Sentences with phrase «fire companies in»

Engine Co. 82 and Ladder 31 in the South Bronx, where I worked from 1967 through 1973, were then among the busiest fire companies in the city.

By «every department» Quigley could have been referring to the numerous volunteer fire companies in the county dealing with similar issues.

Jurado and Walker were neighbors and members of different volunteer fire companies in North Tonawanda, near Niagara Falls.

We have 92 volunteer fire companies in Erie County serving our towns and villages.

«We wrote the fire company in December of 2013 [about a contract] and didn't get an answer until August of 2014,» Quigley said he told state auditors.

The Great Recession dragged on, and the Howard Volunteer Fire Company in central Pennsylvania was in dire financial shape.

Not exact matches

Alex Fielding, the founder of the $ 250 million robotics company Ripcord, is stepping aside as CEO in the wake of an investigation into a 19 - year - old former employee's allegations that she was fired after complaining of a toxic work environment.

«Schultz said that the company never gave guidance in China in the first place and that anyone who believes their Chinese business isn't on fire is just plain dead wrong,» Cramer said.

Tech companies, in recent years, have been under fire for the underrepresentation of women and certain minority groups in their workforces.

Initially called the Three Fired Guys Brewing Company, the name changed to Steam Whistle in 1999 after Heaps suggested that they put a steam whistle on the factory to let workers know when it was five o'clock.

In 2005, Hamid Hashemi was fired from his own company and his wife was diagnosed with cancer.

In my world, there is a dominant company that is scaling like wild fire.

In the past, when people of color were treated with indignity and disdain for simply existing, most responses from company leaders involved an approach of firing an employee, a feeble apology, and business as usual once the event faded from the headlines.

Building a great company is just as hard as building a sh — ty company, which is just as hard as sitting on your couch all day — in the sense that it all costs roughly the same number of hours of consciousness, the same number of heartbeats, the same number of synapses firing.

The incident is a case study in how companies in the pharmaceutical supply chain have come under fire for their alleged role in the country's opioid crisis and of the questions that have been raised about the responsibility of middleman companies that distribute prescription painkillers.

In other words, if the company notices a shift in local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six monthIn other words, if the company notices a shift in local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six monthin local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six monthin advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six monthin a season, which lasts six months.

Large oil companies like ExxonMobil, which in 2011 earned more than $ 40 billion, make no hiring or firing decisions based on government handouts, but startup green - energy companies will hire more engineers and technicians, more marketing professionals and managers if governments invest in them.

And they can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending their money somewhere else.»

HANOI, April 26 - PetroVietnam Power Corp, or PV Power, has been granted government approval to build two gas - fired power plants in southern Vietnam at a total cost of nearly $ 1.5 billion, its parent company said on Thursday.

When Facebook announced on Tuesday that it was launching a dating service, many eyebrows were raised: after all, this is a company that is currently under fire around the world for the lax way in which it has handled users» personal data.

The Spyder already has a fairly lengthy recall rap sheet due to fire concerns, though the numbers are getting smaller: The company recalled 8,200 units in 2013 and more than 34,000 in 2012.

In a company that loves bromides, there's one that has become infamous at Shell: «pots on the fire.»

Two employees with the electric vehicle maker told CNBC that a fire in the company's Fremont factory ground vehicle production to a halt, at least temporarily, on Tuesday morning.

He quickly sold off his company, took his research and in 2010 launched Fire Belly Organic Lawn Care, which sells its four - stage Organic Lawn in a Box system for residential use.

Companies that aim to gauge employee happiness and engagement through an annual survey — the blunt HR tool used in many corporate environments — may capture how a workforce feels on polling day, but they fail to document the dips and rises that occur throughout the year in response to hirings and firings, swings in the business cycle or even news events and weather.

A talented IBM junior executive once lost $ 10 million of company money in a risky venture, then slunk into company founder Tom Watson Sr.'s office expecting to be fired.

«Sam Walton used to say there was only one person who could fire everyone in his company including Walton, and that was the customer.»

Before firing the employee, make sure the behavior is in direct violation with company policy and isn't protected by the National Labor Relations Act.

It's not as if he and Trump have a chummy public relationship — Trump has fired tweets at Bezos, whose holding company owns the Washington Post, in retaliation for a story the Post published in December about preventing Trump from securing the presidential nomination.

Under fire, Kalanick said that he would seek leadership help and, then earlier this month, revealed that the company was looking to hire a second - in - command.

To make sure employees are thinking about the long term when they refer prospects, Brett Brewster of Mitec Controls, a $ 5.5 - million fire - and life - safety company in Norcross, Ga., spreads the bonus payments out: the employee gets half at the referral's 90 - day mark and the rest when the referral has been working for six months.

From there the company started using the tool during other disasters, from the forest fires in Fort McMurray, Canada to the Orlando nightclub shooting, when Airbnb hosts offered lodging to family members of the victims who had traveled to Orlando.

And in early February, the SodaStream Super Bowl ad featuring actress Scarlett Johansson sipping sultrily on a straw and sniping at beverage makers Coca - Cola and Pepsi only served to light a fire under the tinderbox steadily building beneath the company for years.

In this light, one of the companies with the most to lose if the Kindle Fire takes off isn't a tablet maker at all — it's Netflix.

But while the policy means that an employee could in fact be fired for missing work during a hurricane, many companies are unlikely to go through with it.

I also view it as my responsibility to hold the leadership team's feet to the fire on this issue,» Huffington wrote in a company blog post after the meeting.

He'd like to increase military spending, sign free trade deals with other Asian countries, make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers, change immigration laws, get more women in the labour force and much more.

Example: Expert network consultant Don Chu was fired by his firm in the wake of allegations he'd broken company policy and traded material, non-public information with hedge funders.

Along with professional athletes, they now work with companies like Cisco, AT&T and GlaxoSmithKline, and the open enrollment Corporate Athlete training courses they hold in Orlando and across the U.S. attract C - suite executives happy to pay up to $ 5,000 a head for two days of coaching from a team Procter & Gamble CEO A. G. Lafley credits with helping him stay «calm and cool under fire.»

In messages to staff, tech companies sometimes conflate conversations employees are allowed to have, such as complaining about working conditions, with sharing trade secrets, said Chris Baker, an attorney with Baker Curtis and Schwartz, PC, who represents the fired Googler.

Maybe his shares or options were worth that much when Facebook went public, but he was only there for eight months and was fired in 2006 — a full six years before the company's IPO.

The HR director or HR coordinator no longer just focuses on hiring and firing employees and making sure the company is in compliance with benefits and payroll.

Specialist materials technology company Alexium International Group has raised about $ 8.45 million in a placement to a US private investor to fund development of its fire - retardant chemicals project.

One example is the use of stolen financial information to undercut an acquisition target's market value in order to later acquire the company at a fire - sale price.

The causes of the crisis that nearly killed Bilinkis's company were many: a patronage system, started by Juan and Eva Perón in the 1950s, that grew into a bloated government bureaucracy; a corrupt privatization of government services that sold off some of the country's most valuable assets at fire - sale prices; and a reactionary monetary policy that exacerbated both of these problems.

In a federal court complaint, John Lockette, an African - American former wealth manager, alleged that he received negative performance reviews, was denied raises and given derisive nicknames, and was ultimately fired from Morgan Stanley in August 2016 as a result of his calling attention to the company's racial biases, Reuters reportIn a federal court complaint, John Lockette, an African - American former wealth manager, alleged that he received negative performance reviews, was denied raises and given derisive nicknames, and was ultimately fired from Morgan Stanley in August 2016 as a result of his calling attention to the company's racial biases, Reuters reportin August 2016 as a result of his calling attention to the company's racial biases, Reuters reports.

A bombshell report from the New York Times said a manager had been fired for groping women's breasts, employees had done cocaine in the bathrooms during company retreats, and a director had yelled gay slurs during meetings.

Richard Jacobs, a security analyst whom Uber fired in April and now consults for the company, testified Tuesday that up to dozens of employees were trained to used ephemeral messaging systems, including Wickr, to communicate so that their conversations would be clandestine and could not surface in any «anticipated litigation.»

Intel CEO Brian M. Krzanich joined the company as a process engineer in 1982, but he made an error 25 years ago that almost got him fired.

As for Cambridge, its team has roots in the American debt - settlement business that has drawn so much fire — and some of its earliest employees have been linked to companies accused of legal and regulatory violations in the U.S., according to court and corporate documents obtained by Canadian Business.