Sentences with phrase «down pay scales»

Schools could be allowed to offer teachers bonuses and the chance to drop down pay scales as part of the latest government effort to ensure the «best» teachers are rewarded.

You don't have to go very far down the pay scale for top running backs and No. 2 wide receivers until the combined amount gets into the ballpark of Bell's current one - year payout of $ 12.1 million on the franchise tag.

There are several ways law firms are putting the pressure on partners, from looking only at one year's billings in setting compensation to more easily moving partners up and down the pay scale.

Recent years, however, have seen some partners slip down the pay scale, largely to the benefit of those still climbing their way upwards.

And, while firms aren't likely to drop too many partners off a cliff in terms of compensation, there are a number of ways they are ramping up the pressure on partners, from looking at only one year's billings to making it easier to move partners down the pay scale.

Not exact matches

Temp workers are attractive to firms because they earn lower wages (although the agency has to get paid as well) and provide the ability to scale up or down quickly without the complication of severance pay or pink slips.

So, if your customers are corporations, paying attention to how they're scaling up or down can give you insight into where your production may need to go.

The MTA is doubling down on its statements made back in September that the agency would have to scale back on its $ 836 million emergency response action plan, if the city isn't willing to pay for half.

The introduction of performance - related pay (the upper pay scale) was highly controversial when it was introduced in 2000, with many teachers fearing that it would only benefit head teachers and management, while keeping pay for classroom teachers down.

In an op - ed published in El Diario on December 3, 2015, Borough President Katz outlined the concerns and the need for policy and public vetting to come first before any permits are granted to for - profit companies to hold large - scale, paid - admission, multi-day events that effectively shut down a park to the public: www.eldiariony.com/2015/12/03/new-york-citys-public-parks-to-rent-or-not-to-rent.

Academies don't have to employ qualified teachers or be tied down to the pay scales, and a large proportion of the support staff will be disposed of in the name of (in) efficiency.

The conservatives who control the board have neutered the teachers union, prodded neighborhood elementary schools to compete with one another for market share, directed tax money to pay for religious education and imposed a novel pay scale that values teachers by their subjects, so a young man teaching algebra to eighth graders can make $ 20,000 a year more than a colleague teaching world history down the hall.

Weingarten would be advised to hunker down in NYC where she has a new BFF in the recently elected mayor and her malign old - world ideas — tenure, seniority, step - and - column pay scale for teachers, anti-school choice, etc. — still have some currency.

The $ 250 fee can be scaled down for those who do not plan to pay annual premiums in the several thousands of dollars.

A portfolio of conservative mutual funds with long - term track records ranks very very low on the risky scale, as does paying down your mortgage as quickly as possible.

So just like you don't rely solely on your income but instead put some money into stocks and interest - bearing accounts for when you have to pay a home down payment or for expenses in retirement, life insurance companies invest the same way (on a much larger scale, obviously) to make sure their costs are covered.

By October 2009, Dover Motorsports was at a crossroads with three simple options: it could maintain the status quo, continuing its present course of action and attempting to pay down debt out of cash flow; it could attempt to become a scale player through an acquisition or acquisitions, or it could retain a financial advisor and conduct a sales process.

Motus, which began offering a student loan repayment benefit in 2014, is partnering with Gradifi to scale its program and ensure that company contributions to pay down an employee's student loans have the maximum impact.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

While BLP managing partner Lisa Mayhew laid out her firm's reason for looking for a merger and why «scale for the sake of scale» was not what it was after, ultimately the collapsed talks boiled down to the pay and culture divide between BLP and the Miami firm.

Today, Twitter is delivering on its plans to offer developers paid APIs that are a step down from the needs of enterprise - scale businesses.

Many of those same companies offer cover letters, thank you letters, and lists of references as complimentary add - ons so now the writer's pay scale goes down to about $ 10 an hour.

Hopefully they are tracked by breaking down department, job code, manager, pay scale, etc.» Exit interviews are a good tool, but the responses can often be dismissed by management as a «disgruntled employee's rant.»

This year, REITs will continue to put new shares on the market on a large scale, both to pay down debt and to raise money for acquisitions, Case notes.

At the other end of the income scale, Re / Max recently issued a report that says wealthy baby boomers are bucking the traditional trend of paying down their mortgages before they retire, and taking on new mortgages for their retirement homes.