Sentences with phrase «debate over employee»

At a time of great debate over employee pay, corporate responsibility and the impact of workplaces on corporate growth, it was great to see that so many companies, varied in size, industry and lifespan, believed not only in their products and services, but also in their culture.

Not exact matches

Controversies surrounding Uber tend to fall into two different categories: either horror stories of lapses in rider safety or the debate over whether the company's drivers should be considered employees as opposed to private contractors.

Controversy over whether drivers for the ride - hailing services should classify drivers as employees or contractors has been a thorn in the startups» sides elsewhere in the country as well, spurring debate in the press and sometimes leading to lawsuits.

News that Yahoo will begin requiring employees to come to the office five days a week has sparked a heated debate over workplace flexibility.

How many companies would tolerate an active, even public debate by employees over a key product?

In a ruling that fuels a long - simmering debate over some of Silicon Valley's fastest - growing technology companies and the work they are creating, the California Labor Commissioner's Office said that a driver for the ride - hailing service Uber should be classified as an employee, not an independent contractor.

But more than this, we hope to ignite the debate over the role of employee ownership.

► There has been a long - standing debate, especially in Europe, over whether institutions ought to treat Ph.D. candidates as students or employees.

Richard D. Kahlenberg: Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's campaign earlier this year to significantly curtail the scope of bargaining for the state's public employees, including teachers, set off a national debate over whether their long - established right to collectively bargain should be reined in, or even eliminated.

Gov. Scott Walker's announcement Friday to curtail union bargaining and require pension and health care contributions from public employees upped the ante in a debate over K - 12 education funding.

Hohman said the proposal now being debated in Lansing would protect the retirements of current teachers, give tomorrow's school employees more control over their own financial futures and eventually return billions of dollars to other educational uses.

My sense in observing the debate over the appropriate use of employee credit history is that there's a lack of information regarding what credit information employers use, when they collect it and the process that is used to make an employment decision based on credit history.

An Internet video that shows a meat company employee swearing at animal activists before shooting a horse in the head underscores the increasing emotional intensity of the national debate over whether a southeastern New Mexico plant should be allowed to resume domestic horse slaughter.

An Internet video that shows a meat company employee swearing at animal activists before shooting a horse in the head highlights the increasing emotional intensity of the national debate over whether a New Mexico plant should be allowed to resume domestic horse slaughter.

And then there's the issue of hypocrisy when, as observed earlier by Judith Curry, «employees of green advocacy groups can participate as authors of the IPCC reports (without apparent criticism), but a non-advocate scientist [like Lennart Bengtsson] can not participate in a (non-green) think tank without censure from scientist colleagues... Honest brokers are to be preferred over advocates; but the real problem arises when advocates seek to stifle scientific and policy debates.»

For our companies, our employees, our customers and partners, the debate on climate change is over.

The approach in Johnstone (and the companion case of CNR v. Seeley and Canadian Human Rights Commission, released the day after the Johnstone decision) is the latest development in the continuing debate over the extent of the duty to accommodate employee childcare obligations.

Although the debate over the extent of employers» duty to accommodate employees» childcare obligations will likely continue until there is a definitive ruling by an appellate court (and quite possibly the Supreme Court of Canada), prudent employers should carefully assess any request for accommodation based on family obligations, taking into account such factors as:

The Chicago Tribune reports the city council was embroiled in a fierce debate over the settlement negotiations that followed the families» wrongful death lawsuits because of concern it would open the city up to liability for a range of wrongful acts committed by employees in their free time.

The Federal Court of Appeal (the «FCA») has laid to rest the long - standing debate over whether employees could be dismissed without cause under the Canada Labour Code (the «Code»).

Planned Parenthood, which receives about $ 500 million annually from the government, was hurled into the spotlight this summer after an anti-abortion group released several videos showing employees discussing the logistics of fetal tissue donation and reinvigorated the national debate over abortion.

What began as a conversation about dollars and profit margins quickly turned into a debate over the Great Recession, and the benefits of transforming an organization primarily driven by profit into an organization led by purpose - driven employees.