Sentences with phrase «worked contract jobs»

Only 14 % of their parents worked contract jobs or a mix of contract and permanent employment, but 52 % of millennials expect to live their working lives this way.

Not exact matches

Joe Issid, a contributor with job site Monster.ca who has had his own publishing company and is now an executive at another, notes contract work can also be useful for millennials who can't find a full - time job in their field.

With contract work eclipsing traditional full - time jobs, issues plaguing the growing on - demand economy need to be addressed this year.

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 gig economy proves that independent contract work is much more than something to do between jobs.

«Viral Nation deals with the negotiations and contracts, so now this is a real side job we get to work on together.»

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.

If an employee wants to work more hours, either at one job or through a variety of contracted positions, it is his or her choice to do so.

About half of them view contract work as their primary job.

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.

FRANKFURT, April 20 - PSA Group wants 3,700 job cuts at Opel in Germany by 2020 and a process of contract buyouts and early retirement has already resulted in a reduction of about 2,000 positions, Opel's works council chief said on Friday.

With fewer workers, contractors are becoming wary of signing new work contracts, especially as many of them include fines for not completing a job by a designated date.

Editor's Note: This piece has been revised to correct William Clarke Jr.'s job title at Grumman Aerospace (he was a contract negotiator) and to clarify the nature of his work there.

There are opportunities for older employees to work part - time or get more time off by becoming contract workers, but those options don't come with job security.

Restructuring contracts around the nation's public policy goals would ensure that private operators provide more educational programming, job training classes, and work with their inmates to ensure they are set up for optimal success once they are eventually released.

Five local companies will share in a combined $ 92 million worth of contracts awarded by the state government, with the majority of the work comprising school construction jobs.

«My friends and I have all pieced freelancing, contracts and part - time work together to make an imitation of a full - time job,» says Allison Sparling, who has worked in communications for multiple organizations.

During that time, Whitfield's husband, an IT consultant who does contract work with the government, reviewed Traci Lynn's compensation plan for distributors and convinced her to quit her day job and make the leap.

It turns out employees who have many part - time jobs, hop from one short - term contract or project to the next, or rely on freelance work as opposed to permanent jobs, don't come packaged in the tidy financial box that mortgage lenders typically like.

Work performed by the APC during the past three years has netted over $ 55.6 Million in contracts and over 750 jobs for its 135 members in 28 states.

Work performed by the APC during the past two years has netted over $ 40.5 Million in contracts and over 500 jobs for its 121 members in 26 states.

He lost that job and has only worked on a commission basis since then, including a contract with the Canadian Taxpayers» Federation.

The economy is shifting towards freelance and contract work - jobs which don't provide benefits.

The FBO can make it clear to government and to potential participants that its program contains these three elements and competes for a contract to underwrite the computer class and the job placement work.

Sometimes I think Wenger is forced to say the opposite we want to hear because his contract forces him not to put any negative attention on the board, and he wants to keep his job as long as possible because after he's gone the board will make the club go down if they can't find a manager who can work on a tight string budget for their greedy needs.

The next year I played in Youth League but I was working three jobs also to pay the bills until Arnie finally offered me a contract.

He was returning with about 160 other men and women to more seniority than 60 percent of the work force He was higher than 4200 people on the seniority list which by contract gave him The right to Switch shifts, Take better jobs, Take or refuse weekend overtime as he chose if it was not 100 percent.

For these new district hospitals we are building, we have a maintenance contract, and we have insisted that they should work with a Ghanaian company, so that after their three or five years contract has elapsed, the Ghanaian Company will continue the job.

The Cuomo campaign is already working to undermine Paladino's track record as a creator of jobs, highlighting his campaign contributions and lucrative state real estate contracts in attack ads.

For eighty years, RWDSU and Bloomingdale's management have negotiated contracts that provided decent wages, job security, good medical, dental and pension benefits, and a voice in the creation of respectful, healthy and safe working conditions,» the letter states.

April 2010 to August 2014: Prosecutors said Linda Mangano, the county executive's wife, gets paid more than $ 450,000 for a job with Singh, doing «little to no work,» while Singh gets contracts with Nassau County and Town of Oyster Bay, including concession agreements.

The world's first Green Investment Bank putting millions into green jobs and growth; our youth contract to get every young person out of work earning or learning; more apprenticeships than this country has ever had before; major investment in areas facing difficulties from the Regional Growth Fund and greater freedom to boost jobs in our great cities; and we will take further steps to make our tax system fairer too.

Those three men have one thing in common: all of them worked as news editor of the News of the World, raising the possibility that it was part of their job description to commission work from Mulcaire, the only private investigator who worked on a full - time contract for the paper.

The vast majority of the contracts of from $ 24,000 to $ 25,000 were for «personal services» — specialized work such as engineering and consulting that Nassau exempts from the competitive bidding requirements it enforces for most jobs.

The company does work with the New York government, but Bruno doesn't see that as a problem, as all of their contracts are achieved through public bidding and state legislators are legally barred only from lobbying after retirement from office, not from taking other types of jobs.

Fasano said he is confident that Gargiulo has «upheld» the separation between his taxpayer - funded contract and campaign work for Republican Senate candidates (he has done jobs involving polling, automated phone calling, internet advertising and sending «email blasts»).

The growth of zero hours contracts is one of the reasons why so many hard - working people are fearful for their jobs and struggling to make ends meet, in spite of the recovery.

He said companies such as his often accept less than the market rate for work they do for Nassau under contracts capped at $ 25,000 in exchange for being able to start on the job quickly, without the lengthy wait for legislative approval.

If the study determines some city workers would lose their jobs, the agency must then look at the benefits and costs of contracting out the work and submit that analysis to the city comptroller, who reviews city contracts.

The amendments would also better protect workers whose building owners attempt to contract out their jobs, and extend assistance to employees whose work becomes in - sourced from a contractor to property owner.

Sean Ryan [email protected] Putting people to work on the Moderne project is more important than deciding how or if local hiring and contracting laws will apply to the job, according to a Milwaukee union leader.

Bratton — who ran his own law enforcement consulting firm, the Bratton Group, before taking over the NYPD's top job last January — raked in more than $ 53,000 while working with Wasserman on a contract with the Baltimore Police Department in 2013.

But the new contracts do not include job protections for current workers, which the union threatened would put experienced drivers out of work and compromise kids» safety.

This would apply first to construction jobs but eventually could expand to include other types of contracted work.

Despite her role as Silver's top aide and her husband's job as head of a charity organization that has received millions of dollars in government contracts from the city and state — including appropriations from Silver — friends insist the couple do not discuss work with each other.

«David Cameron said he couldn't live on a zero - hours contract but the Tories are happy for working people to be stuck in low paid zero - hour contract jobs.

If your contract is ending soon anyway, then you are obviously going to have to work in order to remain solvent, but be aware that researching careers requires commitment and it may be more difficult to extract yourself from a stop - gap job than you envisage.

In an effort to reduce job instability across the public sector, in March 2012 the French government introduced the Loi Sauvadet, which was supposed to limit how long people can work on short - term contracts by moving them after 6 years to more stable, open - ended contracts.

The report calls for a battery of government and institutional measures to better support scientists on short - term contracts, including gathering comprehensive data on their working conditions, helping them devise career plans, creating more academic jobs, and encouraging them to apply for permanent positions.

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.