Sentences with phrase «taken by contractors»

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Some companies, like domestic - services provider Handy, reward contractors who take on more hours by lowering the company's cut of their income.

By his own reckoning, Harrison has eliminated 3,000 of the 19,500 positions (including part - timers and contractors) existing when he took over; at a New York investor conference, he mused he may turf thousands more than initially projected.

Barbara Grogan, chief executive of $ 10 - million Western Industrial Contractors Inc., an industrial construction company in Denver, is a big fan of banking improvements that allow her to manage interstate payrolls and multiple bank accounts by fax — «making financial decisions in 20 minutes that once might have taken two months.»

But as skilled as they may be, many contractors like to keep up to date with the latest advances in their field by taking advantage of opportunities for continuing education.

Save time, money, and headaches by taking these recommendations to heart when hiring a contractor.

2 These workshops took place in early 2013, prior to the revelations by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about the agency's cyberespionage activities.

In addition, Mr Billson said the Independent Contractors Act, which was introduced by the Howard government, needed to be updated to take account of the digital economy.

«Anyone losing their job is not an issue to be taken lightly — that's why the former contractor and their people were given six months» notice of the end of the contract and people were paid redundancies by their employer,» she said.

What you are saying by taking the total hours of work and dividing it by total pay is that when I sit down with my contractor and ask for Y I tell them that 35 hours of extra work; yeah i'm not going to pay you full value for it because I am already overpaying you for X, so I will pay you X (plus) Y / Z.

The tour, conducted by Engineer Stephan Coret of Africa Building Partners, contractor for the Mother and Baby Unit facility, took the team round and showed them the extent of work.

It took a while for the bill that would create this law for safety training to be approved by the New York City Council, since there was opposition from the real estate industry, contractors, and immigration advocates.

1322 - A (Johnson) requires the City's economic development agencies to report on their websites when contractors fail to meet their material obligations to the city, and any actions taken by the economic development agency to recoup taxpayer funds when a default has occurred.

Economic support aid is distributed partly by USAID via vetted contractors, and partly directly to the Palestinian Authority under waivers issued by the President (the waiver numbers fluctuate a lot year - to - year, but have totaled $ 900M under Obama's administration as of 2014; this is taken out of the economic support fund).

By the Bronx D.A.'s office which was in the process of investigating Bernie Kerik for taking kickbacks from contractor friends in Jersey, while he was NYC Police Commissioner.

But one of the requirements for which we will take the loan is that the contractor must come from China, that we have fulfilled by engaging CCECC.

Bloomberg executives defrauded the mega media company by rigging bids and taking kickbacks from contractors, according to reports and court records.

But the state Republican party filed a complaint with the SEEC in late 2014, saying the Democratic Party violated the clean - elections statutes by taking advantage of the federally regulated account's ability to accept contractor contributions under federal election laws that are less restrictive than Connecticut's.

According to GNA's checks, repeated attempts by the then District Chief Executive, Abudu Abdul - Karim who took over the administration in 2014 to get the contractor back to continue the project proved futile.

A few corruption blackspots remain, especially in areas like overseas sales of defence equipment, and private contractors taking over government - run services on a payment - by - results basis.

Anyone who has worked in the defence engineering industry will know that financial risks start - out as innocuous looking technical risks on the Defence Contractor's premises, where selected ones are deliberately concealed by the Contractor during the design and development phase, then skilfully transferred to MoD Abbey Wood, Bristol where they morph into «show stopping» risks and come to the fore immediately after the main investment decision has been taken (as they have done so spectacularly on the Type 45 destroyers with total power blackouts), ultimately ending up as an additional cost burden on the Front Line Commands, who have recently been given responsibility for the defence equipment budget — resulting in sleepless nights for many other people too!

Officials said they received more than 100 complaints from Sandy victims who were taken advantage of by contractors, leading Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano to order a «sting operation» in Franklin Square, Valley Stream and the South Shore area, Mangano said at a news conference.

«Protecting our children from the hazards of lead common in pre-1978 housing has been a high priority of my administration; and while it may take years to provide adequate lead safe housing in our community, there are measures we can take now to reduce children's risks of lead poisoning, including insisting that rental property owners replace or repair older windows and chipping and peeling lead paint and ensuring the work is performed by EPA certified contractors using lead safe work practices,» Picente said.

By taking this step, we hope to push contractors and vendors to pay their taxes in full — if they want to continue doing business with Rockland County.

Take the burping tanks: huge sealed stainless vessels holding 4 million litres or more, into which chemical and radioactive wastes were dumped indiscriminately by the contractors who ran Hanford.

You can take a look at those photographs and see circled in red the word «Online Cupid» which signifies that profile is fictitious and has been created and is operated by the administrators and third - party contractors connected with LiveFling.com.

«Inspired by real events,» The Whistleblower visits Bosnia in the rubble - strewn aftermath of the Yugoslav civil war and finds power, corruption and liesnot just among the bribe - taking, uncaring local authorities but also the U.N. officials and American contractors assigned to train the Bosnians in the ways of democracy.

In essence, it's about being professional and taking care, which means don't: agree to meet alone; allow over-familiarity; give out your personal mobile number; meet informally outside working hours and away from your organisation's premises (and certainly don't do so without getting formal approval); allow too frequent contact or over familiarity that may be acceptable with friends, colleagues and family but not from people with whom you only have a commercial relationship; discuss your private life, or social or recreational interests of you or your partner; accept offers, discounts or other services or products by the client, customer or contractor; accept hospitality or gifts that you yourself wouldn't pay for from your own pocket; and don't do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable, obligated or might be open to misinterpretation or might be difficult to explain to your manager, a journalist or an investigator.

For the initial criminal history check, each noninstructional contractor who is subject to the criminal history check shall file with the Department of Law Enforcement a complete set of fingerprints taken by an authorized law enforcement agency or an employee of a school district, a public school, or a private company who is trained to take fingerprints.

A delay caused by a strike or by picketing which constitutes an unfair labor practice is not excusable unless the Contractor takes all reasonable and appropriate action to end such a strike or picketing, such as the filing of a charge with the National Labor Relations Board, the use of other available Government procedures, and the use of private boards or organizations for the settlement of disputes.

If the Contracting Officer notifies the Contractor in writing that a strike or picketing: (a) is directed at the Contractor or subcontractor or any employee of either; and (b) impedes or threatens to impede access by any person to a DOT facility where the site of the work is located, the Contractor shall take all appropriate action to end such strike or picketing, including, if necessary, the filing of a charge of unfair labor practice with the National Labor Relations Board or the use of other available judicial or administrative remedies.

He took the first win of the day, also setting a new Donington lap record, closely followed by Andrew Jordan in the Pirtek Racing Vauxhall Vectra and James Nash in the 888 Racing with Collins Contractors Vectra who were both strong throughout the day.

It is being speculated that the smaller TouchPad is expected to be on the shelves by a month or so as Inventec, HP's Taiwan based contractor, has already taken up the production task.

Instead, they take on the role of publisher by managing their book's production and distribution, often with the help of professional contractors.

Recommendation: To strengthen Education's oversight of the loan rehabilitation process, the Secretary of Education should direct the Office of Federal Student Aid's Chief Operating Officer to take steps to ensure that the final monitoring plan for the new defaulted loan information system contract identifies risks presented by the contractor or contract work and the oversight activities planned to address those risks.

This financial calculator can also be used to compare job offers, deciding whether to go self - employed, take a 1099 «independent contractor» job; and by employers to calculate the present value of employees in general.

Last year, we took my niece to the Orange County Fair on the way home from learning that our bikinis had been ruined by the contractor we hired in Los Angeles.

As well, on site, Chinese builders are said to often use series of local subcontractors, a practice that complicates working procedures, obscures shortcomings and substandard substitutions, and by which costs are increased «as each contractor takes his share of the project budget».

Forrest wins contract for energy plan at Cumbria microgrid Britain's Energy Coast (BEC) has taken its next step in developing a complex microgrid system for its two - square mile business park in Cumbria by hiring renewable energy contractor Forrest to create a low - carbon energy master plan.

But worst of all, her pet parrot was missing; taken hostage by the foreclosure contractors hired by Bank of America.

You can judge the concern for safety and their willingness to take responsibility by the dollars they compensate the people injured by neglect of Ohio operatives and their contractors.

We have witnessed over the years many people being taken advantage of by unscrupulous salespeople and contractors.

As well, contractors and subcontractors can usually take shelter under such a policy effected by an owner or required of the general contractor by an owner.

To take another example, if a worker if fatally injured in a construction site accident when he falls from an unsecured ladder on a scaffold, liability will need to be proved, by evidence, against the main site contractors or sub-contractors responsible for the scaffold.

Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction, maintenance or repair by an independent contractor, the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps, if any, as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done.

The courts had taken the view that in the absence of a valid payment notice or pay less notice the paying party should be regarded as having accepted the valuation put forward by the contractor.

Marine cargo insurance policy can be taken by buyers, sellers, import / export merchants, buying agents, contractors, banks etc..

Yet, only 270,000 users took the online quiz created by a Cambridge Analytica contractor to collect the data.

Meanwhile, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has responded to allegations of insider trading over the timing of the price rise by stating that the company will be conducting an investigation into the matter and will take appropriate legal action if employees or contractors are found guilty.

Taken together, the users table indicates administrative access to the Change Britain website was shared by a co-founder of AggregateIQ, two AIQ employees, two nearby web contractors, two Change Britain associates, and, most likely, a former Vote Leave staffer.

Contractors by their very nature move between employers, taking valuable skills and experience with them.