Sentences with phrase «hire city workers»

The state Authorities Budget Office notified Syracuse in 2009, months before Miner took office, that using an urban renewal agency to hire city workers had been declared illegal decades ago by the state comptroller.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Mayor Stephanie Miner has cut the payroll of the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency by nearly 20 percent in the past year, responding to criticism that the renewal agency has long been misused to hire city workers without going through civil service.

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Though AlSyead says reaching Olayan's 1,000 - woman goal in 2016 is statistically impossible, she touts the company's milestones: It has hired the first - ever female worker in the Saudi city of Yanbu, for example.

By hiring remote workers, we get access to experts located all over the world, at a fraction of the cost of hiring a full - time employee from an expensive city like New York or San Francisco.

In Oakland, one of the nation's most diverse cities, Jackson says he would like to see Uber hire local workers and businesses and invest in the community, including the Oakland Unified School District.

According to a fact sheet accompanying a resolution filed by the Jacksonville City Council, JinkoSolar is now planning to invest only $ 50.5 million in its new Jacksonville facility, and hire only 200 workers to produce PV modules.

The award, in its second year, recognizes New York City businesses and nonprofit organizations who use policies and practices that help to hire, retain, and engage four generations of workers.

City officials said the budget reserves are relatively high, at $ 5.25 billion, and de Blasio said that he's instituting a partial hiring freeze for certain managers and administrative workers.

The council is also preparing for a potential vote on requiring a certain percentage of contract workers to be hired from within the city.

The hiring spree will swell the city payroll to a record 322,446 as of July, an 8.4 percent jump over the final year of the Bloomberg administration, when 297,349 workers were collecting paychecks.

The office of Mayor Stephanie Miner disagreed with the notion the practice is illegal and argued using SURA to get around required civil service exams for workers allowed the city to be more nimble in hiring.

Also at 11 a.m., wheelchair advocates join taxi, livery, black car and luxury car drivers, base owners and workers to call on the City Council to act on regulating the taxi and for - hire vehicle industry, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

They advocate for the community's needs to elected officials and the city, register voters and hire Election Day workers — but their real power comes in nominating judicial candidates to the State Supreme Court.

Edward Ott, a labor expert at CUNY and former executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, said that Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York's agreement may encourage more developers to hire union workers for affordable housing projects.

Enough to persuade U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to launch a federal investigation into the awarding of contracts and for members of the city's African - American community to demand more diversity in the hiring of construction workers at the SolarCity plant at Riverbend.

That created further controversy, with members of the Council and union officials saying the opt - out provision applies to current city workers and the administration insisting it will be available to future hires.

The Mayor and other city and county leaders from Rochester, Syracuse, Westchester and Suffolk say they've begun a bi partisan lobbying effort to back Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to enact a new benefit tier for public workers hired in the future.

In the interim, the deal will be revised to include more financial protection for the city and stronger local - worker hiring requirements.

Magnarelli said COR has a good reputation for training and hiring workers from the inner city on past projects.

The Rochester City School District is hosting a major hiring event Saturday to bring new educators, social workers and counselors in for the next school year.

The City of Mechanicville in Saratoga County will hire a lawyer to investigate complaints from city workers against its maCity of Mechanicville in Saratoga County will hire a lawyer to investigate complaints from city workers against its macity workers against its mayor.

In interviews with over a dozen state committee members, Capital heard common frustration with Cuomo's fiscal record — he blocked an income tax hike on wealthy city residents, cut corporate taxes, reduced school aid in 2011 (and slowly dialed it back up), reduced pensions for newly hired public workers and pushed for a cap on local property tax increases.

Even with the gridlock over, Lanza said he still plans to vote against New York City's sales - tax increase, the lack of which officials here said was costing the city $ 60 million a month and delaying the hiring of cops, EMTs and other city workCity's sales - tax increase, the lack of which officials here said was costing the city $ 60 million a month and delaying the hiring of cops, EMTs and other city workcity $ 60 million a month and delaying the hiring of cops, EMTs and other city workcity workers.

On the day before his second anniversary as Labour leader, Kinnock delivered his celebrated assault on Labour's Militant Tendency (`... the grotesque spectacle of a Labour council — a LABOUR council — hiring taxis to scuttle round a city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers...»).

They'll also talk about the program to offer tax credits to employers who hire inner - city youth and what else her office is doing to support workers and employers in the state.

Presumptive GOP nominee Nicole Malliotakis said she'll institute a hiring freeze for all non-emergency municipal workers if elected mayor in November — and cut City Hall staffing by 10 percent...

Bey said he's running to finish some of the things he's started such as his proposal to require city contractors to hire 20 percent of their workers from within the city and finding a middle ground between landlords and homeowners in the university area over zoning.

In the current version, the schools can hire guards who must be paid the prevailing wage set by the city comptroller to reflect rates for unionized workers.

Opponents of the paid sick leave bill, such as the Five Borough Chamber of Commerce and Partnership for New York City, say small business workers would start to abuse the new rules and that it would discourage new hiring.

He'd hired as his chief of staff Neal Kwatra, who had turned the city's hotel - workers union into a potent political force.

The first such report in the United States grew out of a 1999 proposal to boost the minimum wage paid workers employed by contractors hired by the city of San Francisco.

«This project will highlight locations throughout metro Detroit that speak to the city's heritage while making significant investments in the community by hiring Michigan workers and local businesses.»

Your story about the absenteeism crisis in New York City public schools highlights the need for the city Department of Education to hire more attendance teachers as well as more guidance counselors and social workCity public schools highlights the need for the city Department of Education to hire more attendance teachers as well as more guidance counselors and social workcity Department of Education to hire more attendance teachers as well as more guidance counselors and social workers.

The Rochester City School District is hosting a major hiring event Saturday to bring new educators, social workers and counselors in for the next school year.

State or local government workers (like teachers, city workers, police, firefighters, etc.) hired before March 31, 1986 and who participate in their employers» alternative retirement systems.

Including pipes, faucets and spigots, these plumbing elements are often used by out - of - work plumbers to signal their availability for hire and serve as a public display for the city's struggling workers.

The city has right - to - work laws enabling employers to hire non-union workers.

More than 14 years of experience in background investigation and reporting for the City of Santa Monica, completing comprehensive background checks — including interviews and criminal history record searches — to determine federal employment suitability for new hires, temporary workers, and volunteers.

• Cultivated an extraordinary level of company loyalty, achieving a 10 + year tenure amongst 70 % of employees • Introduced a safety system that monitors equipment dynamically to prevent damage to utility lines • Decreased maintenance costs by 55 % by employing preventative maintenance activities on monthly basis • Reined in a colossal project that required complete replacement of landscaping in 7 parks across the city in the limited time of 3 months • Reduced equipment repairing and maintenance cost by 50 % by setting up an in - house maintenance unit • Filled 85 potholes within the city in record time of 2 weeks, following election preparations • Trained 52 newly hired maintenance workers in routine light and heavy labor work, pertinent to construction work and maintenance • Utilized extensive knowledge and skill of maintenance logistics to significantly improve work team's efficiency by 49 %

As Facebook hires more employees, purchases more land and expands its college - inspired campus, the social network has floated the idea of creating thousands of new housing units for its workers and the public, city documents show.