent of a 1950s B - movie: Evil data scientists betray the simple trust of an unwitting, socially benevolent company to snatch private customer data and turn it against them and the world!

Bartz argued that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act would now pre-empt state law under the rule and that the rule improperly created a private right of action that could set up class - action lawsuits against insurance companies and agents.

But rather than supporting the idea that all Canadians should have comfortable retirements — say, by reforming CPP, and protecting private sector employees against company bankruptcy — the authors see public sector pensions as just more «premium.»

On January 17, 2012, Judge Carol E. Jackson of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri granted the SEC's request for emergency injunctive relief (including an asset freeze and appointment of a receiver) against Burton Douglas Morriss as well as several investment management companies and private equity funds operated by Morriss in response to the SEC's complaint alleging that Morriss misappropriated more than $ 9 million in investor assets from 2005 through 2011.

It reflects growing resentment against perceived outlandish behaviour by the elite founding families and the view that they treat publicly listed companies as their private firms.

Private mortgage insurance (PMI): Insurance against default issued by a private company on conventional mortgagePrivate mortgage insurance (PMI): Insurance against default issued by a private company on conventional mortgageprivate company on conventional mortgage loans.

Well as heard in the news that those arriving to the west are being well trained on sophisticated equipment's and combat training and then sent back to Somalia to fight as opposition to prolong suffering for the area and others sent to lead pirate operations in the area and that is all done to give an excuse for the western Navy to be present in the area as well as to cause the raise of the insurance premium against the ships passing the area raising therefore the costs of commodities as well as an opportunity for private security companies to flourish guarding the passing ships?

CCA has launched more than half a dozen new products in the last few months, including Barista Bros iced coffee, Zico coconut water, Grinders coffee pods, Perfect Fruit — a frozen fruit whip — and new bottled water brands that sell at a discount to Mount Franklin's, and enable the company to compete against the cheap private - label water filling supermarket shelves.

Justice Dery's lawyer, Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo Tuesday withdrew an application for interlocutory injunction against Anas and his private investigation company, Tiger Eye.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said he plans to rip a page out of Cuomo's playbook by forcing private companies that do city business to disclose claims of sexual harassment against their employees.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said last week he thinks it's a «great idea» to have the government force private companies that do business with the city to disclose the number of claims of sexual harassment against their employees.

And I will take a hard line, too, against any attempts to replicate the mistake of skewing the market against public sector providers, effectively bribing private companies by offering them more money to do exactly the same job as you.

-LSB-...] its offices against imagined rogue gun owners who might attack the paper.The Rockland County Times reported on Tuesday that the Journal News had hired RGA Investigations, a private security company, to -LSB-...]

Pilgrim previously came under fire for threatening legal action against private property owners who deny access to company surveyors.

«We told the mayor that while he was telling us he was against the project, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen was having private email conversations with FreshDirect lobbyists promising support for the $ 140 million subsidy if the company could deliver on living wage jobs, but more than half of FreshDirect's workforce remains below living wage,» Harry Bubbins, member of the group, said in the press release.

The company has come under fire for threatening legal action against private property owners who deny access to company surveyors.

Alongside UK - wide bills on matters such as child poverty and financial regulation, today's legislative programme included minor measures to increase Holyrood's powers, including extending its licensing of private security companies and introducing a 12 - month limit on legal cases against the Scottish government under the Human Rights Act.

VIP Jeoung Transport Company, the country's largest private transportation firm, has threatened legal actions against road construction firm, Queiroz Galvao.

One hot topic in public health funding, he said, is the idea of working with the private insurance and reinsurance sectors to begin insuring against pandemics in the same way that these companies insure against natural disasters such as hurricanes.

The White House has called for legislation that encourages private companies to notify government agencies after they've faced cyber intrusions, and recommends private companies secure their own systems against hackers.

The idea of making universities compete for funding against privatised research council institutions and private companies is «misplaced», the society says, because new knowledge is not a commodity that can be bought and sold.

The White House today delivered a formal veto threat against a controversial data - sharing bill called CISPA that would allow intelligence agencies to collect personal information about Americans from private companies.

For the past year, the DNP has tested eagles» prowess against flying drones, collaborating with a private company called Guard from Above that trains raptors to snatch drones out of the sky.

Company MOTHERS AGAINST DAUGHTERS DATING LTD was a Private Limited Company, registration number 08794121, established in United Kingdom on the 28.

Private critics screenings are, of course, held at the pleasure of the company, but other journalists objected to Disney using that privilege as a cudgel against a newspaper simply for reporting a story.

Given the picture's enduring popularity, there's really no point in rehashing the plot — OK, for the uninitiated (all two of you): Ripley (series star Sigourney Weaver) heads back into space and leads a team of military grunts against the nasty extra-terrestrials — but there's always room to rehash many of the highlights: Weaver's terrific performance in the central role; the contrast between the heroic Corporal Hicks (Michael Biehn) and the cowardly Private Hudson (Bill Paxton); the escalating villainy of company man Burke (Paul Reiser); scripter Cameron's ability to keep piling on confrontations and director Cameron's ability to milk them for maximum tension; and, of course, those wonderful alien creations.

Protesters from teaching unions and global justice NGOs lobbied against education firm Pearson, to question the company's record on investing in «low cost» private schools.

Two companies have settled a complaint brought against them by the Federal Trade Commission that they sold personal information about high school students to commercial marketers, without first warning pupils that private businesses would get that data.

In 2015, a campaign - finance complaint was filed against South Jordan Republican Sen. Lincoln Fillmore over a $ 1,000 donation from American Preparatory Schools, the private company that manages Utah's network of American Preparatory Academy charter schools.

This is no knock against publicly owned companies but working for a private company with a 20 - year vision makes my job easier.

The right response here is: for the state to leave this alone and let the companies involved work out whatever contractual terms they wish, whether agency model, wholesale model, or some hybrid; stop employing antitrust law against even nominally private companies; stop enacting and enforcing laws that give rise to monopoly prices and oligopolies and corporatism and crony capitalism in the first place, such as copyright law, antitrust law, pro-union legislation, minimum wage, taxation in general, inflation and the business cycle, and other business regulations.

Also referred to as «Traditional Mortgage Insurance» BPMI is insurance issued by a private company that protects the lender against loan default.

Once a private sector creditor (a bank or credit card company) notifies you that they want to get a judgment against you, do not ignore it.

This type of mortgage may have to be insured — for example, by CMHC or a private company — against payment default.

He expresses skepticism for private equity before Blackstone comes public, suggesting that all they do is borrow money against the assets of the target companies, and then foist them on the retail public later.

And if your investment goes bust, which happens more often with private than public companies, the Allowable Business Investment Loss (ABIL) rules may allow you to claim a deduction against your other income and get a tax refund outside a registered account.