Sentences with phrase «as company driver»

So, if you have worked as a company driver or personal driver, this is the section to let the hirer know.

Companies will not hire you and will never trust you as their company driver.

With a CDL, someone would be a perfect candidate as company driver to fill any vacant position.

Not exact matches

The company regularly posts quarterly losses with few historical parallels, even as regulators and critics argue with growing vehemence that the company is exploiting and underpaying its drivers.

The program resembles Amazon's Alexa Fund and reflects the extent to which Google sees the success of its smart assistant as a driver of future growth, as both companies (and other tech giants) vie for dominance in the home.

But there's more at stake here: If the company does adopt more rigorous background checks, which could include fingerprinting, drivers seeking classification as employees could try to use the move as evidence they are indeed employees and not private contractors, says one labor attorney.

But Lyft's reputation as a friendlier company goes a long way toward wooing drivers — and this GM partnership would only seem to help.

Controversies surrounding Uber tend to fall into two different categories: either horror stories of lapses in rider safety or the debate over whether the company's drivers should be considered employees as opposed to private contractors.

In January, the #deleteUber hashtag trended on social media after customers perceived the company as having undermined New York taxi drivers» strike in protest of the Trump administration's immigration ban.

After a short stint at the company, it hit him: Credit card processing companies were missing out on a key revenue driver, as he saw it.

Drivers for both companies are currently classified as contractors, but the ones who have brought lawsuits against both companies contend they're misclassified and should actually be considered W - 2 employees, a status that would grant more workplace protections.

Recently, Michael Pehl of i - Cube, an IT - consulting - services company in Cambridge, Mass., began running a series of large billboards in the Boston area, including one targeting drivers exiting from Logan Airport that immodestly touts i - Cube as «An Incredible Place to Work.»

Imagine a company like Uber, which thrives on a contractor model, having suddenly to bring in all its drivers as full - time employees (which several states are pushing).

I also asked Chesky to weigh in on the recent tumult at Uber, a company often lumped into the same bucket as Airbnb as the poster children of the «sharing economy» and which has been dealing with extensive fallout from accusations of an aggressive and sexist culture and a leaked video showing CEO Travis Kalanick berating an Uber driver.

At benefits company Stride Health, which sells and manages healthcare benefits to «gig» workers like Uber drivers, CEO Noah Lang said that he would want to be sure that the replacement plan has tax credits available to people as they need them, rather than at the end of the year only.

The company's shares fell as much as 8.1 percent in after - market trading as sales of its premium non-invasive device, used to replace diseased aortic valves without open - heart surgery, is its biggest growth driver.

These drivers could be reclassified as employees of the company, rather than independent contractors, if the lawsuit prevails.

In April the Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector in San Francisco announced it had notified 37,000 people identified as drivers for transportation network companies, or TNCs, of a new effort to enforce the requirements.

The use of Big Data has also become a key driver of innovation these days, as it involves aggregating large amounts of information and helps companies better understand their customers on a macro level.

It wants to be known as a company that treats its drivers well, and, therefore, provides friendlier service to riders.

Uber Canada's general manager Rob Khazzam said the introduction of the feature follows similar moves made by the company in other countries, as part of an effort to curb driver drowsiness and make the platform safer.

The two companies compete aggressively for both riders and drivers, and switching to a competitor is as simple as downloading an app.

Uber drivers, as well as drivers for Lyft and other ride - hailing companies, are increasingly turning to alternative measures in the hopes of making more money on the job.

Believing these people, and afraid to miss out on the gold rush, small - time investors, grandma and grandpa, and barbers and taxi drivers invested their life savings in companies such as Pets.com, Webvan, and eToys.

The rise in contract workers, such as Uber drivers, or those who work temporary positions for companies means that many U.S. workers are not protected by these laws.

And two separate legal cases argue that both companies need to start paying drivers as employees with benefits.

DC Shoes founder Ken Block grew his latest apparel company 50 percent in the last year, all while continuing to compete as a motor racing driver.

A couple days after the legislative vote, taxi drivers protested saying Uber needed to follow the same rules as taxi companies if it was going to offer the same service, local media reported.

Sometimes, Uber doesn't get its way, as happened when the California Labor Commission's Office ruled that a driver who had sued the company be treated as an employee as opposed to as an independent contractor.

Wichmann saw the company's five main focus areas — health care delivery, pharmaceutical services, consumer - centric benefits, digitizing health information and global access — as key drivers in the shift to more efficient health - care services.

When Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, the largest publicly traded company in the world, came out as gay on Thursday, it sent a pretty powerful message to business owners around the globe: Openness and inclusion of diversity are key drivers of innovation and productivity.

«I just don't know how Uber can argue with a straight face that as a $ 40 billion dollar company it can't afford to insure its drivers, pay minimum wage or pay overtime, or be reimbursed for their expenses.

Everyone's private driver, as the company first advertised.

Our model is resoundingly being accepted as being fair to the drivers, to the company and to the passengers.

In January, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he expected Uber to roll out an autonomous ride - hailing service by mid-2019, but that timeline may be pushed back, as the company will have to provide reassurance that an autonomous ride - hailing service will be safer for passengers and pedestrians than one operated by human drivers.

As The Guardian points out, the company's driver privacy statement stipulates that Uber can access their geolocation data.

Lyft, whose current drivers are regular folks with a car who give rides for a fee, is betting that self - driving cars will quickly eliminate people's need to own a car, as well as his company's dependence on human drivers.

The company has worked to distinguish itself from its larger rival, Uber, in part by positioning itself as the company that treats drivers better.

A potentially devastating lawsuit against ride - hailing company Uber over its classification of drivers as contractors instead of employees is entering an important phase: determining whether drivers can sue together through a class action.

A third Uber Help - er was reported as telling a customer that engineers were working on the company's software to improve the real - time view of available drivers.

Sexual harassment incidents continue to plague the company, such as the arrest of a driver in Calcutta three weeks ago for allegedly masturbating in front of a female passenger.

However, the ruling to classify a San Francisco - based driver as an employee instead of an independent contractor could potentially change how sharing - economy companies operate.

Some drivers of those companies argue they've been misclassified as independent contractors and want full employee status.

There is an ongoing civil lawsuit against the company for its weak screening practices that have led to registered sex offenders, burglars, a convicted murderer, and others joining as drivers.

Under the agreement, which many describe as a sweetheart deal for the highly valued ride - sharing company, Uber drivers still aren't considered employees.

Ride - hailing company Lyft is set to finally settle a two - year - old lawsuit over its classification of its drivers as contract workers instead of employees.

In large part, Grubhub has been able to pursue these partnerships as it shifted its business from being a pure online marketplace that matched diners to restaurants to a company that offered delivery services with Grubhub - employed drivers.

Last month, the city council approved a separate set of regulations that requires that drivers display the companies they work for in their cars (such as Lyft's pink mustache), mentions fingerprinting as part of the background check requirements, and outlines restricted areas at the airport and during large festivals.

The news of Greyball comes as Uber struggles with several company mishaps and controversies, including allegations of sexual harassment by a former employee and co-founder Travis Kalanick's outburst at one of the company's drivers.

Everyone knows Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates, and everyone knows Facebook, but the truth is, as important and impactful as those companies are, they are not the real drivers of real job creation, and even innovation in this country.