Sentences with phrase «own ombudsperson»

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.

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

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

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

To re-establish trust with its uses, Facebook should consider appointing a data ombudsperson and establishing a group outside the company that have unfettered access to Facebook data and employees to ensure that Facebook is now, finally, honoring its commitments to users, and this group should periodically report its findings on Facebook's compliance.»

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.

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:

«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.

«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.

«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.

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

Many universities have ombudspersons that are obliged to maintain confidentiality.

An ombudsperson can inform international scholars about the types of complaints they can file and the different offices they can approach, both on campus, such as the human resources department, and outside of the school, such as a state antidiscrimination commission.

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.

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.

«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.

If there are any concerns about retribution or bias, the ombudsperson provides both student and faculty member with confidentiality and an unbiased position.»

They even caught one raven in the act that was pecking at the ice — likely to slurp up the bird equivalent of a slushy, Beverly Berger, a physicist and ombudsperson of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, said at the conference, according to Science News.

He also created an ombudsperson to listen to outside complaints and a resource database for teachers.

Meet the only public school ombudsperson in Minnesota: St. Paul's Dana Abrams minnpost.com/education/2017...

NDP: Update the Consumer Protection Act to cap ATM fees at a maximum of 50 cents per withdrawal; ensure all Canadians have reasonable access to a no - frills credit card with an interest rate no more than 5 % over prime; eliminate «pay - to - pay» by banks in which financial institutions charge their customers a fee for making payments on their mortgages, credit cards, or other loans; take action against abusive payday lenders; lower the fees that workers in Canada are forced to pay when sending money to their families abroad; direct the CRTC to crack down on excessive mobile roaming charges; create a Gasoline Ombudsperson to investigate complaints about practices in the gasoline market.

to negotiate a new agreement to protect oceans, approve an annual state of the planet report, set up a major world agency for the environment, and appoint a global «ombudsperson», or high commissioner, for future generations.

Fast forward almost eleven years: On 5 October 2012, the Security Council removed Mr Kadi from the UN list, «after concluding its consideration of the delisting request submitted by this individual through the Ombudsperson».

The European Commission and the U.S. notably agreed on additional clarifications on bulk collection of data, strengthening the Ombudsperson mechanism, and more explicit obligations on companies as regards limits on retention and onward transfers.

Please note that filing an Ombudsperson complaint is not a substitute for judicial review and does not stop your deadline for judicial review.

The Ombudsperson can not investigate your case if you simply disagree with the outcome.

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.

The Government and Council should consider an Ombudsperson for EU sanctions, similar to the role of the UN Ombudsperson for the Al Qaida Sanctions Committee, to improve the fairness of the sanctions listing procedure.

Others have added an ombudsperson (usually an outside contractor, not a law society employee) to provide neutral and confidential assistance to lawyers, articling students, and support staff who want help resolving complaints of discrimination or harassment.

The EU only delisted him after he was removed from the UN list following the recommendation of the Ombudsperson.

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.

Under the proposed Privacy Shield, the U.S. will implement an ombudsperson mechanism through which the ombudsperson will handle complaints of EU individuals regarding unauthorized access of their personal information by national intelligence authorities.

While clear - cut cause and effect will be hard to establish, as a matter of fact it was request lodged with the Ombudsperson — an institution that was set up for no other reason than to respond to fundamental rights and accountability concerns — whose report then legally paved the way for Mr Kadi's de-listing at he UN.

For those reasons at least, the creation of the focal point and the Office of the Ombudsperson can not be equated with the provision of an effective judicial procedure for review of decisions of the Sanctions Committee -LSB-...].»

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.

Lack of independence of the ombudsperson.

BC has introduced legislation to change to «ombudsperson ``.

You can't have an «Ombudsperson» — «person» is clearly sexist — it has to be an «Ombudsperoffspring».

It will give you an overview of the different options available besides judicial review, such as negotiating with the other party or filing a complaint with the ombudsperson.

Just last week, Raymonde Saint - Germain, Quebec's ombudsperson, released a scathing report on the treatment of Inuit people in the Quebec justice system.

«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...»

The ombudsperson takes into account the unique perspectives of Indigenous women and addresses the particular impacts of resource extraction on women.

Residential Tenancy Branch Ombudsperson Complaint Kit: This kit is designed to help you file a complaint with the BC Ombudsperson's Office if you feel that you have experienced unfairness at the Residential Tenancy Branch.

On the American side, a new ombudsperson will be created to handle complaints on possible access by national intelligence authorities.

Associate Ombudspersons.