Sentences with phrase «of staffing up»

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Intact has set up booths at evacuation centres and has increased the staffing levels of its 24/7 helpline.

Walmart has been adding self checkout kiosks at some stores and increasing cash register staffing to speed up the checkout process, which had for years been a bete noire of many Walmart customers and a big drag on its customer service ratings.

When the CEO of Ottawa - based staffing company Eagle Professional Resources does feel under the weather, he holes up in his office and keeps working.

The NSBA's McCracken observes, however, that the administration's slowness staffing up agencies charged with implementing two - for - one «gets in the way of that happening in a timely fashion.»

To prepare for this shift in 3D printing, one that will see more companies using additive manufacturing, especially with metals, to manufacture end - use parts, companies are staffing up, training new workers, and buying more 3D printing machines, SDM's report shows that 73 % of the 700 respondents to SDM's survey said their companies plan to increase their in - house production of additively manufactured parts, a trend more pronounced in the aerospace and medical industries.

«The amount of expertise and staffing that it takes to get these jobs to market and properly consult the developers has actually gone up,» he said.

That's the thrust of a big hiring push Gawker is making this year, which involves staffing up in technology, native advertising and bloggers to stir up conversation about products — all with the goal of ultimately driving readers to purchase.

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Church of England congregations in continental Europe are facing a drop in disposable income, under a new shake - up of finances and staffing.

If you are learning to eat with the hurry up and eat mentality and are only served fast foods, because of staffing and lack of trained people who can really cook foods from scratch can be an issue.

«As a state worker, and I believe I speak for most of us, I don't believe we would be as up in arms about negotiations if we saw that Gov. Paterson and our legislators were doing their best to also reduce their salaries, their perks, their staffing patterns and to get their job done, by passing a budget.»

I've held off on using it as a tool for my nonprofit organization, yet (that's about to change) because: a) most of my audience isn't on Twitter and doesn't get it; b) due to limited staffing, I've found it difficult to keep up with on a regular basis; and c) I haven't had a real goal in mind — something I wanted to accomplish by using it.

There were more deaths in custody last year than ever before, staffing levels have seen deep cuts, there's a shortage of places and violence against prison staff is up sharply.

Long also appears to be staffing up with some veterans of state politics.

These include: pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, equal staffing and resources for members, and giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the Floor for an up or down vote.

Truss admits that in the eighteen months leading up to June 2016 there was only a net increase in staffing levels of 295 officers.

Like Turner, Long had a high burn - rate, reporting just over $ 68,000 in cash on hand, after staffing up with a team of experienced advisers.

The coalition, made up of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), New York StateWide Senior Action Council, New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), and the Public Employees Federation (PEF), sent a united message that safe staffing saves lives.

«It's time for the City Council to step up and support the men and women of the NYPD who have done such an outstanding job keeping this city safe while being consistently short changed in the area of staffing.»

Police hiring and staffing was a major issue in the 2017 mayoral election, with the SPD understaffed and racking up millions of dollars in overtime pay, according to Syracuse.com.

The network's Sunshine State staffing rivals that of the Florida Republican Party and its local and legislative affiliates, according to sources familiar with Florida GOP politics, though the Republican Party presence in Florida and other key states will surge as the RNC ramps up its joint victory program with state party committees.

So even if they make it on to the list, it could be anything up to a couple of years before a candidate is offered a post, depending on staffing requirements.

Ameren's Callaway nuclear plant in Missouri assigns operating staff to make up the fire brigade, but trying to fight two fires at once would be «very difficult» because of limited staffing, the NRC said.

And staffing requirements, emergency planning and clean - up funds, among other issues, remain to be worked out between the reactor makers and the NRC — a key component of reducing the cost of such reactors.

One problem the FDA has in doing so is a matter of staffing: The agency has a medical officer review each report from manufacturers, but it doesn't have someone who can routinely follow up with the patient, the patient's family, or physician for missing records necessary to take a serious enforcement action.

NSF has already implemented some of them, including staffing up its Large Facilities Office and clarifying how management fees can be used.

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To identify areas of the staffing budget where savings can be made, it is important to use the most up - to - date information available on areas such as tax, national insurance and pension rates.

When one considers that supply teaching staff make up less than three per cent of school staffing costs, compared to the almost seven per cent spent on administrative and clerical staff, it's clear that agency spend is a minor factor in the budgetary difficulties some schools find themselves in.

«When students» needs are not met, we end up losing some of those students, which, in turn, results in further loss of community support, staffing, and budgeting» said Shaman.

The Teacher Follow - up Survey of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS - TFS) provides data designed to examine teacher turnover, and it has a much larger sample, 706 former teachers currently working in nonteaching jobs.

At secondary level — where a department's resourcing and staffing are primarily determined by the take up of the subject at GCSE and A / AS level — there are added challenges for music departments.

Superintendent David Snead said that while Detroit public high schools are overstaffed, some elementary and middle schools have staffing shortages, with student - teacher ratios of up to 35 to 1.

Startups are offering new forms of human and social capital to schools and students to make up for staffing disparities in teachers and guidance counselors.

The nation's rural schools, which account for about a fifth of SIG schools overall, have opted mainly for the flexible «transformation» model, which doesn't call for a big staffing shake - up, but requires schools to replace the principal, create new teacher - evaluation systems and add learning time to the school day.

LPI analysis of the Teacher Follow - Up Survey (TFS), 2013, from the Schools and Staffing Survey, National Center for Education Statistics.

Accountability pressures focused on test preparation and leading to sanctions comprised the most frequently cited area of dissatisfaction, listed by 25 % of teachers who left.LPI analysis of the Teacher Follow - Up Survey (TFS), 2013, from the Schools and Staffing Survey, National Center for Education Statistics.

But, because running schools requires a lot of people, the «base staffing allocation» uses up more than 85 % of unrestricted General Fund resources, [2] leaving less for this equity - driven redistribution.

Fired up over school district administrators» proposed staffing shake - up that would remove teachers from as many as 24 schools, a group of roughly two - dozen parents briefly shut down a Seattle school board committee meeting Wednesday night.

In the early 1970s support staff made up under 2 % of staffing, today it is over 10 %.

* Ingersoll, Merril, and Stuckey drew their research from the recently released 2011 - 12 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and Teacher Follow - Up Survey (TFS) collected by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), part of the US Department of Education.

The independent TFA spinoff known as Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE) has been quietly staffing up the past few months, including not only Joy SIlvern, former staffer to US Senator Michael Bennet (D - CO) and Obama for America policy person but also communications guru Michael Amodeo (another veteran of the Obama campaign) and former TFA LA executive director and state assembly candidate Brian Johnson.

Texas Aspires provides something of a counterpoint for Raise Your Hand Texas, which also has been staffing up in recent months after the departure of executive director David Anthony, who championed the recent districts of innovation legislation.

Our analysis was based on data from the federal Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and its supplemental Teacher Follow - Up Survey (TFS).1 When we originally undertook our study, six cycles of SASS / TFS had been administered over a 20 - year period — 1987 — 88, 1990 — 91, 1993 — 94, 1999 — 2000, 2003 — 04, and 2007 — 08.

Applications are dropping and costs are up as independent schools wage a facilities arms race and try to deal with escalating technology and staffing costs — at Catholic schools, because the number of nuns is down 72 percent since the mid 1960s, and they have gone from comprising most of the teachers to fewer than 2 percent of them, requiring the hiring of higher - paid lay teachers.