Sentences with word «ombudsperson»

Panel members Judge Carena Roller of Manitoba's Provincial Court, Dean Lorna Turnbull of University of Manitoba's Law School, Brenlee Carrington - Trepel, Equity Ombudsperson for the Law Society of Manitoba, and Allison Fenske of Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP, noted progress has been made in a number of areas:

There are eight tasks in all: stocking the kitchen with food and drinks, cleaning and organizing the dishes, maintaining the supply closet, sorting and distributing the mail, tidying the kitchen, overseeing the reception area, arranging and setting up the snack breaks, and acting as ombudsperson.

All lawyers should also be made aware of the confidential independent advice they can receive from their Law Society's Equity Ombudsperson who handles discrimination and harassment complaints.

Wilcox, ombudsperson at Harvard's Medical School, Dental School, and School of Public Health, says roughly a third of the people who contact her are students and fellows, but just as many faculty members call on her for help and guidance with professional and personal problems.

A senior lawyer in each of the firm's offices serves as Associate Ombudsperson to provide confidential advice to any associate upon request.

«We, the undersigned professors, call on the Canadian government to enact legislation to establish a credible and effective independent ombudsperson to investigate and hear complaints...»

Programmer Matt Taylor, the first ombudsperson, suddenly became the name on everyone's lips.

Now that Swift is the world's most effective corporate ombudsperson, who should she tackle next?

The Canadian government must also take concrete steps to ensure that people who are harmed by Canadian companies overseas have the opportunity to seek justice in Canada through a mining ombudsperson and access to Canadian courts.

Early in 2012, Ombudsperson Kim Carter released a scathing report into the state of seniors care in British Columbia.

The first is the creation of an independent Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), the first of its kind in the world.

Since then, reforms have «deemphasize [d] citation counts and empower [ed] ombudspersons to protect whistleblowers,» Schrank and Lee note, but the reforms «are new, and therefore unproven.»

Unlike other institutions, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory doesn't have a particular ombudsperson that everyone can go to.

Independent and completely confidential consultations also are available for general problems through the university ombudsperson, and for specific problems (e.g., sexual harassment, discrimination of any kind, psychological difficulties, health problems, etc.) through appropriate university offices.

While the working party liked the idea of the establishment of the U.S. ombudsperson to handle complaints, it still raised concerns that the new institution would not be sufficiently independent and is not vested with adequate powers to effectively exercise its duty.

The point here is simply that what finished the seemingly never - ending story of Mr Kadi's listing was not judicial intervention by the EU, but the UN Security Council responding to its own Ombudsperson.

Appoints a fully independent and resourced human rights ombudsperson with the power to investigate human and ecological rights violations at the hands of Canadian mining companies.

PIPEDA is a fairly tentative piece of legislation, giving only ombudsperson powers to the Privacy Commissioner, and favouring an approach that encourages compliance rather than mandating it.

«I already was clear in Spring with my partners in the US that we want to have the fully fledged ombudsperson in place soon,» she added.

In its ruling on the SCC issue, the Irish Court noted that a US ombudsperson position created under Privacy Shield to handle EU citizens complaints about companies» handling of their data is not enough to overcome what it described as «well founded concerns» raised by the DPC regarding the adequacy of the protections for EU citizens data.

The SPPS Ombudsperson listens to and investigates complaints against Saint Paul Public Schools, its programs, offices and staff.

«It's an amazing process,» says Linda Wilcox, who has been Ombudsperson for Harvard Medical School, Dental School, and School of Public Health for the last decade.

«We will demand that questions around the new Ombudsperson's connections to this issue in his past role at the Ministry of the Attorney General are dealt with so no perception of any conflict remains.

This program is similar to one offered in Manitoba since 2008 where female or male lawyers and their spouses or life partners can receive six confidential sessions with the Law Society Equity Ombudsperson.

Associate Ombudspersons.

Any disputes or questions go to the ombudsperson, who also handles miscellaneous tasks, such as changing lightbulbs and fixing the printer.

So far the Liberal government has failed to make changes that would really improve services for people with dementia such as appointing a fully independent seniors advocate or implementing the Ombudsperson's recommendations on seniors care.»

«Three years after the ombudsperson laid out more than 150 recommendations to fix the problems with senior's care in British Columbia, the advocate for seniors is reporting that the Liberal government continues to fail the elderly in this province,» said New Democrat leader John Horgan.

«The choice to ask the province's Ombudsperson to conduct the investigation is a positive step, but the political games Premier Clark has been playing on this issue for three years lead me to believe she's hoping the issue will disappear in obscure legislative procedures.

An update from the ombudsperson this month shows that 74 per cent of her recommendations have not been acted on.

VICTORIA — New Democrat leader John Horgan released the following statement in response to the government's request that the Standing Committee on Finance ask the Ombudsperson to conduct an investigation into the health firings scandal:

We will ensure that the Ombudsperson's terms of reference are as broad as they need to be, including answering the questions put forward by the fired workers themselves in a letter to the health minister.

«New Democrat members on the committee, led by committee vice-chair Carole James, will fight to make sure the terms of any investigation undertaken by the Ombudsperson will cover everything that happened, not just the parts around the edges the premier is willing to let the public see.

«New Democrats will demand that the committee, not the government, drafts the referral to the Ombudsperson, ensuring this review is thorough, open, and finally answers the questions that the families, the opposition, and the premier's hand picked reviewer said remained unanswered: Who ordered this firing, and why?»

«Three years after the ombudsperson laid out...

In the 38th Parliament (2005 - 2009) he served as Chair of the Legislature's Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts Committee, Deputy Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Education and Deputy Chair of the Special Committee to Appoint an Ombudsperson.

In our Ethics of Authorship feature, we asked a bench scientist, an ethicist, a journal editor, and an ombudsperson: What factors play a role in deciding the order of authors on a scientific paper?

Many universities have ombudspersons that are obliged to maintain confidentiality.

Merle Waxman, ombudsperson and director of the Office for Women in Medicine at Yale Medical School, says that a lot of problems stem from miscommunication, and in particular, e-mail often gets people into trouble.

At one time, Pharmacia & Upjohn, a pharmaceutical company in Kalamazoo, Michigan, had an ombudsperson, but the position was discontinued after Upjohn merged with Pharmacia, according to Elizabeth Clark, who retired after being the ombudsperson there for 12 years.