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Business Definition for: Conciliation

  • action taken by an independent negotiator to bring disputing sides together with the goal of restoring trust or goodwill and reaching an agreement or bringing about a reconciliation

Wiktionary Definition for: Conciliation

  • The action of bringing peace and harmony; the action of ending strife.

Additional Resources

BELGIUM: CONCILIATION COMMITTEE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL MEETS.
The Conciliation Committee of the European Parliament and the Council meets at 6pm today, Tuesday 2 May, at the Council's premises in Brussels Justus Lipsius building. The two items on the agenda have already been discussed at trialogues between t The Conciliation Committee of the...
Tags: Council, European Parliament
Research articles 2006-05-02
RESEARCH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME: STILL NO AGREEMENT IN CONCILIATION COMMITTEE.
Summary: By the early hours of November 12, the Council and European Parliament Delegations to the Conciliation Committee reached a make or break moment on the implementation of the Fifth Framework Programme on Research 1998-2002. The meeting was due Summary: By the early hours of November...
Tags: agreement, Council, European Parliament
Research articles 1998-11-13
NOISE: FIRST MEETING AHEAD OF CONCILIATION PROCEDURE.
The Council of Ministers, the European Parliament and the European Commission got together on January 10 for their first trilateral meeting under the conciliation procedure for the draft Directive on the management of background noise. The Council an The Council of Ministers, the European Parliament and...
Tags: Council, European Parliament
Research articles 2002-01-16
CONCILIATION COMMITTEE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL MEETS
The Conciliation Committee of the European Parliament and the Council meets at 6pm today, Tuesday 2 May, at the Council's premises in Brussels Justus Lipsius building. The two items on the agenda have already been discussed at trialogues between the twThe Conciliation Committee of the European Parliament and the...
Tags: Council, European Parliament
Research articles 2006-05-02
While Negotiators Talk, Boeing's Engineers Show Their Impatience.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Feb. 8--Negotiators for Boeing and its engineering union met separately with the director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Monday afternoon and into the evening, but no progress toward a new contract was reported. Feb. 8--Negotiators for Boeing and its engineering union met...
Tags: Boeing Co.
Research articles 2000-02-09
Air Canada may face pilot strike following ending of contract talks conciliation
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Tags: Air Canada
Research articles 2000-05-26
A new European order. (Russia's new partnership with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Russia announced that it will allow several Eastern European countries to join NATO under a forthcoming agreement to be signed. To win conciliation from Russia, NATO declared it has no intention to deploy nuclear weapons or significant combat forces in neRussia announced that it will allow several Eastern European countries...
Tags: NATO, partnership
Research articles 1997-05-17
FROM THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL.
C 59 - 23/2/2001 European Parliament legislative resolution on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee for a European Parliament and Council directive on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to insurance against C 59 - 23/2/2001 ...
Tags: Council, European Parliament
Research articles 2001-03-23
State Farm settlement puts pressure on industry.(underwriting homeowners policies)(Editorial)
A single 11-page document has changed the landscape of the homeowners insurance market in this country. That document is the conciliation agreement signed last month by State Farm, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the National A single 11-page document has...
Tags: industry, insurance company, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.
Research articles 1996-08-05
ICA wins dispute in Panama.
MEXICO CITY, Aug 12, 2004 (Mexico Analytica/Corporate Mexico by Internet Securities, Inc. via COMTEX) -- Empresas ICA Sociedad Controladora has announced that the decision of the Center of Conciliation and Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce of Pa MEXICO CITY, Aug 12, 2004 (Mexico Analytica/Corporate Mexico...
Tags: ICA Corp.
Research articles 2004-08-13
MOLDOVA: MOLDOVAN CENTRIST PARTIES FORM ELECTORAL BLOC.(Brief Article)
Leaders of the Democratic Party of Moldova, the Party of Revival and Conciliation, and the Party of Democratic Forces signed an agreement in Chisinau on 27 April on setting up an electoral bloc, Infotag reported. They said this is "a strategic p Leaders of the Democratic...
Tags: Democratic Party
Research articles 2000-04-30
CREW FEC Complaint Against Rep. Delay PAC -- ARMPAC -- Results in $115,000 Fine; One of Largest Fines in FEC History
WASHINGTON, July 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Last night, the Federal Election Commission FEC released a conciliation agreement reached with Americans for a Republican Majority political action committee ARMPAC stemming from a complaint Citizens for ResponsiWASHINGTON, July 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Last night, the Federal Election Commission FEC released a conciliation...
Tags: Federal Election Commission
Research articles 2006-07-20
Volkswagen and union set to start talks over wage hike.
MEXICO CITY, Aug 12, 2003 (El Economista/Corporate Mexico by Internet Securities, Inc. via COMTEX) -- Members of the negotiating committee of the Volkswagen union will go to the Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Board today to present a call to st MEXICO CITY, Aug 12, 2003 (El...
Tags: Volkswagen AG
Research articles 2003-08-12
ROAD TRANSPORT: COUNCIL ADOPTS ECO-POINTS REGULATION.
The eco-points conciliation agreement applying to lorries passing in transit through Austria was officially accepted by the EU Council of Ministers on December 22. Subsequent to the European Parliament's approval on December 18, the Regulation coveri The eco-points conciliation agreement applying to lorries passing in...
Tags: European Parliament
Research articles 2004-01-29
RAIL TRANSPORT : AGREEMENT REACHED ON THIRD RAILWAY PACKAGE.
The EU's Council of Ministers and the European Parliament agreed, under the conciliation procedure, on the third European railway package. Council and Parliament negotiators reached a compromise at a trialogue meeting on 19 June, and on the following The EU's Council of Ministers and the European...
Tags: agreement, Council, European Parliament
Research articles 2007-07-12
American Airlines chair faces his own turbulence
Last month, Robert L. Crandall, the famously combative chairman of American Airlines, sounded a note of conciliation.
Tags: American Airlines
Research articles 1997-01-14
Amicus calls for talks at Fujitsu.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Feb 6, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Amicus is urging Fujitsu management to resume talks with the Arbitration Conciliation Advisory Service ACAS in a final attempt to settle the dispute over redundancy rights, union recog LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Feb 6, 2007 (CCNMatthews via...
Tags: Fujitsu Ltd.
Research articles 2007-02-06
Buck Knives pays back wages, settles EEO hiring wrongs. (equal employment opportunity)
Buck Knives, an El Cajon-based manufacturer of cutting tools, has paid $57,852 in back wages to settle charges of equal employment opportunity violations leveled by the U.S. Department of Labor. The company signed a conciliation agreement with the Buck Knives, an El Cajon-based...
Tags: company, hiring, U.S. Department of Labor
Research articles 1990-09-10
Prevention and Settlement of Disputes in India
The papers presented in the volume deal with labour courts, conciliation, inspection, awards implementation as well as alternative dispute resolution mechanisms and lok adalts. They are based on experience and field research and take into account the recommendations of the Second National Commission on Labour. Some of the important developments...
Tags: Workplace, Settlement, Negotiation, Free Trade, Recruitment & Selection, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2003-11-30
Exploring Avenues for the Growth of Private Alternative Dispute Resolution in Australian Workplaces
Many Alternative Dispute Resolution ADR schemes emerged in Australia during the 1980s in a wide range of jurisdictions. Tribunalbased ADR in Australian industrial relations represents an exception to these relatively recent developments as state and federal industrial tribunals have traditionally practiced conciliation and arbitration. This paper traces the development and...
Tags: Growth
White papers 2001-09-01
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