Sentences with phrase «status benefits as»

You can move up the tier and enjoy additional status benefits as you earn more points.

IN addition to this, elite members receive all the gold status benefits as well, which includes things such as priority, express check - in.

Not exact matches

Like many battles in modern politics, there are benefits to having a very angry minority in your corner as opposed to a majority that is happy, but not ecstatic, with the status quo.

Policies typically range between $ 3,000 and $ 6,000 a year, depending on a variety of factors, such as sex, age, health status, maximum daily benefit, length of benefit and waiting period.

(The trick was figuring out how the company could maintain the program's tax - deductible status as a nondiscriminatory benefit while still ensuring that the children of the company's owner would qualify for some of the scholarships.)

And if contract workers lose a contract or are otherwise discriminated against on the basis of age, religion, sex, disability status, or national origin, they have little recourse.15 Moreover, discretionary company - provided benefits — such as paid leave and retirement contributions — are not typically available to independent contractors.

He said he would accept the inclusion of «sexual orientation» in the Canadian Human Rights Act if it were «clearly defined, but not if it were used as a precedent for further benefits like marital status,» the magazine stated.

The calculations are based on the status of the Account at the end of 2009 - 10 as per the Public Accounts of Canada and extrapolated using the March 2011 Budget projections for EI premium and benefits.

Uber cuts prices relentlessly and has fought tooth and nail in court to avoid classifying its drivers as employees, a status that confers both minimum - wage protection and benefits.

Platinum Preferred Guests will enjoy the benefits of Gold status, plus free health club, Club level and Executive level access, as well as guaranteed room availability when you book at least 72 hours before check - in and better upgrades.

Capital controls have historically been as much about preventing foreigners from buying local government bonds as it has been about preventing destabilizing bouts of flight capital, and living in China, where an aggressive demand for the privileges of reserve currency status coincide with equally aggressive policies that prevent the RMB from achieving reserve currency status (and that transfer ever more of the «benefits» to the US) made clear the huge gap in rhetoric and practice.

I can, though, see where Zillow is coming from: no one thinks the North American real estate market is the way it is because that is somehow optimal or good for consumers; the only folks that benefit from the status quo are real estate agents that continue to collect 6 % of the purchase price even as their responsibilities, particularly in the case of the buying agent, run in the opposite direction of their incentives.

Once you reach Gold status, you'll receive benefits such as lounge access, complimentary upgrades (when available), 4 pm late check - out, and more.

Visa Signature benefits center around travel, which complements the FlexPerk credit card's status as a travel card.

Citi ® Hilton HHonors ™ Reserve Card — This card comes with automatic Honors Gold status that includes benefits such as a 25 % bonus on all the Honors Base Points earned, a fifth night free on Standard Room Reward stays of five nights or more, late checkout and other complimentary features.

BENEFIT: The distinctive nominations review process serves as an unbiased 3rd - party endorsement for the innovations advancing to Finalists status.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

As a society, we'd crossed some threshold where the benefits — a good place to play golf, a nice pool for the kids, business contacts, a sense of status and belonging — had to be weighed against the recognition that racial discrimination was evil.

The very people that believe everything he spews vote the way he tells them to and he benefits by things staying as the status quo.

The legal scholar James Boyd White has argued, «The corporation is and always has been a collective citizen,» which should be spoken of as having both the responsibilities and the benefits of that status.»

And non-profits that benefit solely women, or african - americans, or gays even — should all lose their tax exempt status as well huh?

(d) No private or governmental entity accredited as a certifying agent under this subpart shall exclude from participation in or deny the benefits of the National Organic Program to any person due to discrimination because of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, or marital or family status.

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One of the benefits of America's status as a cultural melting pot is that new cuisines are always waiting to be discovered.

All guests of The Stafford London are eligible to enroll in the iPrefer hotel rewards program, which extends points redeemable for cash - value Reward Certificates, elite status, and special benefits such as complimentary internet to members upon every stay at more than 550 participating Preferred Hotels & Resorts locations worldwide.

Ms. Agrell suggests that stamps in children's passports are merely status symbols for the aforementioned «affluent, affected parents», and even quotes the godfather of travel guidebooks, Arthur Frommer, as questioning how children or parents benefit from family travel.

I give these readers my best advice, of course, but lately I've been yearning to show them the bigger picture: how these problems came to be, who benefits from the status quo (even as our kids lose out), and what we — both as individuals and as a society — could be doing to make a real difference in the lives and health of all American children.

Sweet potatoes have reached star status as a first food: They're super sweet, they blend ultra smooth, and they're bursting with vitamins, antioxidants, and other great benefits.

While it would hardly benefit from a trade war with the US, China may now view such castigation as unacceptable given its increasing world status and take this slight as a diplomatic affront and would probably feel forced to retaliate.

The UK sovereign credit profile also benefits from the macroeconomic and financing flexibility that derives from independent monetary policy and sterling's status as an international «reserve currency».

It has also been highlighted that, as Chancellor, Osborne failed to tackle the advantageous tax status for so - called non-doms, which Lebedev is understood to benefit from, while Lebedev's paper strongly supported the Conservative Party in the 2015 general election and the Conservatives» candidate Zac Goldsmith in the 2016 London mayoral election.

«I therefore want to appeal that for this regional integration to be achieved with its desired objectives, politics must play the back role while we collectively determine our place, benefits and status as Yoruba nation in the country.

Backed by gay rights groups, Golinski sued the government, arguing that DOMA discriminates against legally married same - sex couples by depriving them of the same rights, from health benefits to tax status, as heterosexual couples.

The benefits gained by criminals are caused by the illegal status, which rises prices to allow for huge profits to be made as well as lets them produce and sell whatever they want without regulation, which is dangerous to the users.

As Washington wrestles with what to do about DACA, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced today that he has signed an executive order prohibiting state agencies and officers from inquiring about or disclosing an individual's immigration status unless required by law or necessary to determine eligibility for a benefit or service.

The grants, rents and business he brought in to SUNY Polytechnic «all benefited him personally through his compensation package, and also added to his status as a kingmaker and an important person in state government,» said the New York attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, who charged Dr. Kaloyeros with three felony counts of bid - rigging at a news conference.

Sachs, a close personal friend of Cuomo and godfather to the governor's daughter Michaela, was criticized at the time for his role in the Medicaid Redesign effort, given his status as a paid consultant to health industry groups that stood to benefit from the redesign.

The second benefit allows the County to consider a bidder's status as a Minority or Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) when determining contract awards.

The Charity Commission will publish guidance on private schools tomorrow and is expected to argue they keep the controversial status as long as they can prove they benefit the education and wellbeing of children.

The U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau and the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women invite you to attend a webinar to explore the benefits of apprenticeship training opportunities for women as it creates a means to move into middle skills jobs and increasing economic security for women and their families.

In Massachusetts, achieving ballot access actually makes getting candidates on the ballot more difficult, although having party status provides other benefits, such as listing the Libertarian Party as a choice on voter registration forms.

For the Max Planck PhDnet, an active network of Ph.D. candidates at the German Max Planck Society (MPG), a big victory came on 13 March: MPG finally decided to treat all of its Ph.D. candidates as employees, giving them equal professional status and full social security benefits and employment protections.

The Irish minister for research and innovation, Sean Sherlock, says that research will deliver jobs and major economic and societal benefits: «Today we are sending out a major positive signal that, despite our status as an E.U. / IMF program country, we are still investing smartly and significantly in research talent.»

«We have a mission and an obligation, given who we are and the benefits we enjoy as a result of our status as scientists, to address major science - based issues in society,» said Huybers, a professor of earth and planetary sciences and environmental science and engineering at Harvard University.

Federal policy might establish a uniform employment status as well as guidelines for assuring postdocs the fringe benefits worthy of their education and training.

Quality of life issues such as compensation, benefits, status, and working conditions continue to be a concern.

Rather, they directly affect salary, status, and access to benefits such as quality health care, employee programs, and retirement investment options.

Since 1996, Israel has taken part in E.U. research programs as an «associated country» — a status that allows a non-E.U. country to benefit from the European Union's funding bonanzas in return for a fixed contribution based on gross domestic product.

The results were even more auspicious when the investigators stratified vaccinated subjects by antibody responder status: subjects who successfully mounted an immunological response to the vaccine enjoyed statistically significant benefits as measured with the IGA, the two motor function subscales of the MDS - UPDRS, and the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ - 39) of quality of life (though not on the PD Non-Motor Symptoms Questionnaire (NMS - Quest / PD - NMS)-RRB-, while no benefit was observed in nonresponders on any scale (Table 1).

This may have mixed the true exposure status, which is likely to have underestimated the benefits of cessation as quitters are more likely to relapse.38