Sentences with phrase «of policy reasons»

She also pointed out a number of policy reasons against allowing indefinite accrual, including the possibility that it could create perverse incentives for employers to dismiss workers on sick leave early, rather than encouraging their rehabilitation.

To extend the ambit of the exception to all cases of discrimination would fly in the face of the policy reasoning behind it.

I can think of no policy reason that such should be compensated as a taxable disbursement.

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While Musk's stated reason for the policy shift is to promote «the advancement of electric vehicle technology,» business analysts suggested that it was an economically necessary maneuver for the company.

«Ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community,» the report reads.

Poloz's press conference followed the release of the central bank's December Financial System Review, which concluded that a record household debt burden makes Canada vulnerable to a housing crash, although policy makers see little reason to think that will happen.

Last month the head of the parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said Iran would block Telegram for reasons of...

If none of these reasons can convince you to trial a nap «zone» or policy for your organization, consider this: Today's pro-nap companies aren't solely the small, quirky startups.

For example, the Federal Open Market Committee explains the reasons for its policy decisions in a statement released after each regularly scheduled meeting, and three weeks later we publish minutes with a detailed summary of the meeting discussion.

One of the reasons the IMF has changed its tune on fiscal policy is because research it has done in the past year shows that borrowing to pay for infrastructure pays for itself over the longer term by generating faster economic growth.

«There's no reason to think that the pace of economic growth today is excessive and needs to be slowed because of incipient inflation,» Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, said in calling on the Fed not to hike.

«Under - emphasis of these (structural) policies relative to macroeconomic, trade and financial stability policies is a key reason for many governments» failure in recent decades to mobilize a more effective response to widening inequality and stagnating median income as technological change and globalization have gathered force,» the report said.

Dana Peterson, a Citigroup economist, said the use of tariffs for national security reasons is a centerpiece of Trump's trade policy and the use takes trade disputes into a new territory.

One of the most enduring and well - known embodiments of Cathy's convictions is Chick - fil - A's «Closed - on - Sunday» policy, which requires every restaurant to only operate six days a week for practical and spiritual reasons.

Yellen turned the question around: «When you say that central banks kill them, the usual reason that that has been true, when that has been true, is that central banks have been too late to tighten policy and they have allowed inflation to get out of control and at that point they have had to tighten policy very abruptly and very substantially and it's caused a downturn.»

One reason could be that entrepreneurs find some of Trump's policies too extreme, even if they admire his pluck and business sense.

Arguing against will be Patrice Lee, and director of outreach at Generation Opportunity, a limited - government activist and policy network for millennials, and Matt Welch, editor - in - chief of the libertarian magazine Reason.

Still, the mere possibility of a change in policy on this front ought to raise concerns — if not for reasons of etiquette and old - fashioned customer satisfaction, than for public health.

«We know that guests are increasingly seeking plant - based proteins for personal health reasons and / or to reduce their environmental impact,» said Sara Burnett, Panera's director of wellness and food policy, in the release.

The policy is not the only reason investment has fallen dramatically, but is a contributing factor, Prentice said in an interview as he urged the government to assess the impact of the changes.

The closest observers of trade politics and policy were mostly unmoved by Trump's negotiating list, however normal people might be surprised to learn that Canada's bankers have as much reason to fret as loggers and dairy farmers.

Officials believe that one reason for the increase in reporting at the academy in upstate New York may have been a change in the reporting policy and relocation of a victim assistance office.

First, the type of insurance required may not be relevant to your business or the engagement, so you have to spend money for no reason other than it's a policy and a cost of obtaining the business.

For that reason, organizations should give as much thought to the ethical content of their policies as they do to promulgating and enforcing them.

These all are reasons to leave policy unchanged, which the Bank of Canada appears set to do for at least the rest of the year.

Last month the head of the parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said Iran would block Telegram for reasons of national security.

«People really hate the GPS idea,» admits Robert Poole, director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation in Washington, D.C., and member of the Mileage - Based User Fees Alliance.

Speaking in Montreal on Thursday, central bank governor Stephen Poloz called household debt a major risk to the Canadian economy, suggesting the fear of stoking more borrowing as one reason he has not been even more dovish on interest rate policy.

It is for good reasons that we set up systems of laws or, in the corporate case, systems of policies, and empower and entrust qualified administrators to apply those laws and policies.

But those who have given this approach a try have grievously misunderstood the real reason Chinese regulations and policies keep their companies out of China or have hobbled their businesses inside the Middle Kingdom.

«Even if you think Cohn was misguided or mistaken on policy issues, everything he did as Director of the National Economic Council he did for the right reasons,» Cramer said.

Fiscal policies with an expiry date are part of the reason the economy has been expanding so slowly, says Stanford University economist Nicholas Bloom.

A recent report from Stack Overflow ranked the opportunity for professional development as one of the top five job benefits for developers, so offering this policy will help with recruiting and retention, which, in today's increasingly competitive market for talent, is almost reason enough.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

It's a policy solution that deserves more consideration, but for reasons made clear to me by my own experience as a flight attendant, one that might not be enough to arrest the fall of airline wages.

The reason Keynesianism got such a boost post-crisis was not for any real - world examples of its success — the list of its failures, by contrast, is lengthy — but because of the assertion, accepted far too quickly with far too little evidence, that monetary policy, at the fabled Zero Lower Bound (interest rates of near zero) had lost its effectiveness.

To the extent that dollar weakness reflects disproportionate improvement abroad, it undercuts claims that US policy is the reason for recent strong performance since Donald Trump is not president of the whole world.

Conservatives are often closer to pragmatic, irrational and authoritarian policies — which was one reason the late great free - market economist Friedrich Hayek wrote «Why I am not a conservative» as a postscript to his book The Constitution of Liberty.

All three of these reasons — evidence that U.S. monetary policy is currently only moderately accommodative, the fact that U.S. financial conditions have been influenced by economic and financial market developments abroad, and risk management considerations — argue, at the moment, for caution in raising U.S. short - term interest rates.

Environmental benefits of telecommuting are a reason that companies should incorporate telecommuting and flextime into their environmental policies.

The first - and most obvious - reason is that the exit will start from a point of extraordinary policy accommodation, and will involve gradually reducing the amount of stimulus in place, as opposed to initiating a rapid and severe policy tightening.

A second reason for the downward adjustment in U.S. interest rate expectations is that U.S. financial market conditions depend, in part, on the stance of U.S. monetary policy relative to monetary policies abroad.

In addition to the aforementioned reasons (to finance governmental spending and make up for lost tax revenue), the Treasury has wanted to hold a more robust cash - balance position as a matter of prudent policy in order to protect against a potential interruption in market access.

For this reason, the standard amount of liability protection in most insurance policies might not be adequate.

There are of course policy options open to the government to strengthen growth and job creation, but they are not ones this government could accept for ideological reasons.

«One of the reasons to wait is to find out do we get uncertainty in the market about future economic policy and does that create a correction in the equity market and slow down business engagement?»

To put it another more understandable way these two families have completely different standards of living and if so there is no public policy reason why they should face similar tax rates.

But the current economic climate is challenging for several reasons, including the mop - up project in the wake of the extraordinary policy decisions over the last decade.

The Board recommends a vote against each of the following shareholder proposals based on broader policy reasons as set forth in Walmart's statements in opposition following each shareholder proposal.

Now this is actually one of my favourite graphs, and the reason for this is that it's really useful in debunking what I think is one of the biggest myths around monetary policy.