Sentences with phrase «job as a contractor»

Laurence Prosser, who works two jobs as a contractor, takes a break while working to repair a house in the Bear Creek neighborhood, Tuesday, April 17, 2018, in Houston.

Laurence Prosser, who works two jobs as a contractor, takes a break while working to repair a house in the Bear Creek neighborhood, Tuesday, April 17, 2018, in Houston.

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It's all in service of building Gillam's reputation as a focused and efficient general contractor that can manage tough jobs that typically go to much larger firms.

But contractors rejected that peanut - butter approach as too much hassle for a job site.

The number of Americans working as contractors is rising, and many lack benefits, and job and financial security.

Wage growth has been scarcely better, particularly as more workers become contractors in the so - called gig economy, which offers little by way of job security, benefits, and pay.

Try one or several people simultaneously on a contractor or trial basis and have them compete for the full - time job or for you as a client.

What he did have was a proposal that would pay the owner to stay on as a contractor, compensating him based on job performance and providing a second commission to pay toward the $ 45,000 business purchase.

With fewer workers, contractors are becoming wary of signing new work contracts, especially as many of them include fines for not completing a job by a designated date.

«I decided it was time to get out of the spare bedroom and set up a legitimate business,» recalls Crews, who left her job as a government contractor in 2010 to start Kombuchick.

The cofounder and CEO of Thumbtack has kept a close eye on the rise of the «gig economy» — or on - demand, short - term, unskilled jobs where employees are usually referred to as independent contractors — and he doesn't see how it could provide people with meaningful sources of income long - term.

His former co-workers have gone on to work in warehouses or a local General Motors plant, and most are choosing not to return to their old jobs even as contractors offer higher wages.

ROBB SPEARMAN: For those realtors in my office who've gone from a full - time job where they have health benefits into a commission - type paying position as an independent contractor, it's a key issue for them.

It did a bustling business as a supplier of lumber and other building materials to contractors for new construction and remodeling jobs.

While many people mention first impressions as an important factor when evaluating someone, the truth is that the final impression a contractor leaves when they finally depart the job site is more likely to be the dominant and lasting impression.

One study by economist Elaine McCrate found that any reduction in wages associated with the benefit of flexibility is modest at best and, in fact, many jobs with greater flexibility have higher wages.137 Furthermore, the volatility of earnings for many independent contractors would offset any compensating wage differentials, because workers can not compare the value of flexibility to higher earnings when they aren't able to predict their earnings as independent contractors.138

In tandem with the 100,000 Opportunity Youth Initiative, Starbucks has opened four stores with classroom and training space as part of its effort to support local economic development in diverse low - to - medium income communities across the U.S.. Each of these stores creates 20 to 25 new jobs with benefits, partners with a local women - and minority - owned supplier and contractor, and works with local nonprofits to provide job - skills training to youth.

The number of construction jobs on Long Island remained relatively unchanged in Jan. 2018 as compared with the previous year, according to the latest report from the Associated General Contractors of America.

An infrastructure plan would trigger a hiring spur in Department of Transportation (DOT) jobs, but the contractors these organizations use would see an uptick as well.

In 2013, the U.S. government will carefully scrutinize businesses that may be falsely categorizing on - the - job employees as independent contractors.

However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions can not disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

Mangano aides contend the sinking job - approval numbers are a result of a report that surfaced as the poll was conducted of an exchange of sexually suggestive texts between Mangano and a female county contractor.

C.B. Strain supported hundreds of good jobs locally, and as the company prospered, so did her workers, contractors, and suppliers.

Cameron will top off the article with a visit to a Scottish defence contractor later today, in a move which will double - up as an event warning of the impact of independence on jobs.

At the end of the month, Elmendorf will depart his post as New York State director of the National Federation of Independent Business to take a job as president and CEO of the Associated General Contractors of New York State.

«As laid out in the complaint, their retaliatory actions against us have also inflicted damage on their own union members and union contractors forcing them to lose work and jobs that we had awarded to them.»

Layoffs came to the SolarCity construction site late last week, as the result of delayed payments by New York State to contractors on the job.

Contractors with the county must have NYS Certified Worker Training Programs that actually graduate workers as apprentices, thereby providing local workers with the education and skills training they need to succeed in construction trades now and in the future, while at the same time lessening the need for out - of - area workers on these jobs as local workers gain new skills.

«Contractors with the county must have NYS Certified Worker Training Programs that actually graduate workers as apprentices, thereby providing local workers with the education and skills training they need to succeed in construction trades now and in the future, while at the same time lessening the need for out - of - area workers on these jobs as local workers gain new skills,» Poloncarz said in a statement.

«It saddens me that NSF does not seem to have an interest in fixing the very valuable and important but, unfortunately, broken IPA system,» writes Strømme, who returned to her previous job as a government contractor after leaving NSF in March 2013.

When a sugar daddy contracts you for an arrangement, he is hiring you to do a job and has some specific performance expectations that you, as an independent contractor, agree to meet.

Though the mumbo - jumbo opening voiceover left me confused as to what Bradley Cooper's job is (he seems to have been an astronaut and Air Force pilot who's now a private contractor designated to help Bill Murray build rocket - launching platforms in Hawaii), «Aloha» starts off pretty swell.

The scenes with Cooper's character trying to do his job as a military contractor seemed to derail the most.

He walks right into a job as a building contractor working on airport renovations.

Licensing laws now guard entry into hundreds of occupations, including jobs that offer upward mobility to those of modest means, such as cosmetologist, auctioneer, athletic trainer and landscape contractor.

A native of Virginia, he graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2006 with a high - paying job offer as a defense contractor at a consulting firm.

«This proposal will allow me to handle my professional duties as a contractor who has a job to complete, without worrying about hours of employment, etc..»

I figured if I could do it by myself last year working one full - time job, and two part - time jobs (one as an independent contractor and one working for a state university, that I would be okay this year.....)

Think of jobs like oil rig worker, underwater welder / construction, working in war zones as a contractor, and more.

As part of my job, I'm taking on a role that is a contractor or freelancer and deciding whether I should pay the tax myself or whether or not I should let the tax be paid through the company I'm working for.

Construction Draw Mortgage — This means that we will pay construction contractor as the job is finished.

As such, don't be surprised if a contractor starts talking about pulling permits for this job.

This will keep a lid on costs and act as an incentive for the contractor to move the job along faster.

While it will certainly create chaos in your household (for as long as six weeks), and while it will be expensive (good bathroom expansion jobs easily creep up past $ 15,000 or $ 20,000), it's the type of job that many reputable, busy contractors will schedule in at the last minute if you don't mind being at the mercy of the contractor's schedule.

There are tons of websites out there that allow individuals to apply as contractors for a variety of jobs.

Construction Draw Mortgages — Our company can pay your construction contractor as the job is finished.

All income earned through the taxpayer's business, as an independent contractor or from informal side jobs is self - employment income, which is fully taxable and must be reported on Form 1040.

When the Navy needed someone to build 28 Virginia class nuclear attack submarines, as well as 12 Columbia class ballistic missile subs, General Dynamics was one of the few companies with the facilities and technical background to get the job done, so it won the primary contractor position on both.

Earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to be able to leave my 9 - 5 job and work on my own as a contractor.

Canada's condo market to dodge hard landing as population, job gains drive demand: study A contractor walks along the outer edge of a condominium under construction in downtown Vancouver.