Sentences with phrase «benefits as incentives»

Every bit you save now means you're that much closer to retiring early — and the best part is that most retirement accounts offer tax benefits as an incentive to help you save for the future.

Not exact matches

A drawback of being a small business owner is that the budget for such quality, such as employee incentives and benefits, is not as plentiful as it is for a larger company (especially in the economic climate we are living in today).

You have the power as leader to create new and unique incentives for your sales reps, and to promote the idea that positive outcomes benefit everyone in your company.

SHANGHAI, March 21 - Global asset managers are lobbying Beijing to offer tax benefits and other incentives to entice China's aging population to invest in mutual funds for their retirement, as funds eye a multi-trillion dollar opportunity in commercial pensions.

New junior miners do not get same benefits as major companies who have State Agreements (used as incentives).

The right non-monetary incentives motivate employees just as effectively because they allow your team to work for benefits that improve their work life and morale.

They could explain their tax incentive spending as investments in shared regional assets — schools, community colleges, universities, regional infrastructure, and housing — that will benefit Amazon but also workers, communities, and other firms.

Of those that do, most (54 %) offer financial incentives to encourage workers to complete the assessment, such as reduced premiums or cost - sharing; eligibility for other wellness benefits; or cash, contributions to an HSA, or merchandise.

[74] In 2008, Corzine approved a law that increased the retirement age from 60 to 62, required that government workers and teachers earn $ 7,500 per year to qualify for a pension, eliminated Lincoln's Birthday as a state worker holiday, allowed the state to offer incentives not to take health insurance and required municipal employees work 20 hours per week to get health benefits.

Enforcing such conditionality not only required a large and expensive bureaucracy, but created a perverse incentive for beneficiaries to remain poor and unemployed so as not to lose their benefits.

The Compensation Committee also considered that the annual cash incentive plan already incentivizes performance on three key Company - specific financial measures, and the importance of emphasizing holistic Company performance, as opposed to an isolated metric; the importance of setting a sufficiently difficult target for maximum payout; the benefit of a large and objectively determined performance comparator group; and the overarching goal of an incentive clearly and directly aligned with stockholder interests.

The following benefits are not subject to the HP Severance Policy, either because they have been previously earned or accrued by the employee or because they are consistent with Company Practices: (i) compensation and benefits earned, accrued, deferred or otherwise provided for employment services rendered on or prior to the date of termination of employment pursuant to bonus, retirement, deferred compensation or other benefit plans, e.g., 401 (k) plan distributions, payments pursuant to retirement plans, distributions under deferred compensation plans or payments for accrued benefits such as unused vacation days, and any amounts earned with respect to such compensation and benefits in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan; (ii) payments of prorated portions of bonuses or prorated long - term incentive payments that are consistent with Company Practices; (iii) acceleration of the vesting of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units or long - term cash incentives that is consistent with Company Practices; (iv) payments or benefits required to be provided by law; and (v) benefits and perquisites provided in accordance with the terms of any benefit plan, program or arrangement sponsored by HP or its affiliates that are consistent with Company Practices.

As described beginning on page 20 of this proxy statement, the employment agreements generally define the executive's position, specify a minimum base salary, and provide for participation in our annual and long - term incentive plans, as well as other benefitAs described beginning on page 20 of this proxy statement, the employment agreements generally define the executive's position, specify a minimum base salary, and provide for participation in our annual and long - term incentive plans, as well as other benefitas well as other benefitas other benefits.

The Company may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, deduct from and set off against any amounts the Company may owe to the Participant from time to time (including amounts payable in connection with any Incentive Award, owed as wages, fringe benefits, or other compensation owed to the Participant), such amounts as may be owed by the Participant to the Company, although the Participant shall remain liable for any part of the Participant's payment obligation not satisfied through such deduction and setoff.

We regard as fundamental that executive officer compensation be structured to provide competitive base salaries and benefits to attract and retain executive officers and to provide incentive compensation to motivate executive officers to attain, and to recognize executive officers for attaining, financial, operational, individual and other goals that are consistent with increasing stockholder value.

I can, though, see where Zillow is coming from: no one thinks the North American real estate market is the way it is because that is somehow optimal or good for consumers; the only folks that benefit from the status quo are real estate agents that continue to collect 6 % of the purchase price even as their responsibilities, particularly in the case of the buying agent, run in the opposite direction of their incentives.

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

Solving the problem of assurance before the date: A user who proposes a date can offer BENEFIT, DWB's native digital token, to the person receiving the invitation as an incentive.

The IRS gives you a tax benefit when you buy and hold stocks for the long term to serve as an incentive for long - term investment.

Since weak investment has been identified as a potential drag on productivity growth since the global financial crisis, this shift in incentives could have strong and long - lived benefits.»

The proxy statement points out that the award offers «compelling incentive» for him to stay, noting that he could retire now with full benefits having been at the company since 1978, when he started as an operational auditor.

The best way to take advantage of a 401 (k) is to make sure you are contributing enough to get the employer match, which is essentially free money toward your retirement provided by your employer (as an incentive to save, plus employers receive tax benefits for contributing to employees» retirement accounts).

plans, e.g., 401 (k) Plan distributions, payments pursuant to retirement plans, distributions under deferred compensation plans or payments for accrued benefits such as unused vacation days, and any amounts earned with respect to such compensation and benefits in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan; (ii) payments of prorated portions of bonuses or prorated long - term incentive payments that are consistent with Company Practices; (iii) acceleration of the vesting of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units or long - term cash incentives that is consistent with Company Practices; (iv) payments or benefits required to be provided by law; and (v) benefits and perquisites provided in accordance with the terms of any benefit plan, program or arrangement sponsored by HP or its affiliates that are consistent with Company Practices.

The following benefits are not subject to the HP Severance Policy, either because they have been previously earned or accrued by the employee or because they are consistent with Company Practices: (i) compensation and benefits earned, accrued, deferred or otherwise provided for employment services rendered on or prior to the date of termination of employment pursuant to bonus, retirement, deferred compensation or other benefit plans, e.g., 401 (k) plan distributions, payments pursuant to retirement plans, distributions under deferred compensation plans or payments for accrued benefits such as unused vacation days, and any amounts earned with respect to such compensation and benefits in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan; (ii) payments of prorated portions of bonuses or prorated long - term incentive payments that are consistent with Company Practices; (iii) acceleration of the vesting of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units or long - term cash incentives that is consistent with Company Practices; (iv) payments or benefits required to be provided by law; and

Remember, when an employer provides health benefits it does so as an incentive to attract employees.

DraftKings will also receive numerous hospitality benefits, including tickets and other premium arena amenities which will be used as incentives and rewards for DraftKings members and DraftKings Fantasy Sports Bar and Lounge guests, ticketing opportunities and the ability to do live broadcasts, press conferences and other private events in the Lounge including arena dark days.

The barrier is cultural, as the gorillas want all the benefit to come their way, removing the incentive for suppliers to take risks and innovate, except when under the whip.

As an alternative to punitive restrictions with no clear public health benefit, the food and beverage industry supports nutrition education and purchasing incentives to encourage healthy choices.

Although, as the report points out, just the act of producing coffee in a sustainable manner has positive impacts in growing communities, without the added benefits of enhanced income and / or access to markets, there is less incentive for farmers to utilize these methods.

The project will involve conducting interviews of 100 growers to explore the motivations for adopting sustainable practices as well as perceived benefits, barriers and incentives to adoption.

It's important to note that teenagers don't usually feel that helping you is of any benefit to them, so it's probably best you don't use this as an incentive.

As such, he argued the benefits system must offer incentives to return to work, including more support for people looking for work.

Government has pursued this agenda by a combination of incentives, such as training and childcare, and sanctions, principally tightening eligibility for benefits such as Incapacity Benefit.

«Taking more people out of income tax altogether will ease the burden on low earning families and, with action to stop a rise in benefits outstripping increases in earnings as well, it will improve the incentive to work.

«Although well intentioned, the last Government received very little for their money in terms of social mobility and a reduction in the gap between the rich and the poor, and they have further fuelled a culture of benefit dependency in which children grow up seeing parents and grandparents who have never worked as their role models, in which people are better off living apart than living together, and in which there is no incentive to work because of the fear of becoming worse off.

That incentive is now there because the cost of lobbying is small in monetary terms relative to benefits, as you only need to influence a small amount of decision makers each of which is relatively «cheap» to influence.

IDS and his team argue that they want to help these people return to work, apparently a cut in benefits will act as incentive for them to do so.

Employer would have an incentive to have a smoking free (or a way to reduce smoke) as a benefit to employee to have lower insurance cost.

The Trust said in its evidence to the committee: «Where there are concerns about the lower benefit cap, it does not initially act as an incentive to find work.»

The minimum statutory entitlement for paid holidays was increased from 4.8 to 5.6 weeks per annum, [25] and Child Benefit was disregarded in calculating income for Housing and Council Tax Benefit as a means of improving work incentives and the incomes of many low - income families.

But when budgets are squeezed, as they are now, municipal leaders often seek wage or benefit concessions, which leave unions with little incentive to come to the bargaining table and negotiate in earnest.

Even with an incentive — faculty members receive a one - course credit for every six projects that they supervise — many faculty members seem to view it as more of a burden than a benefit.

Since World War II, the U.S. government has offered education benefits to veterans through a series of «GI Bills» both as an incentive to encourage military enlistment and as a «gesture of gratitude» to young men and women who serve in the military.

These threats might be offset if a program of economic incentives can be devised for farmers to maintain flooding of crops, such as alfalfa and irrigated pasture, to the benefit of both farmers and curlews.

As usual, the most effective solutions lie with those least likely to implement them: the nations and organizations benefiting from the perverse economic incentives.

By providing financial incentives, along with other benefits, such as access to patients and disease expertise, nonprofit foundations that fund research can change the culture and structure of the medical research enterprise.

However, future outlook is optimistic as the country is committed to fighting deforestation with forestry incentive programs, which have benefited population (especially those living in poverty).

But there's a hidden benefit, as well: Research suggests that keeping track of their own blood pressure may be incentive for patients to make healthy choices like losing weight and eating healthier.

This is a trend that creates incentive programs to stimulate positive healthy behavior change as part of employer - based health promotion programming and health care benefits.

Ohlson listed the Utah production crews and the state's tax incentives for movie and TV production as benefits.