Sentences with phrase «unfair pay practices»

Hedge fund manager Steven Cohen's firm has been sued by a female employee who alleged unfair pay practices and a sexist working environment.

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«We are pleased the federal court in San Diego decided Qualcomm must establish the fair value of its technology and defend its business practices in court before forcing Apple and others to pay exorbitant and unfair rates, which amount to a tax on our own inventions,» Apple spokesman Josh Rosenstock said in a statement.

Woz told the BBC that he doesn't like the idea that Apple is not paying taxes the way he does as an individual, saying he was worried its tax practices may be «unfair.»

The European Commission has set out plans to ban unfair trade practices in the food supply chain including late payments for perishable food products, last minute order cancellations, unilateral or retroactive changes to contracts and forcing the supplier to pay for wasted products.

The current practice of giving a price break to kids deemed able to pay is seen as unfair because it drains money that should be supporting poor children.

There's the Affordable Care Act, Thawed Cuba - American relations, the economy has shown steady growth with unemployment under 5 % for the first time in 8 years, the Iranian Nuclear treaty, same sex marriage, GM is alive and Bin - Laden's dead, updated the Fair Labor Standards act so people get paid for overtime hours... again, Dodd - Frank Wall St reforms, the CARD act to protect credit card users from unfair charges and business practices, etc etc..

They are often subject to unfair labor practices which include insufficient pay and excessive work schedules.

Remember, the debt collection law protects you from unfair practices of collection agencies but you are still responsible to pay back the money that you owe.

The two main laws prevent unfair debt collection practices and allow consumers to refuse to pay their credit card bills in certain situations.

States have established solid precedent for restricting advance fees for debt - related services that have a history of complaints regarding unfair and deceptive practices resulting in consumers not receiving the services for which they paid.

Just as the consumer protection laws are designed to protect consumers from unfair trade practices, the Bankruptcy Code is designed to provide relief for debtors who are unable to pay their debts in addition to their livings expenses.

If you want us to pre-order, get rid of this shady practice, I and many consumers feel that it's unfair that Canadians are paying $ 70 instead of the regular $ 60.

That is to say while they pay lip - service to free market competition, in practice they abhor free market competition and will undertake any number of stratagems to obtain an unfair advantage.

Compelling to arbitration — and ultimately obtaining dismissal with prejudice of all claims — a statewide putative class and representative action brought against a craft store chain in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California that involved meal and rest break, failure to pay wages, inaccurate wage statements, unfair business practices, and PAGA claims;

If you are having to deal with your own insurance company to pay a claim for personal or property damages and that company is not complying in good faith with the terms and conditions in the policy that you took out with that insurance company, that insurance company may be subject to bad faith and unfair and deceptive trade practices.

The British Columbia Labour Board rules IKEA commits unfair labour practices and orders damages to be paid.

30 -LSB-...] according to the wording of that provision, an unfair practice exists where the consumer is subject to a requirement to pay money or incur a cost on taking any action to claim what is presented to him as a prize or other equivalent benefit.

38 -LSB-...] the practice at issue in paragraph 31, second indent, of Annex I to the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive exploits the psychological effect caused by the announcement of the winning of a prize, in order to induce the consumer to make a choice which is not always rational, such as calling a premium rate telephone number to ask for information about the nature of the prize, travelling at great expense to collect an item of low - value crockery or paying the delivery costs of a book which he already has (sic).

In particular, LexisNexis ® Risk Solutions has high - lighted five key revisions to the current legislation that banks and other financial institutions must be aware of to remain compliant in their anti-money launder - ing provisions: • Pre-paid cash cards: to reduce financial crimes linked to anonymous pre - paid instruments, vendors will be required to conduct more stringent customer verification and the thresh - old will be reduced from $ 250 to $ 150 • Digital currencies: thorough customer due diligence controls will be required by all virtual cur - ing farmers, are vulnerable to unfair trading practices employed by partners in the chain.

If the income is shared to pay alimony, then it might be unfair to divide the lump sum value of the practice in equitable distribution (which would be a double dip).

In addition to the Gmail issues, Microsoft recently launched an anti-Google «Scroogled» campaign designed to highlight «unfair pay - to - rank shopping practices» in Google Shopping.

To be clear, basing salary offers on a candidate's past earnings is a poor and unfair practice that tends to reinforce racial and gender pay inequality, and ideally employers should stop doing it.