It is anticipated that these changes will urgently address the disproportionate impact that penalties for unauthorised driving and fine default licensing sanctions have
on vulnerable sectors of the community.
The RCMP direction
on vulnerable sector checks specifies that these checks (and checks involving records protected by the Youth Criminal Justice Act) must not be provided through commercial services providers.
Not exact matches
Although softness has been reported across much of the retail
sector, the department store set is particularly
vulnerable because it relies heavily
on dwindling mall traffic, and tends to cater to middle - income consumers.
«Ever fewer checks
on executive power will leave the private
sector vulnerable to political whims.»
However, industry insiders and market participants warn of risks in the
sector, saying that many biotechs are reliant
on a handful of early - stage new drugs, making them
vulnerable if one fails.
The concentration in New York City and focus
on the healthcare segment in their commercial loan portfolio leaves it
vulnerable to geographic and
sector downturns.
With Russian buyers dominating the holiday homes market
on Bulgaria's East Coast, the
sector is
vulnerable to foreign policy events and global economic trends, market experts fear
Eroding pension plans by shifting risk onto
vulnerable employees and retirees with limited ability to absorb income cuts is quite in keeping with the Harper government's determination to lower the boom
on public
sector workers and improve the profitability of their corporate friends in the private
sector.
Based
on 20 years of global data and nearly 90 years of US data, the energy
sector has never been cheaper
on price - to - book multiples than it was at the end of 2015.1 The skeptics» response to these compelling headline valuations tends to be suspicion of book values, which indeed are likely overstated in some instances and
vulnerable to further impairment.
The country's banking
sector is
vulnerable, however, because of its heavy reliance
on wholesale funding, Tuvey says, «There have been large deposit withdrawals, and credit growth will remain weak after having been the main driver of economic growth.»
However, cotton, like almonds, is highly reliant
on irrigated water, making the
sector vulnerable to drought and rising water prices as well as political stoushes, as is occurring currently in the Federal parliament over the next stage of the Murray Darling Basin irrigation plan.
The Government was today condemned for its «economically sadistic» policies which wreak misery
on the most
vulnerable sectors of society and drive millions into poverty.
But instead of attacking the government
on this, some have argued that in order to be electable we need to help them deflect the blame onto a
sector of the British population which includes some of the most marginalised and
vulnerable members of society.
Nick Clegg acknowledged Northern Ireland's reliance
on public
sector jobs makes it especially
vulnerable to spending cuts in a speech in the province last night.
Casualties of the Chancellor's budget The battles lines have been drawn in the government's first budget, and public
sector workers, the vital services they provide, and the poor, sick and
vulnerable people who depend
on them, are in the firing line, writes Dave Prentis, general secretary of UNISON, for Channel 4 News.
Governor Ambode, who led a symbolic walk against Domestic and Sexual Violence in Alausa, Ikeja, with top government functionaries including the Deputy Governor, Dr. Oluranti Adebule, Chief Judge of the State, Justice Olufunmilayo Oke, wife of the Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, Attorney General, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, members of the State Executive Council, members of the House of Assembly, stakeholders in the justice
sector, celebrities, students, among others, said it was time to walk the talk and ensure that all hands are
on deck towards safeguarding the rights of every citizen and the most
vulnerable in the society.
Criticising the government's decision to tackle the deficit through cutting back
on public spending, Mr Barber's alternative Plan B would tax higher earners more rather than targeting «the poorest and most
vulnerable,» which, he argues, is what the current public
sector cuts are doing.
According to the report, this One Health approach to eliminating rabies deaths, with collaboration between the human and animal health
sectors, can save many lives and significantly reduce the burden
on vulnerable economies.
In addition, the report goes
on to say that «as mental ill health in young people rises, and more children are subject to interaction with social care services each year, more
vulnerable children spill into the alternative provision (AP)
sector».
This column focuses
on four areas in which the charter
sector is driving innovation through progressive practices: committing to college success, rethinking student discipline, increasing teacher diversity, and supporting
vulnerable populations.
Teachers are particularly
vulnerable at a time when so few private
sector workers have union benefits, and when there's so little political will for improving education by spending more
on it.
Focus too heavily
on dividend stocks,
on the other hand, and you may end up with shares of companies concentrated in just a few industries, leaving you
vulnerable if those
sectors falter.
On the other hand, if you work in manufacturing, the media or the financial
sector, you may be
vulnerable.
Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting
vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic
sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs
on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;
Prior to joining UCS in 2005, Ms. Spanger - Siegfried was an associate scientist at the U.S. Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute, where for six years her work focused
on understanding and building the adaptive capacity of
vulnerable populations and
sectors in developing countries in response to climate change.
Shifts towards water - lean renewables and energy efficiency in recent years have helped to decouple the dependence of the state's power
sector on water sources, making us less
vulnerable to the drought - induced disruptions that are plaguing power systems around the world.
On the other hand, at a more detailed scale, from a small region to a small country, many specific localities,
sectors and societies can be highly
vulnerable, at least to possible low - probability / high - consequence impacts; and potential impacts can amount to very severe damages.
The first of the TAR chapters (Chapter 7) was largely devoted to impact issues for human settlements, concluding that settlements are
vulnerable to effects of climate change in three major ways: through economic
sectors affected by changes in input resource productivity or market demands for goods and services, through impacts
on certain physical infrastructures, and through impacts of weather and extreme events
on the health of populations.
The same declaration and «potential match» system will now apply to
vulnerable sector searches, but the RCMP has also brought in a new process to make
vulnerable sector searches more rigorous based
on concerns about false negative reports.
Based
on this concern, to complete a
vulnerable sector check the RCMP now requires CPIC agencies to check the name, date of birth and declared information for a match (search criteria 1) and also check a repository of pardoned sex offender records for a gender and date of birth match (search criteria 2).
A «
vulnerable sector» check identifies whether an individual has been granted a pardon for certain specified sexual offences, but is only available to organizations hiring individuals to care for children and
vulnerable persons based
on restrictions in the Criminal Records Act.
In 2018 and 2019, particular emphasis will be placed
on sectors with
vulnerable workers, including new and young workers, and temporary help, as well as
sectors with a history of low compliance.
Vulnerable Sector Checks will include information on a criminal record check as well as any record suspensions or pardons for sexual offences, and local police records for information relevant to the vulnerable sector check (generally sexual offences or offences viewed as targeting vulnerable ind
Vulnerable Sector Checks will include information
on a criminal record check as well as any record suspensions or pardons for sexual offences, and local police records for information relevant to the
vulnerable sector check (generally sexual offences or offences viewed as targeting vulnerable ind
vulnerable sector check (generally sexual offences or offences viewed as targeting
vulnerable ind
vulnerable individuals).
Dr Bickerdike said RAV had responded well to
sector reform, which would see a greater focus
on delivering services to Indigenous, disadvantaged and
vulnerable clients.