Sentences with phrase «penalized companies»

A list of penalized companies and employers has been posted online.

The penalized company, since renamed Altaba, has agreed to settle the charges and pay the specified amount.

This ensures that a score takes into account how well - liked a company is among people who have an opinion of it without penalizing companies that are not consumer - facing.

Stevens adds that if governments begin penalizing companies with substantial taxes, then businesses will find alternative (read: shady) ways to make the compensation gap appear smaller.

The Council for Education and Research on Toxics — the group behind the lawsuit — wanted to penalize companies for not warning customers that coffee contains acrylamide, a chemical that California lists as one «known to cause cancer.»

Investors will now penalize companies that are «less friendly on capacity,» says Stephens analyst Jack Atkins.

Congressional Republicans have also proposed an overhaul of the tax code that would penalize companies by taxing the goods and raw materials they import while exempting them from taxes on revenues from exports.

Perversely, the only way it works is by penalizing companies into hiring more full - timers.

«It's an exciting model as it rewards people who participate, but it also doesn't penalize the company or the public for the regulation that makes it hard for regular people to get involved,» concludes Goren.

Because of the risk related to bringing these plants to completion, the stock market has penalized the company.

Along with a request that women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes speak out and raise awareness by wearing black, the initiative includes a legal defense fund, backed by $ 13 million in donations, to help less privileged women — like janitors, nurses, farm and factory workers, waitresses, hotel housekeepers — protect themselves from sexual misconduct and the fallout from reporting it; legislation to penalize companies that tolerate persistent harassment, and to discourage the use of nondisclosure agreements to silence victims; and a drive to at long last reach gender parity at studios and talent agencies that reportedly has already begun making headway.

A POLITICO investigation found that «Pearson's contracts set forth specific performance targets — but don't penalize the company when it fails to meet those standards.

It grants monopolies aimed at limiting competition (patents and copyright), and then penalizes companies for using («abusing») them, in contravention of state antitrust law — so that there is a «tension» between these state laws.

This involves penalizing companies that have a lot of debt and rewarding others that have a lot of cash.

It is reasonable to use the same period (eg 5 years) of growth for all comparisons, but doing so will penalize companies with growth expected to last longer.

In recent years, investors are increasingly likely to penalize companies which refuse to return surplus cash to shareholders — Argo Group's current valuation looks like a prime example.

That is a big problem, from my view point, since it distorts reality and does nt penalize companies that might have made horrible acquisitions.

«We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,» Gore told the Chicago Tribune, referring to a proposed federal cap - and - trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon - emission limits.

The principle recognizes that GDP growth is correlated with emissions growth, and does not penalize a company if it begins to contribute a greater proportional share of GDP (for example, capturing market share).

Furthermore, by downgrading HP in its ratings after the finds of this report, Greenpeace has demonstrated that it meant what it said previously about penalizing companies if they found that real market data did not match corporate claims (even though penalizing on the basis of one model of one product line bought in one market is a bit dubious).

The revelations have touched off a string of investigations around the world, including the United States, where the Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing Facebook over its privacy practices — and could potentially penalize the company with fines reaching into the millions of dollars.

In addition to increasing consumer awareness, the European Union parliament recently adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which gives consumers more control over their personal data, requires greater transparency of corporate data sharing, and penalizes companies that fail to comply with the new rules.

They were to calm jittery shareholders who have penalized the company's stock price almost 20 % since Facebook released its most recent quarterly earnings and promised to make changes to its News Feed to emphasize more «meaningful» content (read: less shamelessly viral, ergo less engaging) in the wake of Russian election interference.

Not exact matches

This transparency regarding ongoing complaints should be coupled with a strong program educating employees on the procedure for raising a complaint, the certainty that they won't be penalized for coming forward, and the assurance that the company will investigate and take action when appropriate.

The new measures are designed to penalize China for doing things like requiring U.S. companies to hand over technological know - how if they want to do business in China.

Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control added six individuals and 10 companies and other entities to its sanctions list, saying they have helped people previously penalized for North Korea's weapons development, facilitated North Korea's energy sector and enabled entities to bypass sanctions to get access to the U.S. and international financial system.

Once the SEO giant caught wind of the company's shady tactics, it penalized Rap Genius» search rankings, sending its pageviews in a downward spiral.

Are you afraid of hiring an SEO company because you've heard about unscrupulous black - hat activities that will get your site penalized?

The reason that companies get away with reducing decision making to risk / benefit calculations, Block said, «is because the government doesn't penalize them enough when there's a problem.»

Companies that export goods, or transport parts back and forth across the border during production, would be disproportionately penalized.

Incentives for companies to be here,» he said, adding that companies that send operations offshore «get penalized severely.»

Insurers have been striking deals with pharma companies that will land them discounts on pricey drugs if those treatments don't demonstrably improve patients» health outcomes; hospitals are penalized if they have high rates of patient readmissions.

· Some utility companies penalize customers for using inefficient machinery that requires a surge of power at start - up.

The new measures are designed to penalize China for trade practices that the Trump administration says involve stealing American companies» intellectual property.

Google on Wednesday said it would begin penalizing the search rankings of websites that use pop - up mobile ads asking users to install an app, the latest move by the company that could have a big impact on advertisers, publishers and other content creators.

Companies whose earnings do not grow are penalized in the markets.

The Information Technology Industry Council, a lobbying group for companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft, previously has rebuffed Trump's tariffs as «entirely counterproductive» — and stressed that the result would be higher prices on tech products that «penalize U.S. consumers.»

Just some examples of the financial system in an awkward state of unease: Velocity of money has been muted, pension funds have been impaired by burdensome discount rates, insurance companies haven't been able to write business at reasonable levels and savers have been penalized.

When developing countries distort rules and incentives for business, for example, they penalize productive companies.

Still, the company has seen higher market share in some lines, and some restructuring outlays penalized 2013 results.

Technology companies argue that the restrictive measures the administration is taking to help protect them could end up penalizing American manufacturing, raising costs and making their companies less competitive globally.

However, increasing tariffs on U.S. companies and consumers penalizes those that are seeking relief.»

«Virtual companies generally operate with a more progressive mindset — one that doesn't penalize women or men for seeking time for both work and life, or just for having a different vision of what leadership and professionalism looks like to them,» says BELAY Chief Operating Officer, Tricia Sciortino.

That violated RFRA, wrote Justice Samuel Alito in the majority opinion, because it penalizes the religious beliefs of the Green family, evangelical Christians who own Hobby Lobby, a craft store chain with 500 stores and more than 13,000 employees, and the Hahn family, Mennonites whose company employs more than 1,000 employees in five factories across the country.

I apply pressure on the utility companies by saying, «you will be penalized, you will be sanction,» he said.

The GOP voted against penalizing U.S. companies who ship U.S. JOBS overseas!

But in practice, not one company or NIH - funded scientist has ever been penalized.

Blackstone Valley received about $ 100,000 from the company that was being penalized for CO2 emissions and $ 40,000 from the wetlands fine.

The habit of giving rise to the projects at the university level by penalizing the dissemination and field - testing by companies

Certainly, there was a lot of monkey - business involved in Detroit horsepower ratings, as manufacturers jockeyed to finesse racing rule books or keep insurance companies from penalizing their cars.