These could include quotas for black workers and a minimum percentage of black-owned shares in bidding companies.
The European Commission is currently drafting a proposal that would raise the minimum percentage of large-company board positions within the EU that are held by women to 40%.
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The RPS would require utilities to use a minimum percentage of clean power--such as wind, hydropower or solar energy--in their overall fuel mix, or it would require electric companies to buy renewable credits from each other.
Having been woven into the fabric of modern society, minimum wage impacts a large percentage of the workforce.
The minimum wage directly affects only a very small percentage of the total full-time work force (1.5 out of 102 million), though lots of part-time workers too.
Citigroup boosted the minimum rate on its Platinum elect card by two percentage points in July.
Along with five others, they had been forced to draw up restructuring plans after falling short of the 8% ratio of capital to risk-weighted assets that is considered the acceptable minimum by international financial regulators (by more than six percentage points in the case of Commercial Bank of Korea).
He refused to be drawn on what the final outcome would be, but he did not deny that expectations of banks such as HSBC that they'll be forced to hold what's known as core tier one capital equivalent to around 10% of risk-weighted assets are in the right ballpark - or about 3 percentage points more than the new 7% minimum for all banks.
So strong is this indirect effect, on his calculations, that the gradual fall in the relative value of America's minimum wage over the past 20 years is capable of explaining 1.5 percentage points of the fall in the country's equilibrium rate of unemployment over the same period.
The index tracks the percentage of optimistic investors minus the percentage of pessimistic investors, and can swing between a theoretical maximum of 100 and minimum of -100.
Dubbed "NEMA Premium"--a standard created last year by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association for motors between 1 hp and 200 hp--these motors offer a few extra percentage points of energy efficiency and sell for roughly 25% more than motors meeting minimum federal standards.
What do you know about what percentage of the people - what are the circumstances of the people who tend to be earning minimum wage?
And so, layered atop the convoluted tax provision for percentage depletion, the fancy term for imaginary depreciation writeoffs, is a penalty called the alternative minimum tax.
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