Sentences with phrase «against the department by»

Under Ms. Wright's leadership, the Division is responsible for processing formal equal employment opportunity complaints of discrimination filed against the Department by employees, former employees, and applicants for employment.

Not exact matches

Two JRs have been brought against government departments in Northern Ireland relating to decisions taken by these departments (on planning and environmental grounds) and Dalradian is a notice party.

When asked by Jackson Lee whether the allegations against Moore would undergo a federal review by the Justice Department, Sessions responded, «We will do our duty.»

At Google, an audit of their pay practices by the Department of Labor found «systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,» showing, one official has said, six to seven standard deviations between pay for men and women in nearly every job category.

U.S. military fighter - attack jets, bombers and drones have dropped more than 67,000 bombs since the 2014 start of Operation Inherent Resolve, the Defense Department's mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, according to information provided by Air Forces Central Command.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services are also impacted by the orders, which were reportedly handed down this week, and include a prohibition against some of the agencies posting on social media.

The settlement between the U.S. Justice Department and Red Granite Pictures, which was co-founded by a stepson of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, also covers U.S. forfeiture claims against the producer's rights and interests in two other pictures, Daddy's Home and Dumb and Dumber To.

It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the person who made those shoes is.

The suit was brought against the Department of Health and Human Services by March for Life, a group that holds annual marches in Washington, D.C. opposing the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortions in the U.S..

In 2011, the Department of Justice announced a plan to resolve claims that women and other minorities were discriminated against by the USDA in making and servicing farm loans.

The strongly worded ruling from Judge Leon was in a case brought against the governors of the Federal Reserve by a group of plaintiffs including the National Association of Convenience Stores, the National Retail Federation, the Food Marketing Institute, Miller Oil Co., Boscov's Department Store and the National Restaurant Association.

«Building on prior actions against BP and its subsidiaries by the Department of Justice, this historic resolution is a strong and fitting response to the worst environmental disaster in American history,» U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

The company was recently sued by the U.S. Department of Labor over allegations of discrimination against Asian job applicants.

Other commenters, however, caution the Department against permitting any part of the Rule or PTEs to become applicable before completion of the examination required by the President's Memorandum.

He has attacked former FBI Director James Comey for releasing memos he claims are classified, and briefly blocked a Democratic memo from the House Intelligence Committee over its inclusion of classified information, yet he grandstands against redactions insisted upon by his own Justice Department.)

The Department of Justice defended the rule when it filed papers in July in a Washington district court arguing against the case filed by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

These rates have been determined fair and reasonable by the GSA and can be imported onto a call order issued against the Department of Homeland Security BPA if required.

The coalition against the pipeline is already challenging the first permit granted to ETP by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources with a case filed by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, with a court date set for Jan. 4, 2018.

Sales departments indicate the metrics by which their team will be judged, and the tool ranks employees based on their success against those metrics.

The federal judge overseeing the case in Texas against the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule on Wednesday denied considering all but two of the eight amicus briefs filed in the court, allowing only the briefs filed by the Financial Planning Coalition and the American Association for Justice.

Chairman Nunes» decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes.

«Chairman Nunes» decision, supported by House Speaker Ryan and Republican Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to publicly release misleading allegations against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel's ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes,» the committee's Democrats said in a statement.

The Treasury Department says this type of annuity «can provide a cost - effective solution for retirees willing to use part of their savings to protect against outliving the rest of their assets, and can also help them avoid overcompensating by unnecessarily limiting their spending in retirement.»

Republicans say their memo proves bias against Trump by top officials in the FBI and Justice Department.

The lawsuit was against the city of Ferguson, Wilson and former police Chief Tom Jackson because of Ferguson's «culture of hostility» against black people that led to the death of Brown — an accusation supported by the Department of Justice's findings.

Because no legal action can be taken against him in France, French Nazi hunters have come to the U.S. to get our Justice Department to punish Bettencourt by prohibiting him from entering the country, much as was done with Kurt Waldheim, erstwhile UN General Secretary and President of Austria.

The Department's Office of Special Investigations says it is «reviewing the allegations» against Mr. Bettencourt after being pressured by Governor Pataki and Senator D'Amato of New York.

CNN: Catholics clergymen come out swinging against HHS regulation Catholics around the country got an earful on Sunday from the pulpit over a new health insurance policy by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that forces employers to cover contraception and abortion as part of preventative care regardless of religious beliefs.

We are particularly concerned by reports that this order went into effect with little to no consultation with the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security... Ultimately, we fear this executive order will become a self - inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism.

An investigation by the Department of Justice has found that the Ferguson police department engaged in a years - long pattern of racial discrimination against members of the black community,Department of Justice has found that the Ferguson police department engaged in a years - long pattern of racial discrimination against members of the black community,department engaged in a years - long pattern of racial discrimination against members of the black community, who of...

And on campus many Christians have found that we really need Muslims to help us withstand the assaults of pagans in the department of religion and at the local shopping mall, I've watched conservative evangelical, Bible - thumping Christian students link up with conservative, Qur» an - thumping Muslim students — they are brought together by the realization that in many subtle and disturbing ways the modern university is aligned against belief in and fidelity to any God.

In a new filing that revised the original complaint against USDA to reflect the department's move to withdraw the rule, the Organic Trade Association was joined by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) as co-plaintiffs in the suit.

Sunrise Growers hires independent third party auditors from the California Processing Strawberry Advisory Board to inspect and grade all incoming fruit against a set of rigid standards established by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) announced Tuesday that after a year of delays — and a lawsuit filed against it by the Organic Trade Association (OTA)-- it has decided to withdraw the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices (OLPP) final rule, saying it «exceeds the Department's statutory authority.»

More recently, the International Labour Organization, in collaboration with SVI was awarded a grant of US$ 4 million by the US Department of Labor to work with its Malagasy partners in the areas of sector governance, traceability, safeguarding against child labor and technical assistance to grower groups.

Organised by the newly - formed Right to Food Coalition, whose members include the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance, Foodbank NSW, Red Cross, SecondBite, Blacktown City Council, NSW Department of Health (South Western Sydney District), Liverpool City Council and others, the centrepiece of this conference is the presentation by Joel Berg, Executive Director of the New York Coalition Against Hunger.

Lately, the Australian Federal Department of Agriculture and Water Resources has proposed a compulsory treatment of seeds from crops like broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and rocket with fungicides when they enter Australia to work against the increasing threat posed by seed - borne pathogens.

The farmers and truckers interviewed said they had seen their produce rejected on flimsy grounds, but decided against challenging the ruling with the US department of agriculture's dispute mechanism for fear of being boycotted by powerful supermarket giants.

The scandal had included months of media reporting on alleged acts of violence against women by roughly a dozen football players, with accusations that the school and athletic department had responded ineffectively.

But if you think you're making a valid point by comparing Gibbons against what looks like an entire athletic department complicit in a ongoing, years - deep culture of rape and assault of dozens if not hundreds of people (that goes for all three programs), then you have nothing valid to offer to this discussion.

- Half - time Golden Gamble draw against Tottenham Hotspur - You could walk away with # 2,750 from the match against Spurs - Money raised by the Promotions Department goes to the Town Academy

Now the Pierce Downer's Heritage Alliance, a local environmental group, has filed suit against the Village of Downers Grove and the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board, alleging that both agencies violated a section of the Illinois Natural Preservation Act by failing to consult with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to determine the project's ecological impact on the adjacent preserve.

Thousands marched to the Department of Justice's headquarters in D.C., to mark the 54th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s «I Have a Dream» speech with a demonstration — led by the Rev. Al Sharpton — against the Trump administration's civil rights record.

A quick (and somewhat souldestroying) trawl through the comments submitted by readers of the related Times article on the same day - and this story was picked up by all the broadsheet websites - showed that the vast majority supported the Prince of Wales and welcomed his stand against «egotistical» architects, «greedy» developers and «totalitarian» planning departments.

Hip - life musician and sympathizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), A-Plus, has failed to honour an invitation by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service for questioning over his allegations of corruption against some government officials.

Given the looming March 1 deadline for across - the - board sequestration which would reduce State Department operations by $ 850 million and foreign assistance by $ 1.7 billion, the US» chief diplomat used his speech to defend the foreign policy budget against spending cuts, portraying foreign affairs as the guarantor of American economic prosperity.

The 2005 case of United States v. Franklin, Rosen, and Weissman against United States Department of Defense employee Larry Franklin and American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy director Steven Rosen and AIPAC senior Iran analyst Keith Weissman [41][42] raised the possibility that AIPAC would come under greater scrutiny by the Department of Justice.

Earlier this week, NBC News leaked an unclassified white paper, drafted by the U.S. Justice Department, outlining the legal arguments in favour of the U.S. government's right to engage in targeted killing of U.S. citizens abroad when such citizens are deemed to be actively involved in plotting terrorist attacks against the United States.

«Now the department is throwing good money after bad by introducing a short - term fix with no adequate plan for delivery, insufficient skills and unclear milestones to measure progress against.

U.S. courts should not play a role in reviewing or restraining targeted killings, argues the Justice Department lawyers, since it would effectively enable them to «supervise inherently predictive judgments» by the president and his national security advisers «as to when and how to use force against an enemy against which Congress has already authorized the use of force.»