Sentences with phrase «last government job»

Her last government job, starting in October 2011, was as national security coordinator and senior general counsel for the Department of Justice.

Clinton returns to Washington, and to the scene of her last government job, for the ceremonial opening next week of a new exhibition and museum area at the State Department that will be partly named for her.

Not exact matches

Appointed to the position in 2009 by President Barack Obama, his job was to overhaul how the government spends money on technology, a task he did until departing last summer.

It's actually against the law to make money — that is the job of the government, which over the last decade has been more and more willing to manufacture money in unjustified amounts.

But the Ohio native, who took the top job at Google Canada last May after several years overseeing Google's local and government sales at its Chicago office, brings his own extra method to the company's madness.

Furthermore, last year's Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey found job satisfaction among only 64 percent of almost 400,000 government workers and organization satisfaction for just 55 percent.

Fueled by low prices, and an improving job market, consumption of gasoline in the U.S. rose by 2.6 per cent last year to 9.2 million barrels a day, the highest level since 2007, the government said.

The release last week by Statistics Canada of their monthly January jobs report — which showed that Canada lost nearly 90,000 jobs in the first month of 2018 — will make for excellent fodder amongst critics of the federal government's approach to economic development.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last month that his government will introduce legislation this year to ensure equal pay for work of equal value in federal jobs.

The sinking stone dragging down public sector employment was the federal government, which lost 14,000 jobs last month, for a total of 45,000 positions gone since February.

One of the examples he cited was the recently announced Digital Defense Service, a sort of Defense Department job shadowing project in which technology workers can team up with the government on projects that could last up to two years.

The Canada Job Grant was the government's signature economic policy of the last budget.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page, in his last week on the job, is taking the government to court in a bid to have Ottawa release information about the impacts on federal jobs and services from $ 5.2 billion in cuts announced in last year's budget.Photo by Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press / Files

Still, O'Sullivan figures the government will announce 210,000 additional jobs last month, surpassing the monthly average of 174,000 through the first 11 months of 2017.

Some 18 % of this year's class went into the technology industry, up from just 12 % in 2012, while 7 % went into the consumer products industry, up from a mere 3 % last year, and 5 % took jobs in the non-profit or government sectors, up from 3 % in 2012.

In February, Amy Pascal, the longtime head of Sony Pictures Entertainment, lost her job as chairman of the movie studio after a hacking attack late last year, which the U.S. government blamed on North Korea, led to the disclosure of a series of embarrassing emails.

It was put on by the provincial government and the last in series of job fairs all over the province.

For the last 10 years, the so - called «job creators» have enjoyed significant tax cuts and tax breaks — thanks to a beneficent government — and we have yet to see the jobs.

The government did not tell my last job it had to pay for bariatric surgery for the morbidly obese employees, why should it tell the church they have to provide birth control?

My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...

The sale of IXL and Taylors is likely to lead to further job losses at SPC, which has undergone significant restructuring over the last three years after receiving a $ 22 million rescue package from the Victorian government in 2014.

He was backed by new Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane, who last held the job under the Howard government when handouts to car manufacturers, including the since - departed Mitsubishi, were frequent.

With one million jobs lost in the last 10 years Unite has continued to argue for a strong government response and for ministers to show a lead rather than adopt a «let market forces decide» approach.

I had foolishly assumed that whether I liked them or not, people in government were there because they knew how to do their job but the last 12 months alone have included the decision to hold a snap election that then lost them more seats than a bad IKEA intern, Brexit talks that have mimicked that track Paula Abdul did with a cartoon cat, an offensive defence secretary, an international development secretary who had to resign in order to spend less time on holiday, Boris Johnson sadly continuing to be Boris Johnson and all of that and more culminating in an assurance that everything is fine because now our passports will be blue to match the depression everyone will have in 2018.

«Official forecasts will show George Osborne's emergency Budget hitting growth and costing jobs in the short term, government sources said last night, but the austerity measures will also create a brighter climate for the economy by the end of the parliament.

«The Syrian situation poses two conflicting goals: to allow the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government to go unanswered would encourage the Assad regime, and other rogue governments, to use them again, but the last thing America needs or wants is a protracted conflict in the Middle East when our primary focus must be on jobs, the economy and the middle class.

«We formed the Senate majority coalition because we believe that it is the best way to continue to build on the progress we've made over the last two years in ending government dysfunction, bringing spending under control, enacting a property tax cap and helping businesses create new jobs.

«Government job losses can largely be confined to rolling back the excessive growth in administration which has accompanied the spending binge of the last decade.»

Ms Eagle, an MP since 1992, held a number of ministerial jobs during the last Labour government and in 2013 became chair of the Labour Party.

Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Mr Livingstone, who lost to Tory candidate Boris Johnson last week in the race to become London Mayor, said working - class people had become «disillusioned» at the last Labour government's failure to create «good jobs».

There is currently a vacancy in that role, since commissioner John King departed last year to take a job with the federal government.

The programme was instituted by the Government last year to reduce poverty, create jobs and increase food supply.

BY CHERYL SLAVIN The bi-partisan state Senate Majority Coalition, seeking to identify and eliminate the most costly government regulations that inhibit business and job growth and drive up local taxes, hosted one of 10 public forums on regulatory reform at the Nanuet Public Library last Monday.

The governor has said he's a progressive, but a broke one, and at the Democratic state convention last year, declared his goal was «government that creates jobs and advances justice.»

Shadow employment minister Jim Knight said the action taken by the Labour government last year had proved effective in boosting the jobs market.

One day Astle might, perhaps, be tempted by a job inside government, but for the last five years he has found his forte lies in leading a thinktank.

When she stormed out of the government last year, the faith minister's job was actually upgraded because Eric Pickles, the local government and communities secretary, took it over himself, with assistance from another minister, Lord Ahmad.

Among six big states, New York cut fewer government jobs proportionately than New Jersey, California, Texas and Illinois over the last three years, with only Virginia adding jobs, a new report found.

The last prison inspector felt he was pressured out of the job because he was too critical of government.

And good government groups blasted his decision last year to join Hilltop Public Solutions, a campaign consulting firm with close ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio, a job he later opted to decline amid public outrage.

And contrary to the government's claim that the post was a «low - show» job — «Percoco taught the curriculum less than a dozen times on average, with each class typically lasting less than [two] hours,» the government said recently — the defense maintains that her «compensation was reasonable,» an opinion shared by an economist it intends to call as an expert witness.

As unemployed graduates with disability, we have been petitioning the government over the last one year to assist us to find jobs as required by law.

Fifty - six per cent of respondents said the last Scottish Government did a good job of managing the economy.

At a demonstration outside the Department for Energy and Climate Change in London last night protestors called for the government to nationalise the factory as the best way to save the jobs.

While the government is claiming that any underspend would be re-invested quickly, unions are furious at the figures - arguing that the money could have saved at least some of the 22,300 jobs cut last year.

Figures released today show that only 1,362 young people out of the 3,349 who joined Jobs Growth Wales have gained a job in the last six months, with the remainder either unemployed or returning to training, despite being classed as «Job Ready» by the governmejob in the last six months, with the remainder either unemployed or returning to training, despite being classed as «Job Ready» by the governmeJob Ready» by the government.

He has focused his efforts on saving taxpayer dollars through Government Reform — boosting Economic Development to create local and lasting Suffolk County jobs — improving Long Island's Water Quality to protect the region's water supply — and enhancing the Quality of Life of Suffolk residents by improving public safety and investing in County parks and roads.

He said the government had been able to put extra money into the NHS in the last three years because in the last seven years the economy had created 2.8 million jobs.

Jones, who lost his job in the Great Depression of the 1930s, was thought of as one of the most powerful men in Britain under the last Labour government of the pre-Blair era.

Last week, New York's chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) made an effort to further jumpstart the conversation, calling on women and men who currently or previously work (ed) in government in Albany and throughout the state to speak out about their personal experiences with sexual harassment or assault while on the job, citing the Legislature's history of quashing sexual harassment complaints.