Sentences with phrase «representation on company boards»

At one point Ukip treasurer and former Tory donor Stuart Wheeler told the audience that women's low representation on company boards was justified due to their poor performance at chess and bridge.

They include a cap on energy prices, worker representation on company boards and a higher minimum wage.

Not exact matches

Today's appointment by Independence Group of its first female board member has taken it off the list of ASX200 companies lacking female representation on their boards, although four other Western Australian businesses remain among those still to adopt gender diversity at board level.

The numbers have nudged up from 15.9 % in 2013, when Catalyst Canada surveyed the number of women on Financial Post 500 boards, and new comply - or - explain regulations initiated by the Ontario Securities Commission will likely push the statistics higher now that companies are required to disclose female representation on boards and in senior management.

The Equilar Gender Diversity Index looks at the female representation on the boards of the biggest companies in the United States.

Women are being appointed to ASX200 boards at a faster rate than ever, but a number of major Western Australian companies remain without any female representation on their boards.

By moving in the direction of having publicly traded companies have a policy that includes consideration of gender representation on boards and in senior management, we hope that they will really take that issue seriously, that they'll consider how they're finding people to be on their boards, how they're moving women through senior management roles and making them eligible for boards appointments.

As co-founder of Fabletics, Hudson is particularly focused on having better representation of women on company boards.

Meanwhile, the ISS report also finds that diversity in global boardrooms has also been improving, particularly in the U.K., where female representation on the boards of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange FTSE 350 jumped almost 8 percentage points in six years to hit 18.5 % in 2014.

Hampton said: «I will focus on improving representation in the executive layer of companies, as well as maintaining the momentum on boards.

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to obtain board representation and typically appoint our investment professionals and senior advisors to represent us on the board of a company in which we invest.

The MSCI Canada IMI Women's Leadership Select Index is based on the MSCI Canada IMI Index and aims to include companies which are leaders in Canada in terms of female representation on boards and in executive leadership positions and have at least 30 % female directors, or at least three female directors, or two female directors and one woman in a current executive leadership role.

Although it seems sensible on the surface that an entity which controls 30 % or more of a company should be entitled to representation on the board of directors, independent directors are rightfully embraced as an essential component of good governance.

The IGOPP policy paper recommends that Canadian companies strive for a minimum of 40 % representation of both genders on their boards.

It included a plank calling for the state pension fund to «invest in companies with adequate female and minority representation» on their boards.

Trade union representation on company and employing bodies boards should be introduced as a basic democratic right.

DiNapoli and the Fund are members of the Thirty Percent Coalition, which seeks greater gender diversity in public company boardrooms and has a goal of 30 percent female representation on publicly - held corporate boards.

He promised to introduce gender - equality legislation requiring an equal male / female representation in the Scottish Cabinet and on the boards of Scottish - based companies, and planned to appoint a Cabinet Minister for Women.

The parent company of BBS Securities Inc. is a shareholder of Aequitas Innovations Inc., the parent company of Aequitas Neo Exchange, has representation on the Aequitas Board of Directors.

That visual representation of each employee's commitment to the company's core values is then used as part of the store's ongoing on - boarding program.

Since the 2011 Davies report called for a minimum of 25 % female representation on boards, companies have been thinking about why diversity is important and what they can do to build a more diverse workforce.

[1] The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Board of Directors, which it says «determine the U.S. Chamber's policy positions on business issues and advise the U.S. Chamber on appropriate strategies to pursue,» includes representation from the fossil fuel industry such as ConocoPhillips and Consol Energy (one of the biggest coal producers in the US), large pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Bayer, and the tobacco company Altria (formerly Philip Morris).

May also stands by her budget pledge with regards to the representation of employees on the boards of listed companies.

Successful representation of a second globally - ranked Chinese infrastructure company in connection with contested sanctions proceedings by The World Bank, including argument before the Sanctions Board, resulting in no debarment of the company (Sanctions Board Decision No. 88 (Sanctions Case No. 372) issued on June 29, 2016)

Our Asia practice includes successful representations involving: (i) numerous companies of varying size, both publicly traded and privately held, in connection with FCPA - related internal investigations and government enforcement actions involving the DOJ, the SEC, and multiple foreign enforcement agencies, (ii) numerous publicly - traded companies» boards of directors, audit committees, and special committees of the board, with regard to the conduct of internal reviews of securities disclosure and accounting concerns and other compliance, enforcement or regulatory matters, and (iii) U.S. and Chinese companies in connection with private plaintiff and U.S. government antitrust litigation and investigations, including providing advice on dealing with Chinese government antitrust investigations and enforcement actions.

The bank's chairman, Sir Win Bischoff, is a founding member of the 30 % Club — an initiative that encourages UK companies to aim higher than the Davies Review 25 % target, setting a goal of at least 30 % female representation on boards by 2015.

But as far as the opportunities you see on job boards or a company's website — that is a pretty good representation of the live pool of jobs currently open.

A legal interpretation that identifies NRT Inc.and other major conglomerate acquirers of independent megabrokerages as not being in the «practice of real estate brokerage» will enable such companies to avoid a downsizing of forthcoming automatic representation on the NAR Board of Directors.

Legal representation: Most property management companies have a lawyer on board.