Key Commitments. 1. The Parties affirm their respective commitments to the principles of the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its Follow-up (1998).
Key Commitments. 1. The Parties respect the right of each Party to set, administer and enforce its own environmental laws, regulations, policies and practices according to its priorities.
Key Commitments. The framework principles provide the foundation for the commitment required of each party to the agreement. These commitments place responsibility and obligation on both management and trades unions to actively promote and abide by them at all times. Council’s commitment • Commitment to employment security • Commitment to promote and encourage trade union membership • Commitment to trade unions being the ‘Employee Voice’ within the Council. whilst membership levels represent a majority of workers employed by the Council. This is not intended to be used as a mechanism for derecognition. • Commitment to support the training and development of trade union official and shop stewards within their roles Trade Unions’ commitment • Commitment to positively using all appropriate means including, where required, exhausting the disputes procedure as a means of resolving differences before embarking on any form of industrial action. • Commitment of trade unions, where appropriate, to work together to represent a common ‘Staff-side’ position to management to facilitate ‘single table’ bargaining. Joint commitments • Non-adversarial industrial relations, to work to resolve issues in a spirit of compromise rather than conflict.
Key Commitments. The Parties recognise the intrinsic value of their information holdings to one another and the business efficiencies that can be gained from sharing these, subject to proper controls and legal restrictions and policies of the respective Parties The Parties will commit to: • promoting access to and exchanging information in an efficient manner • exchanging information without cost or charge where the information is to be used solely for the statutory, regulatory or not for profit functions of the other Party. This does not preclude charging a reasonable sum to cover the cost of work on the information (e.g in supplying in a particular format) or third party royalties • handling data and information in accordance with current legislation and published public sector data handling guidelines • recording each other as data recipients under data protection legislation registrations/notifications • seeking closer understanding of and exploring means by which greater collaboration in daily operations may be established • publicising internally what data services are available from the other Party, and how to make use of them • establishing internal processes by which appropriate published material will be made available to the other Party, e.g. research reports, publicity leaflets etc. (subject to the terms and conditions of specific service level agreements) • developing arrangements which cover the supply of the other Party’s information to third parties, including, where appropriate, the allocation of income. It is agreed that neither Party will seek to profit financially from information supplied by the other Party.
Key Commitments. 2.1 Responses to service user needs In delivering the SLIS service, in response to service user needs, the Company will endeavour to ensure that the service meets the highest standard and will implement all policies and procedures set out by the Board. The Board will consult, as appropriate, with SLIS in the development of such policies and procedures. The Company will participate in initiatives that are designed to improve the prompt access to services and the quality of service provision to the public and will in as far as is possible co-operate with and use all mechanisms, processes or initiatives to facilitate same for the public.
Key Commitments. 1. The Parties affirm through this Chapter their intention to continue to pursue a high level of environmental protection and to fulfil their respective multilateral environmental commitments and international plans of action in such a way as to contribute to the objective of sustainable development.
Key Commitments. Chapter 2 Protecting the environment and the travelling public from the effects of pollution and environmental incidents on the highway 2.1 Introduction
Key Commitments. The Parties will work together and with other responders to develop and implement best policy and best practice to protect people and the environment from the effects of spillages and the impacts of environmental incidents on the public and highway network. The Parties have identified areas where they can improve working practices and agreed key commitments for how they will do this. These are set out below and cross referenced throughout the document: Incident response planning
Key Commitments. The Parties have agreed to work together to develop and implement policy and best practice to protect surface water and groundwater and reduce the risk of flooding on the existing road network and new road projects. To do so, the Parties will work together (along with Agents and Contractors) in the following areas: • planning and developing new roads • programming existing road improvements • road maintenance schemes. The Parties have agreed the following commitments: Highway Schemes
Key Commitments. 5.1 The Partner Authorities:
