Sentences with phrase «standard of work of»

This means that the employers will be to blame by extension that they are responsible for the standard of work of their employees.

Not exact matches

Your mother may have warned you not to walk and chew gum at the same time, but when Schaefer compared the performance of both children and young adults on a standard test of working memory when they were sitting with when they were walking, her results contradicted mom's advice.

She said «most of the founders we work with look at YC as the gold standard,» and that distancing the fund from YC could «hinder our chances of raising successor funds.»

The Fair Labor Association (FLA) and Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production standard (WRAP) both grew out of U.S. market reactions to labour abuses in Central America during the 1990s, while the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) and Ethical Trade Initiative (ETI) worked to address early European concerns with the fair treatment of workers across North Africa, India and Bangladesh.

SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, representatives of 25 countries met in Tokyo to work on setting international standards for the blockchain, the technology that was introduced by the virtual currency Bitcoin and has ignited intense interest in corporate and government circles.

Jersey Standard photographers cover certain routine assignments such as official dinners and tanker launchings, but for the most part they work on «picture essays» — a detailed coverage of the Gloucester fishing fleet, for example, or lumbering in the Northwest, or river transportation.

Employees do work that they are proud of and hold themselves and one another to a high standard.»

While I.S.O. proceedings are generally confidential, new standards must go through many stages, with many rounds of voting — first with smaller working groups and then with full national delegations.

At the Svartedalen retirement home in Gothenburg, about 460 kilometres southwest of Falun, managers report that the standard of care has improved since the trial reset the staff's work - life balance earlier this year.

For instance, if you and your team need to do a lot of data entry, or work on spreadsheets and documents, a full - size computer or large laptop with standard - size keyboard is much faster to use.

In his defense, Harris said Google is committed to working with a number of external organizations — like comScore, Nielsen, and industry bodies like TAG and JICWEBS — to «make sure we set those standards and they can mark our homework.»

«The expectation at work has been to live by the standards the men set up,» says Adi Tatarko, the co-founder and CEO of Houzz, a design and e-commerce website now valued at more than $ 1 billion.

The FDA, which is the ultimate arbiter of safety and efficacy — of high quality tests that are proven to work — is the gold standard, and Theranos wants its tests to be the best and safest for its patients.

«Terrorists are using encrypted communications and... very solid cryptography standards that haven't been broken yet,» David Kennedy, the CEO of TrustedSec, who has worked with the Marine Corps» cyber-warfare unit and the National Security Agency, told Business Insider in November after the Paris attacks.

Working on a problem that is outside your standard business scope reveals much about how your approaches differ and how each of you think.

To do this, pension experts like Ambachtsheer and Greg Hurst, a principal with retirement benefits administrator Morneau Sobeco, recommend creating a new kind of multi-employer pension plan into which every working Canadian would be automatically enrolled, though they could opt out or alter the standard contribution rates.

Second, if it really is necessary, when doing business overseas, to engage in practices that wouldn't be allowed back home, are you at least doing what you can to a) minimize the frequency of such violations and b) working, in at least some small way, to improve standards in the local business community?

Here is how it works: When someone using iCloud Voicemail is unable to take a call, Siri will answer instead of letting the call go to a standard digital audio recorder.

Oculus and Vive developers must keep variable PC specifications in mind while working on their games, but designing for the PS VR means just one set of standards.

The work would have been fairly standard for Torossian, who has worked for the current mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, and Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov.

A second and third installment of Avatar are in the works, and at a recent comic convention Cameron said the films may be shot at a higher frame rate than the industry standard to make the film seem even more real.

Honing the list to acceptable professional standards that will work with the salary you can afford - and that's market - rate - may be necessary, but at least you'll give yourself a chance to find the deeper truth of what you need from the hire.

Unions are about establishing balance, about winning for the middle class, about winning opportunity and winning a reasonable standard of living with a reasonable work life.»

If your managers aren't up to a high standard, this research isn't a «Get Out of Jail Free» card that gives you a pass on improving their leadership (Google's got your back with free resources if you need to work on this).

As a professional athlete, you are constantly being judged by how hard you work, how well you take care of your body, how professional you are with media and in the community — you are a brand and are expected to hold yourself to a higher standard.

This keeps even the brightest workers on their toes, and maintains a consistently high standard of work.

If your investments lose significant value as you are preparing to tap them, you may have to work longer than you had planned or accept a drastically lowered standard of living in retirement — or both.

Find the areas that are in most need of having standards and work to establish basic ones.

An audit of registered training organisations specialising in high - risk work licences has found an alarmingly high level of non-compliance with regulatory standards.

The Collision Conference is huge by anybody's standards but very, very far outside the comfort zone of somebody who works happily alone at home.

As Aaron Wright, chair of the alliance's Legal Industry Working Group, told Coin Telegraph, «Lawyers are poised to serve as the catalysts for blockchain technology, and the Legal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.»

«Verizon is committed to the highest standards of accountability and transparency, and we proactively work to ensure the safety and security of our users and networks in an evolving landscape of online threats,» said Chandra McMahon, Verizon's chief information security officer, in a statement.

The concern comes in the wake of complaints by environmental activists and trade unions that this deal and others will erode standards for food, work and industry.

The standard workday in the United States is eight hours, which is 480 minutes, and many of us work something closer to 600 a day.

The results reveal that one of the top reasons millennials work is to pay for basic living necessities like housing, food, and transportation — pretty standard — followed by earning enough money to pay for traveling.

By offering a flat wage, you'll be providing a more stable standard of living for your servers, and they'll no longer be susceptible to the vicissitudes of restaurant work, where a slow night can leave them with little in their pockets.

«Without strong action from the Department to ensure that DOJ employees meet the highest standards of conduct and accountability, the systemic issues we identified in our work may continue,» Horowitz wrote in a May 31 memo to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

The program, still in early stages of planning, is aimed at both helping janitors maximize efficiency and establishing standards and best practices for the use of robots in janitorial work, according to Brain Corporation.

Half of those surveyed believe, «It is difficult to make career progression at my firm without being flexible on ethical standards,» and that «being too rigid over ethical standards will make my firm less competitive,» and «it is not realistic for everyone working in the financial services industry to adhere to ethical standards at all times.»

Porat's work ethic stands out even by the caffeinated standards of Wall Street.

Tetrick says one of his priorities is working with the FDA to integrate sustainability into standards of identity.

Yet the complimentary skillsets each boss brings to the table — with Standard Life's Keith Skeoch focusing on internal asset management and Gilbert preferring external facing lines of work such as distribution and strategy — means this will be a success, declared the Aberdeen CEO.

In a high standards culture, doing that work well is its own reward — it's part of what it means to be a professional.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

Professions like medicine, nursing, and engineering are effectively given monopolies over fields of practice because (or so the story goes) their work is so complex, and requires such nuanced judgment, that only the members of the profession itself are qualified to set standards and to adjudicate violations.

First, develop workplace training that sets the standard for respectful behavior at work, so people understand right from the start what's expected of them.

«However, due to occupational segregation and the devaluation of jobs that women disproportionately hold, outdated labor standards, and insufficient work - family policies, women in the United States aren't able to meet their full economic potential.»

He quotes the Getting to Yes definition of a wise agreement — «One that meets the legitimate interests of each side to the extent possible, resolves conflicting interests fairly, is durable, and takes community standards into account» — as something that might work in a perfect world.

Right now, the first CRISPR gene therapies are in development, but they are not built on a «standard stack» and require a lot of custom work for each indication - these therapies will be coming into the clinic and hopefully get approved the coming couple years, and after that there could be significantly more investment into standard tools.»

Right now, the two carriers run on different wireless standards — CDMA for Sprint and GSM for T - Mobile — but about 20 million phones used by Sprint customers can work on both kinds of networks.