Sentences with phrase «of temporary contract»

That's not necessarily a bad thing; a lot of people are getting through a period of unemployment with a string of temporary contract jobs.

These changes will end the currently common, but antisocial, practice of pretending to employ young scientists at a different university after the termination of their temporary contract without providing them with the opportunity to apply for a permanent position.

This fits in to the wider pattern of insecure work that increasingly defines our workplaces, where there are nearly 1.7 million workers on some kind of temporary contract, with over a third taken because a permanent position was not available.

With a clearly defined, limited term for the qualification phase of young scientists in mind, the HRG changes will lead to a simplification of the practical handling of temporary contracts.

While the preponderance of temporary contracts may have many downsides, there is a risk that changes to the academic system would have significant knock - on effects, Phillips recognizes in her email to Science Careers.

Publishing Following Friday's news that as many as 80 employees will be relocated or fired in DC Entertainment's restructuring, Rich Johnston claims that most of the staff reduction will come from the end of temporary contracts.

Achieved superior marks on client evaluations and frequently offered full - time positions at the culmination of temporary contracts.

Not exact matches

Figures also show that in 2009, 1.8 million Canadians worked in some type of temporary job, which accounted for 12.5 per cent of paid employment, with contract positions accounting for just over one - half of temporary jobs and professionals making up a large proportion of contract employees.

When you reach the end of the contract with a contractor, have a process prepared that can be repeated with ease for future temporary hires.

Instead, underemployment, temporary contract positions, lousy pay and never - ending «internships» have eroded their expectations, and in the process, their sense of loyalty to any given employer.

Early discussions also include possible new forms of membership among workers who are not traditionally organized, including unemployed workers, students, workers in contract, self - employed, temporary and freelance positions.

Even a brief glance at any monthly job market report from Statistics Canada shows a trend toward more and more Canadians doing part - time, contract, temporary and self - employed kinds of work.

The NLRB, in a statement Thursday, says the purpose of the ruling was to refine its standard of joint - employer status to match up better with the needs of today's workers, where nearly 3 million people are employed on a contract basis through temporary agencies.

A new study suggests that by 2020, 40 percent of America's workforce will be contract, temporary or self - employed workers.

A Qualcomm spokesperson told Fortune in a statement that both full - time and temporary workers will be affected by the layoffs, without citing the specific number of full - time and contract workers that will be cut.

This includes a growing number of temporary, contract and on - call positions.

The Department of Defense awarded Ecovative a preliminary contract to develop «programmable materials» to grow temporary living structures for the military that are sustainable and reduce waste.

In a span of a couple of years, he and his lieutenants fired more than 200 people, reassigned 500, hired 435 and added several hundred more through temporary contracts.

Certainly the rise of temporary, part - time and contract employment has benefited employers by improving their ability to scale up or down quickly.

As already noted, in many places across Canada — usually in precisely those disadvantaged places that the partisans of a mandatory long - form census cite as justifying such detailed data collection — local temporary StatsCan contract employees have direct access to their neighbours» responses as a normal and routine part of data collection.

The largest contributor to the Fund for the quarter was U.K. - based PageGroup, a provider of permanent, contract and temporary recruitment focused on the white - collar market.

A U.K. provider of permanent, contract and temporary recruitment focused on the white - collar market was the Fund's top performer this quarter, while a Canadian company that offers acquisition, servicing and financing services for various types of vehicles was the largest detractor.

Businesses that occupy the free - trade zones have no restrictions on the repatriation of their profits, and they benefit from relaxed labor laws that allow them to hire workers on a temporary basis without supplying a year - long contract.

«That is one of the effects of automation, and globalization in particular: All of the jobs in the past 10 years that we've created, 94 percent of them are part - time, contract, temporary, seasonal.

Even marriage, Locke holds, is finally to be understood as a contract whose conditions are temporary and subject to revision, particularly once the duties of child - rearing are completed.

It comes amid mounting concern over deteriorating workplace standards in Australia, including underpayments, the exploitation of temporary foreign workers and the misuse of contracting and labour - hire arrangements.

Arshavin has already returned to Zenit on loan, making the temporary move back to Russia for the second half of last season, and could now re-join the club permanently after coming to the end of his contract with Arsenal.

He has several years on his contract with us, he is one of our best players, his temporary dip in form notwithstanding.

But there has been talk of them getting someone in on a temporary basis until Wenger's current contract with Arsenal runs out next summer.

Keown then added that a loan deal could not be ruled out from January, although I'm not sure I agree considering his contract will only have six months left to run and a temporary move would be of little to no benefit to our club.

The career of Tiago Lloris in Anfield is over as he completed a season long loan deal to Aston Villa and even though it's only for a temporary period of time, it seems highly unlikely that the Portuguese defender would be making a return to Liverpool even after his loan contract with Aston Villa eventually reaches it's inevitable end.

Glen Ellyn — Frustrated over the delayed grading of land to be used for a temporary commuter parking lot, Glen Ellyn officials have awarded a $ 25,700 contract to a Naperville firm to complete the job.

A large proportion of the staff working in Brussels and in the EU delegations consists of national diplomats on a temporary 3 - 4 year contract.

It all began when Alexander Zeldin, 29, was handed a copy of The Night Cleaner, a book by French author Florence Aubenas illuminating the precarious world of temporary work without a defined contract of employment in northern France.

A grievance against East Hampton Town filed on behalf of union members who work in the town Highway Department alleges that the highway superintendent's hiring of two temporary workers is a contract violation.

And the increasing insecurity we see, with too many stuck in temporary jobs, and rising numbers of zero hours contracts, makes it harder for people to get a mortgage to buy their own home, or save for a pension, all of which adds to the pressure on our social security system.

«Anything short of revoking Armor's contract and bringing in a temporary solution that's going to be monitored by the state is not going to be acceptable.»

STATEN ISLAND — The borough president has tapped the brakes on plans to give a 15 - year contract to the temporary operators of the go - kart facility in Emerson Hill until he can secure a guarantee they will not tear down a hockey rink on the site.

The city has $ 98 million in contracts out with such building owners, who ironically are chipping away at the stock of affordable rental housing by repurposing their buildings for temporary quarters for the city's homeless.

Together with the HRG amendment, the conditions for the conclusion of temporary employment contracts with those employed in the sciences and the arts have been modified as well.

Currently, university employment on temporary contracts for scientific employees is limited to 5 years after the successful awarding of the Ph.D. degree.

► Setting an example we hope will be emulated widely, the new president of RIKEN, Japan's «scandal - tarnished network of national laboratories,» announced plans to restore the labs» luster by «introducing a tenure track system that would retain the best young researchers now on temporary contracts,» Dennis Normile reported Monday at ScienceInsider.

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In recent years, escalating costs and increased global competition have led pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to start using contractors — temporary employees who work for a contracted period of time — in jobs previously held by permanent employees.

As a result, most of the named institutions now classify postdocs as individuals in training, within 5 years of being awarded a Ph.D. degree, who are primarily engaged in research with minimal teaching or other responsibilities, and are in a temporary appointment that does not constitute an employment contract with the university.

Postdocs are a special, temporary body of employees for whom it makes no sense to enter into labor contracts, says Kenneth Drake, who just completed his postdoc in surgery and urology at UC San Diego.

Up until 2 years ago, federal law allowed an employer give an individual a temporary contract for a maximum of 5 years; after that period, the employee had to be offered a permanent position or leave.

Although Naumann also holds a temporary contract, he feels positive about his chances of getting a tenured position.

In an attempt to rationalise a situation in which a researcher would end up having a string of 5 - year contracts, the 12 - year rule — 15 years in medicine — capped the time period that a university (or publicly funded research institute) is allowed to hire using temporary contracts.

In the realm of academic research, postdoctoral to midcareer research scientists often held a succession of 5 - year temporary contracts.