Sentences with phrase «says outside employment»

The commission last year subpoenaed records from 30 businesses that pay legislators, saying the outside employment of legislators creates a «risk of criminal behavior» because their work product is often intangible.

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«I would say it is absolutely crucial for any size business with employees to have a social media policy,» said Vivienne Storey, general manager of BlandsLaw, a boutique law firm outside of Sydney, Australia, that specializes in employment law.

«The Company's employment practices liability insurance retention has grown to $ 1 million from $ 350,000, causing an unacceptable level of risk for the Company, and the premiums for this insurance are well outside of industry standards,» the letter said.

But I would rather be here in this imperfect place than outside where I see Grace disappearing, where most have lost faith in the world that pushes it's children into employment where money, power and influence is the only road to happiness, where dog eat dog is the Tag Line which tries to conceal avarice by saying The Wealth creators help the poor as it eventually trickles down.

«The bottom line is that New Yorkers will never trust government until they know the who, what and where of outside employment and unprecedented reforms put forward by this administration and the New York State Assembly will do just that,» Cuomo said.

Although the Commission investigated a number of different areas of potential wrongdoing by members of the Legislature, including the improper claiming of per diem allowances and outside employment, multiple Moreland sources said that at the time the Commission was disbanded, the personal use investigation had become one of its main focuses.

different areas of potential wrongdoing by members of the Legislature, including the improper claiming of per diem allowances and outside employment, multiple Moreland sources said that at the time the Commission was disbanded, the personal use investigation had become one of its main focuses.

«In the 21st Century, it is impossible to avoid conflicts — or the appearance of conflicts — if legislators have outside employment,» said Attorney General Schneiderman.

When elected officials have outside employment, it can present opportunities to distort an official's judgment and for outright corruption,» said Assemblyman Dick Gottfried, a Manhattan Democrat who was first elected in 1970.

Commission officials said such outside employment raised the «risk of criminal behavior.»

But Bohrer said the claims of misconduct on outside employment «is of minimal probative value at best and yet poses a serious risk of unfair prejudice and undue delay at trial.»

It did not recommend a ban on MPs taking outside employment such as journalism, but said that any such activity should be within «reasonable limits» and «transparent», with information available to voters at election time.

Since most cases are settled outside of court, that provision does little to protect taxpayers, the employment attorneys said.

Cuomo said that he wanted a special session to tackle sweeping ethics and campaign - finance reform changes, including the public financing of political campaigns as well as a cap on outside pay and banning employment of state lawmakers from firms that have business before the state.

Cuomo says he'll hold up passage of the state budget, if he has to, in order to get lawmakers to agree to either quit their outside jobs, or provide all details of their employment so that the public can see whether the jobs present a conflict of interest.

Cuomo's campaign began the back - and - forth with a demand that Astorino release his last five tax returns, saying the financial disclosures Astorino files as county executive don't give enough detail about his outside employment with a national radio company.

Albanese, a lawyer, said the city often refused to indemnify public workers for actions taken «outside the scope of their employment,» and cited a case he handled on behalf of two security guards at an Upper Manhattan homeless shelter.

But Mr. Silver's defense attorney Steven Molo said the government simply disapproved of the entirely legal fact that Mr. Silver and other state lawmakers can hold outside employment and, instead of trying to change such laws — which he said will present «inherent conflicts of interest» — the government was «leveling false criminal charges against one of the senior legislative officers, senior government officials in this state.»

Heastie reported earning between $ 5,000 and $ 20,000 for his teaching post, but has said he'll be giving up all outside employment to focus on his new leadership position in the Assembly, while McDonald is among those who reported earning $ 100,000 or more.

«We need to have after school programs, and employment programs, and things for our youth that gives them the ability to have productive engagement outside of school,» he says.

«I believe that if we ban outside income from active employment for elected officials and pay them a livable wage to raise their families, it will go a long way to cure the temptation of a few to engage in this type of bad behavior,» said Bonacic, a veteran in the Senate's Republican majority.

Many downstate legislators say the resulting take - home pay is not enough to support a comfortable standard of living (the state's median household income is $ 58,003) and, according to Cuomo, 29 senators and 55 Assembly members reported outside earnings from employment.

In order to solve the culture of corruption in Albany, Dadey said major ethics reforms such as severely limiting outside employment while increasing pay need to be put in place.

Hawkins said that he would also prohibit individuals and companies doing business with the state (including lobbyists) from making campaign contributions, and would restrict the ability of state lawmakers to earn income from outside employment.

Prosecutors say common themes run through many of the political corruption cases: lack of transparency on a politician's outside employment, nonprofits staffed by cronies and used as personal piggy banks, greed and above - the - law arrogance.

Yet, in spite of all of this, they are not giving up, and just 14 percent said they are very likely to seek employment outside the field of education within the next year.

They are also 20 % more likely to say it affected employment plans by working more, having multiple jobs, or working outside of their field.

Placide says Dorsey contested her outside fees because she had refused to promise that she would not take members of the labor and employment practice with her to Ogletree.

Tamsin Kaplan, an employment lawyer at Davis, Malm & D'Agostine in Boston, said she is often asked by the employers she represents how to deal with medical marijuana use outside the workplace.

The Supreme Court of Canada has previously said, in the context of the BC Human Rights code, that compliance with religous tenets of a faith based school is a bona fide requirement of employment for a religious school (see Caldwell et al. v. Stuart et al., [1984] 2 SCR 603 — recently cited by the BC Court of Appeal in Vancouver Rape Relief Society v. Nixon for the basis that the Vancouver Rape Relief Center could discriminate against a non-genetic female) which held that a Catholic school could dismiss an employee who had married outside of the tenets of the Catholic faith (i.e., she had married a divorced non-catholic in a civil ceremony).

«I think the concern has certainly been raised, and that employers are (or should be) carefully considering both who should have 24 - hour access, and, in the case of overtime - eligible employees, what the rules are regarding use of the devices outside of business hours,» says Jeff Mitchell, partner with the labour and employment practice of Dentons Canada LLP.

«While international background screening is challenging, the mere fact that information is more difficult to obtain from outside of the U.S. does not relieve employers from their due diligence obligation associated with hiring,» says Rosen, a frequent speaker on employment screening and safe hiring issues.

«What we're doing is staging work so that we can get our outside work done in the fall, and then work inside through the winter so we can provide year - round employment to our regular employees,» Harvat says.

Rosshirt describes the current South Central Waterfront as mainly an employment center, but says the long - term plan for the area will transform it into a destination both during the business day and outside of work hours.