Sentences with phrase «paid for a large work»

In mid-2015, $ 28m was paid for a large work.

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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.

Clinton said paid medical leave was already working well in California, one of the country's largest states, which could be a model for the rest of the country.

«There's a full section that talks about pay equity, and what is the larger impact that the gender pay gap has on our society, our economy, our families,» says Deepti Gudipati, vice president of member leadership programs for the AAUW, who is working with the city to roll out the program.

Employees say: «Gibbons affords the high - level work and competitive pay of larger law firms with a genuine respect for family and evenings.

America's largest companies have a long way to go before they can achieve equal pay — the National Women's Law Center reports American women make $ 0.80 for men's $ 1.00 — but companies like General Motors and PepsiCo are making changes that pay women and men equally for the same work and foster pathways to higher - paying leadership positions.

And while requiring people to spend months working for free does put a substantial barrier in the way of someone who can't get financial assistance from his parents, requiring someone to spend a year or two paying many thousands of dollars to a school creates a much larger barrier.

With his threats of large tariffs on imported goods, he has succeeded in forcing these giants to make uneconomic decisions — such as Carrier paying $ 25 per hour to its workers in Indiana to do work that can be done by Mexican employees for $ 2.50 per hour.

I worked for a large national lender before I started my own company, and in all honesty, it's cheaper for me to get a private policy just for myself and my family — I'm paying the same amount per month that I would pay for a policy through that large national company.

All 24 hourly employees now have their own «paid - time - off (PTO) banks» — an innovation suggested by Liebegott's partner, Jerry Feijoo, who had seen the idea work well for his former employer, a large engineering firm.

As we work from a fixed median home price, a smaller down payment means both a larger loan amount and the need to pay for private mortgage insurance, which in turn means even higher salary requirements.

When you work for a company, your employer pays for a large share of your taxes.

And three in every four large firms give their staff paid time off for volunteer work, compared to fewer than half of all businesses.

Matthew Miller, in the book reviewed, thinks it possible to bring thoughtful Democrats and Republicans together to work out the intricate set of compromises that would provide and pay for the large - scale programs that are both needed and possible.

This includes things like perceived needs for new cars, large homes, cruises, gym memberships, expensive vacations, the latest electronic stuff, the «right» to not work and have someone else (family, government or whatever) pay the bills, and so on.

It gives people access to the risk sharing pool and they will have to pay monthly premiums, copays, deductibles, etc. just like those who work for large corporations or the government.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs today announced their filing of a collective action lawsuit against Darden Restaurants, the world's largest full - service restaurant group, alleging servers were paid less than the minimum wage and were not compensated for time they were required to work off the clock.

They're exploited for their work, forced to work long hours with little to no pay, they're denied an education, and they have zero rights — all so the world's largest cocoa corporations can stock your local supermarket or corner store with our favourite treat.

For the past year, Turner has been working to improve his time, hoping to hop up on a lifeguard chair as well as earn a larger paycheck: Lifeguards are paid $ 13.38 per hour, while shallow water attendants earn $ 10.36.

One of the reasons for this large drop in breastfeeding in the first 6 months is related to the return to paid work of mothers following their maternity leave.

States have to pay a share of Medicaid dollars spent, as well, which, last time I was actually working for a state Medicaid program, amounted to $ 1.2 B state claims dollars vs $ 2.1 B federal claims dollars for the not especially large state government I worked (Small state, that is.

«They're more likely to be working age, they're more likely to be paying taxes and less likely to have relatively large sums of money spent on them for education, for long - term care, for healthcare, for pension expenditure.»

«Because [immigrants] are more likely to be working age, they're more likely to be paying taxes and less likely to have relatively large sums of money spent on them for education, for long - term care, for healthcare, for pension expenditure,» OBR chairman Robert Chote told MPs.

He said: «If the EU is working for Germany, for banks, for big corporates and for the public affairs companies with large lobbying operations in Brussels, the EU isn't working for over-regulated small businesses and lower - paid and lower - skilled Britons.

After years of indulging in corporate loopholes and giveaways like more than $ 100 million in tax breaks for the new Goldman Sachs headquarters and paying consulting firms hundreds of millions of dollars to work on failed technology projects like CityTime, the Mayor saved one of his largest corporate handouts for the final moments of his tenure: hundreds of millions of dollars for developers through the midtown east rezoning.

Cuomo has yet to specify how the state will pay for one of the largest public works projects in recent memory and won't release a complete financial plan for the bridge.

The prevailing wage bill passed by the Council last month mandates higher - than - minimum wage pay for security guards and custodians who work in 41 large buildings where the city leases the majority of space.

Some people don't spend enough time with their people describing the expected results, discussing how the group's efforts will pay off down the road for the larger organization, which causes the work to suffer.

Some are heading for the clouds — cloud computing, that is, a pay - as - you - go service, accessible from one's own desktop, that provides rented time on a large cluster of machines that work together in parallel as fast as, or faster than, a single powerful computer.

Speaking of kooky, for anyone else, the large white feather boa might not work, but to funkify Ke $ ha's little black dress, this risk definitely paid off because she didn't go overboard with the rest of her accessories!

I normally would have gone for the slightly larger one, but it seems my hard work in the «gym» aka my living room has paid off and I was able to slip into this delightful fit and flare silhouette!

Added bonus... I was able to negotiate with the store owner since I brought in some vintage pieces that were too large or didn't work for me so I paid a total of $ 20 for this dress.

We are talking about an extremely large bag and terrible useful no matter if we are using it for going to work, paying a visit -LSB-...]

For the first 9 years, she worked a high - stress, high - paying job as a director for the largest brick - and - mortar dating company in the U.S. and interviewed over 6,000 singles in 7 states across the U.For the first 9 years, she worked a high - stress, high - paying job as a director for the largest brick - and - mortar dating company in the U.S. and interviewed over 6,000 singles in 7 states across the U.for the largest brick - and - mortar dating company in the U.S. and interviewed over 6,000 singles in 7 states across the U.S..

Over the course of my career, I worked for one of the nation's largest matchmaking firms specifically to find men for the many women over fifty who were paying for its matchmaking services.

Teachers working in high - poverty schools teaching high - need subjects are eligible for the largest pay increases.

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cream parlour 10 multicultural face masks, Staff role play badges Alphabet flashcards, Colour flashcards, Number flashcards, ordinal numbers cards, Counting cards Colouring pages Word matching cards, picture matching cards Hand hygiene writing task Word search Write sentences worksheet Themed writing frames Work booklet cover to keep pupils project work together Acrostic poem task Addition game Blank thought and speech bubbles — useful for providing evidence of role plays Draw your favourite flavour ice - cream task Design your own menu activity Folder, binder, drawer labels to keep resources organised Resources sacLarge lettering, buntings, patterned and plain display borders Please pay here sign Thank you, please come again — sign Special offer signs Receipts to complete Taking orders pad Ice - cream photo flashcards showing different flavours — great for using during the role play Parking bay signs for customers Washing hands poster Money poster, coins border and quiz, pretend money to use Blank large and extra large labels to be used around the shop for anything needed Ice - cream parlour open and closed signs, opening times Messages pad Ice - cream related word mini cards — such as wafer, sprinkles, syrup etc Photo pack to use as inspiration Long banner «ice - cream parlour» with cute ice cream pictures Bunting banner with pictures of different ice - creams — looks lovely in your role play ice - cream parlour 10 multicultural face masks, Staff role play badges Alphabet flashcards, Colour flashcards, Number flashcards, ordinal numbers cards, Counting cards Colouring pages Word matching cards, picture matching cards Hand hygiene writing task Word search Write sentences worksheet Themed writing frames Work booklet cover to keep pupils project work together Acrostic poem task Addition game Blank thought and speech bubbles — useful for providing evidence of role plays Draw your favourite flavour ice - cream task Design your own menu activity Folder, binder, drawer labels to keep resources organised Resources saclarge and extra large labels to be used around the shop for anything needed Ice - cream parlour open and closed signs, opening times Messages pad Ice - cream related word mini cards — such as wafer, sprinkles, syrup etc Photo pack to use as inspiration Long banner «ice - cream parlour» with cute ice cream pictures Bunting banner with pictures of different ice - creams — looks lovely in your role play ice - cream parlour 10 multicultural face masks, Staff role play badges Alphabet flashcards, Colour flashcards, Number flashcards, ordinal numbers cards, Counting cards Colouring pages Word matching cards, picture matching cards Hand hygiene writing task Word search Write sentences worksheet Themed writing frames Work booklet cover to keep pupils project work together Acrostic poem task Addition game Blank thought and speech bubbles — useful for providing evidence of role plays Draw your favourite flavour ice - cream task Design your own menu activity Folder, binder, drawer labels to keep resources organised Resources saclarge labels to be used around the shop for anything needed Ice - cream parlour open and closed signs, opening times Messages pad Ice - cream related word mini cards — such as wafer, sprinkles, syrup etc Photo pack to use as inspiration Long banner «ice - cream parlour» with cute ice cream pictures Bunting banner with pictures of different ice - creams — looks lovely in your role play ice - cream parlour 10 multicultural face masks, Staff role play badges Alphabet flashcards, Colour flashcards, Number flashcards, ordinal numbers cards, Counting cards Colouring pages Word matching cards, picture matching cards Hand hygiene writing task Word search Write sentences worksheet Themed writing frames Work booklet cover to keep pupils project work together Acrostic poem task Addition game Blank thought and speech bubbles — useful for providing evidence of role plays Draw your favourite flavour ice - cream task Design your own menu activity Folder, binder, drawer labels to keep resources organised Resources sackWork booklet cover to keep pupils project work together Acrostic poem task Addition game Blank thought and speech bubbles — useful for providing evidence of role plays Draw your favourite flavour ice - cream task Design your own menu activity Folder, binder, drawer labels to keep resources organised Resources sackwork together Acrostic poem task Addition game Blank thought and speech bubbles — useful for providing evidence of role plays Draw your favourite flavour ice - cream task Design your own menu activity Folder, binder, drawer labels to keep resources organised Resources sack tag

The Teacher Shortage: Solutions That Work Low pay, large classes, lack of respect for the profession: Those are probably the most common in a long list of reasons cited for the nation's teacher shortage, which most experts predict will worsen over the next decade.

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Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differefor Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differefor Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differefor Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differefor ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differefor State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differefor Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differefor Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really DiffereFor How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?

So, the first year (2015) states pay full freight for the consortia tests will be in fact the final year of test development, but that reality conflicts with the promise that belonging to the consortium will save states large $ $ on test development work.

The final budget bill cut state K - 12 spending by nearly $ 800 million, over7 percent — the largest amount in Wisconsin's history — and limited local governments» abilities to make up for these cuts through property taxes.14 That same year, Gov. Walker passed major tax cuts primarily targeted toward corporations and the wealthy that totaled $ 2.33 billion over 10 years.15 Gov. Walker and Act 10 proponents argued that the bill's reforms would allow schools to offset these cuts by reducing teachers» benefits and hiring lower - paid teachers, preventing budget cuts from affecting students.16 Gov. Walker also argued that eliminating requirements to bargain over salary structures, hiring, and working conditions would give schools additional flexibility needed to attract and retain higher - quality teachers.17

According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59

In this key role, he was responsible for leading and evaluating Departmental human resource management policies for a large Cabinet level agency in the following areas: recruitment and staffing, position classification, pay, labor and employee relations, learning and development, workforce planning, executive resources, work and family life, employee benefits, automation, performance management, and accountability.

That accomplishment affords them the privilege of paying $ 90 per year in membership dues to an organization who is working with publishers to bring down Amazon, the single largest retailer who makes the majority of sales happen for the majority of authors.

So, authors who expect to see sales for the long term are best advised to do most of the initial work themselves or hire freelancers and pay a one - time fee — as opposed to continuing to give a larger portion of royalties to a service provider for this up - front work.

In short, the only clients that agents (who, contrary to popular belief, do not, by - in - large work for authors, but are little more than slush filters that publishers generously allow authors the luxury of paying for) can look forward to having, and being eager for publishers to exploit in the traditional way... are losers.

Apart from the two scenarios above however, in my opinion it doesn't make sense to work with a subsidy / vanity outfit because they charge large fees for services you can do yourself for free or much less expense (e.g., copyright registration, $ 35 to do online yourself, $ 200 or more for a vanity / subsidy publisher to do for you), typically bundle services into packages that include items you don't need or don't want to pay for, and they also require you to use their editors, cover designers, etc..

Thankfully, a large percentage of the work force does not have to worry about paying for health insurance, as 83 percent of full - time workers are currently covered by health insurance.

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.

The Debt Snowball, from a numbers perspective, is going to cost you more money, however the snowball method works for a large number of borrowers because of the added incentive people often get to keep paying off debt when those smaller loans and cards get paid off.