Sentences with phrase «pay practices of»

To inform Canadians about the pay practices of federally regulated employers, the Government plans to publish existing pay information filed by employers under the Employment Equity Act.

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»).

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.

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.

Women, black and Latino employees also lose out on pay raises, bonuses, stock options, benefits and other wages because of the company's discriminatory practices, the lawsuit alleges.

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.

NEI filed shareholder resolutions last year with five of the largest Canadian banks calling for them to consider vertical ratios and assess the risks of horizontal benchmarking — setting salaries by comparing what CEOs at rival banks are paid, a practice that some shareholders argue has led to skyrocketing compensation packages.

«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.

The other third of the scoring is based on detailed questions about pay and benefit programs, and a series of open - ended questions about hiring practices, internal communication, training, recognition programs, and diversity efforts.

(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.)

Instead, you want to find a way to say things like, «You did a great job figuring out that problem,» or, «You sound so great — all those hours of practice paid off!»

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.

Although the practice is considered unethical by paid sponsors and event owners, others consider it a normal part of competitive advertising.

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

The company follows «fair trade» practices, meaning it pays some growers a guaranteed minimum base price regardless of the world market price.

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.»

We propose to create a separate screen that requires broadband providers to adhere to an enforceable legal standard of commercially reasonable practices, asking how harm can best be identified and prohibited and whether certain practices, like paid prioritization, should be barred altogether.

The company has a practice of paying its vendors 90 days after services have been rendered.

Nabors» board has earned GovernanceMetrics International's distinction for worst pay practices, but it managed to avoid the worst board of the decade prize, and it did not make its recent list of at - risk companies.

«The students get paid internships as a way to offset the cost of college, and when they graduate they can say they learned it and actually practiced it on the job.

According to a Connecticut Business and Industry Association survey of 430 member - companies, the most common practice when «bad weather forces a closing» is to pay hourly employees only for the hours actually worked.

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.

While the car company clearly wants to take a stance on and do something to ameliorate the gender pay gap, the commercial has garnered criticism on social media, with some saying that Audi's hiring practices don't reflect the message of the likely well - intentioned ad.

Instead of simply trying to outlaw an obviously productive practice, why not simply figure out a way to make sure that people who rent rooms are paying their taxes?

Through weeks of practice and by developing tricks to get around his fear, Buffett's hard work paid off.

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.

JPMorgan ended up paying billions of dollars to settle accusations of shoddy mortgage practices at both acquired banks.

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.»

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.

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.

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 complaints that Exxon offers to naysayers of its pay practices are numerous.

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.

All of the cases accuse the powerful San Francisco start - up of extortion and fraudulent business practices, alleging the site's reviews are not unbiased — and, specifically, that it manipulates ratings and awards visibility based on whether or not companies pay to advertise.

When I open that bag, I always relish the magnificent excitement of their business practice of giving me more than I asked, or paid, for.

«It wasn't until Grade five that I got to be on a soccer team, because [the parents of a friend] paid the registration fee and drove me to practice.»

It also eliminates the liability and unexpected expense of paying out accrued and unused vacation days when employees leave (if you're among the companies that follow this practice).

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.