Sentences with phrase «as workers with»

The Deliveroo decision comes hard on the heels of the latest decision against Uber which lost its appeal against an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruling: that its drivers should be classified as workers with rights, such as holiday pay and a minimum wage, rather than being self - employed.

MELBOURNE — As fast as workers with the South Brevard Humane Society could destroy stray cats last week, the cages filled back up with new ones that had been abandoned, neglected or turned in by their owners.

She was as a union organizer as a worker with the UFW in 70s and early 80s.

Not exact matches

For example, it is not uncommon for an independent worker such as a freelancer whose engagement period has ended to apply for unemployment insurance benefits with a state agency.

It amounted to the addition of 150 full - time employees, with WeWork bringing its housekeeping functions in - house and hiring as many of the laid - off workers as possible.

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

As 1 World Trade Center starts to claim a place on the Lower Manhattan skyline, the area's retail scene is beginning to revive, with landlords raising rents in anticipation of thousands of new office workers, tourists and residents, commercial real estate experts said.

ID badges are also important for customer relations as customers can easily spot employees when they need help, and it helps the customer connect better with the employee by instantly providing the worker's name and other key information.

Forced to evacuate 30,000 Chinese workers from Libya, they now find their oilfields there frozen as the new regime attempts to nationalize the assets of companies that co-operated with the deposed Ghadafi regime.

These struggles have left them with 22 % fewer workers than they employed a decade ago (on average), and net capital assets (such as factor floor space and machinery and equipment) that have shrunk 2.2 % per year on average.

RETAINING female fly - in, fly - out workers isn't as simple as offering flexible rosters, with new research showing positive relationships with managers and opportunities for social interaction are of pa

The former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas kept a close emotional connection with his workers, behaving as if each employee were a member of his family.

Set an expectation with your workers that the exact times aren't as important as the hours.

«Instead of pecking themselves to death trying to figure out how to comply with all the state and federal regulations,» says Breslin, «we help our clients get ahead of the legal issues — such as vacation time, workers compensation and insurance, and they can focus on what they do best.»

As the payroll contributions increase after 2019 there may be some temporary downward pressure on wages or employment, but with the payroll contribution increase limited to 1 % for most workers, this pressure will be limited.

Clinton said she'd raise the minimum wage, though to an unspecified level, as part of a comprehensive package that would make companies «share profits with the workers who helped to make them.»

Not satisfied with the gun industry's response to demands for help ending an epidemic of gun violence, groups representing millions of workers are pressuring what they see as an even bigger change - maker.

Another of the participants in VanHacks, as the event is known, is Knack by Potluck Café, a non-profit with the goal of building an online platform to help workers and employers in low - income neighbourhoods (starting with the Downtown Eastside) connect quickly and efficiently.

A lot of what we hear from young people today is really just based on their expectation, as opposed to this being some unusual period that might relate to what's going on with another group of workers.»

In the short run, this spending works as designed: the plant stays open, cars get produced, older workers retire with pensions and benefits and young workers are hired to replace them.

A Liberian health worker speaks with families in a classroom now used as Ebola isolation ward on August 15, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia.

The TPP is highly contentious, as it would foster greater trade with countries such as Malaysia and Vietnam, which can pay workers an hourly wage of less than 50 cents.

Canada has one of the youngest populations in the G7, even as it rapidly ages as more people hit retirement age with fewer replacement workers available as a result of low birth rates.

Even our interruptions have interruptions, as office workers play with their iPhones and BlackBerrys during the very meetings that distract them from their actual work.

Maintenance tasks related to worker - management relations primarily entail: working with labor unions; handling grievances related to misconduct, such as theft or sexual harassment; and devising communication systems to foster cooperation and a shared sense of mission among employees.

As Feast learned about his professor's research, he realized that software built using Pentland's findings could help social workers see if they were building trust with their clients, or determine which psychiatric patients need emergency counseling.

With many modern - day workers changing careers as casually and quickly as if they were swapping smart phones, it's become less common for people to accumulate the hours to reach the rarified air of mastery.

Walt Disney Co. is finding itself in heated talks with union workers over pay and other issues as profits at the company's theme - park division soar.

«I'm an employee of @mozilla and I'm asking @brendaneich to step down as CEO,» Chris McAvoy, head of Mozilla's Open Badges project, wrote Thursday, along with similar posts from numerous other workers.

Disney is currently in heated talks with union workers as the company's theme - park division thrives

«As the economic tides change, the Bay Area, with its entrenched tech workforce, is the perfect place to take the pulse of worker expectations and how they are shifting over time,» Woo CEO Liran Kotzer told the Business Times.

Equal Exchange is run as a worker - owned cooperative, though it has an unusual hybridlegal form - combining a normal C corporation with a cooperative form - which allows it tobring in outside investors.

Most of us don't think of Air Canada as a singing - and - dancing kind of brand, and the musical workers didn't look like the same angry people whose unions seem endlessly at war with the airline.

Regulations can change, as can your relationship with a worker.

One such worker is Sonny Nguyen, of San Francisco, who works as the general manager of a car dealership during the weekday, but supplements his income with freelance work from TaskRabbit in the hours before and after his full - time job, and on weekends.

(Nevertheless, the company offers other benefits and protections, such as health insurance through a partnership with Freelancer's Union, plans for business insurance, as well as payment guarantees for workers.)

Buildings like 7 World Trade Center and the new Goldman Sachs headquarters, along with the recent decision of Condé Nast to move about 5,000 employees to 1 World Trade Center as its anchor tenant in 2014, are ensuring there will be no ebb in the number of office workers walking the streets at lunch and after work hours, he said.

When extra space is required, new floors are routinely added, and new workers and machinery brought in, often with little consideration as to whether the structure can support the additional weight and vibration.

New York's three - person fast food wage board voted unanimously to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers, which it defines as working in an establishment with 30 or more locations.

He referred to a conversation he had with Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, about how workers in Seattle stay with an employer about twice as long as they do in Silicon Valley.

Or the newly appointed team leader, who was actually perfectly happy with his or her role as a worker bee.

As technology improves and the boomers retire, workers who have grown up with technology will demand more flexibility and use tools like video conferencing, e-mail and text messages to communicate from satellite locations.

As a business adds workers, it's important for its owner to spend his time focusing on higher - level tasks like meeting with clients and strategizing new projects.

Powell in statements throughout the year, culminating with his recent Senate confirmation hearing, has been clear he sees little risk of inflation that would prompt the Fed to raise rates faster than expected, and takes weak wage growth as a sign that sidelined workers remain to be drawn into jobs.

Additionally, when it comes to large companies such as Caterpillar and Boeing, the bank isn't just supporting one company with its many thousands of workers, but — as in Boeing's case — the 6,600 small businesses that also supply the company with component parts, products, and services.

The company offers to implant its workers and startup members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.

In fact, other research shows that 90 percent of employers already use independent contractors to gain access to workers with specific skills as the need arises.

That process is likely under way now with options, as top executives, who scored big with them earlier in the decade, have begun doling them out to workers.

The average North American office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper a year, and the amount actually rose significantly with the advent of computers and e-mail as we printed the floods of new communication.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the recent return to stability has brought with it a wave of job - hopping: everywhere from North America to Asia to eastern Europe, there have been reports of an uptick in the number of workers that are either considering or making external moves.