Sentences with phrase «new policy group»
Iain Duncan Smith, the chair of the new policy group, followed with an engaging introduction on the role of the group and the challenges that need to be met.
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As Aaron Wright, chair of the alliance's Legal Industry Working Group, told Coin Telegraph, «Lawyers are poised to serve as the catalysts for blockchain technology, and the Legal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.»
LONDON, May 2 - Unilever Plc's shareholders approved a new executive pay policy on Wednesday, but the Anglo - Dutch consumer goods group faced a bruising backlash at what is expected to be its last annual general meeting in London.
The new policy, in which Unilever is moving to a «fixed pay» structure, was approved by 64.2 percent of the UK group's shareholders, with nearly 35.8 percent opposing it.
Robert Palmer, policy advisor at advocacy group Global Witness, said the filings showed people might be able to hide behind shell companies despite the new system.
Also of interest, the groups that were the most negative on the new economic policies were those with college degrees and people living in the Northeast, both demographics that exit polls show voted more for Hillary Clinton.
Fewer than half of Americans between the ages of 25 and 64 with annual household incomes between $ 35,000 and $ 100,000 have their own life insurance policies, according to new data released by the insurance industry group LIMRA.
In 2015, the industry in Colorado created more than 18,000 new full - time jobs and generated $ 2.4 billion in economic activity, according to the Marijuana Policy Group, an economic consulting firm.
With the world growing more concerned about attacks by militant groups on civilians, Microsoft Corp. on Friday outlined new policies to crack down what it called «terrorist content» on some of its consumer services.
The following year, Facebook outraged civil liberties groups with a new privacy policy that gave people less control over their what they could do with their data and made sensitive information like profile pictures, locations, and friend lists publicly available.
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* UNILEVER: Unilever Plc's shareholders approved a new executive pay policy on Wednesday, but the Anglo - Dutch consumer goods group faced a bruising backlash at what is expected to be its last annual general meeting in London.
Your new business tax credit for small businesses is, however, consistent with the government's previous policy of selective tax cuts for certain groups.
This new policy was apparently the result of a 2008 Risk Management Assessment (available to the right) involving stakeholders only from the shipping industry, though Transport Canada's methodology for Pilotage Risk Assessments defines stakeholders as «any individual, group, or organization able to affect, be affected by, or believe it might be affected by, a decision or activity.»
For example, new rules or regulatory policies might require the former group to reorient portfolios or dispose of holdings after commitments had been made.
While it will still fund expansions of existing oilsands projects, environmentalists likened the new policy to similar announcements by BNP Paribas and ING Group
By shifting the money under the new terms, Apple has saved $ 43 billion in taxes, more than any other American company, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a research group in Washington.
In Canada, a group of men and women, largely from the west coast, who were watching the changes across the Pacific believed that if Canada was to adjust to the new Asia, it must understand something of the cultures and policies driving the transformation.
A group of investors is asking the board of Starbucks Corp. to weigh the risk that the company's new policy for paid parental leave is discriminatory.
According to CVA, ConsenSys will chair new Enterprise Blockchain Working Group, while joining the existing Regulatory and Policy Working Group.
«A new U.S. rule aimed at restoring consumers» ability to band together to sue financial companies has survived its first challenge, as a top banking regulator on Monday said he would not petition for it to be suspended... «The rule is a well thought - out response to the serious consumer harm of forced arbitration,» said Brian Marshall, policy counsel for advocacy group Americans for Financial Reform.»
But whether it's a taxpayer advocacy group, a policy institute, a coalition akin to the one now fighting proposed changes to private corporations, opposition Conservatives and New Democrats, or even a more tax - reduction friendly government such as Quebec, the idea of a $ 10,000 TFSA should be a positive rallying point for many reasons.
But even the expansion of rent controls to newer buildings, which has been welcomed by tenant groups, hasn't made finding an affordable rental easier, said Mary Todorow, research / policy analyst with the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario.
However, the majority of policymakers (certainly the «core» group within the FOMC led by Chair Yellen and New York Fed President Dudley) believe that monetary policy is not a suitable tool to address financial stability risk.
New group to report to government on policies and business models that could help enhance environmental protection
LONDON Unilever Plc's shareholders approved a new executive pay policy on Wednesday, but the Anglo - Dutch consumer goods group faced a bruising backlash at what is expected to be its last annual general meeting in London.
NEW YORK / WASHINGTON Wall Street lobby groups urged U.S. policy makers and regulators to revamp rules to encourage more initial public offerings and to reduce the regulatory cost of staying public, in a white paper issued on Thursday.
2 The new rules align with this sentiment by focusing exclusively on policies regarding the representation of women (and not other groups) on boards and in senior management.
The variety ranges from cases in which faculty elect some members of the board of trustees from among their number, to cases in which faculty as a group is formally charged with certain responsibilities (say, nominating new faculty, or establishing policies governing the academic program of the school), to cases in which faculty effectively have neither responsibility, authority, nor power in the school's polity.
Groups like Clergy for a New Drug Policy seek to reform the enforcement laws to get to the root of real problems like addiction and poverty, instead of just locking up millions of people, turning them into felons for life.
We usually focus on the content of faiths and policies in disputing groups; for example, the Catholic bishops» pastoral letters, the sermonic messages of Martin Luther King, Jr., and black churches, Mormon doctrines about equality or inequality, New Christian Right teachings based on revealed truths, or Jews» concepts of the land of Israel.
In effect, the new policy privileged certain belief groups and forbade all others.
«Mass incarceration is one of our most vivid and dramatic and shameful public issues,» says the Rev. Alexander Sharp, executive director of the group Clergy for a New Drug Policy.
CLS is one of 15 Christian groups that refused to sign the new policy.
Suddenly evangelical groups lined up to buy commercial time on radio and TV, and local stations that had previously agreed with the network policy not to sell airtime for religious broadcasting, began to cash in on the new demand and to sell time to the highest bidder.
The new policy goes into effect August 1, 2012, but religious groups who oppose contraception have been given a yearlong extension to enforce the policy.
In 1997, a group of unipolarists led by Cheney, Libby, Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Eliot Cohen, Frank Gaffney, Donald Kagan, Norman Podhoretz and Donald Rumsfeld founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which issued a statement of principles that called for an aggressive American policy of global domination.
To further public debate, Howard Moody has gathered a group of respected clergy under the infelicitous title «Religious Leaders for a More Just and Compassionate Drug Policy» (237 Thompson St., New York, NY 10012; 212-253-2437).
In many respects, the New Deal was less about income redistribution than about the recognition of «group rights» benefitting these cultural challengers, a recognition embedded in such policies as the fostering of labor unions, public works programs, and social insurance.
Christian groups have spoken out against a possible new policy that would automatically assume everyone... More
Every Living Thing: An Evangelical Statement on Responsible Care for Animals is a new offering spearheaded by Barrett Duke of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Michael Cromartie with the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the Clapham Group's Mark Rodgers, a former chief of staff to Senator Rick Santorum.
Research shows that a majority of global consumers, and especially Millennials, support companies that are committed to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.
The tour put in place the new policy, which calls players out but has no practical financial or other impact, to allow officials to penalize individuals for slow play rather than entire groups.
Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton, Director of Public Policy Jack Clarke, and Legislative Director Karen Heymann met with Senator Edward J. Markey and other groups to brainstorm strategies for working with the incoming Presidential administration and new Congress on critical environmental issues.
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Caldwell said she first became worried about SNA's new direction in March, when she attended the group's legislative conference and was handed a policy paper asking for significant changes to the school meal regulations, including eliminating the requirement that students take a fruit or a vegetable and rescinding strict sodium limits set to begin in 2017.
The Kogan Law Group is a New York City — based firm specializing in «identifying and addressing emerging regulatory, policy, and trade risks posed to multinational company assets, operations, and supply chains.»
«Peer Group Pressure, Young People and Smoking: New Developments and Policy Implications.»
One of the panelists at the SNA's policy session was Craig Burkhardt, a lawyer with the group's new lobbying firm, Barnes and Thornburg (whose clients include the National Rifle Association).
(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;