Sentences with phrase «when voluntary agreements»

The legislation, called PROMESA, would create a federal oversight board to help Puerto Rico governments balance their budgets, improve financial reporting and facilitate debt restructuring when voluntary agreements between creditors and borrowers can not be reached.

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The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing announced Thursday that it had reached a voluntary agreement with Airbnb to monitor whether some hosts on the platform act with racial or other forms of bias when choosing guests.

A cross-sectional analysis of state government employees from Sally Coleman Selden and Donald P. Moynihan found that states with higher pay for state employees experience lower turnover.26 This reduction in turnover from increased compensation helps to explain the common finding that employees» productivity can increase when they are paid higher wages.27 Furthermore, Selden and Moynihan found that states with a higher percentage of state employees covered by collective bargaining agreements have lower voluntary turnover, even after taking into account the effect of unionization on pay increases.28

The line between what's voluntary and what's mandatory can be hazy when it comes to environmental agreements, and enforcement is somewhat soft.

Eleven cable and satellite companies signed a voluntary deal last year to reduce power consumption of the boxes from 10 % to 45 % by 2017, but the deal doesn't require the devices to go down to a trickle when turned off and the agreement has no penalties for noncompliance.

The BEPS issue that although they are voluntary agreements, when a reorganisation and cross-border transaction takes place, will involve one or more jurisdictions that have probably adopted these agreements to combat the displacement of benefits and erosion in relation to taxes whose declaration and transparent payment you want to hide or minimize to reduce the burden of the tax or not pay in the corresponding jurisdiction.

Lawyers and clients who are extremely pragmatic and effective when negotiating a commercial contract or other voluntary agreement, dig themselves into unreasonable positions when there is a dispute and they believe they (or their clients) have been wronged.

Reaffirmation agreements are not required in bankruptcy and are totally voluntary, and there may be certain circumstances when they make sense, such as in the case of a borrower who has inadvertently received federal Title IV loan funds in excess of an annual or aggregate loan limit and wishes to regain eligibility for additional Title IV aid.

In our most recent pre-budget submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, Imagine Canada recommended that the federal government take action - either through regulation or a voluntary agreement - to reduce fees paid by registered charities when they accept donations or...

When you sign a voluntary agreement with your spouse, you avoid placing important decisions in the hands of a judge.

Moreover, when a wife has not been represented by an attorney, and assuming that there was no knowing and voluntary waiver of counsel, then it is likely that the separation agreement will be set aside.

When parents can not come to an agreement, custody may be determined by voluntary mediation through the Family Court, or as part of a divorce action.

Since care labelling of textile is a voluntary program in Canada, the Competition Bureau leaves the decision to businesses if an when they want to adopt the new standard, published in December 2003 by the Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB), which is harmonized with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) care symbols and the symbols in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard (both not yet finalized).