The guards employed by G4S will be responsible chiefly for such tasks as providing venue perimeter security, a spokesman for the contractor said.
He said in such a situation, normal procedure would be for the contractor's crew to secure the well by closing off the huge valve sitting on the seabed known as a blowout preventer.
Within days, Mr. Ringel had signed three jobs for the independent contractor, most of them referred from Mr. Ringel's clients at the other flooring company.
Once we had demonstrated the need for foreign workers the contractor had to prove that all federal and provincial employment standards, including wage standards, would be complied with before the workers entered Canada.
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We have forgotten that regardless of the target market, the key decision-maker, whether he or she is a financial adviser, a hospital administrator, a CEO, a mom buying a toy for her child, or the head of a large contractor for the military, is first and foremost a human.
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Raytheon is the prime contractor for the PAC-2 Patriot system--much improved since its dismal accuracy in the Gulf war of 1991--and supplies an estimated 50% to 65% of the newer PAC-3 system.
The first is if the employer had no reasonable basis for treating the worker as an independent contractor for tax purposes.
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Avio is the prime contractor for Vega, the new European rocket system designed to launch the small satellites that are expected to be the main driver of the aerospace industry.
Best of all for the venerable defense contractor and auto parts maker, it learned a lesson in fashioning swords into plowshares it can now repeat rapidly.
As a researcher for the virtual world contractor Electric Sheep, he's working with a major toy company to build a product that would exist in both real and virtual environments.
In exchange for those Kickbacks, the defendant Con Ed supervisors in many instances approved payments to the Contractor for work that was never performed .
The family has sued the contractor he worked for and the State Department, charging they sent him on his job without proper preparation, training or protection.
After performing an energy audit of the home or commercial building, or assessing the suitability of the rooftop for solar, a contractor recommends improvements to the building owner.
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The right the independent contractor has to ask the IRS for a determination whether he or she is an employee or independent contractor (ouch).
The American, a contractor who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), had faced trial for killing two robbers on a busy street in Lahore late in January.
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Fortuitously, in 1983 he became the primary contractor for Omega, which was establishing a new campus on the site of a former summer camp.
Lockheed Martin certainly made its contribution to the increases, but the reflex of politicians and pundits to blame the prime contractor for rising costs misses most of what is going on in terms of the acquisition price-tag.
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Even if the employer has a written agreement calling for the worker not to be an employee and agreeing to independent contractor status, the agency can rule for the worker, recharacterizing the relationship as that of employer-employee.
Prime contractor for the system is France's Alcatel Space, who will provide the satellites and ground facilities.
But within such limits there is potential for abuse, since the contractor has no incentive to contain expenses.
Prime contractor for the 6, 000-pound (2.7 ton) satellite was France's Alcatel Space, a joint venture between Alcatel and Thomson-CSF.
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Pearson is the contractor for many of the state's high-stakes exams.
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Prime contractor for the AfriStar satellite was Alcatel Space with Marta Marconi Space, a joint venture of Britain's General Electric and France's Lagardere the major sub-contractor.
Prime contractor for the satellite was Germany's Daimler Benz.
Deloitte is a major contractor for the US government.
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The arrestees, using their knowledge of the controls surrounding construction contract procurement and payment and the weaknesses and enforcement of these controls, were able to falsify source documentation, effectively override invoice and payment controls, and facilitate overpayments to the contractor for their own personal monetary gain.
In this case, the main contractor is given total responsibility for the entire project, selecting even the component suppliers, and checking everything before handing over the finished vehicle to the customer.
Why, then, would an employer voluntarily agree to pay any employment tax with respect to a worker classified as an independent contractor for a prior period for which the worker was classified as an independent contractor?
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