Moreover, while most of the original claims were filed under product-liability clauses, where liabilities are capped, the later claims are being filed under general work-environment clauses, which impose no limit on awards.
If the workers are successful in de-authorizing a union, they are free to resign their memberships and stop paying union dues thus creating a de facto right-to-work environment.
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Implement practices that reduce conflicts between work and family demands (examples from Lisa: promote flexible work schedules, provide access to daycare, promote a Results-Only Work Environment, etc.).
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Finally, a results-only work environment basically turns the traditional workplace model of work hours and meetings on its head.
Offering a more productive hands-free work environment for technical field workers, the HC1 will benefit both businesses and government and public safety organizations.
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Yahoo and Best Buy recently made headlines by ending their practice of a Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE), which gave employees the freedom to work on their own time and terms.
Glastir aims to provide balance between the need to produce food and protect the environment, to be accessible to all and to spread money for implementing agri-environment work more widely among farmers.
Hennepin County is practicing what's called a results-only work environment, or ROWE, which gives everyone in a company the freedom to do their job when and where they want, as long as the work gets done.
Everything that has been added to this new version of Creative Cloud is designed to create an end-to-end work environment that you can stay inside of all day, but that you can also use to project your work outwards.
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From the recent internal Collaboration virtual conference at IBM (see my earlier post on this event, Tackling The Multi-Tasking Work Environment), I found two other interesting frameworks that inspire some thinking: collaboration personae and collaborative work profiles .
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The relevance of sustained training, the promotion of women's leadership and a gender-sensitive work environment, the establishment of well defined, monitored and evaluated gender policies and programmes in media houses, journalist unions and professional associations were also stressed, along with fostering a portrayal of women by the media that avoids stereotyping.
Despite the unpleasant nature of the job - and the ruined and polluted environment in which they work - miners already earn far more than the average Romanian - and were often seen as the pampered children of the Communist regime.
Collaborative relationships may seem sensible, but it is often difficult to make them work - especially within a dog-eat-dog environment such as the motor industry.
Safety - both for the marine environment and those who work offshore - must be a priority.
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Nonprofit 1871 on May 2 will open its doors to about 100 start-ups seeking affordable office space and a collaborative work environment in a new 50, 000-square-foot center, which is now under construction in the city's Merchandise Mart.
The very least our employees should expect is to work in an abuse-free environment.
The mighty Google just set up shop in the city this past December, opening a one-floor shared work environment available for free to Israeli startups, developers and entrepreneurs.
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If you work in a gender-neutral environment where getting the job done is the primary focus, in the long run you stand a better chance of being treated professionally if you dress professionally.
Still, is that discrepancy causally connected to right-to-work laws or to other employment-friendly attributes lower corporate taxes or a less stringent regulatory environment in the right-to-work state?
It's difficult, however, to find studies that argue the importance of matching a work environment to a pre-existing passion.
The image evoked by competition is often a hostile work environment is a dog-eat-dog world or just short of a fascist regime where only the strongest and ruthless survive.
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Her company recently teamed up with the Great Place to Work Institute to ask senior executives from top-ranked companies about the value of a positive work environment.
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However, overall success of interventions in changing the long-term path of a currency is less certain--and they only seem to work when nations coordinate their efforts--highly unlikely in this environment.
The LaCie 2big and 4big Quadra offer seamless cross-platform compatibility in any work environment.
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Ability to maintain effective working relations within a multi-cultural environment and to work effectively in team environment.
"We did lot of work on creating a completely digital environment - the entire field, the forest in the background is completely digital - and on digital doubles, digital replacements for humans, " she said.
There are millions of people across America who work with gay co-workers every day, and they handle their business without riotous orgies consuming the work environment.
Ability to maintain effective working relations within a multi-cultural setting and to work effectively in team environment.
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Some experts have questioned whether mobile ad-hoc networks can work reliably in a warfighting environment, but the news so far from testing of Army versions is very positive.
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