Sentences with phrase «ensuring fairness for»

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The government's expressed goal was to lower insurance premiums «while still ensuring fairness for consumers.»

A critical, but often invisible, part of delivering effective early years education and care is about ensuring fairness for the workforce itself.

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CFIB played a key role in the development, and recent improvement, of the Code of Conduct for the Credit and Debit Card Industry in Canada, which ensures fairness for merchants in their dealings with payment processors.

«These policies will not only lift up the current generation of low - wage workers and their families, but ensure fairness for future generations and enable them to climb the ladder of opportunity,» Cuomo said in a statement April 4 when the bill was ceremoniously signed into law.

We, the undersigned residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to leave the Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA) limit at $ 10,000 to ensure fairness for all working Canadians.

Access to civil legal aid ensures fairness for all in the justice system, without regard to how much money you have.

Civil legal aid ensures fairness for all in the justice system regardless of how much money a person has by providing assistance in legal matters that have the potential to devastate lives.

In sum, utilizing the collaborative process just makes sense when drafting a prenuptial agreement because (i) it aids in transparency and ensures fairness for the less wealthy spouse while (ii) it also provides confidence to the more wealthy spouse that the prenuptial agreement will likely be upheld if ever challenged in court.

Not exact matches

So while the interests of fairness argue for a dramatic scaling back of seniors» discounts — or at least greater use of income testing to ensure only those in real financial need are accessing them — political dynamics are actually working to expand their scope and cost.

Other important considerations around fairness must also be addressed, such as whether to provide charge - free access options or routes to ensure accessibility and inclusivity, whether to charge individuals a congestion fee for driving where alternative modes of transportation are not available (e.g. the lack of public transit in rural areas), whether the charge for commercial and private vehicles differs or not, and whether individuals living further away from urban areas and thus travelling further distances should face a higher charge than individuals living in urban areas.

Organic farming principles include the use of no chemicals in production and fairness to all workers, while fair trade standards ensure just payment to owners and workers, as well as the appropriate use of funds for supportive social, economic and environmental projects.

So it's back to the bread and butter for Carroll and his club team - mates, although, in fairness, there weren't too many players involved with their national sides during the week which should ensure Chris Hughton doesn't face any late withdrawals or nervous waits on fitness tests.

Similarly, in the emergency Budget we began the process of rebalancing the tax system to reward work and ensure fairness, by cutting income tax for the lowest - paid and increasing Capital Gains Tax.

She added, «The time has come for every Democrat in the State Senate to unify, stand and work together to ensure our state leads in progressive governance, fairness and the respect of voters» decisions.»

The mayor largely shirked questions about the gubernatorial race, but did comment on what he believed to be important issues for New Yorkers, including economic fairness, «ensuring people have a decent standard of living» and other progressive - leaning ideas.

At 10:30 a.m., the Assembly will hold a public hearing to examine the need for reforms to the criminal justice system to ensure fairness, improve community / police relations and to protect the safety of law enforcement officers, Assembly Hearing Room 1923, 19th Floor, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

Though speeches were generally brief — in part as a kindness to those who attended the outdoor ceremony on a bitterly cold day — each speaker managed to hit on that idea of fairness as the goal for the next four years, whether by creating and preserving affordable housing or ensuring that «equal pay for equal work» isn't merely a slogan.

«And fairness: making sure we are all in it together by ensuring those with the broadest shoulders bear the largest burden and making sure that the unfairness of the something for nothing culture in our welfare system is changed.»

The Department of Consumer Protection is charged with ensuring a fair and equitable marketplace for consumers through various initiatives including scam alert and protections, licensing of plumbers and electrical engineers, helping consumers find the lowest gasoline and oil prices, ensuring accuracy of weights and measures, protecting consumers from the sale of unsafe children's products and other programs aimed to ensure fairness to Westchester's consumers.

The governor said DiFiore is «tremendously qualified» to succeed Lippman, and has spent her career working to ensure justice and fairness for New Yorkers,» Kenneth Chamberlain Jr tells BW.

«She has served as both judge and prosecutor, and has spent her career working to ensure justice and fairness for New Yorkers.

Among other benefits for the district attorney offices across the city, the funding will provide Bronx County with a vertical integration system which proposes delegating every stage of the prosecution to a single assistant district attorney in order to eliminate delays and backlogs in trial cases, a Rikers Island prosecution bureau and a Conviction Integrity Unit to review past convictions and ensure the fairness of tried cases.

«It is time for all especially those in the judicial system and administration of justice to do the needful at ensuring equity, fairness and justice in the judicial administration.

In the pursuance of justice, fairness and to ensure that the right Candidate and not a turncoat represent the NDC in the Constituency, petitions were written to the National and the Greater Accra Regional Executive Committees of the NDC respectively for redress.

With them will com e new challenges if we are to tackle cross border crime, ensure community cohesion and build an immigration system that maintains a strong outward facing economy and guarantees fairness for all.

Working together with you, I believe we struck the right balance between protecting the freedom of the press and ensuring fairness, particularly for victims of press intrusion to have a clear right of redress.

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, on Friday called for a return to a truly federal state that would ensure fairness and equity.

«With this proposal, we can enhance fairness and protections for victims and survivors of sexual harassment in the workplace while helping to ensure that no one has to ever say the words «Me Too,» ever again,» Cuomo said in a statement.

These changes to the marriage route are needed urgently for three reasons: to protect women and girls from pressure; because the British public have a long - held commitment to fairness; and to ensure that the immigration system is one that we can be confident in.

«Staten Island families deserve a judge who will stand up for them - a proven fighter to ensure that justice is delivered with fairness, integrity and dedication.

«Staten Island families deserve a judge who will stand up for them - a proven fighter to ensure that justice is delivered with fairness, integrity and dedication,» said Catalano, a Democrat, in a statement.

«This comprehensive package - the most progressive set of reforms in the nation — will guarantee fairness for the accused by reshaping New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, improving the disclosure of evidence in the discovery process, transforming asset forfeiture procedures and implementing new initiatives to help individuals transition from incarceration to their communities.»

«He ensured that I was not cheated out by the exclusion of my name from the LLB class list at the Faculty of Law after my first university exams when I had qualified for placement on the programme by merit... His actions almost 43 years ago contributed in no small measure to my position, my passion for the defence of truth, fairness, integrity, transparency and merit in public life, and he must be publicly acknowledged for once.»

Reform the Child Health Plus Program for greater fairness — Establishing premium contributions and co-pay levels at rates comparable to what state employees are required to pay would be a responsible and appropriate action to ensure the long term viability of the program and generate tens of millions of dollars annually.

Thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's intervention, the UFT on Feb. 16 reached a groundbreaking agreement in Albany on an appeals process for teacher ratings that includes the independent validation by a neutral third party that the union insisted upon to ensure fairness.

«Policies like this not only reflect the city's values of fairness and justice but they also underscore the importance of ensuring that our schools remain safe spaces for our children.»

The Council is the following reforms to ensure greater fairness and transparency in the process, and ensure that it is not manipulated for political reasons.

From Stonewall to Edie Windsor, New Yorkers have always been on the front lines of the fight to ensure equality and fairness for all.

Threading boundaries between and through centres of population on the pretext of ensuring fairness is also a great way to cheat for your own benefit — a practice known as gerrymandering, after a 19th - century governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, who created an electoral division whose shape reminded a local newspaper editor of a salamander.

Adherents of the Fourteenth Amendment believe that the federal government has a duty to ensure fairness by directing funds to underresourced communities and holding states accountable for the performance of all students.

They urge OCR to revise its guidelines in order to ensure «fairness for all students under Title IX.»

In addition, guidelines for bias and sensitivity, accessibility and accommodations, and style help item developers and reviewers ensure consistency and fairness across the item bank.

It is therefore critical, in order to ensure fairness to teachers, that any plans to reward or punish them for gains their students have or have not made control for differences among students in their family situations and other factors that are beyond the teachers» control.

This conviction drives Schott's grantmaking strategy, which seeks to create healthy living and learning communities and ensure fairness, opportunity and access to high quality public schools for all children.

Educators will learn practical strategies for ensuring that grades measure students» knowledge, for designing and distributing unit plans, for creating a flexible and modular retesting system, and for examining the fairness and effectiveness of grading homework and assignments.

Sharing interpretations of criteria for judging student work quality across classrooms and schools also helps to ensure fairness as teachers learn to hold each other to similar standards.

These standards support academic rigor and ensure fairness by defining the expectations for success for all students.»