Sentences with phrase «agency staff year»

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She was a staff writer at a news agency in Nebraska, covering transportation, and worked in South Korea for several years where she wrote about science while freelancing for publications like Women's Wear Daily and Groove Korea.

A decade ago, the 53 - year - old chairman and CEO of Toronto - based marketing holding company MDC Partners invested heavily in tech - savvy agencies staffed with creative entrepreneurs that scoffed at the lumbering dinosaurs of the traditional ad world.

Thirteen years later, she manages a staff of 23 and travels the country getting new FCi employees settled at the roughly 100 offices, mostly within federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State, where FCi operates.

As I've chronicled extensively, Exondys is an extremely controversial treatment, and the FDA's decision to approve the therapy over the objections of the agency's own scientific staff stunned many observers last year, raising questions about whether or not the FDA had succumbed to a well - orchestrated and heart - wrenching PR campaign by patients and advocates.

Three years ago, Nikki Hickman, director of organizational development at the marketing agency nFusion, decided that two of nFusion's 65 staff members had been incorrectly classified as contractors.

The agency's foreign service workforce — which includes American diplomats and support staff — also shrank during the first year under Tillerson.

A now - former SEC commissioner said in a speech earlier this year that investment advisers can expect to be examined by the SEC only once every 12 years because the agency is short - staffed.

About 40 per cent of the increase over the last three years has been in the law and order departments (Correctional Services Canada and related agencies, Justice and the Canada Border Services Agencies) and defense civiliaagencies, Justice and the Canada Border Services Agencies) and defense civiliaAgencies) and defense civilian staff.

After declaring that 2014 will be the year that the SEC decides whether to move ahead with a rule to put brokers under a fiduciary mandate, Mary Jo White directed SEC staff to compile a list of «all of the potential options» available to the agency that could be used in drafting a fiduciary rule.

Friday, his chief of staff, Vivieca Wright Simpson, announced she was retiring after 32 years at the agency.

This year's announcement means that by 1 January 2017 all members of staff directly employed by Chelsea will earn at least # 9.75 an hour, while those working outside of London will receive a minimum of # 8.45 an hour, with the process of ensuring that staff of external contractors and additional agency staff on our sites will get the same rate of pay set to be completed by 1 July 2017.

The wage scale that will be phased in over two years will include supervisors, early childhood educators, and non-ECE staff working in licensed child care centres, licensed home child care agencies, and Early ON child and family centres.

The agency's team of full - time Therapeutic Recreation professionals and trained part - time staff offers safe, fun and quality year - round opportunities to individuals with disabilities of all ages and ability levels.

I'm so pleased for all the people that have dedicated their talents and energies to promote Baby - Friendly practices over the past few years — our staff, our board, our global sponsors, technical assistance providers, professional organizations, government agencies, and the thousands of committed individuals on the front lines of our hospitals and birthing centers.

Dr. Kimball was on the staff of Children's Memorial, St. Francis and Evanston Hospitals and for over 20 years, donated one day per week at the Infant Welfare Agency of Chicago.

Nothing new, of course — I remember talking with a Post ad salesman eight years ago about using «workplace targeting» to bombard congressional staff, regulators at a given federal agency or even a corporate target with ads, to create the impression of a massive campaign.

Port Authority staff recommended that the agency raise the minimum wage for more than 40,000 NYC - area airport workers to $ 19 an hour by the fall of 2023 — an increase of more than 80 percent in about five years for the lowest - paid workers at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the three major airports operated by the authority.

Levine previously oversaw Bloomberg's communications staff from New York City's dozen Health and Human Services Agencies for nearly three years, Fricchione said.

The biggest crackdown on trade union rights for 30 years will be unveiled on Wednesday, including new plans to criminalise picketing, permit employers to hire strike - breaking agency staff and choke off the flow of union funds to the Labour party.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from Agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» he said.

Another 96 agency staff are expected to be lost through attrition over the next year and a half.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» Azzopardi said in a statement.

An analysis by the Times Union a year ago found that more than 40 percent of the Executive Chamber staff was actually on the payroll of public authorities or agencies.

In the last two years, however, lawyers on his staff took action against an adoption agency that refused to work with same - sex couples and a major retail chain that showed a pattern of discrimination against transgender job applicants.

According to the audit, over a five - year period (2008 - 2013) the agency had awarded funding to six projects that DHCR's staff review had deemed «infeasible» and 13 deemed «feasible but not recommended.»

So surely we should have reached a situation by now where we no longer need to keep paying out millions each year to agencies and their staff?

Likewise, Governor Cuomo's derelict and incompetent staff lost my documents twice last year, under the direction of a now defunct employee named Lindsay Saffron, and you can understand how I will never be able to trust all unreliable and unstable politicians, much less government watchdog agencies that continue to ignore corruption that is within their purview to complete and investigate.

State agency spending, for instance, was held basically flat for another year, despite growth in staff salaries and other costs.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the legislature this year dismembered the State Elections Enforcement Commission, cutting experienced staff and placing the administration and policing of the Citizens Election Program in separate agencies, weakening the program.

Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, James Klutse Avedzi, has lamented the huge sums of money the state had lost over the years with regards to unearned salaries paid staff of the various Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs).

This includes New York's lead environmental agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation, which has lost hundreds of staff members in the last four years.

NRC officials say that its staff devoted 4,790 hours reviewing the plant over the past year, but did not finding anything that caused the agency to increase oversight.

The Syracuse Industrial Development Agency voted 5 - 0 Tuesday morning to send a letter to the county notifying it that the city's economic development staff will move to City Hall Commons adjacent to City Hall at the end of the year.

It's highly unlikely hydrofracking will be approved for use any time in 2012; Cuomo's budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, which begins April 1, made no provision for added staff at DEC or other agencies to monitor hydrofracking.

The 15 - year agreement would give COR tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks but staff at the county agency said it could possibly bring in $ 100 million in tax revenue.

HPA's staff members had faced an uncertain future since the agency appeared on a leaked list of government agencies facing abolition earlier in the year.

Fellows serve alongside staff in federal agencies for a full year from September through August.

Interior Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt last year directed agency staff to limit NEPA reviews to one year and 150 pages (Greenwire, Sept. 6, 2017).

Lawyer Philip Cooney, a CEQ chief of staff and a 15 - year veteran of the American Petroleum Institute, spent the first term of the administration editing science reports from various agencies on climate change to downplay the role of greenhouse gas emissions — emphasizing elements of uncertainty from a 2001 National Research Council report on climate change, according to an investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Another is increasing the agency's budget, which has dwindled in the recent years and is spent mostly to staff salaries, leaving not enough to run experiments.

Over the past 30 years, the scope of the CNWRA support has grown to provide technical and programmatic assistance to the NRC staff and their agency's mission to protect public health and safety, and the environment.

Working closely with the appropriate OERI staff as well as with several influential members of Congress, they managed within the space of only a few years to create an organization that is now acknowledged as a distinguished and effective federal statistical agency.

This report from Advocates for Children of New York offers insights and analysis from five years implementing Project Achieve, a program that places AFC staff on site at partner foster care and preventive services agencies in New York City.

Now in its second year, NW RISE was designed to address that challenge by bringing together teachers, principals, and superintendents from participating school districts, along with state education agency staff, to meet face to face twice a year.

In December last year, the agency wrote to the trustees of academy trusts with just one school that had staff earning more than # 150,000 a year to ask for justification of the salaries.

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has written to the trustees of academy trusts with just one school that have staff earning more than # 150,000 a year to ask for justification of the salaries.

But state education agencies have been steadily drained of staff for years and do not have the capacity or the authority to redesign the education systems of their states to meet the challenges posed by the fundamental changes that have taken place in the global economy over the past two decades.

As a school, we believe if we create an environment that promotes the well - being and agency of our staff at all levels, they will be more effective with students and willing to be foundational partners for the work we plan to do for years to come.

The courts service spent # 50m last year on agency and contract staff, a more than tenfold rise since 2010 when it spent # 3m, while courts have been closing at an unprecedented rate.

DPI staff presented the latest cuts to members of the State Board of Education this week, although they pointed out this year's $ 300,000 cut allows the administrative office the flexibility to use lapsed salary dollars — in other words, cash slated for unfilled positions — to meet the reduction, rather than forcing the agency to ax more jobs.