Sentences with phrase «of work policy»

Creative and effective intervention requires sensitivity, open mindedness, and a desire to resolve conflict for the benefit of the common good, and should be part of the work policy.

A labor - management committee should be established to negotiate a set a of work policy reforms to reduce overtime as part of the next round of collective bargaining.

«Research shows women in our country often lose out financially and in career advancement once they become a parent — because the U.S. does not have the type of work policies to properly support families and child care, like other developed nations,» said Glass.

Not exact matches

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).

Tightening of monetary policy meant to cool the housing market over the past year, combined with a wind - down in public works, has served to slow GDP growth into the single digits.

Alex Ferguson, vice-president of policy and performance at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said industry supports ongoing efforts to reduce methane emissions, but that they will take a lot of hard work to accomplish.

But in the wake of the #MeToo movement and sexual harassment allegations that have come to light across multiple industries over the past several months, it's on every company to assess whether their HR policies in this arena make it possible for everyone to feel safe at work.

«In light of recent executive orders in the United States regarding immigration policy, we want every one of you to know of our unwavering commitment to the dedicated people working here at JPMorgan Chase,» the memo from the bank's operating committee reads.

This is yet another example of a lazy policy that avoids the hard and necessary work of evaluating each individual objectively, based on his or her merits.

Last March, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced the formation of a «sharing economy» working group, which would «bring together City Departments, neighborhood and community stakeholders and sharing economy companies to... explore policy alternatives and legislation to modernize those laws and / or address emerging impacts and issues.»

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.

They're on top of sales operations, which means everything hiring salespeople, defining policies and procedures, building relationships with clients, and working with marketing to boost those numbers.

Agents may be «captive,» working for one insurance carrier, or independent and writing policies on behalf of many companies.

These are the words of people who think their policy is working.

When they didn't work, the narrative of the policy community — unsubstantiated by any facts — was to say Canadians have a lack of fire in the belly.

«This is an extremely generous benefit, and while it's fantastic for the women who work there, I don't know how feasible it is going to be for the majority of industries to do something to this extent,» said Alina Salganicoff, vice-president and director of women's health policy for Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit that researches health care issues.

Robbie Rietbroek, Chief Executive of PepsiCo introduced a policy to counteract the moth culture and ensure flexibility for both men and women in the work place.

(The Bank of Canada assumes they will converge in the future, but that is based on the assumption monetary policy works as it always did.

Much of good security work takes place in the weeds — techniques like multi-factor authentication and policy - based data management that would put you to sleep if I explained them here — but the more time IT pros can devote to these tasks, the safer our systems will be.

Prior to that role, he worked on CNBC's assignment desk, collaborating with the network's reporters to cover international macroeconomics, trade policy, politics, and the intersection of media and technology.

While some of these trends were already happening before the imposition of the carbon tax and are not unique to B.C., the policy is widely supported and appears to be working in concert with other societal changes.

Before you can oversee the implementation of public policy, you have to get your feet wet by getting hired into the field of public administration and working directly with policy issues.

Certainly, Tillerson has committed billions of Exxon shareholders» money to Russia, and even if he cuts his own financial ties to the company, it will be hard for him to pursue any kind of foreign policy that undoes much of his life's work.

They're in charge of hiring, establishing policies and procedures, directing client relationship - building, and working closely with marketing to communicate messages externally.

Whether it's flex time, work - from - home policies or ongoing education programs, there's plenty of evidence that more soft - edged approaches to managing your employees time can pay off big time for increased productivity and retention.

«The commercialization of LEO (low Earth orbit) is an exciting prospect, but it will be an exercise in determining what ideas are more real than others,» said Phil Larson, a former space policy adviser to President Barack Obama who worked for Elon Musk's SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corp..

Harvard's Czeisler recommends developing corporate policies around sleep, with scheduled work limited to no more than 12 hours a day, and at least 11 consecutive hours of rest in every 24 - hour period.

This policy is in place so employees work for the respect of their peers, not just their boss.

But they did leave those of us who prefer to be guided by research with a natural experiment of what could be wrought by a sub-optimal policy mix.

Those who take the «mommy track» might make far different choices living somewhere with policies and a business culture supportive of working parents, such as Sweden or Canada.

These two Googlers wanted to show the world what it's like working for the technology giant, so they took advantage of Google's 20 percent time policy (ergo the name), which allows employees to work on side projects up to one day a week.

I have done a lot of policy work in the last few years on a national and international level.

According to Bloomberg, Tim Leissner, once the chairman of Goldman's operation in Southeast Asia and husband of former U.S. model and designer Kimora Lee Simmons, resigned in January after bank investigators found he allegedly violated firm policies, but continued to work for the bank until Feb. 23, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Hansen's seminal work essentially updated an important theory of statistical modeling from the late 1800s, called the Method of Moments, allowing it to be used more accurately for things like setting monetary policy.

A code of business ethics usually doesn't stand alone, it works in conjunction with a company's mission statement and more specific policies about conduct to give employees, partners, vendors, and outsiders an idea of what the company stands for and how it's members should conduct themselves.

«It's a farce to claim to be offering «free college» to employees when what's being offered is simply the chance to pursue a degree at one specific university, only online, only if you enroll full time and work at least 20 hours a week,» Dr. Sara Goldrick - Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, told Think Progress.

But he said Trans Mountain may be a federal policy that «shoots Canada in the foot» and reverses some of the work the province has done.

The U.S. government has done a lot policy and emergency services [work] on Mesh networking, of which I have been a huge champion for years, and I have done a lot of work in Washington pushing that forward.

What seems clear is that expanding bank credit through quantitative easing policies of funneling trillions of dollars into banks isn't working.

Parenting will always be a challenge in the life of any ambitious entrepreneur and / or business leader, and there are many ways to raise a child: with hired help, with the support of extended family or working for a company with generous family policies that allow for flexible work hours and parental leave.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, policy makers were unsure whether measures like these would work.

He said the federal policy response to the demographic crunch of more retired and few working - age Canadians can't be merely incremental.

«To the degree that Mr. Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him,» Sanders wrote in conclusion.

A «comprehensive review» is under way that has «accelerated» in recent days, Brittin said, adding the company had invested «millions» and has thousands of people who work on policies, controls, and enforcement to ensure bad ads — or bad ad placements — don't make it into the system.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

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.»

Instead, she said the Fed simply wants to make sure it stays ahead of inflation, noting that monetary policy works with a lag.

«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.

Most of the CEOs believe Canada's foreign ownership policies are uncoordinated and need to be re-examined, although 29 % of the respondents say the country's rules tend to work well in their current form.