Sentences with phrase «year policy works»

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Accenture has also worked on ways to get more women into senior leadership positions (they've changed the interview process so that candidates of both genders get to know more members in the executive ranks) and to retain them (implementing a one - year no - travel policy for employees who are new mothers and fathers).

Tightening of monetary policy meant to cool the housing market over the past year, combined with a wind - down in public works, has served to slow GDP growth into the single digits.

Salim was named to Forbes» 30 Under 30 list earlier this year and has received recognition from the World Policy Institute for her work in sustainability.

Between ending its work - from - home policy and acquiring Tumblr, Yahoo has undergone several big changes since Marissa Mayer took the helm just over a year ago.

A report last year from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives called temp agency work a «trap» that ensnares low - income workers in bad jobs forever.

I have done a lot of policy work in the last few years on a national and international level.

The U.S. government has done a lot policy and emergency services [work] on Mesh networking, of which I have been a huge champion for years, and I have done a lot of work in Washington pushing that forward.

Triggertrap has decided to do things a bit differently in 2015, designing a new four - point approach to vacations that significantly tweaks the simple «no tracking time off» policy that didn't work so well last year.

The chiefs also want to review the policy in a year to see how things are working, the officials said.

But late last year he decided rather than continue to work for change in the policy world, he could do more good as an entrepreneur.

Spulber, who is completing The Innovative Entrepreneur, a book slated for publication next year, notes that his work has public policy implications.

The Fed has been working to normalize monetary policy over the past two years, beginning with its initial move off historically low, near - zero rates in December 2015.

For six years Anthony Levandowski worked on Google's self - driving car project, developing sensors, creating policies, and testing technology.

Tarun has worked in health for 30 years, focusing on public health research, policy and practice in the prevention of common chronic diseases and addressing Aboriginal health gaps.

Ask.com says it saves about 52 Human Resources working hours each year with its unlimited policy.

On staff, it says that although the department has hired 90 % of the staff it needs to carry out its Brexit work this year, its workforce «lacks the required level of experience and expertise» to deliver complex Brexit - related policies.

He added that he is working with employees on eliminating outdated, unsustainable policies and systems that are as much as 56 years old and have held back departments like the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer stirred up quite a commotion earlier this year when she announced a the telecommuting policy that was heard around the world — as of June nobody at the Internet company could work from home.

«That working group is working out the policies that will go into effect early next year.»

Comments received by the Department and media reports also indicate that many financial institutions already had completed or largely completed work to establish policies and procedures necessary to make the business structure and practice shifts required by the Impartial Conduct Standards earlier this year (e.g., drafting and implementing training for staff, drafting client correspondence and explanations of revised product and service offerings, negotiating changes to agreements with product manufacturers as part of their approach to compliance with the PTEs, changing employee and agent compensation structures, and designing conflict - free product offerings), and the Department believes that financial institutions may use this compliance infrastructure to ensure that they meet the Impartial Conduct Standards after taking the additional Start Printed Page 16910sixty days for an orderly transition between June 9, 2017, and January 1, 2018.

Celebrating over 50 years of excellence, education and advocacy, IFA works through its government relations and public policy, media relations and educational programs to protect, enhance and promote franchising.

Bill Curry reports in today's Globe that, at last year's economic policy retreat, business leaders urged Finance Minister Flaherty to reduce the pay of «overpriced» Canadian workers, including through anti union right to work legislation.

In February 2006, after working on the lumber trade file for nearly six years, Ed Gillespie visited Vancouver to make the keynote speech at a forum on the softwood lumber dispute, NAFTA and American trade policy.

So it came as a particularly harsh blow to advocates of work - life balance when Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly scrapped the company's ROWE policy earlier this year, calling it «fundamentally flawed from a leadership standpoint.»

In other words Democrats and Republicans will need to get together after a fiercely fought presidential election and do what they have failed to do for years - that is to work in a bi-partisan way to make sensible policy.

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It took 20 years and two recessions — both of which were more severe than the one we just had — before we were able to come up with a monetary policy framework that works well.

If there are certain days or times during the year when your startup truly needs everyone at work, make those dates clear in your vacation policy and communications with staff.

While I believe stocks will gradually work higher over the year, I think it will be in the context of considerably higher volatility as the external policy environment has grown considerably more problematic.

Mr. Wilkins said Nike has a no - retribution policy that it takes seriously and noted that there was a significant reorganization of the work force last year.

As in years past, recipients of Donors Trust cash include the biggest players in conservative politics today: the David Koch - chaired Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the Cato Institute, the FreedomWorks Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, and the influential State Policy Network.

An omnibus appropriations package, steel tariffs, regulatory work on the new tax law and general uncertainty about the nation's direction on policy and governing fueled K Street business during the first three months of this year.

Prior to joining BlackRock, she was a senior official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked for 15 years in a range of positions related to economic analysis, policy making and global governance.

In recent years, we see a pressing need to more clearly articulate Asia's policy priorities as it is clear that «one - size - fits - all» solutions may not work well in all situations.

Previously, Tawnya worked for 10 years at Centurion Insurance Group as a commercial account manager, where she handled commercial policy applications, renewals, and policy audits.

After all, the ECB is firmly committed to asset monetisation and negative interest rates based on the belief that these counter-productive policies are working, and the Federal Reserve is seemingly afraid to take even a small step towards «policy normalisation» despite its targets for employment and «inflation» having been reached more than three years ago.

Working in the other direction, the investment of the US dollar proceeds of foreign exchange intervention by Asian central banks was supportive of the US Treasury market, as was the very wide spread between 10 - year Treasury yields and the Fed funds rate, particularly in light of the Fed's reaffirmation of its intention to maintain an accommodative monetary policy stance (Table 5, Graph 12).

We thank Dan Heist, University of Pennsylvania doctoral candidate in social policy, for his work on this year's study.

For those who haven't had the time to read the legaled - up language of every single privacy policy we encounter (which, considering Carnegie Mellon researchers estimated it would take the average user the equivalent of 76 work days per year to do, is most of us), and even for people like me who do it for a living and still find disclosure gaps, the Facebook — Cambridge Analytica scandal managed to shed a bit of light on the otherwise obscure relationships between some tech companies and advertisers.

That how Brian Domitrovic, the only American who understands completely how and why supply - side economics actually works, characterizes our new monetary policy: The idea is that if all the spending and regulation of the last few years has only resulted in nil growth, stubborn unemployment,....

GOP puppet, won't work for long, the GOP is terrible with economic policies on the national level, seen all the way from the Great Depression 100 years ago.

Emma had witnessed first - hand the unintended consequence of this policy: single parents going off to work and, in the absence of affordable child care, leaving eight - year - olds to watch three - year - old siblings.

Reciprocal - solidarity policies would offer a deal to wage - earners: You will work more years, but if you take a less physically demanding job as you age, you won't lose your healthcare benefits or find that your earnings collapse just as your body starts breaking down.

According to Davison Budhoo, an economist who had worked with both the World Bank and the IMP before he quit the latter in protest against its policies, on the basis of the figures released by UNICEF, it is estimated that those policies led directly to the death of 70 million children under 5 years in the Third World between the years 1982 - 1990 and indirectly to the destitution and impoverishment of several hundred millions more 8.

Jefferson has served as Wine Institute's Vice President of Federal Relations for nearly five years and previously spent 20 years working in public policy, including 17 years in the U.S. Congress.

From its headquarters in Washington, D.C. and Western Regional office in Salinas, Calif., United Fresh and its members work year - round to make a difference for the produce industry by driving policies that increase consumption of fresh produce, shaping critical legislative and regulatory action, providing scientific and technical leadership in food safety, quality assurance, nutrition and health, and developing educational programs and business opportunities to assist member companies in growing successful businesses.

I actually worked at the Sydney store for work experience last year and they had this policy: While packaging chocolate, eat whatever you want

Michael Sligh Organization Representative: Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI - USA) Michael Sligh has worked for over 30 years as a Program Director for RAFI - USA where he manages policy, research and education for the promotion of organic, agro-biodiversity, organic seed development, and a wide - range of food justice, fair trade and other value - added food labeling, policy and marketing issues.

The NOSB has been working for several years to develop policies and procedures that will bring consistency and transparency to the review and approval of ancillary substances in ingredients and processing aids used in organic processed foods.

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.