Sentences with phrase «make changes to their rules»

Canadians have reacted angrily to outsourcing in the past, with Ottawa making changes to its rules on foreign workers after the Royal Bank of Canada (TSX: RBC) drew criticism in the spring for cutting Canadian jobs after contracting a supplier to provide IT assistance, which brought in foreign workers to fill them.

Fact 1: Republicans control both houses of Congress Fact 2: A Republican controlled ethics committee voted THREE TIMES to censure Tom Delay for ethics violations Fact 3: The Republican leadership, not liking this, removed the Republican on the committee who was voting to censure Delay and replaced him with a Republican who accepted Delay's leftover campaign money for his own campaign Fact 4: The Republicans further tried to shield Delay by making a change to the rules to allow a Congressman under indictment to retain their leadership post, relenting only when Democrats had a field day trumpeting that little change in the media

While programs can make changes to their rules at any time, it often happens in the first quarter of the year.

Practically speaking, that means that unless and until governments get involved and start making changes to the rules (which I don't think anyone really wants), game rating agencies aren't going to get involved.

The appellants in AA (Pakistan)[2008] UKAIT 00003 (21 December 2007) had originally applied for HSMP status in reliance on Home Office guidance which said that: (i) applications would be considered on the basis of the HSMP rules at the time they were submitted; (ii) the Home Office might make changes to the rules in the future; and (iii) that once in the programme, they would be in a category that led to settlement.

We have been spurred to action by our children who have refused to accept as impossible, the prospect of making changes to rules for owning and carrying a firearm and protecting them at school.

Not exact matches

But before that transformation takes hold, some other changes will have to happen — including new reimbursement rules from insurance companies and policy shifts that make it easier for physicians to practice across state lines without gaining extra licenses or accreditation.

For instance, we were once in a proceeding in which the judge made a ruling on evidence presented at trial by opposing counsel that was going to fundamentally change the outcome of the case.

Others are acting to not only make the rules more transparent but to change them entirely.

By the time the public comment period had ended for proposed rule changes to net neutrality 10 days ago, the Federal Communications Commission logged close to 800,000 responses, making it the most commented - upon rule change in the agency's history.

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

The DOL has had an extended comment period and has held hearings on its re-proposed rule — it initially tabled the rule in 2010 — and is expected to make significant changes to the proposal.

Even if the Republican - controlled Congress passes legislation to halt the DOL rule - making process, President Obama will veto it, enabling the biggest changes to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) since it was drafted 40 years ago.

In recent years, governments at different levels have made several rule changes to address concerns about housing markets in Canada.

The decision whether to make changes in the military personnel rules ultimately will rest with the next defense secretary.

President Trump continues to make sweeping changes with the swipe of his pen, signing an executive order on Monday stating that for every new federal regulation, two existing rules must be eliminated.

Bank of America customers are protesting a rule change that makes it harder for consumers with low balances to receive free checking, USA Today reports.

«As we make these changes, we believe we need to give employers more time to comply with the new rules,» Jarrett says.

Federal regulations like Sarbanes - Oxley and recent rule changes that make e-mail subject to discovery in the course of a federal lawsuit are also driving companies to archive e-mail, Flynn says.

He couldn't undo it on his own, but he could work with Congress to make changes to it or to rewrite the rule, which is currently in limbo since a federal judge in Texas blocked it in late November.

One rule of thumb is not to make any operational changes — reassigning employees or integrating teams, for example — until the money is in the bank.

Those who were born after that date, however, no longer have the ability to employ that strategy, because of changes to Social Security rules made by Congress.

With many states weighing legislation to increase the minimum wage and change the rules relating to it, it is important for businesses of all sizes to make sure they're still complying with state laws and regulations.

The uncertainty of how exactly the SEC is going to regulate the impending rule change has made both advocates and opponents of the lifted ban a bit jumpy.

As many in the community had noted as early as in 2010, the usability of Bitcoin would be threatened without some tangible change was made to the consensus rules.

Many of the rules changes that large firms advocate would make the utility of a patent right uncertain, according to Conley.

«What the CBSA is doing is not only unfair, it changes the rules in mid-game and makes it impossible for importers to plan or make sound business decisions,» said Ubriaco.

Some of these commenters and petitioners also asserted that individual retirement investors — those most impacted by the Fiduciary Rule and PTEs — have not themselves focused on how investment products, related services, and costs may change and need more time to understand, process, and make decisions regarding their accounts and services.

With the FIA decision the Department made a substantive and irrevocable change to the proposed Rule without any impact analysis or due process for comment on that change.

About those «concessions» the Department of Labor supposedly made in its fiduciary rule — were they really concessions, or just changes to reward special interests?

The changes were made to ensure the new plan complies with the «Byrd Rule» of Senate procedure.

Musk did not go into detail on what those changes might be, but it is possible that Tesla could decide to make it a rule of thumb that hands must always be on the wheel at all times.

Snapchat is making changes to the information it collects about under - 16s in Europe as it works to comply with an update to the EU's data protection rules.

Delaney said he sees two events unfolding: «The existing players... will adopt this rule, make changes to their business models as needed, and they'll work hard to keep every one of their customers because one of biggest costs that financial services companies have are what's called customer acquisition — meaning the money they spend for customers,» he said.

Many of the largest investment managers have already made changes to comply with the fiduciary rule.

Expert panelists will examine how federal regulations are changing — in number and nature — under the Trump Administration, and how today's entrepreneurs can have an impact on the rules that have the power to make or break their profitability.

So, a number of firms large and small have made changes to their fee structure in part of fiduciary rule this was a rule crafted by the Obama administration and came into effect last April.

Broker - dealers are helping investors make better retirement decisions as a result of procedural changes firms have made in preparation for the DOL fiduciary rule, according to a study done by state regulators on the Individual Retirement Account rollover market.

One year after the rule's publication, in April 2017, the «broader definition of fiduciary will take effect, but to take advantage of the BIC exemption, firms will only be required to comply with more limited conditions, including acknowledging their fiduciary status, adhering to the best interest standard, and making basic disclosures of conflicts of interest,» DOL states in a fact sheet released Tuesday detailing some of the final rule's changes.

In response to Mark Zuckerberg's announcements last week to tighten rules around user data, Facebook has made changes to its platform, giving people more control of their privacy.

They point to a memo from Allergan's own lawyers saying that what Valeant and Pershing did is legal and that the Securities and Exchange Commission should change the rules to make it illegal.

If changes to the Department of Labor fiduciary rule are not made soon, the chances of any concessions go down sharply, industry officials say.

Facebook updated its APIs in 2014 so that outside parties could not collect information from Facebook users» friends without their permission, but Zuckerberg says it will go find developers who used their products before those changes were implemented to make sure they didn't break the rules.

A mortgage rule change announced in July 2017 could make home loans easier to obtain, particularly for borrowers with a lot of debt relative to their income.

Their portfolio simulation approach: (1) is restricted to the technology, industrials, health care, financials and basic materials sectors; (2) assumes an extreme sentiment day for a stock has at least four novel news items (prior to 3:30 PM in New York) and is among the top 5 % of average daily positive or negative events; (3) makes portfolio changes at market close; (4) holds positions for 20 days, subject to a 5 % stop - loss rule and a 20 % take - profit rule; (5) constrains any one position to 15 % of portfolio value; and, (6) assumes round - trip trading friction of 0.25 %.

They include «rules of origin,» or the percentage of parts that must be made in North America for a product to qualify for free - trade status; language on how to settle disputes affecting foreign investors; changing Mexican labor standards; and Trump's stated goal of reducing U.S. bilateral trade deficits.

What changes have been made to investor education both in terms of access and content in response to the rule and PTEs, and to what extent have any changes helped or harmed investors?

On May 14th, everything changed, as six Canadian provinces endorsed equity crowdfunding by implementing rules that make it easier for early stage companies to raise capital and opening up the opportunity for the ordinary investor to participate alongside seasoned investors in private capital deals.

This includes disagreements over judgment calls made by lenders or their agents; changes in circumstances occurring after the underwriting process has been completed; small mistakes that bear little relation to either the credit risk or the subsequent default; and inconsistent interpretations of the rules.

SAN FRANCISCO / WASHINGTON (Reuters)- President Barack Obama plans to make life a little easier for some foreign tech workers, but Silicon Valley representatives are disappointed his immigration rule changes will not satisfy longstanding demands for more visas and faster green cards.