Sentences with phrase «doing public works»

«If you're doing a public works project and you're not paying prevailing wage, it hurts not just the workers, but you're operating at an unfair advantage over those who are following the law,» he said.

My game glitch isn't much fun... As mayor, I went in town hall yesterday and asked to do a public works project.

One reason is that architects design a surprisingly small proportion of the buildings built in North America; they don't do most of the houses and they don't do public works like sewage treatment plants.

Let them know when you are doing public work w / useful LinkedIn Status updates.

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Wilson ignited a public relations crisis for the company in November by suggesting to Bloomberg TV that Lululemon's yoga pants don't work well for some women.

Sure, there's the rare self - motivated individual who prefers fitness videos over all else and works out every morning, but for the general public, having someone to yell in your face when you don't want to do another set of burpees is going to increase the likelihood of success.

While LGBT inclusion has been a winning stance for companies from a marketing standpoint — several major companies made a public showing of support for LGBT rights during the Sochi Olympics earlier this year — the survey results suggest that companies have some work to do to make employees feel welcomed within their workplaces.

But they also maintain their equipment, educate the public, work with other first responders, and of course, do paperwork.

They don't seek the spotlight, and they do their work mostly in private, not in public.

If it doesn't work out, don't rub it in their face, especially in a public forum.

A recent working paper by Duke's Aaron Chatterji and Harvard's Michael Toffel showed that Tim Cook's public support for gay rights did not hurt, and probably helped, Apple's brand.

«What it's meant to do is... just to make sure that the work stoppage is not going to affect the health and safety of the public....

Not in the sense of being Indiana Jones in the middle of the desert or anything like that, but in the sense that what he believed in was public education and multi-disciplinary programs where you're working with many different groups of scientists, doing expeditions to exotic places, and so on.

Those sorts of considerations are why traditional government public - works spending doesn't do enough to spur growth.

So before taking any action against employees who refuse to work, consider guidance from public authorities and whatever other employers in the same geographic area are doing.

MM.LaFleur works off the same basic assumption that President Barack Obama and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did when they made the decision to pare down their wardrobe selections to only two colors of suits or the same grey shirt for public appearances.

So a lot of the work we do, for example, is linking private blockchain — where there is no cryptocurrency — into a public blockchain.

«This is a great first step in ensuring the program is doing what it was intended to do — incentivize people to work in public service,» she said.

No - one at the Treasury was immediately able to break down the 3 billion pounds committed by Hammond, but obvious calls on the public purse include investment in new customs points and officers, increased staffing to handle migration issues, and new regulatory agencies to do the work currently done at EU level.

A recent Abacus Data poll, done on behalf of Public Response — an agency that works with labour — indicates that a majority of Canadians, 61 %, believe unions do a good job of protecting their members» jobs.

But about 15 % of the 1.2 million Americans infected with HIV in 2015 didn't know they carried the virus, illustrating just how much work still remains to be done on the public health front.

The proponent clearly has more work to do in order to fulfill the public commitment it has made to engage with Aboriginal groups and local communities along the route.»

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

If you think your voice may be working against you or if others find it difficult to understand you, don't hesitate to invest in a speech coach or a few public speaking courses.

They have these advantages, according to the reports of western companies: they usually have more of a sense of responsibility than do their unmarried sisters; they're less likely to be flirtatious; as a rule, they need the work or they wouldn't be doing it — maybe a sick husband or one who's in the army; they still have the pep and interest to work hard and to deal with the public efficiently.

Because my company is small, I spend most of my time doing the public - relations work I love — not just managing other people.

After all, if you don't sell the fact that your PR strategy is working, it's going to be hard to get the support you need to build on your public relations success.

Do you love working with the public?

«What public school have you worked with the most and which public school principal to do you personally have the best relationship with, and how has it impacted your viewpoint on K - 12 education?

Only about half of public - sector employees get top - ups, as do roughly one in five parents who work for corporations — usually big firms in competitive fields.

If I'm working or staying somewhere that doesn't offer public Wi - Fi, I carry an AT&T Wi - Fi hotspot device as a backup to ensure that I stay consistently connected.

The partners had the help of leaks from staffers inside the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the entity created by Congress more than a decade ago to make sure auditors are doing work that meets regulatory standards.

Though See's doesn't officially give public tours of its plants, well - known fans like Cher — who worked at See's before she achieved fame — have come by, and Buffett once brought Bill Gates for a tour.

That was followed by a public relations gaffe, when Wilson said in a TV interview in early November that, «some women's bodies just actually don't work» for Lululemon's tight - fitting pants.

Because many cities don't have widespread public transportation, American households are put in a tough position where a new car is unaffordable but a vehicle is needed to get to work every day.

«I did a lot of spiritual work,» he says, and came to the realization that if he wanted to continue to be the CEO of Whole Foods, there couldn't be any aspect of his life that was secretive or hidden that would be embarrassing should it become public.

«It's nice you don't have to raise funds, that you can time an IPO (initial public offering) yourself, it empties out a lot of work on your agenda, and it's nice Adyen can focus on building a strong company.»

Be proud of your work and imagine everything you're doing not only has your name on it, but is also being made public.

Despite the hype, the public - private approach does not provide new funding sources to communities, nor does it work for many types of public projects.

I mean, the distributor of this film told me that all of the work we have done — the film festivals, all the press, the public appearances, the theatrical release — it all has one goal, which is to be No. 1 VOD on the first VOD weekend, because there is so much product out there on demand that if you're not in the top five it doesn't matter anymore because people can't get through it all.

As KFC was scrambling to get its supplier issue under control, its PR team went to work and did something spectacular that might just give the company a little breathing room with the public.

Carpooling or using public transportation as a means of getting to work does promote an environmentally - friendly atmosphere.

When they go public about their intention — or need — to take care of family, however, they meet the same criticism that working women do.

With the Quebec government clamping down on building inspections across the province, Atwill - Morin has swung from primarily doing restoration of public buildings to working on private real estate.

To the press and public: No question, I'm sad that the Sprig model did not work out — but the food delivery space on the whole is growing.

Still, Johnson notes that the work of restoring Lululemon's image as a retailer that fits every body remains, and it may be that only a blatant public apology from company executives (aside from Wilson) will do the trick.

The work by Uber doesn't involve any public trials of vehicles on the road — at least not yet — but it will give Uber access to talent and tech coming from one of the bright spots on the global AI and autonomous driving scene.

In the case of Whole Foods, Neuberger Berman lobbied for the activists to do the messy work of battling the company in public.

There's a strong public interest in regulating the sale of housing to people who don't live and work in the Vancouver region, because non-local buyers make housing less affordable for everyone else.

The ordinance seeks to establish regulation and a permitting process that would enable the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency or Department of Public Works to take action against scooters from companies that don't have an official permit from the city.