Sentences with phrase «hiring women and minority»

It also has provisions about hiring women and minority workers.

For Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, a key part of the deal is the promise that at least 20 percent of hires will be from the city of Syracuse, as well as hiring some women and minority owned subcontractors.

She said such audits are also a waste of taxpayer money since the city is already eager to hire women and minorities.

Not exact matches

«A confluence of industry events has brought [the lack of women and minorities in technology] to the center stage, from the threats and harassment that have characterized the debate in the gaming world to the publication of hiring data and diversity statistics in the tech industry,» Intel CEO Brian Krzanich told the audience during his keynote address at CES.

That includes funding programs that teach STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to young people in underserved areas, collaborating with higher education institutions, investing in women and minority - owned companies and creating bolder hiring and retention incentives and programs to encourage diversity within Intel.

At the time, she said the company would collaborate with higher education institutions, invest in women and minority - owned companies, and create bolder hiring and retention incentives to encourage diversity at Intel.

To that end, Apple has committed to hiring more women and minorities and, according to the company's website, 50 percent of its new hires from July 2016 to July 2017 were from historically underrepresented groups.

A new study revealed the most diverse players in the tech sector as major companies make public efforts to hire more women and minorities.

The results come as major companies make public efforts to hire more women and ethnic minorities.

In a blog post, co-founder Evan Sharp noted that most big tech companies — including Pinterest — have made little progress on hiring more women and minorities, a failure that he attributes largely to the fact «that companies haven't stated specific goals.»

In an interview with USA TODAY following the meeting, Jackson said he stressed the need for Uber to hire more women and underrepresented minorities at all levels of the company, from the board of directors and the executive team to rank - and - file workers.

According to a 2016 study published by the Harvard Business Review, including more than one woman or member of a racial minority in a finalist pool helps combat unconscious bias among interviewers and increases the likelihood of a diverse hire.

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2) For said bread - making space, Rodriguez hires low - income, immigrant and minority people, often women.

Other concerns would include how any PLA would affect the state's Minority and Women - Owned Business Enterprises hiring requirements, and whether current construction timetables would still be met.

Lane said the silver lining is the Destiny tax deal with the county includes a promise of 50 percent city resident employment at the hotel and 15 percent minority and women owned business hiring for construction.

Simpson says in April he applied for the Minority Women - owned Business Enterprises and housing coordinator position with the city, and despite his long - time experience in human resources management, wasn't hired.

In the Davis case involving the steel contract at the World Trade Center worth nearly $ 1 billion, the defendant was accused of making false representations involving «aspirational» hiring goals of minorities and women.

The city recently adopted a new policy for the DCP whereby OLR actively encourages minority - and women - owned businesses and enterprises (MWBEs), as well as the firms that partner with them, to partake in the hiring process.

Ken Warner, upstate political director for Working Families, said Nicoletti has a long history of supporting progressive issues, including the hiring of minority and women owned businesses.

If at least 15 percent of the contractors hired for the construction are not minority - and women - owned, Destiny will pay a $ 75,000 penalty to the agency to be spent on workforce and economic development initiatives in the city, he said.

Other goals cited including raising the minimum wage, enacting the DREAM Act, expanding universal pre-Kindergarten to include three - year - olds, increasing the number of state contracts awarded to minority and women - owned businesses and incentivizing employers to hire young men and women of color.

The TV Diversity Tax Credit bill, which would provide incentives for hiring minority and women in key behind - the - scenes roles comes as the entertainment industry has been rocked by a flood of complaints about sexual harassment of women.

«We want to be very intentional about our commitment to hire local people to operate the facility and also to work with other local stakeholders to utilize 15 - percent minority and women - owned business enterprises during construction,» Aitken said.

Higgins» proposed act would require the guarantee of prevailing wages, a strong encouragement to hire veterans and assurances that a portion of grants are offered to women - and minority - owned businesses.

He aims to make first - source hiring of women and minorities a priority in 2016, and said the change can be can be implemented through an executive order.

The law that requires apprentice participation also sets goals for the hiring of minorities, women and city residents.

The goals call for minorities to account for 25 percent and women 5 percent of employees hired by contractors.

The same law also sets goals for the hiring of minorities, women, and Buffalo residents on city - funded capital projects.

The two women running to be the next council president debated the importance of city contractors hiring Minority and Women - Owned Business Enterprises or Mwomen running to be the next council president debated the importance of city contractors hiring Minority and Women - Owned Business Enterprises or MWomen - Owned Business Enterprises or MWBEs.

In addition, the company has promised that at least 15 percent of the contractors hired to build the hotel will be minority - and women - owned businesses.

Also, I would say there's a key difference between the county IDA and the city IDA in that we have goals for minority and women and business - owned hiring.

It also audits county contracts to maintain participation goals for Minority Business Enterprises (MBE) and Women owned Business Enterprises (WBE), and monitors the county's personnel and hiring procedures to assure compliance with the County's affirmative action plan.

A 2012 study of Swedish data on real - life job applications showed that anonymous hiring practices increased the chances that women and minorities made it to the interview stage.

It's a legal term that requires allows an actor to require greater say in the production of a film, including the hiring of actors and crew that reflect diversity, including women, minorities, LGBTQ individuals and people with disabilities.

The tech industry's lack of diversity continues to make headlines, with companies including Apple and Google undertaking efforts to hire and promote more women and minorities.

«We have trained a very bright generation of women and minority lawyers who have gone to our corporate clients and who now decide whether to hire us,» Mr. Hanlon said.

As one of the country's fastest - growing women - and minority - owned firms, Paragon is committed to hiring a highly qualified, diverse team of attorneys.

Well, if law firms won't increase the number of women and minority hires because it's the right thing to do or even because it's what clients want, then by golly, maybe they'll do it for cash.

Our legal news podcast Coast to Coast this week looks at Diversity in Law, discussing whether progress has been made since 1999, when the chief legal officers of 500 large corporations agreed to push their outside law firms to hire more minorities and women.

The groups hiring practices requiring women and racialized minorities to be shortlisted for positions have resulted in the group in North America comprised of 71 per cent women and 21 per cent racialized minorities.

Because that's «when the chief legal officers of 500 large corporations agreed to push their outside law firms to hire more minorities and women,» writes Ambrogi.

(Of course, it was also a time when law firms often didn't hire Jewish lawyers or marginalized Jewish firms and when women and minority lawyers were also excluded, though some might argue that still hasn't changed.)

A second, more far - reaching diversity initiative, «A Call to Action: Diversity in the Legal Profession,» asks corporate law departments to compel law firms to take action to increase the number of women and minority lawyers they hire and retain.

If firms prove that at least 30 % of their hiring candidate pools are women or minorities, then they will receive a Mansfield certification and be able to attend a client forum with over 45 legal departments from corporate heavy hitters such as 3M, American Express, Walmart, and CBS.

Of its new hires since (and including) 2011, 72 % have been women and 28 % have been minorities.

At a breakout session, she brought up the issues in Sri Lanka, urging the company to hire more content moderators who were proficient in Sinhala and who could respond to content abusing women and minorities quickly, before a crisis hit.

Besides being charged with setting up policies to hire more women and minority firefighters, the commission must train emergency phone staffers to be more sensitive to the huge number of calls for emergency medical problems (85 percent) rather than the reporting of fires, Wilson says.