Sentences with phrase «than firing employees»

Russian businesses adjust to negative shocks mostly by lowering salaries, rather than firing employees.

Not exact matches

«Ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community,» the report reads.

As a business owner, you often think that addressing a problem is going to be more difficult than it actually is - firing that problem employee, correcting a broken process, or making an uncomfortable phone call to a customer.

If you read through even a few of the thousands of posts and Twitter comments and related outcry about Taylor's departure, and the subsequent shut - down of popular threads or «sub-Reddits» like r / movies and r / music, it becomes obvious that for many of the site's users, the issue is about more than just the firing of one employee.

But one former employee, citing internal information shared by a manager, said the total number fired is higher than 700 at this point.

As the year progressed, CEO Travis Kalanick resigned amid an investor revolt, many of Uber's other top executives resigned or were forced out, shady business practices were revealed, and more than 20 employees were fired as a result of an investigation into bad behavior in the workplace that includes sexual harassment.

This prompted several investigations at Uber, including one headed by former Attorney General Eric Holder, which led to the recent firing of more than 20 employees.

As employers do not deal with the day - to - day matters of hiring, firing or paying employees, for franchisors to decree a franchise - wide minimum wage may violate the franchise model, making franchisees nothing more than employees.

When you run the numbers, it may be more cost - effective to invest in your employees, rather than firing off the poor performers and finding new ones, which, in sales, can be an expensive process that can take months.

More than 1,500 Ford employees were evacuated Monday morning after a fire broke out at an electrical sub-station at Ford World Headquarters.

(The company paid a $ 185 million fine and fired more than 5,000 employees who were found to have opened as many as 2 million unauthorized accounts for consumers.

For example, if your boss has immediately fired a past employee who told them about another job opportunity then it may be in your best interest to start your new job sooner rather than later to avoid missing out on pay.

The company fired more than 20 employees followed by the departure of CEO Travis Kalanick and several other executives.

Organizations preoccupied with short - term, bottom line thinking often view their employees as little more than resources to be hired, fired, and manipulated as the need arises.

And at the end of last year, the paper cut more than 100 newsroom employees through buyouts and firings to save costs.

Founders and CEOs should prioritize building their boards Entrepreneurs may prefer to focus on the daily tasks of launching products, hiring employees and putting out fires, rather than thinking about their boards.

More than 5,300 Wells Fargo employees were fired for abuses before they became public, regulators later found.

In recent months, Uber has fired more than 20 employees after an investigation into the company's culture, embarked on major changes to professionalize its workplace, and is searching for new executives including a chief operating officer.

The company has since fired more than 5,000 employees, the vast majority of them lower - level workers.

The startup is still reeling from sexual harassment allegations that prompted a companywide review, resulted in the firing of more than 20 employees, and led to suggestions that it might benefit from naming a female CEO.

As a result, more than 20 employees were fired.

The bank fired more than 5,000 employees tied to the scandal.

Stevie, who is wiser than God and more just than anyone, if a manager gives an employee all the tools to succeed and that employee fails, while having the ability to succeed, who's fault is it if the employee gets fired.

First, because most employees in the US are «at will», meaning, we can be fired at any time for any reason long as it's not discriminatory, we work long hours, are afraid of taking time away from work longer than a week, and certainly not for child care purposes.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, a Republican who did not seek re-election, in July moved more than 40 politically appointed employees into competitive union positions that will protect them from being fired.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which has been the main target of efforts to fire feds faster, dismissed more than 500 employees this year — even before a new accountability law took effect.

The administration of Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who is not expected to seek re-election as he fights federal corruption charges, has moved more than 40 politically appointed employees into competitive union positions that will protect them from being fired when a new county executive takes office in January.

Here are some more startling numbers, according to the BBC: 6,000 military personnel arrested, including more than two dozen generals awaiting trial; 9,000 police officers fired; almost 3,000 judges suspended; and more than 250 members of Prime Minister Binali Yildirim's staff removed from their posts, as have 1,500 Finance Ministry employees.

The Mangano administration recently transferred more than 40 county employees from political jobs to competitive union positions that would protect them from being fired if a new county executive takes office in January, Newsday reported Monday.

Then the «journalist» proceeded to claim that false data was widespread and that there was a coverup, but so far no evidence has been presented other than the original employee (who was fired in 2011) own confession of his wrongdoing.

In addition, Santino and the board are primed to approve a memorandum of agreement that would, through 2021, bar town union employees for being fired for anything other than misconduct or incompetence.

The more than 200 employees there were evacuated yesterday when the fire, sparked by lightning, raged on Bear Mountain, a few kilometers up the canyon from their buildings.

However, when her jealous grandmother discovers that her granddaughter has grown closer to the hired help than with her own flesh and blood, she fires all of the employees, much to Phoebe's dismay.

We will turn teachers into «at will» employees who can be fired at the whim of a principal based on little more than test scores.

Corporations can use duty to shareholders to justify making charitable donations (PR value), withholding charitable donations (damage to bottom line), keeping bad employees (avoiding litigation risk), firing bad employees (avoiding employee error risk), focusing on long - term gains (building sustainable profits), focusing on short - term gains (returning the best quarter than can be had), selling spyware to the Chinese politburo (profits), withholding spyware from the Chines politburo (avoiding regulatory intervention), and so on.

The latest estimate for the Fire Phone, which debuted July 25, pegs sales at no more than 35,000 during its first 25 days on the market — that's nearly one for every four employees currently working at the e-commerce giant.

Business customers, meanwhile, have largely had better options than the Kindle Fire when it comes to device management for employees.

While I won't go into all the gory details, CNN reported that the bank recently fired more than 5,000 employees for allegedly opening a slew of phoney customer accounts in an effort to meet aggressive sales targets.

Whether you're firing a client, splitting up your practice's long - established partnership, tendering your resignation or terminating an employee, divorce, veterinary - style, happens more often than ever.

How about when Nintendo management decided to take pay cuts rather than to fire a bunch of people because they were having a bad couple years, I don't see someone like EA being so considerate of their employees.

«Indeed, under UK employment law when a departing employee decides to go rogue and fire off some form of parting shot there is often little the employer can actually do about it other than apologise to the affected parties and do as Twitter appears to be and «conduct a review» whilst expressing contrition.

For example, in the drunk driving case, an employer would be better off simply ignoring an employee's drinking problem or firing him for showing up drunk, rather than directing him to counseling programs.

However, most US states provide for at - will employment, where employees may be fired at any time for any reason or no reason (other than specific exceptions like illegal discrimination).

Some small firm owners dislike firing so much they would rather cut their own pay than their employees.

When an employee is fired with cause, the employer must pay the employee's earnings no later than 10 days after the last day of employment (s. 10 Employment Standards Code).

If an employee quits, is fired, or is laid off, the employer must pay vacation pay in the last cheque, no later than ten days after the last day of employment (s. 10 Employment Standards Code).

The Court's statement that «the civil rights laws seek to insure that employees are treated the same regardless of their sex or other protected status» misses the mark in that it will inevitably work to the detriment of women more than men, not only because men are more likely to be in higher level positions (still today) but because, as the cited case law shows, it is apparently men who have taken it upon themselves to fire female employees for being too pretty.

While, it is true, Nelson may not have been fired, strictly speaking, because she is a woman (after all, a female superior could also fire a male employee for the same reason under the state's laws), Nelson was nonetheless fired because of, inter alia, certain steretypes associated with attractive women in the workplace, or a socialized (and apparently accepted) ethic that women are to be blamed for attracting male attention (rather than, say, chastizing the male boss for making comments to Nelson about his bulging pants).

These tools, designed for companies that fire more employees than legal professionals comprise the entire Ontario bar, can enhance internal firm interaction.

Although the two employees» age difference was less than 10 years, the fired employee still was able to go forward with her Age Discrimination in Employment Act case in federal court.