Sentences with phrase «said national practices»

Not exact matches

The National Business Group on Health last year surveyed 133 large companies employing 15 million Americans about their benefit practices: An astounding 90 % said they expect to make at least some telemedicine services available to their workers this year.

Last year it commissioned Montreal lawyer Lloyd Lipsett to review Bisha's current practices; his report, published in April, said spot checks of discharge papers and interviews with Segen workers confirmed they'd been discharged from national service.

«There's a mentality of hunker down and hold onto cash,» Francois Chadwick, national tax leader at the KPMG Venture Capital Practice, says in the report.

«What you want to avoid is anything that might «pierce the corporate veil,» says Sandra E. Mayerson, leader of the national bankruptcy practice of law firm Holland & Knight LLP, who is based in New York City.

However, Paul Reilly, the Guild representative involved in the Bloomberg effort, says the union has no plans to file an unfair labor - practices charge with the National Labor Relations Board about McGlaughlin's dismissal.

Large employers who combine the benefits under one insurer have begun to demand insurers hit a specific dollar figure of medical cost savings per member, per year, said David Dross, national pharmacy practice leader at Mercer, part of Marsh & McLennan.

While franchisees have traditionally been seen as independent, a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board in 2015 said corporate parent companies are responsible for their franchisees» labor practices.

The U.S. National Security Agency ended its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans» phone records on Sunday and will replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods, the Obama administration said.

The Minneapolis Police Department said it has been «a national leader and has set national «best practice» standards in community engagement and community policing.»

«It could be big,» Ed Kaplan, who negotiates health coverage on behalf of large employers as the national health practice leader for the Segal Group, said of the announcement.

He then equated reciting the creed, a practice in many Catholic and Protestant churches, to saying the National Anthem.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

Edward L. Cleary, a Catholic priest, says that «for every Catholic actively practicing his or her religion, in many countries an equal or larger number of Latin Americans participate in some other form of religion, «5 and Brazilian archbishop Lucas Moreira Neves, Secretary of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops in 1985, taking into account all these events, has roundly affirmed that «The springtime of the sects could also be the winter of the Catholic Church.

But now that it's made national news, a Chipotle spokesman has said the practice will continue but will always be rounded down instead of up.

The move coincided with a white paper circulated by Chinese authorities that said religious communities in the country should «adhere to the direction of localizing the religion, practice the core values of socialism, develop and expand the fine Chinese tradition and actively explore the religious thought which accords with China's national circumstances.»

To put the matter succinctly, it may be said that in practice, whatever his principles, the Elizabethan parson was an Independent, and that the Elizabethan situation was later to be roughly approximated under the voluntary national establishment of the Commonwealth.

The European Commission is preparing guidelines to help national authorities identify and put an end to the «totally unacceptable» and discriminatory practice of dual quality foods, Commission president Jean - Claude Juncker said yesterday.

We are proud to join our industry partners in the Further with Food initiative to share solutions and best practices for reducing waste,» said Laura Abshire, Director of Sustainability for the National Restaurant Association.

The proposed Harper competition reforms can boost national prosperity and help turn the tables on many years of past poor infrastructure policies and practices, ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said today at an Infrastructure Partnerships Australia conference in Sydney.

She has thus not taken her national boards yet, but, as her father says, «You don't have to be certified to practice surgery.

«He's a Yorkshireman,» Paul Farquharson said last Saturday as he watched Willett hit balls on the Trump National Doral practice range before the third round of the Cadillac.

As the Minister responsible for the National Institute for Health Research, as well as the whizzy high science of tomorrow's technologies, I can say that we also have at the heart of the NHS a commitment to ensure, through the institute, that we are constantly using the power of our health system to drive public health and to promote best practice.

Good hand hygiene, including correct hand - washing technique, is the single most important practice in reducing the spread of skin infections, says a position statement by the National Athletic Trainers» Association on preventing, recognizing and treating skin infections in athletics, including community - associated methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA - MRSA).

Wyeth Nutrition said in a statement it had been actively cooperating with China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and was responding by cutting its prices and improving sales and marketing practices,...

the reason for the court's blocking of a travel restriction put in place by the President of the United States of America for purposes of national security was because the president (when he was a candidate) mentioned something about banning certain people (i.e. those people who believe it is their duty to enslave the world under sharia law because god tells them to) during this time of war against those elements of said group who actually practice what they preach

CIHT's Director of Communications Daniel Isichei said: «The conference will allow delegates to learn from good practice in the sector and we are showcasing how transportation professionals are delivering infrastructure in uncertain times, such as with changes in local and sub national government.»

«NOAH along with the National Farmers Union, the veterinary profession and others in the food chain support this commitment to good practice through the RUMA (Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture) Alliance,» he said.

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The firm in a news release today said Johnson will be manging its national government affairs practice as managing director starting May 20, operating out of both New York and Albany.

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said after approving the appointments said «We hope they contribute and continue to sustain free and credible elections in Nigeria by ensuring that the practices of the national electoral body in this country meet global standards.»

She said the national prevalence rate of harmful traditional practices such as child marriage was 27 per cent, as one in four women, aged between 20 and 49, were married before age 18 in 2011, with the national prevalence rate of female genital mutilation (FGM) being four per cent, according to the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) of 2011.

The President, National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) Federal Medical Centre Abuja, Dr Emmanuel Obayi, has said the federal government's ban of private practice by doctors...

National secretary of the forum, Yinka Odumakin, speaking on Channels Tv said cattle rearing is a business which should not be funded by government, thereby, calling on Miyetti Allah to practice ranching like President Muhammadu Buhari whom he described as their patron.

Despite years of talks on seabed mining, Bronwen Currie of Namibia's National Marine Information and Research Center in Swakopmund said that no adequate studies on the cumulative, long - term effects of the practice exist.

Kendall said DOD would work with agencies that already do so, notably the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, «to determine best practices before beginning data collection.»»

Stamper would like to see the federal government put out requests for proposals and provide grants to develop best practices curriculum at the national level, although given the way our police forces are organized, he says, local agencies would still have to pick up the tab for actual training, which means fund appropriations from city or state politicians and taxpayers.

«Although the results of this study cause us a great deal of concern» said Ekwoge Abwe, coauthor of the study and manager of San Diego Zoo Global's Ebo Forest Research Project, «we are encouraged that it highlights the importance of the proposed Ebo National Park where we have been conducting a long - term and ongoing research and conservation program geared towards the protection of primate species and the reduction of the bushmeat practices that directly affect them.»

Wieman says the new panel, under the White House's National Science and Technology Council, will look at «what these programs do, how they fit together, and how well they match what we feel are best practices.»

Authoritarian states like to tweak their technical infrastructure, their national laws and their firewalls to «protect sovereignty in cyberspace», as they like to say — which in practice means protecting intellectual property thieves from foreign pressure and rounding up dissidents at home.

The research, based on the 2007 National Health Interview Survey, looked at data from more than 13,000 respondents who said they had never used acupuncture, chiropractic, natural products or yoga, four common CAM practices.

Hunt said that making attached fins a national requirement would strengthen NOAA's ability to enforce the U.S. ban on shark - finning — the practice of cutting off shark fins and dumping carcasses at sea.

«If we encourage national policy documents that promote these teaching practices,» says study co-author Elizabeth Barnes of Arizona State, «perhaps we can increase acceptance of evolution among our students, future teachers and future political leaders.»

He also contests the number of people the government claims to have settled, saying it is repeating former President Sarney's practice of including in national statistics families who found land earlier and have now merely had their titles legalised.

Dan Hoth, head of the AIDS division of the National Institutes of Health, said: «We see no reason yet for any change in clinical practice.

The group will also provide a forum for discussing how nations can balance «cooperation and competition» in science, Kleiner said, and consider how their funding practices contribute to both national goals and global needs.

«Chlorhexidine is a critical part of current infection control practices, and the development of increased resistance to this compound has potential implications for our ability to prevent infections during routine and emergency surgery, and during admission to hospitals,» said coauthor J. Mark Sutton, PhD, Scientific Leader, National Infections Service, Public Health England, Salisbury, UK.

I won't summarize here the imperatives and practices of critical pedagogy, or popular education, except to say that these approaches build from the experiences of students, and employ languages that help students interrogate the transparency of their own experiences, that is, languages that enable students to challenge the interpretation of their experiences and that assist students in connecting their own experiences and histories to broader situations that are local, regional, national and global in scope.

It's just going to vary from school district to school district,» says Joel Packer, director of education policy and practice with the National Education Association.

The panel says it supports a national database allowing research analysis to inform improvements in teaching practice and policy.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: «Pearson needs to end its involvement with fee - paying private schools in the global south; stop all practices that promote and support the obsession with high - stakes testing; and negotiate with teachers» unions and others to secure agreement on the appropriate role of «edu - business» in education.