Sentences with phrase «companies of paying»

The complaint accuses Ciminelli's company of paying $ 100,000 a year in bribes to a politically connected lobbyist who they knew could steer government development contracts in western New York.

Not exact matches

The company wanted to take a more data - driven approach to pricing, because it needed a better idea of what the market would pay for equipment.

But the company's real engine of growth is in the fledgling wholesale and design side of the business — something that never would have happened had White not been paying attention to his customers» needs.

In the beginning that approach worked out well, but eventually they had to start paying for those endorsements and the size of the company didn't match up.

Over the same period, the company paid Trump — essentially Trump paying himself — roughly $ 82 million by Fortune's estimates, collected from a dizzying variety of sources spelled out in the company's proxy filings, as varied as payments for use of Trump's private plane to fees paid directly Trump for access to his name and marketing expertise.

Companies mostly pass those costs on to households, who effectively devote more of their take - home pay to supporting the 286,000 workers employed in steel and aluminum.

Additionally, McDonald's announced it will allow workers who have a one - year tenure at the company to accrue paid vacation time of up to 20 hours per year.

Sen. Feinstein cites conflict of interest since his law firm, though not Bernhardt, is paid to lobby for the company.

ZocDoc gets paid a flat fee of $ 3,000 per doctor per year, so this national expansion will also be a major revenue source for the company.

So for example, you could have fake directors where you pay a little bit extra and someone pretends to be the public face of this company.

Donald Trump's plan calling for six weeks of mandatory paid leave for new moms is a step toward wooing women voters and a step up from current federal law — which doesn't require companies to provide any paid leave — but it's still behind the times for the business world.

At least 35 companies, among them Anheuser - Busch InBev, BP, and BASF, have been told to pay back taxes of about 700 million euros to Belgium because of their participation in an illegal tax scheme.

Details of 401 (k) offered: According to the company's website, Comcast offers automatic 401 (k) enrollment along with matching contributions up to 6 percent of an employee's eligible pay.

In the short time until GDPR implementation and enforcement begins, companies should pay particular attention to the four key components of the new regulation:

Oil - and - gas companies will be big winners because they pay the second - highest effective tax rate of any sector, at 37 percent, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.

Any employer can pay cash, but only you can give them the long - term benefit of ownership in your company.

The company won't raise its prices to pay for the switch; instead, it's delaying an upgrade of its security camera system.

After working with the company for a year, Accenture will then match contributions up to 6 percent of an employee's pay.

Top of the list was Finance Minister Bill Morneau's decision to defer a plan to drop the rate smaller companies pay on their income to 9 % from 10.5 %.

Opponents of mandatory paid leave say such policies are too burdensome on businesses, and would result in companies having to cut jobs to mitigate costs.

This creates jobs — a sign of a functioning economy — and provides opportunities for others through paying a fair wage and bettering the surrounding communities in which the company operates.

«While much attention has been paid to the surge in popularity of Canada's natural resources over the past decade, Canadian companies have been quietly and steadily increasing their international sales of services,» wrote the Conference Board's Jacqueline Palladini.

The facts: Standing beside Trump in the Oval Office on Feb. 8, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced a $ 7 billion investment to complete the company's new Arizona factory, which will «employ approximately 3,000 direct high - paying, high - wage, high - tech jobs at its peak, and over 10,000 people in the Arizona area in support of the factory.»

It's no wonder that companies pay a ton of money to be featured in the «getting ready» scenes between Q and James Bond.

It could be months before Twitter decides to sell — Dorsey still hopes to carry out a vision of tapping into live broadcasts events as a way to reignite user growth — but the question remains: How much would an outside company be willing to pay for Twitter?

A SHIFT in business focus and the adoption of a new monetisation strategy appears to be paying off for Perth - founded company, nearmap.

In a benefit corporation, the social benefit can possibly dilute the level of preference for paying creditors versus the beneficiary of the company's focus.

In most cases, companies in this situation experience fewer cases of abuse of sick days off because when employees do not show up for work, then they do not get paid.

After news broke in November 2006 that Siemens had been involved in a global corruption scandal, involving thousands of acts of bribery in several different countries by hundreds of employees, the company had its work cut out for it in complying with securities investigations, and paying hefty fines (about $ 2.5 billion in total).

To protect the buyers, the company will be introducing a purchase protection mechanism that helps minimize the risk of scams and fraud by providing full payment protection, acting as a third - party mediator during the transaction, and ensuring the delivery of the paid - for product or service.

And while some companies have paid bonuses and boosted pay after the new tax bill passed, more than half of U.S. workers did not receive a raise in 2017.

Details of 401 (k) offered: Lowe's explains on its website that employees are eligible to enroll in a 401 (k) plan where the company will match the first 3 percent you save each pay period at 100 percent.

Details of 401 (k) offered: According to Wells Fargo's website, the company will match contributions that are up to 6 percent of an employee's pay if they have been with the company for at least one year.

Pay television lost a record number of subscribers in last year's fourth quarter as more and more companies have opted to cut the cord.

Richard Branson's commercial spaceflight company also plans to begin flying paying customers by the end of 2018.

Women, black and Latino employees also lose out on pay raises, bonuses, stock options, benefits and other wages because of the company's discriminatory practices, the lawsuit alleges.

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Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) BRF employees paid bribes to regulators and politicians to subvert inspections in order to conceal unsanitary practices at the Company's meatpacking plants; (ii) the foregoing conduct, when it came to light, would foreseeably subject the Company and its officers to heightened regulatory enforcement and / or prosecution; and (iii) as a result of the foregoing, BRF's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

-- Springer is actually only buying 88 % of Business Insider, because it already owned a 9 % stake as a result of an investment round in January (which valued the company at less than half what Springer is now paying).

The entrepreneur already benefits from a significantly lower rate of taxation than larger companies pay.

Casting aspersions on the cost, security risks or ease of use for Apple Pay seems like a good way to get the company to budge on some of its demands and requirements.

In order to pay back creditors, Kobayashi has sold 35,841 Bitcoin and 34,008 Bitcoin cash on behalf of the company since September of last year.

During the 13 years Trump spent as chairman, the company lost a total of $ 1.1 billion and declared bankruptcy twice — all while Trump essentially paid himself roughly $ 82 million and also had the company pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy Trump Ice bottled water for their mini-bars.

«The evolution of the reimbursement system has to continue,» said Schoenherr, adding that he's confident that insurance companies, hospitals, and employers alike will increasingly move towards pay - for - performance incentive structures in health care.

In the absence of a federal policy for paid sick leave, it is remarkable that a large Fortune 500 company like Microsoft is now performing the role of setting employment policy for other businesses.

If that's too much, cut the tax paid by fast - growing companies, which are the ones outfits such as the International Monetary Fund say are deserving of special treatment.

Some companies, like Toronto - based Hubba, reportedly gave staffers the pre-emptive OK to duck out for a day, with no loss of pay or no need to take vacation.

The company has said the headquarters will bring more than 50,000 high - paying jobs, and an investment of more than $ 5 billion.

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

Tilt doesn't charge individuals who send or collect money for events on its platform; the company says that it gets most of its revenue from businesses paying for its enterprise service.