Sentences with phrase «pay practices from»

Companies like Rent the Runway, the online rental service founded and run by women, had equal pay practices from the get - go when it launched in 2009.

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Meanwhile, earlier this week, BuzzFeed wrote about a practice in which it claims a growing number of businesses are paying Facebook to promote positive news stories from publishers as sponsored posts.

A Canadian Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC)-- it might be a doctor's practice, or a farm, or a restaurant — pays about 15 per cent tax on profits from its main business line.

«Talking to coal exporters there, «Greed & fear» hears that demand from China for coal is strong while, interestingly, in stark contrast to past practice, China SOE steel producers now pay on time.»

The crux of the act is simply this: illegal wage bias (based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability) occurs «when a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice is adopted, when a person becomes subject to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, or when a person is affected by application of a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, including each time wages, benefits, or other compensation is paid, resulting in whole or in part from such a decision or other practice.»

Pay equity practices come from a combination of payroll audits, committed leadership and policies that promote equality and diversity in the workplace.

Short - selling is the practice of borrowing stock and selling it at the current market price but paying for it later, on the expectation that the price will fall; it's a way of profiting from a stock's decline.

The company is already paying a price for its practices in London, where the company was banned from operating due to safety and regulatory concerns.

I'm grateful to have so quickly formed a friendship that's been so equally fun and productive, all the more for having started from a creative interaction in [where we met] that, had we not paid attention to some amount of clicking, might not have started, or even gotten to practicing storytelling in a Japanese bookstore.

The rule is intended to discourage brokers and other financial professionals from putting retirement - plan assets into products that pay high commissions or profit - sharing compensation to the brokers — a practice that's currently legal as long as the investments can be portrayed as «suitable» for the customer.

Therefore, it's time for employers to dust off the playbook from the economic growth years and pay attention to compensation practices that retain talent,» said Rusty Rueff, Glassdoor career and workplace expert.

Most U.S. corporations however have policies that strongly discourage or outright prohibit reliance on this exception, paying heed to recommendations from U.S. enforcement authorities that have very strongly discouraged this practice.

The hip - hop mogul, whose given name is Shawn Carter, is the target of a Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement subpoena after failing to testify as part of an agency investigation of accounting practices at Iconix Brand Group Inc., which paid $ 200 million to acquire assets from his Rocawear apparel brand in 2007.

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

Mr Giuliani also revealed what legal analysts say might be tantalising leads for investigators, who already were exploring Mr Cohen's business practices and whether any crimes may have been committed as part of a pattern or strategy of paying hush money to keep damaging stories about Mr Trump from appearing when he was a candidate, according to people familiar with the matter.

On January 4th 2016, JPMC entered into a consent order with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to pay a $ 48 million fine for its violations of a 2011 consent order with the OCC arising from its «robosigning» of loan documents and other unsafe and unsound banking practices.

If cash flow has been flowing less than you'd prefer, here are a few of Durand's suggestions for amping it up: Establish regular invoicing procedures (and to boost cash flow, consider switching from a monthly invoicing cycle to a biweekly invoicing practice); offer incentives to customers for paying invoices early, such as small percentages off; and finally, don't let past - due invoices fester.

Shareholder resolutions have seen rising support on key issues ranging from governance practices to climate change to pay equity, and the recent expansion of proxy access provides long - term investors with an opportunity to shape the board itself.

The hip - hop mogul is the target of a SEC enforcement subpoena after failing to testify as part of an agency investigation of accounting practices at Iconix Brand Group Inc., which paid $ 200 M to acquire assets from his Rocawear apparel brand in 2007.

Though we pay liturgical lip - service to the old dialectic, and still nominally observe Lent, in practice all our time now has become «ordinary time,» and there is nothing in this respect to distinguish Catholics from anyone else.

«Again, respect of persons, in uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of the world, introduced by the spirit of the world, instead of the true honor which this is a false representation of, and used in deceit as a token of respect by persons one to another, who bear no real respect one to another; and besides this, being a type and a proper emblem of that divine honor which all ought to pay to Almighty God, and which all of all sorts, who take upon them the Christian name, appear in when they offer their prayers to him, and therefore should not be given to men; - I found this to be one of those evils which I had been too long doing; therefore I was now required to put it away and cease from it.

Panels and speakers will focus on topics ranging from a roadmap to closing the gender pay gap, the business incentive for why gender diversity and inclusion is good for the bottom line, best practices for starting or maintaining a mentorship program and succession planning, professional and personal development, how to navigate a career in the alcohol beverage industry and a look at what is to come for women in the industry.

IN HER OWN WORDS: «We had a lot of losses from last year's team, but practice has been paying off for us so far because we've been working really hard.

«I would just find something to throw up on [the sheet listing groups for batting practice] just to see who was paying attention,» says Hurdle, who digs up the quotes from reference books he keeps in his office.

We recommend that scientists and citizens step back from and reexamine these common culturally accepted practices and pay attention to potential life - time effects on people.

The study explores different perspectives on paternity leave, including a survey of more than 1,000 fathers from nearly 300 different organizations (primarily well - educated professionals); a benchmarking study of paternity leave policies at leading organizations; and a review of global paternity leave policies and practices, as well as U.S. states that have enacted laws to provide paid parental leave.

§ 378 - 2 provides that it is unlawful discriminatory practice for any employer or labor organization to refuse to hire or employ, bar or discharge from employment, withhold pay from, demote or penalize a lactating employee because an employee breastfeeds or expresses milk at the workplace.

In practice, the actual expenses are likely to give a more preferable result so the business pays tax on its actual profits in full with no benefit from the rent - a-room limit.

In practice, in 2013 USA, unrestricted immigration is a net net minus to overall freedom, because it detracts from the freedom of people who would be forced to pay for those immigrants.

The first step, the governor said, was to sue to upend a new tax law that restricts individuals» ability to deduct from federal taxes the amount they pay in state and local property taxes, ending standard tax - code practice.

At least three agency commissioners hosted campaign events for the mayor, including Mark Peters, the head of the Department of Investigation who recently recused himself from a federal pay - to - play probe of the mayor's fundraising practices.

There's the Affordable Care Act, Thawed Cuba - American relations, the economy has shown steady growth with unemployment under 5 % for the first time in 8 years, the Iranian Nuclear treaty, same sex marriage, GM is alive and Bin - Laden's dead, updated the Fair Labor Standards act so people get paid for overtime hours... again, Dodd - Frank Wall St reforms, the CARD act to protect credit card users from unfair charges and business practices, etc etc..

The Campaign Finance Board declined to comment on the legality of the practice, but pointed to a press release from last month announcing penalties for Ms. Cumbo, now a councilwoman, and Councilman Mark Levine — penalties that resulted from the Advance Group failing to disentangle the operation of their council campaigns from the supposedly independent operations that NYCLASS paid the Advance Group to do on behalf of the two candidates.

Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat from lower Manhattan, confirmed to reporters on Thursday that he has been practicing law as his own man and then refused, in the next breath, to name any of the clients who paid him at least $ 650,000 in 2013.

Much of the hysteria about this measure from Conservative MPs and within the right wing press has painted a misleading picture regarding both how capital gains tax works in practice and who pays it.

New York's Public Officers Law bans former government officials from appearing before the state agencies where they worked for two years in a paid capacity, and also says state employees can not ever practice, appear before or ever even «communicate» with those agencies on matters over which they were «directly concerned» during their state employment, or which were under their «active consideration.»

Resource issues aside, volunteers must be better protected by equal opportunities policies and practice, and volunteer experience should be given parity with that arising from paid work.»

It's hard to step away from the emotion on these occasions, but there are some arguing AGAINST the practice of paying tribute to the fallen at the start of PMQs.

And Mr. Bloomberg would forbid all new employees to benefit from a time - honored practice: adding hundreds of hours of overtime at the end of their careers to balloon their final year's pay and their pensions.

Last week, Deputy Chief Michael Harrington, Chief David Colon and Deputy Inspector James Grant jumped from the NYPD ship after Police Commissioner Bill Bratton predicted that arrests were likely to stem from the sprawling federal investigation that includes pay - for - favors activities at the NYPD and Mayor Bill de Blasio's various fundraising practices.

Adopting salary history blind practices and requiring gender and pay reports from all state contractors sends the correct message that pay equity is top priority.

It's a standard practice for state parties, which get reduced preferential postage rates from the U.S. Postal Service, to pay for mailers on behalf of candidates and campaigns.

Asked whether Silver should have named a law firm that was paying him big bucks — money that originated from Glenwood and other landlords — she answered: «You would only need to list the income as «law practice.

Parents and advocates from the Shuang Wen School / PS 184M — which the DOE is investigating for its paid after - school program and enrollment practices, among other issues — announced a federal lawsuit against the department and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott at a press conference Monday outside the agency's Chambers Street headquarters.

Also, state regulators should crack down hard on the kind of shenanigans practiced by Democrats when they paid for a mailing touting Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's candidacy with money from their federal account — much of it supplied by state contractors, who are forbidden to contribute directly to state campaigns.

And to push her metaphor further, you might say that she pays close attention to her plumage: Her dresses come from Milan, and she perches on stiletto heels day and night, whether relaxing at home, practicing salsa, or striding across the medieval flagstones of Cambridge at a breakneck speed.

In October, 200 science research teachers from across the country received an all - expense - paid weekend to share best practices at the 2017 Research Teachers Conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Regeneron.

But a new study from an MIT professor reveals an economic tension underneath this practice: Migrants who hang on to their old cuisines often pay more to eat, because they tend to move to places where their familiar foods are more expensive.

It is scandalous that any profession should indulge in a restrictive practice which, in the interests of a privileged cadre, prevents some of its competent members from exercising their much - needed talents, and denies the nation the fruits of costly apprenticeships for which it has had to pay good money.

Consequently, importers may wish to pay more for products from high - GDP countries, or work closely with suppliers from low - GDP countries to ensure good safety practices.»