Sentences with phrase «ensure fair decisions»

However, the background reports and actions based on them have become the subjects of far reaching laws intended to protect applicants and ensure fair decisions.

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The Committee urged Canada to do more to ensure the timely and fair resolution of land disputes and to respect the international standard of free, prior and informed consent in decisions affecting Indigenous rights.
The plan also leaves some decisions up to Congress, such as imposing restraints on wealthy individuals benefitting from the 25 % rate for pas - through businesses and the possibility of a fourth individual tax rate, higher than 35 %, to ensure that the rich pay their fair share of tax.
The exchange explained that the decision to halt trading was made «to ensure a fair and orderly market.»
Farmers can make the appropriate decisions the about guarantee system and the market that empower them as price makers rather than price takers, ensuring that farmers and their communities can break the poverty cycle and have a fair level of prosperity,» Leu wrote.
We have had an essential role in ensuring that those decisions are fair.
«The decision was taken due to the ongoing Roundtable Discussion involving CCT and other critical stakeholders within and outside the country, to develop the Code of Ethics and Practice Directions for the Code of Conduct Tribunal to ensure fair and speedy trials, sponsored by European Union (EU) and implemented by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, (UNODC).»
Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.
We are hugely disappointed by HMRC's decision to prioritise the maximisation of expenditure savings over ensuring the processes were fair to claimants, proportionate and driven towards ensuring the correct decision was made in each case.
As County Executive, Poloncarz pledged to create a new funding process that would be utilized for the 2013 Erie County Budget to ensure all cultural institutions throughout Erie County had the opportunity to compete for County support, with final decisions being made in a fair and equitable manner.
Specifically, during the peer - review process, each submission will be reviewed by experts with relevant expertise, ensuring fair and objective decision - making, which will be guaranteed by experts sitting on the Editorial Board.
- Improve the validity and reliability of criteria used to classify the performance of schools and districts to ensure fair evaluations and to minimize bias in accountability decisions.
We also need structures that enable fair, effective evaluation by ensuring evaluator training; expert teachers who can provide intensive assistance to teachers in need; governance structures that oversee the process and enable timely, well - grounded personnel decisions; and resources that can support a manageable system.
Those include: setting high standards; continuing progress made over the past 11 years; providing families diverse school options and a fair enrollment process; ensuring equity for all students; empowering schools to make instructional decisions, and giving the community information on how money is being used and how schools are performing.
The author suggests that challenges in dismissing teachers result from administrators improperly apply the law, and that teachers need these protections to ensure that dismissal decisions are based on sound, fair reasons.
Ma believes in local stakeholder involvement for the important decisions facing public education and she supports amending Proposition 13 to ensure big corporations pay their fair share.
The Chancellor needs to take some tough decisions to ensure all young people get a fair chance to succeed in life.
To ensure the full and fair participation by all potentially affected communities in the transportation decision - making process;
The DOT Privacy Program ensures that, in addition to compliance with the law, the Fair Information Practice Privacy Principles (FIPPs) are integrated into every policy decision and are observed and followed by all DOT employees and contractors.
Ensure the full and fair participation by all potentially affected communities in the transportation decision - making process.
Get your book in front of the decision makers early enough to at least ensure that you get a fair shot.
To ensure a fair and reasonable outcome is achieved in each case, the decision will be made in accordance with the statements and principles set out in the Taxpayers» charter, compliance model, and the good decision - making model (which requires that the decision be legal, ethical, overt, sensible, timely and in accordance with the principles of natural justice).
This framework must also include the fair treatment and meaningful community involvement of all people with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of any impacts related to transportation planning and policy to ensure everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision - making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn and work.
Like Charter litigation, administrative law obliges governments to account for their actions and ensures that institutional decision - making is done in a fair and impartial manner.
It is critical to ensure that when committees are making decisions, their processes are procedurally fair, and their decisions are reasonable.
Both sides refer to the recent SCC decision of R. v. Jodoin, which confirmed that law societies have the jurisdiction and the duty to regulate the profession, and a judge's ability to discharge her task of ensuring a fair process is not undermined by a law society's exercise of its parallel jurisdiction to discipline a lawyer.
On a macro level, though, this decision has far more reaching implications — it ensures uniformity across the judicial landscape and stands a bulwark against interpretist judges attempting to rewrite non-ambiguous collective bargaining agreements, substituting their own judgment for those of the contracting parties, because they may think it is «fair» to employees to do so.
The job of the court is to review the administrative proceedings to ensure that the agency proceeded in accordance with the law, that the employee received a fair trial with the agency, and that the agency's decision is supported by the evidence and findings.
This case exemplifies the role of the Court in reviewing academic decisions: the Court will ensure that the process is fair, but it will not second - guess substantive academic decisions.
The high - profile decision has been widely covered by media, including extensive quotes from Abdulla, who is cited in the Buffalo News saying, «Open courts help to ensure that the legal process remains fair and transparent.»
The rules for full and truthful disclosure early in the family law agreement process promotes early settlement by ensuring that the parties have all the information required for fair and sound decision - making.
Generally speaking, employment law leaves management decisions to managers, and only intervenes to make the process fair, and to ensure that decisions are taken fairly and on the merits.
While only father time will reveal the full implications of this decision, it will undoubtedly help ensure the Canadian public receives a fair exchange in patent bargains.
In the world before the Supreme Court's recent Philip Morris decision, the risk of giving the plaintiff — who might only be one of many victims of the defendant's conduct — the entire punitive damages award was that it would more likely undermine the state's in - terest in ensuring a fair distribution of both compensatory and retributive damages for oth - ers, since a crippling retributive damages award might impair the availability of adequate compensation funds (or punitive damages) for future claimants.
This follows from five Supreme Court of Canada decisions on copyright that came down this summer which gave guidance on determining fair dealing (see Martin Kratz» coverage in his Ensuring the Balance... [more]
Note that the CCH decision never describes the first - stage purposes test as having a low threshold, though a broad and liberal interpretation may lead to that conclusion, as it ensures that the user's right of fair dealing will benefit from a full analysis of whether the use is fair.
Such evaluations will inevitably inform decision - making, but there need to be procedural safeguards to ensure that this does not undermine a fair and balanced adjudication of ongoing issues.
Following on the heels of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's disappointing and dangerous decision that APIs are copyrightable, the fair use verdict ensures some degree of protection against copyright creep for software innovation and interoperability.
«There has been a fair amount of comment about the fact that we are limiting the amount of capital the ICO will accept,» says Smith, «We've made this decision to ensure the trading capital does not dwarf the trading opportunities open to the AI trading models,» says Smith.
NACE's Principles for Professional Practice provides guidelines to ensure that students can openly, freely, and objectively select employment opportunities; students and employers are involved in a fair and equitable recruitment process; and students have support to make informed and responsible career decisions.
«Although each employment decision requires a case by case assessment of a number of factors, and software can not make a decision, CrimApollo provides employers with a methodology to help ensure the fair use of criminal records in employment decisions and to demonstrate a good faith effort to follow Title VII and the new EEOC Guidance,» says Rosen.
«This is a valuable tool that can be used by employers to analyze the risk factor in an employment decision where a criminal record is a consideration, along with other steps employers should consider to ensure a fair and non-discriminatory process.»
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Proper governance structures should be implemented ensuring accountable, fair and transparent decisions.
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Over the past several years, we've fought for policies to help make short sales a viable alternative to foreclosure — from ensuring your right to earn a fair commission to seeking reasonable timelines for decision making.
The Consent Order Review Committee ensures that consent orders result in fair and appropriate decisions, and either accepts, varies or rejects penalty recommendations.
In the mid-1970s, the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® established the Arbitration Guidelines to assist Boards and Associations in reaching fair and equitable decisions in arbitration; to prevent the establishment of any one, single rule or standard by which arbitrable issues would be decided; and to ensure that arbitrable questions would be decided by knowledgeable panels taking into careful consideration all relevant facts and circumstances.
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