Sentences with phrase «testing policies»

An employer is always free to negotiate drug and alcohol testing policies with the union.

Each of these decisions has reflected a casual application of human rights law and has prevented employers from establishing effective mandatory drug testing policies.

Rather, such random testing policies must be viewed in the context of the workplace as a whole.

It has commissioned over twelve studies on the impact of high stakes testing policies on minority children.

This brief provides information about K — 12 testing with the goal of helping parents, educators, policymakers, and others make decisions about testing policies in their community and state.

The problem is not ruling out grammar schools, or saying we will stand up for big business or test policies on their impact on the poorest.

While item analysis is not a new technique, it may provide important insight in assessing the effects of testing policies.

Do high - stakes testing policies lead to increased student motivation to learn?

Government officials in intelligence and national security have long used the «red team» approach to stress test policy and intelligence conclusions about issues like Russian military strength.

Similarly, if students complain that there is too much studying - to - the - test in school, we should rethink current testing policies.

Many workplace drug and alcohol testing policies do not define «refusing to test» and provide no disciplinary consequences for it.

We did not have to test the policy because we did not need to file a claim.

We may never get the union to agree to a drug - testing policy if we say we'll test for steroids.

Did high - stakes testing policies produce only one - time impacts on behavior or are there long - term impacts?

It also gives guidance on how to design testing policies and programs to respect human rights, while also ensuring workplace safety.

It is then no wonder that employers are keen to introduce drug and alcohol testing policies into the workplace.

Does your organization have a formal drug testing policy?

The creation and maintenance of a compliant drug and alcohol testing policy is essential for employers hoping to maintain a safe and productive workplace in addition to protecting themselves against costly litigation.

In short, those states passing high - stakes testing policies must always take into consideration the full range of capacity issues that are necessary for student success.

Today, a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada upheld an arbitration award which concluded that a random alcohol testing policy for use in a safety sensitive workplace was not justified.

(NPR) Daniel Koretz shares perspective from his book, The Testing Charade, and says it is unclear how federal education law will shape state testing policies in the future.

«Defining Promise: Optional Standardized Testing Policies in American College and University Admissions» This is a great read and you can find the complete study at the link below.

When asked by The Associated Press in a separate interview about the government's contention that businesses could enact their own testing policies, the New York Democrat said: «Tell that to the families of the people who died in Spuyten Duyvil,» referring to the neighborhood where the Metro - North train crashed in 2013, killing four people.

In Suncor Energy Inc v Unifor Local 707A, the Alberta Court of Appeal sent the issue of whether Suncor's random drug and alcohol testing policy violated the privacy rights of its unionized workers back to a new arbitration hearing before...

Any stakes associated with testing policies should be shouldered not only by students and educators, but also by policymakers who have control over the educational systems in which teaching and learning occur.

It's being boycotted by Canadian health authorities and laboratories in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, challenged by the French government in a heated patent dispute, and has provoked deep animosity in Britain as the company negotiates with the National Health Service over testing policy.

This said, in national testing policies we should have a smart balance between census - based standardised testing and sample - based standardised assessments.

The exploding opt - out movement has already achieved its first victories.It is altering state and local testing policies for the better, reducing the number of tests and lowering their stakes.

Database: Testing the Tests Naomi Dillon School boards are assessing district testing policies.

There has not been a significant human rights challenge to a random testing policy since Irving Pulp (which was not a human rights complaint), and it will be interesting to see whether the Supreme Court's dim view of random testing in a unionized workplace will influence the treatment of such policies in a non-union environment.

The new testing policy «will significantly increase the threshold for a positive marijuana test and reduce the punishments for violations involving that drug» in exchange for league - wide Human Growth Hormone (HGH) testing, according to a report from ESPN's Dan Graziano.

«You need principles but you must always test each policy against the practical effects of following it.

Upgraded testing policies while maintaining company standards and complying with necessary regulations

FIV / FeLV Testing Policy: IndyFeral does not test for FIV / FeLV unless the cat is showing active signs of ill health that may indicate the virus.

The Policy is structured to explain where testing policies and programs may be unlawfully discriminatory and where they may be justified.

Fleur Anderson, «How Bruce Billson's own business failure affected his effects test policy» (BRW, 14 August 2015)

The fact that the NFL has more stringent marijuana testing policies than the Olympics is curious to begin with, but even the WADA has stricter guidelines than most private businesses.

But if you are serious about making people believe that you can fix things and offer solutions and not platitudes, you need to do deep, critical thinking; you need to reach out to those pesky experts that know stuff and can help; and stress test the policy so you know you won't dissolve in to a shambles on the third question of any interview.

John Redwood has the commonsense and grit needed to road test policies and get them through Whitehall with out the civil service hierachy making mischief.

It is an adaptable educational and learning tool for raising awareness about watershed stewardship anywhere in the world; a tool for exploring and testing policy choices; and a tool for evaluating new products and services.

Factors that facilitated the offer of HIV testing were venous sampling (versus point - of - care tests), commitment of medical staff to HIV testing policy and support from local HIV specialist providers.

In a test of Denver's new system of school - based management, several schools are engaged in what is being called a «power struggle» with the board of education over the right to set testing policy.

High stakes testing policies requiring students to pass standardized tests for promotion and graduation deepen educational inequity between whites and minorities and widen the educational gap between affluent and impoverished students, according to two studies of education reform in Texas.

In a forthcoming paper, Stanford University economists Martin Carnoy and Susanna Loeb conducted a similar analysis but expanded it to include testing policies that impose high stakes on students.

Education officials say they don't see most school districts suddenly crafting new drug - testing policies just because the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld such testing of students in a wide range of extracurricular activities.