Sentences with phrase «business policies around»

Since public perception influences government and business policies around environmental issues, it is important to ensure enough unbiased and reliable information about the issues are available to the public.

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Michael Michalak of the U.S. - ASEAN Business Council and former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam says Southeast Asia remains a focus for U.S. companies, though there is some caution because of uncertainty around the impact of regional trade policies.

«Ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community,» the report reads.

The Ethics Resource Center is an Arlington, Virginia - based non-profit that provides among other things, updates on federal policy connected to business ethics, surveys on topics such as how the recession is impacting ethics, and links to other resources around the web.

CB pulls together the latest developments in Canadian and global economics, marketing, managing, investing, government policy, innovation and retailing to help its audience develop a deeper understanding of the business world around them.

The survey, released Tuesday, polled 500 small business owners from around the country and found that half of them are in favor of a policy that would allow employees to use earned sick time when they or an immediate family member falls ill or needs preventative medical care.

Like all small businesses, they have seen ups and downs over the past year, buffeted by major changes in tax policy and, more recently, great uncertainty around trade policy.

A standard business owner's policy should cost around $ 1,000 annually, and covers some basics like liability, business property, and loss of income due to a disaster.

However, «a number of participants reported that about their conversations with business leaders around the country and reported that trade policy has come a concern going forward for that growth.»

To that end, the YEC has led various public campaigns to improve access to and policy around entrepreneurship, from the FixYoungAmerica grassroots campaign to the Youth Entrepreneurship Act and, more recently, the launch of BusinessCollective, a virtual mentorship program (in partnership with Citi) that helps millions of aspiring and current entrepreneurs launch and grow new businesses.

«So while we seek to understand what the new Administration's policies mean for us and our business both domestically and around the world, I can assure you that we will do whatever it takes to support you, our partners, to realize your own dreams and achieve your own opportunities.»

«What is holding back lenders and other capital providers is the tremendous political uncertainty and confusion around business and economic policy.»

To turn GDP growth around, Yellen recommended that Congress adopts policies that «encourage business investment and capital formation, improve the nation's infrastructure, raise the quality of our educational system, and support innovation and the adoption of new technologies.»

«We did hear from a number of business leaders around the country that changes in trade policy had become a bit of a risk to the medium - term outlook,» Mr. Powell said in the question - and - answer session.

As part of The Kraft Heinz Company's ongoing engagement in the communities where our employees live and work, we believe in participating in the political process to shape public policy that affects our business around the world.

When he announced the endorsement, the union's president, Bruce Both, said Meng had «pledged her support for our Union's effort to hold Walmart accountable for reckless corporate policies that effect the worker families, small business owners, and women that live in the 6th Congressional,» adding: «Our Union believes that Grace will help unify an ethnically diverse community around the most pressing issue facing our Unions membership: keeping New York City Walmart free.»

There are also policy actions which we have to take - investment climate reforms to improve business and economic competitiveness, focus on developing MSMEs, deepening long term savings through pensions, insurance and sovereign savings, land reform to eliminate constraints in time and cost around land transactions (including a review of the governor's consent requirement), and actions to reduce inflation, interest rates and business operating costs.

«Hospitals aren't in the business of storing evidence, so I can see where hospitals will now have to create policies around this type of evidence storage, cataloging, much like police departments do,» said Rinaldo.

«He's got a network of people around the state that have a lot of experience with the taxing policies of the state of New York — the small business guys, people who are trying to make a living running small businesses and they run up against the policies they think make life difficult for them,» Cunnginham explained.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio reopened part of the area around Trump Tower to vehicle traffic amid complaints from local businesses and policy makers that the closure was hurting commerce.

I chose this location because the future success of businesses such as this depends on turning around federal policies that are strangling small businesses with red tape, high taxes and burdensome regulations.

The event will bring together around 25 - 30 invited senior level attendees from cities, business and policy with a senior speaker panel representing national and local government, and business.

This roundtable will bring together around 25 - 30 senior level attendees from cities, business and policy.

Trust is essential to foreign policy and digital businesses that have customers around the globe.

«I have no doubt this will come up again» in the Legislature, said Michael Licata, a vice president of public policy at the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire, adding that text of repeal bills already are floating around the statehouse.

Like other cybersecurity training programs around the country, the CAE programs draw students from computer science, engineering, math, statistics, forensic sciences, criminal justice, business administration, public policy, law, education, and the social sciences.

The policy shift would see the cost of carbon permits fall from the planned A$ 25.40 ($ 23.09) per metric ton from July 2014 to around A$ 6 per metric ton, Rudd said, saving big businesses billions of dollars in carbon costs.

With deep relationships in key policy centres and commercial arenas, IETA is the collective voice for the full range of businesses involved in carbon pricing - all around the world.

Some, for example, are incorporating parent / carer codes of conduct into school policies to set expectations around the use of social media.Others ask parents and carers to refrain from discussing the business of school or children attending school in any public forum, while many request that complaints are made via official school channels rather than social networking sites.

The union thinks Pearson's business model needs rejiggering and has decided to throw its weight around, stressing that the company should forsake its «test and punish policies.»

The United States Council for International Business (USCIB) builds awareness among business executives, educators and policy makers around issues related to employment, workforce training and skills enhaBusiness (USCIB) builds awareness among business executives, educators and policy makers around issues related to employment, workforce training and skills enhabusiness executives, educators and policy makers around issues related to employment, workforce training and skills enhancement.

Prior to Flamboyan Foundation, Kendall provided executive support around business and client management to the Managing Director at the policy consulting firm Education Counsel.

Vacant buildings depress the value of homes and businesses around them, increase insurance premiums and insurance policy cancellations.

The FHWA Administrator convened 24 regional, policy - specific roundtables in cities around the Nation with participation from four DOT Operating Administrators, State and local transportation representatives, the business community, safety and environmental advocates, and freight stakeholders.

Our processes, procedures, and policies are all centered around a set of ethical business principles that emphasize honesty, integrity, professionalism, and discretion.

Full of culture and history, Stamford, Connecticut is actually the birthplace of the first insurance policy and company, and much of its local economy today still revolves around the insurance business.

Also, shop around for the best insurance policies — both for your vehicle and your business.

The airline incorporates an aggressive corporate sales policy and works with a variety of companies, large and small, to facilitate business travel, offering a premium cabin with added legroom and perks and access to a selection of airport lounges around the world.

The Taskforce is comprised of eminent scientists, business leaders, policy advisers and political leaders drawn from around the world.5 Its purpose is to recommend to all governments a framework for managing climate change responses that is truly global, provides long - term direction, and is genuinely responsive to the scale of the problem.

He is also involved in the creation of a new platform to facilitate a dialogue between business, decision makers and representatives from the international community around emission trading schemes and broader policies related to climate change.

Friends of the Earth Europe calls on policy - makers in Europe to hold European companies legally accountable for any harm they do around the world, and to participate in the UN process for a binding treaty for businesses in relation to human rights.

In addition to engaging around the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, the International Climate Action Initiative also addresses climate policies in other contexts, including international cooperative initiatives involving national governments, businesses and cities; broader development policy and linkages with climate policy; and key bilateral relationships between countries.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

For example, the Cape Town policy on urban agriculture (South Africa) calls upon the services of the research, training and support organisations in and around the city to provide the urban farmers with training on business administration, technical skills, marketing, etc..

... The basic truth is that Enron, joined by other «rent - seeking» industries — making one's fortune from policy favors from buddies in government, the cultivation of whom was a key business strategy — cobbled their business plan around «global warming.»

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of economic cost alone, whether they deny that, in addition to economic interests, nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

Around the country, hundreds of business and investment leaders support the Clean Power Plan because they want clear policies that drive cleaner energy.

We track company practice as well as company policy, through monitoring news and business media, as well as campaign group sources from around the world.

With deep relationships in key policy centres and commercial arenas, IETA is the collective voice for the full range of businesses involved in carbon pricing - all around the world.

As «green» continues its ascendancy as this year's hot topic of discussion in business, policy and media circles around the world, one city from which it has been almost conspicuously absent is Los Angeles.