Another 48% say it includes the management of governance issues (such as complying with regulations, maintaining ethical practices, and meeting accepted industry standards), and 41% say it includes the management of social issues (for instance, working conditions and labor standards).
Similarly, the Green Button team at the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institute of Standards and Technology is working collaboratively with industry to enable millions of residential and commercial energy customers to securely download and share their own energy usage data in a standardized human-readable and machine-readable format directly from their utilities.
Similarly the NFC Forum and EMV Co are organizations that are working towards interoperability and mobile payment standards, respectively.
But with sustained real compensation growth of 2%, after just 20 years the real incomes and living standards of working people would be nearly 50% greater, and after 40 years they would be 120% greater, more than doubled.
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Certain work is being done around defining standards in the mobile payment space and PCI SSC is one such organization that is working to maintain, evolve and promote the standards among various key parties.
The i2i Can-do Toolkit provides guidance to registered social landlords building new affordable homes and working towards the Welsh Housing Quality Standards (WHQS) on making targeted recruitment and training a condition of contract when they appoint companies to carry out work on their behalf.
And I think the President continues to believe that as we -- that in the trade agreements that we have, and that we are working on, that if labor and environmental standards are important to have as side agreements in a trade agreement that they're important enough to be in the original agreement itself.
Tim Lind, head of legal entity and corporate actions at Thomson Reuters and an old hand at standards from working at SWIFT, T owerGroup, GoldenSource and Omgeo, wrote that SWIFT ISO working groups and industry participating have been working for 15 years on its ISO 15022 messaging protocol.
The new law will force banks to conform to new capital standards, and the FDIC and other regulators are working with foreign regulators to coordinate standards.
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We have high safety standards and humane working conditions.
At sustained 3% growth in wages and benefits, after 20 years the living standards of working people will have almost doubled, and after 40 years they will have more than tripled.
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"It is not helpful for a retailer or brand to simply publish a list of factories they no longer work with, " said Richard Locke, a professor of political science and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is working on several projects related to globalization and labor standards.
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The Universal Powerline Association (UPA) is an International not-for-profit trade association working to promote global standards and regulations in the fast developing Powerline communications market.
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Some 90% of UK forecourts are supplied by the Unite union's 2, 000 or so members, who are calling for minimum standards of working conditions and pay.
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Nieman Foundation Curator Ann Marie Lipinski says the 12 U.S. and 12 international journalists are working to uphold the profession's highest standards while focused on innovations for radically shifting audiences, technologies and business models.
"We are already addressing the concerns raised by working with Ofsted and other partners to raise standards further across the programme, " she said.
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As well as coaching Murray, his role included "helping to raise the playing and coaching standards in the UK", working with players and the LTA's network of coaches and its high-performance clubs and academies.
Finally, what of the argument that the new global economy makes it impossible for governments to mandate social protection, such as minimum-wage laws, rules on working hours, health-and-safety standards in the workplace, and so forth.
And, fifth, working with the Secretary of State, we need to strengthen international security measures and standards for aviation security.
At the IEEE 802.3 meetings, participants can be seen working well into the night on projects and standards.
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In the event that the process fails to produce strong frameworks, DHS, working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, could modify a framework.
The trials are for those running websites to see how Microsoft is working with the Open ID standards, and how to go about accepting that version as a login identifier.
Many manufacturers are working together on standards for this technology and have formed a group called WirelessHD to address some of the challenges of sending massive amounts of video data across airwaves while still impressing picky home-theater buyers with perfect pictures.
Mr McAdam says he is working with the Food Standards Agency in Ireland and the Republic's department of agriculture and has provided them with documentation.
For example, trading standards officers have been working with fish and chip shops in north-east England to get them to use salt shakers with fewer holes.
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Although the new post- Sarbanes-Oxley accounting regulator, the PCAOB, has been working very hard to update and strengthen many of these standards for the benefit of investors, they have, in reality, had a hard time making substantial changes to many of them.
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Smokefree South West is working with the HMRC, Trading Standards, Devon and Cornwall Police and local authorities.
"The working group drew on standards developed through the Safe and Sustainable process, but amended the standards to reflect the specific needs of the Northern Ireland population, " they said.
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