Sentences with phrase «policies of the company because»

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Michael Michalak of the U.S. - ASEAN Business Council and former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam says Southeast Asia remains a focus for U.S. companies, though there is some caution because of uncertainty around the impact of regional trade policies.

Shey says there's a lot of uncertainty because cyber policies are new and customers don't understand exemptions and insurers are not accurately quantifying a company's cyber security risk.

The policy that councillors will vote on won't immediately decrease the city's number of payday loan businesses to 15 to match its number of wards because it will grandfather in existing companies, but will prevent new ones from opening, said Tom Cooper, the director of the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction.

Stamos goes on to say that the company has deactivated all of the accounts that were still active, because they violated the company's policy against inauthentic accounts.

Clinton said she had a policy to help coal country benefit from creating renewable energy «because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?»

The fact that declines in the aggregate US stock markets were about 100 times as much as the gains for steel and aluminium companies illustrates that because the steel using sector dwarfs the steel producing sector, the net effect of the tariff policy is to reduce US competitiveness even before considering foreign retaliation.

It should not be difficult for companies to extend EU practices and policies elsewhere because they already have systems in place, said Nicole Ozer, director of technology and civil liberties at the American Civil Liberties Union of California.

The following benefits are not subject to the HP Severance Policy, either because they have been previously earned or accrued by the employee or because they are consistent with Company Practices: (i) compensation and benefits earned, accrued, deferred or otherwise provided for employment services rendered on or prior to the date of termination of employment pursuant to bonus, retirement, deferred compensation or other benefit plans, e.g., 401 (k) plan distributions, payments pursuant to retirement plans, distributions under deferred compensation plans or payments for accrued benefits such as unused vacation days, and any amounts earned with respect to such compensation and benefits in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan; (ii) payments of prorated portions of bonuses or prorated long - term incentive payments that are consistent with Company Practices; (iii) acceleration of the vesting of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units or long - term cash incentives that is consistent with Company Practices; (iv) payments or benefits required to be provided by law; and (v) benefits and perquisites provided in accordance with the terms of any benefit plan, program or arrangement sponsored by HP or its affiliates that are consistent with Company Practices.

Because the CNGC already regularly analyzes whether our incentive compensation programs provide proper incentives to our NEOs to achieve our Company's strategic priorities (including ROI) and because our shareholders already receive annual reports on those matters in the CD&A s in our annual proxy statements, we believe the adoption of the policy requested by the proposal is unnecessary, duplicative of practices already followed by the CNGC and our Company, and would result in an expenditure of Walmart's resources and our management's and directors» time that ultimately would not be in our shareholders» best intBecause the CNGC already regularly analyzes whether our incentive compensation programs provide proper incentives to our NEOs to achieve our Company's strategic priorities (including ROI) and because our shareholders already receive annual reports on those matters in the CD&A s in our annual proxy statements, we believe the adoption of the policy requested by the proposal is unnecessary, duplicative of practices already followed by the CNGC and our Company, and would result in an expenditure of Walmart's resources and our management's and directors» time that ultimately would not be in our shareholders» best intbecause our shareholders already receive annual reports on those matters in the CD&A s in our annual proxy statements, we believe the adoption of the policy requested by the proposal is unnecessary, duplicative of practices already followed by the CNGC and our Company, and would result in an expenditure of Walmart's resources and our management's and directors» time that ultimately would not be in our shareholders» best interests.

Because of this, they are expecting to use them on the job and companies are responding by changing their attitudes and policies on the gig economy.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

A company with a long dividend growth history is an insurance policy of sorts because a company can not really grow dividend payouts for two decades if there is sweeping fraud taking place (where would a fraudulent company come up with the money to make the dividend payments?).

Flexible work hours, generous family leave policies, and yes, on - site day care make sense, and not just for the overall well - being of our society and our communities but because it can boost a company's bottom line.

Of course there are plenty companies that are upset with that policy because it means they can't compete on price.

But, possibly because of ageist policies, that's changing: more and more rising tech companies are led by founders in their 20s.

Under English law, which often applies to such policies involving international trade, because insurance contracts are «of the utmost good faith», the policyholder is required to disclose all «material» facts to the insurance company even if no question is asked by the insurance company.

Because the insurance industry doesn't recognize software as a product, the product liability that is included with many general liability or business owner's policies won't provide any protection for the types of products and services many of today's technology companies provide.

As Durham puts it, because UL policies are paying very low interest rates, some companies found that their UL policies did not earn enough credited interest to cover the expenses of the contracts.

The following benefits are not subject to the HP Severance Policy, either because they have been previously earned or accrued by the employee or because they are consistent with Company Practices: (i) compensation and benefits earned, accrued, deferred or otherwise provided for employment services rendered on or prior to the date of termination of employment pursuant to bonus, retirement, deferred compensation or other benefit plans, e.g., 401 (k) plan distributions, payments pursuant to retirement plans, distributions under deferred compensation plans or payments for accrued benefits such as unused vacation days, and any amounts earned with respect to such compensation and benefits in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan; (ii) payments of prorated portions of bonuses or prorated long - term incentive payments that are consistent with Company Practices; (iii) acceleration of the vesting of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units or long - term cash incentives that is consistent with Company Practices; (iv) payments or benefits required to be provided by law; and

Yet they had become useless because of larger structural problems — in this case, the policies of a company interested not in the common good or in providing responsible service, but only in making a profit.

@ED, In many financial jobs the reasons for what you can and get you can and can't do is because there are federal regulations to avoid impropriety and high dollar scams (I'm not in any way saying you would do this, it tend so happen at really high individual levels), and the lawyers make strict company policies to make sure there isn't even an appearance of impropriety.

Because it is such an important part of Sendik's culture, new employees receive extensive training in customer service, where they are thoroughly taught the company's policies, procedures and expectations in service.

A policyholder could find itself in the position of recalling on its own initiative or being asked by FDA to recall based on this «reasonable probability» standard, but not being able to satisfy the definition of «accidental contamination» under its specialty policy because it can not prove its product was W With the frequency of costly product recalls on the rise, many companies have considered purchasing specialty recall coverage to secure coverage for certain recall - related losses that are often excluded from general liability and property policies.

The Britax seats were ranked first among the car seat companies tested because of Britax's comprehensive policy regarding chemicals in our products and our elimination of halogenated flame retardant chemicals.

Because the US is so polarized politically, there is very little chance that a Republican controlled House of Representatives would choose to impeach a Republican President even if there were overwhelming evidence that he had accepted a direct bribe from the Russian government (such as, for hypothetical example, a 19 % interest in the Russian gas company Rosneft) in return for promulgating policies favorable to the Russians, let alone confirmation of the allegations that his Presidential campaign had coordinated election strategy and tactics with the Russians.

There was a congressional benefit for the Shakespeare Theater Company in D.C. last year which featured a scene where the interns fled the summer heat of D.C. and were followed by members of congress who were terrified because without the interns, they had no clue how to access their own Twitter accounts and had no clue what the President's new Foreign Policy stances of the day were.

Before now, most companies still imported nylon bags, which we manufacture locally here, but because of this policy, they had to resort to local manufacturers.

Poloncarz said the audits, the first of which are likely to occur in late 2016 or early 2017, are an essential part of the policy because they allow the IDA to verify that companies are complying with the pay equity rules.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

A spokesman for Sun Life Assurance, one of Britain's large institutional investors, says no insurance company would allow dividends to slip, because customers would take their policies elsewhere.

Thatcher could support the reforms, Agar argues, because she «had lived the life of the working research scientist, as a final - year chemistry student in Dorothy Hodgkin's x-ray crystallography laboratory, as an investigator of glues for BX [plastics company] and as a food chemist for Lyons & Co.... [I] t was precisely because Thatcher knew what scientific research was like that made her impervious to claims that science was a special case, with special features and incapable of being understood by outsiders, and therefore that science policy should be left in the hands of scientists.

But this will require proactive public policy; the global technology companies are unlikely to invest in such goods on their own because poor people do not constitute much of a market.

It's even more egregious in agriculture and food, you know, where almost all of the world's, the country's cropland is now diverted to growing corn and soybeans — not because there's this unbelievable demand to eat corn and soybeans but because there's a federal subsidy for growing them, a subsidy basically written into the law by a few huge corn and soybean consuming companies, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, whatever, who control the senators of the corn states, you know, and have enough power to enact [egregious] policy [into] law.

This policy is coming not because of Anthro's desires, but out of a change made by the credit card companies back in October of 2015.

They were actually originally sent in the wrong size, and I tried to exchange them, but the company is so cool because their policy is to have you donate them to a woman's shelter if they don't fit, and they'll simply send you your new size free of charge.

But one studio's crisis is another's opportunity, which brings us to Netflix's unprecedented decision, and why I — and likely millions of other subscribers across the globe (the company will never give us an exact number because of a long - held policy of keeping its viewership stats to itself) stayed up later than Tom Brady's depressed entourage to watch The Cloverfield Paradox.

or a used car and asked to get the final price over phone because they were 40 minutes drive from my place, the girl who answered was from the new cars department and she said its a company's policy not discuss or disclose any price over the phone and if I come there they will be happy to negotiate and see what we can agree on, after driving for 40 min I had one of their salesmen jumping to offer and work with me on the car, I told him I need to buy the car and am looking to get more discount on the price.

Amazon's Kindle book prices may be a bit cheaper, but that's often because Amazon is selling the books at a loss — there's currently a bit of a battle between Amazon and publishers over the company's pricing policies.

It requires a constant monitoring of policies and business practices that continually change because of industry mergers and technological advances that enable companies to frequently upgrade their purchasing plans.

These things do not happen often - but because of these situations, we have a company policy that once the coordinating work begins, the most that can be returned is 50 % and the closer we get to the beginning of the tour, that percentage is reduced.

100 % original assignments — our company has been able to make a mar in the industry because of the zero - tolerance policy.

You may also find some publishers or agencies will reply that they did receive your query letter, but that no one at the company read it as their submission guidelines are that they do not accept unsolicited material for legal reasons or because of company policies.

If they are available on the site and opened for everyone, then it is suspicious, because according to the privacy policy, they shouldn't be manifested without the signature of the company on them.

In an open letter to librarians explaining its switch to limit the number of check - outs a library can offer on an e-book, HarperCollins said that its previous policy of «selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book eco-system, hurt the growing e-book channel, place additional pressure on physical bookstores, and in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made in another channel.»

In insurance companies, there is a problem called new business strain when an insurance policy is sold because they have to write down the costs of selling that policy and make an allocation of reserves in case of a claim — in real terms, it is the total cost of developing new business.

Many companies have pulled out of the state because they're not permitted to charge an average cost of renters insurance that accurately represents the amount of risk in the policy.

Some insurance companies promote these insurance policies as a college savings vehicle because the value of the policy is sheltered from financial aid need analysis formulas.

This is a little bit if a grey area because a lot of credit repair companies have refund policies where if they don't delete a certain number of negative items from your credit reports.

That's because home insurance policies can differ dramatically based on company, type of coverage, age of the home, the type of structure, among a number of other factors.

Or worse, your direct writer only sells auto insurance directly, and functions as an agency for renters insurance — that kind of direct writer might sell you a policy from a company you've never heard of because they don't direct write home insurance.