Sentences with phrase «minority hiring goal»

The Council's constitutional challenge to the Camden minority hiring goal must therefore be interpreted as a challenge to the State Treasurer's general power to issue affirmative action hiring goals.»

But the SolarCity's project commitment to diversity was called into question after Investigative Post broke the news that the minority hiring goal at the SolarCity factory was lowered from 25 to 15 percent:

The 15 percent minority hiring goal at Riverbend is lower than on many other major publicly funded projects.

Part of the negotiation between Ellicott Development and the City was that Ellicott agree to a 25 % minority hiring goal.

Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant called the reduction in the minority hiring goal «absolutely devastating.»

And the Buffalo Sabres agreed to a minority hiring goal of 25 percent for HarborCenter when they bought the land for the building from the city.

The updated numbers, however, have not mollified those who argue that the project should have retained the 25 percent minority hiring goal agreed on when the city sold the Riverbend site to the state.

Mayor Byron Brown, who last month defended hiring practices at SolarCity on the grounds the project was meeting its overall 15 percent minority hiring goal, did not respond to an interview request.

The project is now exceeding its minority hiring goal, with minorities working 16 percent of hours through the end of August.

This, as several Buffalo - based community groups are planning to protest, claiming minority hiring goals on the construction project were lowered.

Mayor Byron Brown and David Doyle, a spokesman for Buffalo Billion mastermind Alain Kaloyeros, have been trying to diffuse the situation in part by claiming the project is somehow not the subject of minority hiring goals.

Griffith also said the university is meeting or exceeding its minority hiring goals.

Not exact matches

He shared details on goals to increase the company's full - time engineering hiring rate to 30 percent female and 8 percent 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.»

The campaign platform also includes a plan to establish a community hiring hall to help Syracuse residents obtain city and city - contractor jobs while simultaneously fulfilling affirmative action goals for minority hiring in city jobs.

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.

Yet state officials agreed to cut the project's diversity hiring goal — included on state contracts to ensure minorities get a fair share of work — from 25 to 15 percent.

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 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.

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.

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