Morgan Chase has implemented BSIMM for vendors (vBSIMM) for all its contractors.

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For employees and independent contractors of all stripes, this means you should be asking for, and getting, a share of the profits from your work going forward.

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All of these considerations and more are going to be important for federal contractors as well as other companies as they move to diversify and increase their talent pools.

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For all of these reasons, employers have considerable incentives to try to pay independent contractors rather than employees.

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But after Sandy, FEMA and city officials reasoned they could get homes fixed faster if the city hired contractors, coordinated repair requests, dispatched the workers and paid for it all directly.

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Carnival spokeswoman Joyce Oliva said all of the company's crew members and contractors on the ship have been accounted for.

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Newcastle and Gateshead councils, the Railway Heritage Trust, Electrical Contractors Association, Nexus, Go North East and Northern Electric and Gas have all helped to pay for the project.

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Despite all the secrecy in the defense business, it is often easier to see where results are headed for big military contractors than for companies in other sectors.

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