Sentences with phrase «time employees instead»

For example, Instacart — an app - based grocery delivery service — announced in June 2015 that it would start allowing its shoppers in some locations to choose to become part - time employees instead of independent contractors and later began hiring new shoppers as employees.

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If anything goes wrong, you can simply call in the IT crew instead of wasting your time and the time of your employees while trying to find the adequate solution to the problem.
Instead of hiring independent agents on commission, he brought in full - time employees and put them on the payroll with benefits.
Instead of hiring full - time employees from the start, try outsourcing.
Last year, instead of paid time - off, Apple donated $ 50 per hour for volunteer work employees performed as part of its gift matching program.
Instead, viewers will likely be treated with moments like Ray Kroc telling an employee, on the topic of the McDonald's brothers, «I'm not normally a vindictive man, but this time I'm going to get those sons - of - bitches.»
Temps make it easier to downsize because companies can just start using less of them instead of laying off full - time employees.
Instead, at a time of calm, ask employees who would need help in the event of an emergency evacuation.
A prime reason they do this is that they don't really have to hire anyone, instead they use an army of so - called 1099 employees, who work for an hourly wage, with no benefits and very few of the legal protections that full - time employees typically get.
Therefore, if you are a manager and find that employees, especially your best ones, are leaving your company, you have to evaluate your actions as a manager too, instead of just putting the blame on employees most of the time.
Instead of offering employees the opportunity to work on a contract basis, the blue world rewards workers who stay at an organization for a long time with job security.
If employees begin to take advantage of this flexibility, you'll notice it in the way they use their time as a free day off instead of a new working situation.
The overall idea is to create some downtime for your employees to hang out — pockets of time where they'll be interacting with each other, instead of worrying about whether their chit - chatting and laughing will be perceived as unproductive.
«Our middle management people have more time to do what they're best at — coaching their employees instead of shuffling paper.
What if instead of spending the time and money on an engagement survey, you instead pulsed your employees on health outcomes — how stressed are they feeling?
But instead of improving efficiency, wait times and employee turnover actually increased.
I'm sure there are times when a teacher wrongly forbids a child to pray privately because she doesn't understand the law, or times when an employee is scolded for greeting a customer with «Merry Christmas» instead of «Happy Holidays».
An exception is made for those under a «fluctuating workweek agreement,» which involves a minimum salary for up to 40 hours with «half - time» for overtime hours (instead of the typical time - and - one - half); such employees are generally required to be paid the minimum salary for any workweek in which they perform any work.
Employees can now make the most of breaks instead of wasting time searching for meals or visiting the less healthy fast food options in the area.
With winter being the slow season for golf course employees, a new hire is not expected until the spring and the town board has the option of only hiring one full - time worker at that time, instead of two.
A minor example, yet costly in dollars and time, is having our employees still prepare paper timesheets, instead of electronic timesheets which are a basic tool of private industry.
The team recommended, among other proposals, to rethink financial benefits for «traditional» families and instead create incentives for reentry and training, and to make applying for academic funding an anonymous process that is also open to part - time employees.
Instead, I was given the opportunity to extend the contract and eventually become a full - time employee at Merck Frosst Canada.
We've gotten pretty good at saving time and energy during the day — meals from Sakara Life, our organic meal delivery business, help free our minds from having to think about food and instead allow us to focus on the things that really need our time and attention — like leading a team of 80 employees and making sure our thousands of clients nationwide get their healthy food on time.
Consider cost - effective strategies such as bartering with friends (they provide branding for your social media prowess), using a combination of part - time employees and interns, and reaching out to influencers and media directly instead of hiring a publicist.
Instead of David being simply turned on by all the naked flesh, the respectable facility's grouchy and annoyed owner (Ho Young Chung) asks his young employee to police the upstairs rooms, where illegal gay makeout sessions seem to occur from time to time, putting David in the supremely awkward position of having to look for what he secretly craves so he can put a premature end to it, which thus subliminally suggests some of his inner struggle.
It reduces the learning curve as employees are already familiar with the elements and they can get started quickly with the course instead of spending time on familiarizing the interface.
In a time - poor working world, we should be giving employees every opportunity to learn anywhere anyhow instead of narrowing the choice from the start.
An employee who is hesitant about spending needed work time on training may welcome the opportunity to complete the assignment while carpooling instead.
This time instead of chunks of time spent in meetings or training, the employees meet their new assistant, a chatbot.
Instead, make sure that off - the - shelf training actually offers something truly new and truly smart, or otherwise it ends up being a waste of time for learners, and could potentially diminish trust with your employees.
Employers will need to report information to HMRC every time they pay their employees instead of once at the end of the tax year.
This also gives your employees the ability to focus on their work responsibilities instead of having to allocate time to Learning & Development projects.
Instead of waiting for annual performance reviews to assess employee progress, instant mobile updates through the eLearning platform give Knoble a real - time play - by - play of his team's learning progression, allowing him to respond immediately.
National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel told editors and reporters at The Washington Times that Mr. Walker, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and other Republican politicians who have moved to rein in the bargaining power of teachers, firefighters and other public employees instead will galvanize working men and women nationwide.
If your employees are struggling with applying what they just learned in training, instead of spending time and money on even more training, help them get back to work faster with performance support embedded into the workplace.
At the time, Republican lawmakers were pushing to close the state's defined benefit pension plan to new workers and instead enroll all new teachers in a defined contribution plan identical to the one offered to other state employees.
Instead, he officially gifted the store four of his long - time employees, leaving them a business that appears to be worth about $ 1 million, including its current inventory.
Well, guess what, if these same bookstores would take time to review what their customers want and try to address those issues, if they'd hire employees who knew the stock — and this implies paying these employees a decent wage with benefits instead of hiring a store full of nothing but part - timers so they don't have to pay benefits — most readers would be more than happy to pay a bit more to buy locally.
Today, our conservative nature has us generally working with partners and contractors instead of full - time employees.
Instead, Business CreditWise's dashboard looks at the drivers of business credit — business details (number of employees, etc.), payments (accounts on time and accounts past due), credit usage (percent utilization and biggest credit line) and public records (liens, UCC filings and such).
They charged that it wrongly misclassified them as independent contractors instead of full - time employees.
In Upjohn Co. v. United States, 6 the United States Supreme Court held that a company's attorney — client privilege extends to company counsel's communications with employees in certain prescribed circumstances.7 Rather than providing a simple objective test, the Upjohn court instead established five factors to guide courts in determining whether the company's privilege should extend to counsel's communications with its employees: (1) whether the communications were made by employees at the direction of superior officers of the company for the purpose of obtaining legal advice; (2) whether the communications contained information necessary for counsel to render legal advice, which was not otherwise available from «control group» management; (3) whether the matters communicated were within the scope of the employee's corporate duties; (4) whether the employee knew that the communications were for the purpose of the company obtaining legal advice; and (5) whether the communications were ordered to be kept confidential by the employee's superiors, including that the communications were considered confidential at the time and kept confidential subsequent to the interview.8 When these elements are established, courts generally consider communications between company counsel and an employee to be within the scope of the company's attorney — client privilege.9
Edmond tries to create a discussion with her readers on these real - life occurrences, asking them if details such as the length of time it took for the issue to be raised (months) should be relevant, and wondering if the situation would be different if the employee had shared private details about her supervisor's «performance appraisal» rating instead.
Instead, this article will explore the broad legal implications of an employee — any employee — becoming unavailable for work in similar circumstances and for a similar period of time, ie imprisonment for six months following a guilty plea to assault and affray in a public place.
Canac hired the Keenans as full - time employees but years later advised them they would become contractors instead.
An employee may agree to take time off instead of being paid overtime.
Comment: Several commenters argued that if even an hour of time of each of the entity's employees is spent on training instead of «work» and they are paid the minimum wage, an entity would incur $ 100 of cost for training no more than 20 employees.
In other words, the employer chose to overlook it at the time, instead of choosing to dismiss the employee.
Match talented consultants to your specific needs instead of hiring generalist full - time employees.
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