Sentences with phrase «pay practices in»

In Adobe's case, a third - party review of the company's pay practices in 2016 found U.S. - based female employees were paid $ 0.99 on the dollar of their male coworkers.

Not exact matches

Amazon (amzn) revamped its European tax practices in 2015 so that it can book sales and pay taxes in Britain, Germany, Spain, and Italy instead of channeling all sales through Luxembourg where it is headquartered, a move which may raise its tax bill.

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.

It's a goal that many in the corporate America get behind, or at least pay lip service to; but in practice, progress towards more balanced workforces in many sectors, and especially at senior management levels, has been slow.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) BRF employees paid bribes to regulators and politicians to subvert inspections in order to conceal unsanitary practices at the Company's meatpacking plants; (ii) the foregoing conduct, when it came to light, would foreseeably subject the Company and its officers to heightened regulatory enforcement and / or prosecution; and (iii) as a result of the foregoing, BRF's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

However, sustained engagement on issues of equity and inclusion, activities that place participants in the situations that oppressed people experience (what I call «addressing the empathy gap»), and setting goals — much like the one Starbucks envisioned a decade ago regarding pay equity — are some examples of evidence - based best practices.

«We are pleased the federal court in San Diego decided Qualcomm must establish the fair value of its technology and defend its business practices in court before forcing Apple and others to pay exorbitant and unfair rates, which amount to a tax on our own inventions,» Apple spokesman Josh Rosenstock said in a statement.

(Three - quarters of votes cast at the company's annual meeting in April went against Barrick's pay practices, and the company has vowed reform.)

At Google, an audit of their pay practices by the Department of Labor found «systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,» showing, one official has said, six to seven standard deviations between pay for men and women in nearly every job category.

Baker is known in particular for exposing unequal pay practices at her former employer Google with her release of staff salary data.

Coca - Cola should be the industry leader for best practices in corporate governance and pay practices; the 2014 Equity Plan clearly falls far short of this bar.»

«Canada has very little influence over the banking in other countries, and I don't think we should pay anything for their bad management practices,» said one respondent.

The rules are popular across the political spectrum, and even ISPs now have to pay lip service to an open Internet, even if what they mean in practice isn't net neutrality at all.

«Let the word go out to investors and hedge funds: We're paying attention to this practice,» McCaskill said in closing remarks.

«In 2014 and 2015, Medicare paid $ 1 million or more for drug - related tests billed by health professionals at more than 50 pain management practices across the U.S.,» they report.

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 system of separate chairs is well - installed there and the U.K. was far ahead of the U.S. in adopting practices like say on pay.

«A lot of these practices were investing $ 25,000 to $ 30,000 a month in pay - per - click advertising,» notes Betsy Kent, president of Be Visible Associates, an Internet marketing firm that works with Sinkin.

In 2017, Benioff said that, after inheriting the pay practices of 13 new companies they had acquired, Salesforce was spending an additional $ 3 million to ensure that it was eliminating any new pay disparities.

«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.»

When Clinton later suggested Trump might find new ways to avoid paying taxes — a practice Trump has bragged about in the past, saying «that makes me smart» — he took personal offense, calling her «such a nasty woman.»

In essence, he has lumped AT&T and Verizon's paid - for zero - rating policies in with T - Mobile's lower - cost program, then waved away altogether any concerns about the practicIn essence, he has lumped AT&T and Verizon's paid - for zero - rating policies in with T - Mobile's lower - cost program, then waved away altogether any concerns about the practicin with T - Mobile's lower - cost program, then waved away altogether any concerns about the practice.

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.»

It's different when you are out here in the working world trying to run your own law practice and pay frankly exorbitant taxes and deciding what you are going to do with your extra free work.

Given our increasingly elevated awareness of privacy issues, paying with your face may not become a widely - adopted practice — in the immediate future, anyway.

What Rideshare Guy head of operations and blogger Christian Perea noticed was that this practice could result in riders paying more than they expect, and not seeing what they pay transfer into the fee paid the driver.

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

With KPMG stepping up and paying Lewis in full, it could encourage her other sponsors to follow suit, and hopefully lead to it becoming standard practice across the sport of golf, as well as other sports where athletes compete as individual contractors, such as tennis.

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.

There are a number of ways businesses can alter their accounting practices in order to pay lower taxes in the short term.

When you see an accountant, a doctor, an engineer or a lawyer, that person has a rigorous code of professional practice with which he or she must comply, ongoing professional development obligations, a common body of knowledge as a barrier to entry, a body of peers that oversees any complaints or misconduct, and must pay an annual fee in order to practice.

Exxon board member Bill George led a National Association of Corporate Directors Blue Ribbon Commission on «Executive Compensation and the Role of the Compensation Committee,» which included recommendations such as not offering contracts to executives (giving the board more flexibility in how it deals with the CEO's pay and tenure), which is reflected in the pay practices at ExxonMobil.

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.

For better or worse, the practices Teneycke maligns are fairly standard in the industry, and don't directly explain why all subscribers should be forced to pay for Sun News.

The financial burden of having no money coming in was difficult; she calculated they'd be able to pay off the interest if he practiced law until he was 117.5.

In a note to investors ISS wrote that «The current pay and performance misalignment driven by ongoing problematic pay practices indicates poor stewardship of the board's Compensation Committee.»

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.

«I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness — it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.»

Finally, we maintained our practice of having enough cash on hand for a one - month cushion, meaning, for example, that we used money earned in October to pay November's bills.

When you're working to earn credit - card rewards, it's important to practice financial discipline, like paying your balances off in full each month, making payments on time, and not spending more than you can afford to pay back.

It seems Zellers really practiced what it preached when it came to low prices, in some cases paying as little as $ 1 per square foot for its retail space.

(In other words, he practiced law until he paid off his student loans and then found something he was more passionate about.)

Paying on time is a good practice in general.

Subscription - based models a la Netflix or Rdio — where users pay a regular fee for access to the service's library without owning the movies or music — will be increasingly dominant, said Dina Leytes, practice group chair of intellectual property and new media for Griesing Law in Philadelphia.

One reason: In 2012, the company paid a $ 3 billion fine to US authorities for various illegal marketing activities, but remained under investigation for fraudulent sales practices in China and elsewhere, and could have faced criminal prosecution, according to the lawsuiIn 2012, the company paid a $ 3 billion fine to US authorities for various illegal marketing activities, but remained under investigation for fraudulent sales practices in China and elsewhere, and could have faced criminal prosecution, according to the lawsuiin China and elsewhere, and could have faced criminal prosecution, according to the lawsuit.

In the second half of fiscal 2017, when the Committee evaluated our executive compensation program and set fiscal 2018 base salaries and target bonus opportunities, the compensation consultant provided a comparative analysis of our executive compensation program based on pay practices of the group of peer companies listed below (the «2018 Peer Group»).

It refers to the practice of creating valuable content, such as articles or podcasts, that draws customers to you directly (as opposed to spending a lot of time on cold calls or paying for advertising to lure them in).

The consultation aimed to find out whether requiring companies to disclose more information about the taxes they pay could help tackle tax avoidance and aggressive tax practices in the EU.

Chime's Bank Fee Finder exposed the impact of traditional banks» predatory practices and found that on average bank customers pay $ 329 in fees annually.

«Implementing the [Dalbar] calculator makes every client profitable, replacing the current practice of having winners pay the way for unprofitable clients,» the company stated in a press release.