This year, he was one of only four private entrepreneurs out of nearly 1, 000 recipients of the May First Labour Medal usually awarded to model workers and managers in state-owned enterprises.
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In contrast, the European model formally endows workers with influence over business decisions and informally gives both them and managers considerable sway over public policy.
Many schools still follow an old model focused on preparing workers for an industrial economy.
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They're stepping up the investigation of folks, employers, that use undocumented workers as a business model and that means intentionally, knowingly, willfully bringing in undocumented workers.
H1-B visas for skilled workers might serve as a model: they can run for two three-year periods, giving both workers and employers time to decide whether they would prefer a permanent arrangement.
Many H-1Bs are issued to offshore outsourcing companies, many of them from India, which critics say have a business model based on sending foreign workers to the U.S. to learn jobs and then moving them overseas.
In much the same way that Hershey's combination of capitalism and idealism had led him in 1903 to found the model town of Hershey for his workers, he in 1916 built another perfect town in Cuba, where he had gone into the sugar business.
For most policymakers, pension reform so far has meant changing the model to cut the costs of future workers.
By making its systems uniform (all workers now use the same model of PC), EDS aims to cut 100 data centers to 80.
But there is a basic clash between those like Blair, summit host Jose Maria Aznar of Spain and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy -- who want to free up labour markets -- and those like France and Belgium. who retain enthusiasm for the "European Social Model" with a heavy emphasis on workers' rights.
For example, if a car on one production line sold badly and a model on another line sold well Fiat could not move workers across under the old rules.
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With this creative model replacing the costly overhead of traditional business process outsourcing, workers are assured a higher wage.
Thousands turned out for the cremation, many of them ashen-faced young garment workers for whom the actress was an unattainable role model.
Silicon Valley pretty much invented the "free agent" model of hiring for new skills rather than training and letting workers go once those skills aren't needed.
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While the proper use of a male condom is frequently demonstrated using a banana, health workers show how to use the condom using a vagina model or a hand.
But Aon Hewitt said its model will offer group health insurance to employers with more than 100 workers who are not eligible to use the state or federally operated exchanges at least until 2017.
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The model for this is the federal Thrift Savings Plan, in which government workers can choose from a half-dozen funds ranging from all bonds to all equities.
Today, Puerto Rican workers are writing the next chapter by turning the building into a model of energy efficiency.
It then takes knowledge that the workers (direct employees or consultants) are both familiar with the model and have the responsibility to carry it out.
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In her economic model, more government spending increases growth, while cutting taxes on private businesses and workers reduces it.
Not only is IBM and other major employers demanding it, the Office of Personnel Management (in effect, the HR department for federal workers) has just announced it is demanding plans that have the PCMH model at their core.
Workers pumped raw materials into one end of his River Rouge plant and drove Model Ts out the other.
He understood that if he paid his workers a living wage, they would be able to afford to purchase his Model T.
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The model for personal accounts would be the federal Thrift Savings Plan. (Millions of federal workers currently get their choice of well-diversified funds that are regulated for safety and soundness.) Participants could avoid the equity markets altogether by opting for government bond funds and bank CDs.
Stuyvesant Town and the slightly higher-end Peter Cooper Village were built in 1947, with the help of tax breaks, to provide homes for soldiers returning from the war and public-sector workers. (At first, at odds with the estates' current image as a model community, only whites were allowed, a policy that was abandoned, after some nasty scenes, in the 1950s.) The high-rise estates include 110 unremarkable brick buildings with 11, 232 apartments, home to about 25, 000 tenants.
Think of the assembly-line model for public education: all our boys and girls sent to school so they can become good little factory workers, accustomed to taking orders and standing in line.
And that means that everybody is going to have to give a little bit -- shareholders, workers, creditors, suppliers, dealers -- everybody is going to have to recognize that the current model, economic model, of the U.S. auto industry is unsustainable.
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