Sentences with phrase «new work policies»

Assisted in implementation of new work policies and procedures, which helped to produce more efficient and sustainable outcomes

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In working in these three directions, the U.S. policy community would be employing the best sense of Ronald Reagan's «trust but verify» strategy regarding new information about the nuclear deal.

Accenture has also worked on ways to get more women into senior leadership positions (they've changed the interview process so that candidates of both genders get to know more members in the executive ranks) and to retain them (implementing a one - year no - travel policy for employees who are new mothers and fathers).

Working with your financial quarterback, develop your new investment business plan (known as an investment policy statement) for the immediate deployment of the transaction's proceeds and for long - term management of investment capital.

However it is good practice to review the policies and terms laid out in the company handbook whenever the business establishes new working roles or departments.

While it states that under the new policy, employees will still need to work «with their managers for coverage during their absences,» it doesn't get into how this process will work.

It's a big change, but with support from managers and employers, reclassified employees can manage their work and adjust to new policies.

Triggertrap has decided to do things a bit differently in 2015, designing a new four - point approach to vacations that significantly tweaks the simple «no tracking time off» policy that didn't work so well last year.

Princess Reema bint Bandar al - Saud is on Uber's public policy advisory board, and according to the New York Times worked with Uber to bring the service to Saudi Arabia.

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.»

«While the ultimate effects on income levels and distribution are not inevitable, they depend substantially on government policies, on the way companies choose to organize work, and on decisions by individuals to invest in learning new skills and seeking new types of work and income opportunities,» the Stanford study noted.

In the last week, outrage erupted over a new company policy that bans workers from wearing engagement and wedding rings to work.

While his own salary saw a bump — to $ 50,000, up from $ 41,000, in the first stage of the raise — he worried the new policy didn't reward work ethic.

With this new policy, FullContact joins the currently trendy backlash against our machine - enabled ability to always be running on the work hamster wheel.

While some remain defiant and plan to continue their work, one party in particular stands to benefit if the new policy restricts legal sales and pushes prices up — Mexican drug traffickers who see marijuana as a kind of cash crop.

Knight, a former Hill staffer who worked on the Bush administration's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, was promoted from her position as special assistant for tax and retirement policy to deputy director for policy in February, and was recently praised by the council's new head, Larry Kudlow.

This deal between the city and tech companies including Google and Facebook has been in the works for some time, The Wall Street Journal reported, but a recent string of protests in the last month (including activists smashing a bus window in Oakland, and multiple instances of protesters physically blocking buses) have escalated the need for a new policy.

I think there's a wider sort of macroeconomic and social policy issue that we all need to be aware about, and also we all need to maybe come together about some new definitions of what work is and how opportunities are being created, also.

The Executive Education program gave this new policy a six month test run and then surveyed employees to see how it worked out.

He also worked on implementation of the Medicare drug benefit as a senior advisor to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he supported policy work on quality improvement and the agency's coverage process, particularly as it related to new medical technologies.

These commenters assert that although financial institutions have worked to put in place the policies and procedures necessary to make the business structure and practice shifts required by the new rules, [4] there is still considerable work left to be done to implement the new rules in a proper and responsible manner and without Start Printed Page 16904causing further confusion and disruption to retirement investors.

In discussions and in the company newsletter he informed people that the company's new policy was to require light work from any injured employee who could handle it.

While there are rumors that this is not an official policy of Google anymore, as a manager, encouraging employees to take some time to work on an innovative new project they've pitched can bring you great products and loyalty from motivated employees.

Nigeria is working out new oil and gas policies to attract more private investors and boost crude production by 500,000 bpd by 2020, state firm NNPC said on Thursday.

She wants to see new policies for how Uber hires people, ones that put more weight on the diversity of its work force.

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Many companies that win federal contracts, they say, are quite likely to enact the new paid sick leave policy across their entire work force rather than maintain separate policies, one for workers involved in federal contracts and a less generous one for everyone else.

The policy was updated Oct. 1 so that new mothers working in its coffee shops can take six weeks of leave with full pay, rather than partial pay.

A useful piece on the «new» Danish Economy and why it works by Jonathan Cohn, a senior editor at the (American) New Republic and a senior fellow at Demos, a US - based national, non-partisan public policy, research and advocacy organizatinew» Danish Economy and why it works by Jonathan Cohn, a senior editor at the (American) New Republic and a senior fellow at Demos, a US - based national, non-partisan public policy, research and advocacy organizatiNew Republic and a senior fellow at Demos, a US - based national, non-partisan public policy, research and advocacy organization.

Good economic policy works by relieving existing constraints that hold back desirable activities, or by imposing new constraints that prevent undesirable activities.

Yet policy and business leaders continue to aggressively court new businesses, as they work together to try to further stoke economic growth.

According to CVA, ConsenSys will chair new Enterprise Blockchain Working Group, while joining the existing Regulatory and Policy Working Group.

Since QE2 in November 2010, there have been two and half million new jobs created and I don't claim credit for all those jobs, and of course many other factors are at work, but I think that it (monetary policy) has been constructive.

An omnibus appropriations package, steel tariffs, regulatory work on the new tax law and general uncertainty about the nation's direction on policy and governing fueled K Street business during the first three months of this year.

With banks employing more conservative lending policies (fewer than 20 % of all business bank loan applications are approved, and that percentage is even lower for new businesses without an established financial history) business owners are relegated to finding working capital elsewhere.

Specific policies include a Doctors and Nurses Fund to increase training capacity for new health care professionals; working with Aboriginal communities to close the gap in the health status of Aboriginal peoples; and the introduction of a drug plan to ensure Canadians have access to catastrophic drug coverage.

On Friday, China's Family Planning Authority gave more detail on how the new policy would work: each province would be left to determine the implementation of the rules, with couples planning to have a second child still required to secure «relevant approval», although this process will be simplified.

Specific policies include a Canada Employment Credit and Tax Fairness Plan to reduce taxes for working families and seniors; tax credits for public transit, kid's sports, textbooks, tools, and apprentices; increased support to the provinces and territories to create new child care spaces; increasing the Senior Age Credit amount by an additional $ 1,000; and allowing income splitting for caregivers of family members with disabilities.

Every policy tool available will be thrown at the labor markets, up to and including possibly the creation of New Deal - style make - work agencies.

Many of our members, living from paycheque to paycheque, would inevitably choose to come into work sick if this new policy is put into effect.

Apart from a sprinkling of new initiatives, under the guise of investing in the future, the Fall Update largely attempted to demonstrate that the government's policy actions are working.

That how Brian Domitrovic, the only American who understands completely how and why supply - side economics actually works, characterizes our new monetary policy: The idea is that if all the spending and regulation of the last few years has only resulted in nil growth, stubborn unemployment,....

Erwin also said the church's 2009 change in policy was more of a «culmination of God's work» than a «start of something new.»

Take the 1 in 3 Campaign, for example, whose mission is to «start a new conversation about abortion» and to «create a more enabling cultural environment for the policy and legal work of the abortion rights movement.»

With 16 million people out of work, editors declared Roosevelt's «readiness to experiment with new policies his greatest asset and the nation's greatest ground of hope» (March 1, 1933).

Nonetheless, the abolitionists seem to have breathed new life into some tested and sensible ideas, including bail - bond reform, suspended sentences, work release, and liberalized probation and parole policies.

(CNN)-- After an avalanche of criticism, the White House is working on a way to thread the needle on a new health care policy which will require all employers - including religious institutions - to cover contraception in their health insurance plans.

Women are afraid that they will not be able to publish in competitive fields at the same rate as their childless colleagues; they are afraid that as new mothers they will no longer be taken seriously as scholars; and they are afraid to take advantage of existing family leave policies in the event that chairmen and colleagues bristle at having to take on additional courses and other work when a new mother takes maternity leave.

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.