Sentences with phrase «new labor model»

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And that's the beauty of Uber's strategy: Unlike old - school businesses, where expanding into a new region meant hiring your own dedicated workforce and establishing a huge physical presence, this model leverages temporary labor.

In July, the Department of Labor issued guidelines to clarify the distinction between employee and freelancer for the purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act — and the new interpretations are not favorable to the new - economy model.

CEO Jason Goldberg has said those cuts were meant to streamline staffing and costs as the business shifted from a labor - intensive flash - sale model, where tons of new products had to be sourced and prepped every day, to a more standard e-commerce shop with predictable inventory needs.

Goldberg has said past layoffs at Fab were necessary cost reductions as he shifted the company's focus from a labor - intensive flash - sale model, where tons of new products had to be sourced and prepped every day, to a more standard e-commerce shop with predictable inventory needs.

This summer, with all the good letters already taken, the former labor secretary Robert Reich wrote on his blog that the recovery might actually be shaped like an X (the imagery is elusive, but Reich's argument was that there can be no recovery until we find an entirely new model of economic growth).

We must construct new models, new pageantry, new hymns, new forms of prayer, new anthems of praise, new dramatizations, in which, for example, the labor movement may be caught up in the embrace of religion, the peace movement, the civic conscience, the community spirit, the family and every great aspiration of our time.

He said the town was working on a new model for affordable housing — getting away from high - density construction to put it in the least affordable areas where labor is at highest demand, for the most part east of the Shinnecock Canal.

This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

Many large districts will struggle to create an atmosphere that promotes innovation as they wrestle with dramatically changing the existing teaching and learning paradigm, especially given existing labor contracts; building a spirit of risk - taking; and maintaining an unwavering commitment to success that will be required to develop new and innovative models that produce outstanding results.

One has to search long and hard among the nation's more than 5,000 charter schools to find the handful that are experimenting with labor - saving technologies, technology - infused instruction, or new staffing models better suited to the 21st century.

Local Initiative Schools (LIS) This new model was the result of the 2011 labor agreements between UTLA and LAUSD and has the potential for significant collaboration between teachers, parents and administrators.

Federal education minister Simon Birmingham will use the Education Council meeting to argue for a new post-2017 federal funding model to replace the current «Gonski model» established under Labor.

During Marco's tenure, he has established Green Dot as a leading agent of reform, establishing new high school and middle school transformation models, developing a collaborative labor and management culture, expanding Green Dot towards a national footprint, and creating a world - class school and instructional leadership model as well as an efficient central office to support the schools.

There were some bright spots, like the then - brand - new Toledo Peer Assessment and Review (PAR) model — a labor - management breakthrough that introduced intensive mentoring and peer evaluation for both novice teachers and struggling veterans, and that ensured serious decisions for tenure and continuation.

We have models of teacher preparation programs that provide new teachers with rich curriculum and powerful mentoring relationships but these are labor - intensive and expensive.

For example, in 2016, almost half of the new models manufactured had launched by Labor Day.

Maserati «s newest sedan, rumored to be a smaller model comparable to a BMW 5 - Series in size, will be built in Italy, after a deal was struck between an Italian labor union and Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne.

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Here, we compare these predictions to those from a new model that incorporates key labor market details, including unemployment and job search.

The project can become a model for combining the Gulf Coast's offshore fabrication experience with New Jersey's labor, contractors and port infrastructure.»

Although the Hub focuses on the entrepreneurial benefits, this sort of office space is also heralded as a new model for the tele - commuting worker, an emerging trend referred to as hotelling, hot - desking, coworking or «labor unions».

Technology has affected legal delivery in several material ways including: how lawyers work; by whom they are employed; provider market share; new delivery models; agile workplaces; the creation of a legal supply chain; an emerging distinction between legal «practice» and «the delivery of legal services» (the business of law and legal operations); and an evolving division of labor among lawyers, other professionals, paraprofessionals, and machines.

Developed new models which increased the accuracy of labor planning and utilization; provided comparative metrics across departments to target areas for improvement

Managed office operations and work flow, office staff, recruitment, and performance Management and training or development of specialty practice Enabled excellent customer service in a medical institution and made sure that all patients are well attended Provided support and performed regular QA reviews for client intake, registration and scheduling functions Provide required leadership, support and direction for office initiatives and special projects Built financial model for new business unit Developed and enforced new policies Reduced and controlled expenses by creating kanban, managed overtime and temp labor.

Among the benefits of this new report are simplifying the task of acquiring and downloading data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) into property level P&L statements and modeling specific wage rates for each of the labor groupings within an organizaLabor Statistics (BLS) into property level P&L statements and modeling specific wage rates for each of the labor groupings within an organizalabor groupings within an organization.