Sentences with phrase «pushed by business groups»

He also successfully pushed for a 2 percent tax cap on local governments and school districts, which was heavily pushed by business groups and lobbyists.

Allowing ride hailing apps like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City and infrastructure spending were also pushed by business groups, but workers» compensation legislation was considered especially key for Senate Republicans this year, who agreed to an extension of the millionaires tax rate expiring at the end of the year as well as a college tuition plan backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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She did it in part by selling off a 7.8 % stake in TV broadcaster Mediaset and replacing the CEO of the group's core business, Mondadori, Italy's leading book and magazine publisher, where she is pushing an aggressive digital transformation.

China's Baidu Inc said it will sell a majority stake in its financial services business for about $ 1.9 billion (1.4 billion pounds) to a consortium led by TPG Capital Management LP and Carlyle Group LP, as it looks to deepen its push into financial services.

The head of wine sourcing for Coles» private label business, Ed Ashley, said the win by the group's private label Big & Bold Shiraz 2015 under the James Busby banner would add extra grunt to the private label push across the four retail brands operated by Coles in the liquor sector.

NY - LEAD has so far floated no proposals to curb the power of so - called independent expenditure groups like, say, the Committee to Save NY — the pro-Cuomo entity formed by business interests that spent about $ 10 million last year to bolster key aspects of the governor's agenda and is gearing up for another push this year.

Support for the main line project came just as Majority Leader John Flanagan was being pushed by a campaign launched by the business - backed Long Island Association and labor groups criticizing the lack of an agreement on the project.

In particular, the groups hope the Trump administration can address aspects of the Affordable Care Act considered especially vexing for social conservatives as well as concerns such as «the numerous small business owners who have been negatively affected by the push to keep people of faith out of the public square.»

But the $ 15 minimum wage, as pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year after he set the wage for fast - food workers through a Department of Labor board, proved to be an especially bitter pill for some business groups to swallow.

Business groups are pushing back on Cuomo's executive order requiring state contractors to regularly disclose worker - pay data broken down by race and gender.

Business groups are pushing back on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive order requiring state contractors to regularly disclose worker - pay data broken down by race and gender.

The uncertainty created by that pattern infuriated many businesses, and industry groups, economists, and research advocates have long pushed Congress to make the credit permanent.

The law was pushed by a wide coalition of businesses, environmental groups, and social and religious organizations.

So I pushed the firm hard: to establish practice groups; to actually track revenue stats by those business units; to have the firm set targets for lawyers and practice groups so we could better budget (both revenue and expenses); to develop documented business goals for the firm each year; to send regular surveys to our clients to track how we were doing; to develop target client lists and pursuit plans; to create a client service program; to identify and maintain our referral sources, and target and pursue more of them.

Both through the speakers and in our small group conversations, the general consensus was a push to focus on practical, hands - on learning (e.g. partnerships with local businesses and law school clinics) and to integrate the law school curriculum by allowing (or even requiring) students to take courses within other schools at the university.

As the larger broadcaster affiliated production groups have been pushed outside the scope of the terms of trade protections afforded to independent producers by law, there has resulted a renewed industry focus on the regulatory environment and the terms of business between those production groups and certain of the public service broadcasters.