Sentences with phrase «of public works contract»

public works regulations and construction, providing expert direction in all aspects of public works contract construction.

However, a «twin» provision can be found in Article 41 of Directive 2004 / 18 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts (OJ 2004 L 134, p. 114)(«Directive 2004/18»).

Not exact matches

It usually starts like this (at least this is how it started for me when I earned my scar tissue): you own or work for a startup that sells a product or service and are looking to contract out some work instead of hiring inside staff because, well, you're strapped for cash — things such as fulfillment, public relations and web design are all common applicants.

Government investments have been directed towards public works of scale (such as from the Hoover Dam), military - industrial contracts, and the financial industry.

Lastly, Mr Prentice can promise to ask Agriculture Minister Verlyn Olson to terminate Mr Berger's contract because it violates Alberta's conflict of interest rules that require a one year cooling off period before a former government minister can work for the public service in an area in which he's had significant dealings.

About 70 public works and parks and recreation employees along with police telecommunicators, all belonging to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 368, have been without a new contract for 17 months since their collective bargaining agreement expired April 30, 2011.

Glen Ellyn expects to get 300 tons of salt delivered Tuesday, and it's the last of what the village will have on contract, says Public Works Director Julius Hansen.

The village's Public Works and Engineering Committee approved a roughly $ 2.7 million contract with Crowley - Sheppard Asphalt Inc. of Chicago Ridge this month.

About 70 public works and parks and recreation employees along with police dispatchers belong to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 368, and they have been without a contract for 17 months since their collective bargaining agreement expired April 30, 2011.

One possible answer is that the government provides a framework that must be paid for but allows an individual to work: enforcement of contracts, public safety, national defense etc..

In its submission to the government's open public services white paper, the union identifies major problems with Mr Duncan Smith's work programme, where 33 of the 34 contracts went to large private sector providers.

They will read this election as a positive indicator that the incoming government is willing and able to work with them on their own terms, offering stable contracts and a «hands - off» relationship between private firms and public bodies such as the National Oil Corporation of Kenya.

Another document, a correspondence from Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) to the NNPC dated June 26, 2015 states in part that: «The [NNPC] Governing Board is responsible for approval of the work programmes, corporate contract plans and budget while the [NNPC] Tenders Board is responsible for approval of day to day procurement implementation.»

CSEA, the county's largest public employee union, has been working without a contract since the end of 2012.

The unexpended balance of each appropriation, less the commitments outstanding at the close of the fiscal year for which it was made, shall lapse at the close of such fiscal year; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to require the lapsing of appropriations which may be or are required to be made for an indefinite period or which include state refunds, allocations or grants applicable to said appropriations pursuant to any other provisions of law; and provided further that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the making of appropriations or contracts for the construction of permanent public improvements or works not to be completed during the fiscal year, or the acquisition of property therefor, or the establishment of bond or capital accounts, sinking funds or reserve funds, and each such appropriation, account or fund shall continue in force until the purpose for which it was made shall have been accomplished or shall have been abandoned by a two thirds vote of the County Legislature.

The company does work with the New York government, but Bruno doesn't see that as a problem, as all of their contracts are achieved through public bidding and state legislators are legally barred only from lobbying after retirement from office, not from taking other types of jobs.

Rick Karlin at CapCon, who has done more work on state worker issues than anyone of late, wrote exactly this time last year that MC workers did receive the same contract terms Public Employees Federation members received in their agreement.

«For the sake of emphasis let me state clearly that both the Crude Term Contract and the Direct Sale and Direct Purchase agreements are not contracts for any procurement of goods, works or services, and therefore do not involve the use of public funds.

Hundreds of IT staff who work on contracts for five government departments and agencies are being balloted for a strike over pay, the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

The lobbying association for New York's newspapers is urging lawmakers to reject parts of Cuomo's proposed $ 152 billion state budget, contending the package would make some state contracts less transparent and would give the administration «virtually unconstrained authority» over public works projects.

NYC Public Advocate Tish James is demanding that the Department of Education withdraw a potential billion - dollar contract with a computer firm that was implicated in a kickback scandal doing similar work for the city.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today announced the sentencing of the remaining three defendants in an elaborate bid - rigging conspiracy that illegally steered multi-million dollar public works contracts for Monroe County to favored and connected companies.

Under the rules, public workers can't strike, but they are allowed to continue to work under the terms of their previous agreements after a contract expires.

But the construction portion of the project, estimated to be 90 percent of the $ 12 million cost, is contingent on a change in state law to allow municipalities to use special «design - build» contracts, in which the design and construction phases are awarded to one company, rather than in separate bids as is typical in large public works projects.

Several companies for potential violations of state - mandated wages and benefits in public works contracts

Among the top contributors in Curran's most recent filing was Haughland Energy Group, a Plainview company that has a contract with the county's Department of Public Works to build a wall and flood protection berm around the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant.

«In employment, the Equality Act fails to protect the rights of employees working for religious organisations, even those organisations working under public contract.

Mr. Hammond said, about 12 percent of work has been done eight months after the contract was awarded by the NDC government in 2016, adding that, 20 km of the road has been completed and opened to the public.

Adam, 33, and Dean, 67, both of Rockville Centre, are on trial in federal court in Manhattan on allegations that the former Senate majority leader solicited bribes and extortion of three different companies — Arizona - based AbTech; Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers of Roslyn and New Hyde Park - based Glenwood Management — to hire Adam as a consultant in return for favorable legislation and public - works contracts.

«The contract agreement reached today is a major step forward for the state and the thousands of public servants who work tirelessly each and every day to make New York the strong leader that it is,» Governor Cuomo said.

ALBANY, NY (05/03/2012)(readMedia)-- The New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) today released its annual report on the high cost of contracting out work that could be done by state employees for far less.

Public employee unions have a huge amount of sway near the heart of the state's bureaucracy, and in 2014, they worked against the governor who had angered their members with his tough negotiations on labor contracts and his support for pension and education reforms.

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FINANCIAL DISTRICT — Mayoral hopeful and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said there is a model approach to the city's massive backlog of labor contracts in the work done by Governor Andrew Cuomo, while blasting what he called Mayor Bloomberg's hands - off approach to the issue.

The DARPA programme explicitly prevents the release of gene - drive organisms and requires contract winners to work under stringent biosafety conditions and to disclose their planned experiments to the public — measures that should reduce the risk of any accidental release, Esvelt adds.

Previously she worked at Portland State University, doing contracted research, data analysis, and program evaluation for a range of clients, including university faculty, community organizations, and public agencies.

There's no doubt that public education is among the most unionized industries in the United States, with more than 60 percent of teachers working under a union contract.

Over protests from the public and concerns from one of its members, the School Reform Commission awarded a contract Thursday to prepare 20 new teachers to work in the Philadelphia School District.

Teachers in the school would have been required to have the state Department of Public Instruction's special Montessori teaching license to work at the school under the contract.

But Edison was required to work under the terms of the existing teacher contract, which limited the company's educational options, said Paul T. Hill, a University of Washington professor who wrote a 1997 book, «Reinventing Public Education.»

Thanks to our LDC work during the 2010 - 2011 school year, District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) contracted with Inspired Teaching from 2011 to 2015 to work with cohorts of teachers to create Common Core - aligned curricula for every unit of every social studies course grades 6 - 12.

Thanks to the investigative work of the Connecticut Post's Ken Dixon in April, 2012, the public learned that Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor gave Leeds Global Partner a lucrative no - bid contract in January 2012 to help the Malloy administration develop their disastrous «education reform» bill.

Yet when Joel Klein, the chancellor of New York City schools, decamped to work for Rupert Murdoch's empire on an education technology program that has contracts with New York City public schools, Brill's ethics antennae remained oddly dormant.

In structure, Minneapolis» first self - governed school would resemble teacher - led programs in the Milwaukee public schools, where the teachers in charge of the new schools retain their union seniority and district benefits like their colleagues but work under a contract that makes them responsible for their schools.

Having worked both sides of the union issue in public employment, I can tell you that no union contract fails to include termination or discipline for cause.

Steve is a long - time teacher and counselor, someone deeply committed to public education, who worked with us to get rid of John Deasy, to win a contract, to pass the resolution against Broad - Walmart, and more.

«We're not confident that sweeps contracts allow [charters schools and regulators] to fully fulfill their public functions,» said Alex Medler, who leads policy and advocacy work at the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, a trade group for charter regulators.

In this position she, «Managed alternate - route certification contracts for Milwaukee Public Schools and Arizona statewide initiative,» was «Responsible for the goal - setting and official launch process of all new TNTP Academy contracts, working closely with state and city Departments of Education, including Georgia, Pittsburgh, PA, and Charlotte, NC,» and «Maintained high - level client relationships to ensure investment and support of data - driven work.»

Pryor has dedicated himself to hiring his personal friends, giving out millions of dollars in contracts to out - of - state, politically - connected companies, putting his «Turnaround Office» in the hands of Morgan Barth, a person who illegally taught and worked for Pryor's charter school management company (Achievement First, Inc.) for six years and relentlessly and consistently doing the wrong thing for Connecticut's system of public education.

But the new student attendance policy coupled with the fact that the virtual charter schools» contracts don't require students to be actively working online for a minimum amount of time would suggest that there is great potential for «gaming the system» by those who want to invest minimal effort in order to progress through the state's public educational system.