Sentences with phrase «includes legal barriers»

It includes legal barriers, for example, that essentially prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from acquiring toxicity data on chemicals and imposing new restrictions on them — even on highly toxic substances such as asbestos.

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For many, the barriers standing between them and a stable, productive adulthood include legal issues such as a poor credit report, a tangled criminal record or having no basic identification.
Barriers to entry in several key industries, including architecture, accounting and legal services, are prohibitively high, which has decimated the country's labor market in the last few years.
We help remove barriers faced by many startup companies, including free legal, HR / recruiting, marketing and funding office hours, furniture, internet connection, and much more.
The industry also faces normal manufacturing barriers including high startup costs, time to build and maintain functioning capital equipment, and uncertain legal liabilities.
Campaigners including the British Humanist Association (BHA) have argued that this restriction is a violation of Northern Irish women's rights, and places additional undue barriers on their access to legal sexual and reproductive services and with costs on average at # 900, has a disproportionate effect on poorer women.
Other transportation proposals include procurement reforms to reduce sealed bids for MTA contracts; requirements that all backseat automobile passengers wear seat belts, and children under age 8 be properly restrained in school buses; and removal of legal barriers to encourage self - driving car manufacturers to operate in New York.
When their work is threatened they covertly cross the forbidden ethical and legal barrier to include human DNA in one of their experiments.
This Advance CTE resource features state approaches to dismantling work - based learning's legal barriers, including training teachers to understand legal, health and safety requirements and mitigating liability concerns for schools and employers, and offers guiding questions to state leaders.
Their documentary work includes an educational documentary series, Living Tiny Legally on the legal barriers to tiny housing and community developments.
The international community, in particular multilateral development banks like ADB, can play a greater role in ensuring that their support to developing countries not only includes general capacity development, but also focuses on identifying and addressing legal barriers to climate finance.
Further legal barriers can include restrictions on foreign ownership, or trade limits for low - carbon technology.
Legal barriers include limited awareness in government and the private sector of the Kyoto Protocol, and the legal requirements for development of CDM projLegal barriers include limited awareness in government and the private sector of the Kyoto Protocol, and the legal requirements for development of CDM projlegal requirements for development of CDM projects.
These barriers may include limited funding, lack of staff capacity and legal training, and limited to non-existent legal resource partnerships.
Despite the legal protections that have been put in place to protect employees from workplace harassment, including those found in human rights and occupational health and safety legislation, which require employers to provide employees with a safe and respectful working environment, systemic barriers to reporting these incidents remain.
An understanding of the civil equal justice legal needs of low - income people, including the unique needs of populations that experience particular barriers to access to justice systems.
An understanding of the civil legal needs of low - income people, including the unique needs of populations that experience particular barriers to access to justice systems.
With chapters written by leading international experts, topics covered include: the government's role in energy ownership and development; industry standards for establishing liability; legal concepts excusing performance during periods of commodity price or supply volatility; right of access to infrastructure; barriers to entry for foreign companies; criminal, health and safety, and environmental liability; sovereign boundary disputes; and relevant energy treaties.
I include myself among lawyers who think that bad typography is a problem plaguing legal writing, and that any barriers we can remove to better typography are to be welcomed.
Persons with disabilities face barriers to accessing justice because of the negative attitudes of those who design and implement laws and legal policies and practices, including those that are paternalistic, judgmental, stigmatizing, stereotyping or invalidating.
It creates a range of barriers for accessing justice, including most obviously a lack of resources for obtaining legal advice and representation.
«However, there are many barriers to legal innovation for the general public, including regulations on professional conduct, the malpractice insurance system, billing model and firm structure and legal education model.»
Some of the other identified barriers were more of a systemic nature, including the inaccessibility of courtroom facilities and services for persons with disabilities, intimidating courtroom formalities, and a lack of adequate legal education.
Highlights of its far - reaching activities include: representing consumer debtors filing bankruptcy; helping veterans in overcoming legal barriers to employment; providing litigation and advice for tenants in legal disputes; and assisting low - income Holocaust survivors claiming reparations from Germany.
«TWU's Community Covenant creates real and meaningful barriers to the legal profession for LGBTQ persons, who can not attend TWU without experiencing discrimination through the Covenant's mandatory character, the fact that signatories to the Covenant are required to report infractions, and the harsh discipline that may be imposed (including suspension and expulsion).»
This entity regulation will include removing barriers to fee sharing and will require lawyers and legal entities to implement management systems for ethical legal practice.
At the core, perhaps — is a need for an improved dialogue with government and the public about the very real business case to be made for improved access to legal assistance — which, in part, would include reducing barriers to becoming a lawyer.
From a legal point of view there are two priorities which stand out: Priority 2.3, to «uphold the rights of people living with mental health problems and illnesses,» which includes recommendations relating to the removal of barriers to full participation, stopping disclosure of police apprehensions under mental health acts for «police record checks,» aligning legislation and policies with the UN Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities, moving away from methods of seclusion and restraint, and supporting advocacy.
The other barrier to the beginning life insurance industry was the legal restrictions that barred women from entering into contracts, including insurance policies, or even legally inheriting an estate.
Administrative Data, Situational Awareness, and Child Maltreatment Decision Making (PDF - 15,831 KB) Jonson - Reid & Drake CW360 °: A Comprehensive Look at a Prevalent Child Welfare Issue, 2011 Explores barriers to accessing child welfare administrative data, including a lack of cross-sector linkage, funding, and creativity as well as technical, legal, and ethical barriers.
Because of an increasingly restrictive legal environment and clinic closures across the country, abortion patients are facing new barriers to care, including the need to travel greater distances to access services.2, 20 Overcoming these challenges can be difficult or impossible, especially given that 75 % of abortion patients are low - income, and 59 % have already had a child and may have other family obligations.21 Whether a provider offers same - day contraceptive services is irrelevant if a patient can not access abortion care in the first place.
«The changes we see in the market for financial services are the result of a combination of factors, including technological innovations, the erosion of legal barriers, and an increasingly mobile society,» says Julie Williams, OCC first senior deputy comptroller and chief counsel.
Information barrier policies include the possible legal and employment - related ramifications on non-compliance.
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