Sentences with phrase «private hire companies»

«It's just like Uber, Addison Lee, or any other private hire companies.

At the same time, it also proposed a significant hike in operator fees for private hire companies, like Uber, across the capital.

Bus and coach claims aren't just limited to public transport operators: private hire companies, as well as school bus or coach tour operators, can also be responsible for injuries.

You may be pleasantly surprised to find that Ex-Zec Travel charge very little more than a very good quality private hire company, for their Executive Travel Service.

Similarly, accidents involving a taxi may involve claiming against a private hire company.

«The court also recognised the need for passengers to be able to contact the private hire company they're using should an emergency arise.

Not exact matches

The entrepreneurs and CEOs leading America's fastest - growing private companies aren't letting the troubled economy slow down their hiring plans for 2012, a new survey reports.

Cyber crime ignores borders by its nature, and fighting it requires an unusually high level of cooperation between the companies under attack, the private security firms they hire for protection and investigations, and the law enforcement agencies in multiple countries that try to track hackers down.

Investors, museums and private art companies hire him to confirm both the authenticity of art and antiques they are considering buying, and to purchase key pieces for their collection, or investigate lost or stolen art and antiques.

So when circumstances require that kind of information about a private company, its owner must hire someone to perform a study of its value that is logical and defensible,» explains Thomas Giordano, director of valuation services for the accounting firm Goldstein Golub Kessler & Co., in New York City.

Barclays Capital was hired last year to conduct a sale of a minority interest in the company, including all or a portion of Chris's shares (the bidding was code - named «Project Amethyst»), and various private - equity and strategic firms have considered buying them.

Hiring private companies to complete needed infrastructure, likewise.

Cerberus Business Finance, the direct lending affiliate of global private equity company Cerberus Capital Management, has hired former Jefferies executive Andrew Woolford as a managing director.

People briefed on the plan, who asked for anonymity because the discussions were private, said the executives decided to announce the initiative while still a concept in part so they can begin hiring staff for the new company.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oCompany Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic ocompany; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic ocompany given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

The taxi - hailing company has been told it will lose its private hire licence, after Transport for London cited public safety and security concerns.

The NASTAR center is (to date) the only private training facility to meet FAA safety regulations for both orbital and suborbital human spaceflight, which has made them a de facto partner for commercial space companies like Virgin Galacticand Astronauts 4 Hire.

The company helps private fleets, for - hire carriers and third party logistics companies of all sizes surpass compliance of federal, state, and local regulations and streamline processes to reduce costs and mitigate risks.

The company's board — and its private equity investor Baird Capital — hired Jennifer Quinlan, who most recently served as North American digital...

In the U.S., Wall Street ended higher after an increase in hiring by private companies helped lift stock prices.

Sprouse, the owner of a company that offers cooking lessons and private parties, went on to hire Hubbard as a cook.

In the Battle of Matewan, union coal miners fought Baldwin - Felts «private detectives» who had been hired to evict union miners from company housing.

In December, the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee supported LITRG's call for an independent review of tax credit compliance processes following significant delays and difficulties faced by tax credit claimants trying to deal with Concentrix, the private company hired by HMRC to carry out tax credit checks on their behalf.

The nonprofits are not required to follow normal state agency procurement guidelines or to get authorization from the state comptroller before hiring private companies.

Beginning in 2011, Genting made a full - scale push in Albany to permit private casinos, organizing the New York Gaming Association with other gambling companies and hiring well - connected lobbyists and advocates, including several close to Mr. Cuomo.

The Denver - based IT company hired by Clinton in 2013 to oversee her private email server was previously a small «mom and pop shop» that seemed like a «bizarre» choice for the former Secretary of State, according to an ex-employee of the firm.

* At one private fundraiser, Cuomo took $ 125,000 from five limited liability companies connected to Cor Development, the Syracuse company that saw its state - funded projects soar after it began making the donations and hired a now - disgraced former lobbyist, Todd Howe.

The airport authority did not have the power to hire a private security company when it did.

The Rockland County Times reported on Tuesday that the Journal News had hired RGA Investigations, a private security company, to patrol its offices.

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He cited the hiring of off - duty police officers as security guards for private companies as a prime example of the ethical conflict of dual employment.

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-- > He did mention his private companies are doing great and he had the best staff ever, I'm just wondering why he doesn't hire them.

Hire a private company, AvPorts of Dulles, Virginia, to run Republic Airport in Farmingdale, which is owned by the state; and reserve 14.5 acres at the airport for aviation businesses and other commercial development.

This is what this corporate dictator anti-freedom-of-speech Mayor Michael Bloomberg had to say about those (like the women who were forced out of their job's of his company because they were pregnant) about whom he hire's for his company & I quote: «I just hopefully hire people who are a little more responsible, that's the first thing I worry about», «I've always thought that when you work for somebody, you have an obligation to not write a tell - all book afterwards and that's true whether you're in an administration or whether you're working for a private company».

MIDTOWN — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn accused the city Tuesday of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire laborers to clear snow from city bus shelters, even though a private company had already been contracted to do the job.

The mass murderer in Orlando was a private security guard for the same company being hired to provide security in Buffalo City Hall.

The town has hired a private company to wrap all the boxes of paperwork in plastic and move them to rented trailers parked near Town Hall.

There, private companies - not taxpayers - will put up the money and financial risk to hire acts.

No one talks about this very often, but I have observed that, with the exception of those that receive government grants or contracts, private companies do not have many incentives to ensure that ethnic minorities are treated fairly in the hiring and firing process.

They discover the letters by hiring a private investigator (played by Ann Dowd) to follow Howard to find some evidence that he is mentally impaired in some way, so that Whit, Howard's business partner, can sell the company to an interested buyer.

With the company in dire financial straits, Howard's minority partners Whit (Edward Norton), Claire (Kate Winslet), and Simon (Michael Peña) conspire to wrest control by hiring three struggling actors (Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, and Jacob Latimore) to randomly sneak up on him on the subway or while he's eating and pretend to be personifications of death, love, and time while an unscrupulous private eye secretly records their interactions and doctors the footage so that it looks like Howard is talking to himself.

In desperation, best pal Whit (Edward Norton), protege Claire (Kate Winslet) and rising - star Simon (Michael Pena) hire a private detective (Ann Dowd) to determine Howard's mental fitness to run the company.

Tony Leung and Wong Kar - wai arrived in Singapore with a crew of ten, including Leung's private security and security guards hired by the film's production company.

The Wilkinsburg, Pa., school board has voted to invite the Landmark Legal Foundation to represent the district in its effort to hire a private company to manage an elementary school.

The probe, by a private firm hired by the school board, found evidence that a software vendor also may have paid a commission to another woman, Mr. Hornsby's live - in girlfriend, who was a sales representative for the company.

They had campaigned on an «anti-privatization» platform, criticizing the district for considering such options as hiring a private, for - profit company to help run some of its schools.

While debating the final version of the legislation on the House floor on Friday, Rep. Tricia Cotham (D - Mecklenberg) called out Mitchell and others like him who could, with this legislation, hire family and friends through a private charter school company and pay them anything they like with public funds.

In Milwaukee Public Schools, the Milwaukee County executive will have authority to appoint a commissioner who can take control of up to three of the lowest performing schools in the first year, up to five in subsequent years, and hire a private company to run these schools.