Constructive Sample Clauses

Constructive non-adversarial dealings between the parties, and constructive mutual steps to avoid differences and disputes and to identify solutions that advance the shared interests and objectives of both central and local government with respect to the communities they serve;

Constructive. Focused upon the assessment of needs and the overcoming of weaknesses.

Constructive. Different forms of Constructive Delivery:

Constructive. In November 2000, as the talks proper got underway, both parties displayed their more constructive side. Both acknowledged that, though the risk of an accident was minimal, the impact would be huge. Both saw the need to achieve a good solution. The environment minister announced that he was prepared to consider indemnifying any losses or providing government assistance if Akzo Nobel could demonstrate that it could not afford the investments and operations needed to reduce chlorine transportation. One important condition was that any solution must meet with the approval of the European Commission, under European competition legislation. The promised assistance with the costs, and above all the amount involved, was however an important stumbling block. Akzo Nobel estimated that, whatever the solution, the government would have to provide at least € 50 million. The minister announced to the outside world that he considered this sum much too high. He told the House of Representatives that Akzo Nobel continually focused on the costs in, paying scant attention to the likely benefits, or to the costs and investments it would be able to avoid. In the early days of negotiations, public pressure increased even further. A report setting out a plan for tackling incidents involving chlorine trains was published in late November 2000. It had been commissioned by a number of local authorities in the north of the country. The findings did not make pleasant reading, prompting a new wave of publications on the dangers of chlorine transportation by rail. Several weeks later the Socialist Party (a leftwing campaigning party with seats in parliament) set up the ‘Red light for chlorine trains’ committee, together with a number of environmental groups, launching a major, well-coordinated campaign against chlorine transportation. With blockades of the ‘murderer in the night’, spectacular publicity stunts at railway stations, press releases, reports and discussion evenings, ‘Red Light’ managed to keep the issue in the politicians’, media and public eye for two years. The campaign was effective, perfectly attuned to the mood of the time, and the media was only too pleased to give it coverage. And it bore fruit. The Dutch had grown extremely concerned about threats to public safety, particularly after a fire in a bar in Volendam on 31 December 2000 took the lives of fourteen young people. On 14 February 2001 there was even a parliamentary hearing about chlorine transportation. Local...

Constructive. Discharge ------------------------ Employees who are earning at least $50,000 Annual Rate of Pay are eligible for reduction-in-force severance pay when their base salary is reduced by 20 percent or more so that, in effect, they have been "constructively" discharged. For such benefits to apply, the employee must terminate within one year of the date of such reduced compensation.