Sentences with phrase «used by private firms»

If, as is being suggested, enough Tory backbenchers rebel so that the changes don't go through, there is an alternative solution often used by private firms wishing to shed staff.

Not exact matches

Instead, the winning group will have a public - private partnership contract with the government which will allow it use of some state infrastructure, such as sites to build towers on and a fiber optic network owned by the state electricity firm.

«Beginning in November 2014 and continuing until his arrest in March 2016, CASPERSEN engaged in a Ponzi - like scheme to defraud investors, including his close friends, family members, and college classmates, by falsely claiming that their funds would be used to make secured loans to private equity firms and would thereby earn an annual rate of return of 15 to 20 percent.

The National recently featured a 17 - minute report by Lang on private security firms in Afghanistan using NATO money to bribe insurgents, a topic with only the most tangential link to her beat.

Because it serves to remind us that even today the «money» that commercial banks and other private - market financial firms produce is in an important respect not the real McCoy at all, but ersatz (if often more convenient) stuff that serves in place of it, and does so only because the firms that supply it, not only make it very convenient to use (e.g., by swiping a debit card), but at the same time offer its users something akin to money - back (which is to say, a «money proper» - back) guarantees.

Today the same terminology might be used to distinguish the irredeemable currency supplied directly by the Fed from the redeemable exchange media created by commercial banks and other private financial firms.

Bushmaster — the gun manufacturer of the rifle used in the Newtown, Conn., shootings — is being sold by its owner, the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management.

But none of these profoundly negative indications has prevented the use of sodium fluoroacetate by both public and private agencies, or its widespread sale by the two U.S. firms that manufacture it — Tull Chemical and Roberts Chemicals — and the Japanese chemical company that imitates them.

In truth, there are a variety of ways around the existing system - for instance by having publicly - owned firms bid for contracts and using government powers to select the conditions upon which private firms compete with them.

The groups urged bans on a pay - to - play culture in Albany to limit political donations by firms seeking state contracts, closing a loophole heavily used by Cuomo and others that allow limited liability companies to skirt donation limits to politicians by private companies, creation of «truly independent» ethics oversight agencies, a public, searchable database of state economic development deals and creation of «clean contracting» systems to govern awards of state contracts.

The Treasury Department audit of Innovate NY, reported by Newsday but so far ignored by other news media, highlights the pitfalls of using taxpayer funds to underwrite speculative investments in private firms.

By time Collins got his turn, late in the proceedings, he said he had already got a lot of answers about Facebook's privacy procedures and how British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica used the private information from tens of millions of people without their knowledge.

The reforms were proposed after the former Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was arrested and charged with illegally gaining millions of dollars from two private law firms by improperly using his political influence.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver used his office to mask millions of dollars in «bribes and kickbacks» as legitimate outside income from two private law firms over more than a decade, according to a bombshell 35 - page criminal complaint filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today.

The FSB is calling on the Government to ensure that all public agencies follow the lead of central Government and pay all invoices to small firms within 10 days; that all contractors that the public sector uses pay their sub-contractors within the same time; and that all private sector companies used by the public sector sign up to the Prompt Payment Code.

The New York Times responded to the latest bombshell report about Harvey Weinstein's efforts to silence accusers, along with the Times journalist working to tell their stories, by firing the law firm that the studio executive used to employ private investigators: Boies Schiller Flexner.

The reforms were proposed after former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with illegally gaining millions of dollars from two private law firms by improperly using his political influence.

To do so, he plans a $ 650 million package of tax breaks, grants and private investment to create a life sciences cluster that could be used by pharmaceutical firms and others in the health care field.

The number of the nation's 81,506 elementary and secondary schools using at least one microcomputer for instruction more than doubled from 24,690 (30 percent) in the fall of 1982 to 55,765 (68 percent) in the fall of 1983, according to a survey by Market Data Retrieval, a private marketing research firm.

That decision marked, to say the least, a major expansion of the scope of the 1964 act and was driven in large measure by the fear that using only a disparate - treatment test (which entailed proof of some form of race - conscious behavior) would allow discrimination by private firms with a history of discrimination by race to slip through the cracks.

The firm, MSC Power Corp, backed by private investors from the Middle East and Asia, will finish constructing a small $ 10 million five megawatt (MW) power station by June in Pune near Mumbai that will use solar energy to power wind turbines.

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He makes the valid point that by insisting that applicants use international firms whose business is focused on large enterprises, extra costs are lumped on consumers and private clients with more limited means.

In this video, Legal Week publisher John Malpas talks to Chris McKenzie, head of trusts and estate planning at BVI law firm O'Neal Webster, about the use of trusts and other techniques to deal with the disruption that can be caused by the death or incapacity of shareholders and directors of a private company.

The Database is used by both private Law Firms and Corporate Counsel worldwide to effectively price the legal services offered or received either in Hourly Rates or Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs) such as Fixed Fee, Transaction Fees, Fixed + Hourly Rate, Collars, Caps, Contingencies and Bonus pricing schemes.

Whether it is an individual involved in a simple business dispute, accident, domestic relations dispute, criminal proceeding, airplane crash, explosion, malpractice injury, a RICO indictment, injury by defective product or asbestos exposure; or a business organization faced with a multifaceted, multimillion dollar complex litigation problem, a control dispute, a grand jury investigation, a regulatory problem or an indictment; or a governmental unit facing financial default, the loss of a state - wide tax, prosecution or defense of a complex contract dispute or the need to use creative litigation to change a governmental structure — the individual, entrepreneur, corporation, private attorney, CEO, councilman, mayor, governor or even Presidential candidate has turned to the Climaco Firm to solve the problem.

Whether it is an individual involved in a simple business dispute, accident, domestic relations dispute, white collar criminal proceeding, airplane crash, explosion, malpractice injury, a RICO indictment, or injury by defective product; or a business organization faced with a multifaceted, multimillion dollar complex litigation problem, a control dispute, a grand jury investigation, a regulatory problem or an indictment; or a governmental unit facing financial default, the loss of a state - wide tax, prosecution or defense of a complex contract dispute or the need to use creative litigation to change a governmental structure — the individual, entrepreneur, corporation, private attorney, CEO, councilman, mayor, governor or even Presidential candidate has turned to the Climaco Firm to solve the problem.

Software - as - a-Service delivered from a private, protected cloud, CloudNine is currently used by more than 50 of the top 250 Am Law firms as well as extensively used in many of the world's leading corporations.

These resources can be referenced and adapted by private firms and legal departments for use in their own mentoring programs.

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.

It's even used by private insurance investigation firms to get a basic idea of what the claimant is up to and whether they're engaging in PIP fraud or other types of insurance fraud.

It's also a victory for trolls, which are shell companies backed by private equity firms and lawyers that use patents (often obtained from Microsoft and others under a «privateering» arrangement) to wage ruinous legal war against everyone from Martha Stewart to individual app developers.

OilCoin has been co-founded by Darius Brooks who used to work previously with the private equity firm TPG.

FileFinder Anywhere is the leading Cloud Executive Search software used by more than 1,600 firms search firms, in - house strategic talent acquisition teams and private equity businesses in over 70 countries.

However, Matherly's assertion that employers should use the FBI for background checks instead of private background screening companies is questioned by Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of San Francisco - area based background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR).

The Tribune reported that Court Executive Officer Susan Matherly, citing the California Rules of Court, was concerned with how case information in the Court's database was used by those seeking to sell it, namely public records researchers working for private background screening firms.

As such if CREA is going to hand over my hard work to other outside private firms that will use my listings to sell advertising space and gain hit count then I want to be paid $ 400 by CREA for the first private firm that they GIVE my listing work to, and $ 100 to every private firm after that.