Sentences with phrase «on voting changes»

Shervin Pishevar, one of Kalanick's closest allies and a former board observer at the company, previously had promised a lawsuit for tens of billions of dollars should the proposal on voting changes be approved.

The latest YouGov polling shows support for the Alternative Vote in a referendum on voting change dropping to 39 %, just one point ahead of... (Comments: 0)

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Thomas added that Ripple's own digital currency, known as XRP, is less vulnerable to forks or unpredictable changes because, unlike bitcoin, it relies on voting measures that favor users more than miners.

All politics aside, changes in the minimum wage have effects on all businesses, large and small, whether you voted for them or not.

Even the «skinny» bill that was the Senate's final vote on Friday morning didn't make any major changes to Medicaid.

Almost two thirds of ExxonMobil shareholders voted in favour of a motion asking the company to report on the impacts of climate change.

A Republican National Convention delegate screams as the Chair announces that the convention will not hold a roll - call vote on the Republican National Convention Rules Committee's report and rules changes and rejects the efforts of anti-Trump forces to hold such a vote.

On the agenda are proposals by new Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi to change requirements for board seats and to overhaul the shareholder voting structure.

«What has changed is that while there used to be a modicum of congressional bargaining across major policy developments, the party in power now tries to pass legislation on straight party - line votes,» says Mr. Jillson.

Uber directors on Tuesday voted to allow Japan's SoftBank to invest in the ride services company and approved a series of governance changes that increases the independence of the board and decreases the influence of former CEO Travis Kalanick.

The committee previously voted not to release the Democratic memo, but some Republicans on the committee have apparently had a change of heart.

Critics complain «say on pay» votes are ineffectual because boards aren't bound to the results, but of the 53 U.S. companies for whom shareholders rejected compensation plans in 2012, 45 made changes and got positive votes the following year, according to Institutional Shareholder Services.

Now local legislatures can make such changes without explanation, and it's up to voters to try to challenge them in lawsuits, and to do so often on an tight timetable, since courts won't want to change voting rules close to an election.

The government wasn't responsible for most of these changes, of course, but votes on free - trade agreements are an easy target for blame.

Please vote on the answer below that best captures your viewpoint on REI's policy change.

The legislation could be changed and shift the political ground once more — but GOP leadership's ambitious goal of voting on a bill before the July 4th Congressional recess just became a lot harder to achieve.

But when shareholders vote down a pay package, companies will often sit down with major shareholders — which in Cheniere's case includes Soroban Capital Partners and PointState Capital — and consult with them on how to change their pay practices.

The startup fundraising landscape saw its most significant change in eight decades when the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to lift the ban on general solicitation, a move which allows entrepreneurs to tell potential investors that they are seeking funding for their companies.

They were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote, but they were also protesting the limits and expectations placed on American womanhood, demanding changes to childcare and abortion policies and education and employment opportunities.

What makes Return on Change different is its voting process.

The activist fund has since then built up a 9 percent stake and is asking for changes at the board at a shareholders vote on April 24.

Senate legislation on climate change is still being drafted, and a vote is not going to occur at least until April.

California's government agency responsible for maintaining healthy air quality voted on Friday to adopt stricter emissions standards for automobiles, essentially daring President Donald Trump to confront the state in a legal battle over climate change.

Change to Win Investment Group had recommended a no vote on E&Y at the firm's annual meeting this year.

With the entire House on next year's ballot — and about one - third of the U.S. Senate up for a vote, too — the stakes are high for those in the Bay Area who seek to erode the GOP's control of Congress and erect a new bulwark against Trump's agenda in areas like immigration and climate change.

Spiker noted that, for now at least, the report's findings are merely suggestions, and that the RNC would have to vote on any specific changes to the primary process.

Bogle sees some positive changes in investment managers voting on behalf of their clients» interests, but it is «moving with glacial speed,» he told me, because fund managers «don't like controversy.»

Bitcoin hosts («miners») essentially «vote» on any system changes by choosing what software to run.

When the time came to vote on the changes to domestic violence legislation, the thought of looking into her fellow deputies» eyes made Pushkina physically ill.

However, on Wednesday the Senate Public Utilities Committee canceled plans to send Senate Bill 58 to the floor for a full chamber vote at least until next year over concerns about the effects of the bill's proposed changes.

«I don't believe they got into changing actual voting outcomes,» Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in interview with USA TODAY's Susan Page.

In this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere on Mars, voting on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics vs. engineering, Edison vs. Tesla, solar power, a carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ages.

Instead, the «miners» that run Bitcoin's servers essentially vote on any proposed changes.

When people think about a cyber attack on election day they are most likely to think of hacking into voting machines and changing the results of an election.

If you are a beneficial holder and do not provide specific voting instructions to your broker, under a recent rule change the organization that holds your shares will not be authorized to vote on the election of directors.

At a special General Meeting held on Jan. 15, 2016, our Members voted overwhelmingly to change our organization's name to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

You may change your vote at any time prior to the vote at the annual meeting, except that any change to your voting instructions for the HP 401 (k) Plan must be provided by 11:59 p.m., Eastern time, on March 20, 2011 as described above.

Though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reneged on his promise to change the country's voting system before 2019, his government didn't totally walk away from electoral reform.

Unlike the Public Accounts, the Estimates have changed very little over time, even though the Estimates provide the details of the spending requests by departments and agencies, which parliamentary committees review and Parliament votes on.

In a secret ballot on 23 June 2015, Yindjibarndi people throughout the State voted by an overwhelming two - thirds majority for change in the management and leadership of Yindjibarndi Native Title business.

The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm attorney Jay Clayton to head the SEC, a change in leadership that could prompt a change in tack by the agency through which investment products come to market.

Speaking to 1,000 people at the sold out conference, Broadbent called on delegates to seize this «once - in - a-generation opportunity for progressive change, an opportunity to ensure we have a fair voting system in which every voter counts, in which every citizen has a real opportunity to elect a candidate according to his or her values.

Such a change would reduce its influence, leaving it with a role in monetary affairs similar to that of other regional Fed banks, most of which only have a vote on policy every three years.

Just prior to Mr. Porter's lecture, I had the honour of standing on stage in front of more than 600 business leaders to unveil our new logo, which we have been working on since our Members voted overwhelmingly to change our name back in January.

The four pillars are: timing of the tabling of the Main Estimates; the scope and accounting methods used in the Estimates and the Budget; changes to the current vote structure; and changes to the Reports on Plans and Priorities and the Departmental Performance Reports.

JLR said its long - term investment strategy has not changed as a result of the vote but the firm would now have to think again after Britons backed leaving the European Union on June 23.

As a result of changes adopted by the NYSE to its broker voting rules, including changes mandated by the Dodd - Frank Act in connection with stockholder votes on executive compensation matters, the NYSE does not consider the election of directors (Item 1), the advisory resolution regarding named executives» compensation (Item 2), and the advisory proposal on the frequency of future advisory votes regarding named executives» compensation (Item 3) to be routine.

The ECB's monetary policy in September was a non-event, with the governing council neither making any changes to the existing policy nor adding new ones as they voted to leave interest rates and non-monetary policies on hold.

A shareholder meeting will be held in Toronto on March 9, 2018 to vote on the name change.

This finding — that Liberal - and NDP - voting business owners are more on - board than not with changes to income sprinkling rules — suggests that this specific change may not be a crisis for the federal government in the way some have characterized these changes overall.