Hints and tips:
...Mullin believes that the UFC’s claim that fighters are independent contractors and not employees won’t hold up in court: “I’m a plumbing contractor, so I understand these contracts a little bit....
...The Supreme Court will hear a similar case in February involving a plumber who claims he has been wrongly classified as an “independent contractor” by the plumbing company Pimlico Plumbers....
...It also plans to add SharkBite and AO Smith, known for their plumbing fittings and residential water heaters respectively....
...There is a similar confusion in the debate about Hermes, a company that uses self-employed contractors to deliver packages....
...We can only imagine what Major Edwin would have thought of Edward Snowden — a Booz Allen-employed contractor when he blew the whistle on the National Security Agency in 2013....
...Shares of Angie’s List, the contractor and plumbing review site, tumbled 19 per cent to $8.21 after the company forecast third quarter sales as much as 7 per cent below consensus expectations....
...(Financial Times) The crippled Carnival cruise ship has docked in Alabama after four days with little power or plumbing following an engine fire....
...BP rose 2.6 per cent to 483p on hopes that a US court ruling would encourage contractor Halliburton to reach a settlement over its liability for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill....
...that they were suggesting – much to the contractors’ regret....
...Customers continued to focus spending on items such as plumbing and roofing repairs, or small flooring or bathroom improvements, rather than large discretionary projects....
...We hope to shadow the government agenda by helping create a respect for privacy that reaches into the DNA of society.”...
...Sales to professional contractors also remained subdued during the fourth quarter, which Mr Niblock suggested reflected the shift to DIY during the recession....
...The servi-manufacturer Blue Gnome, a Cambridge-based medical diagnostics company, has a product of striking complexity: small glass slides coated with up to 200,000 microscopic fragments of DNA material...
...“That’s the beauty of having game DNA instead of web DNA,” said Sebastien de Halleux, chief operating officer of Playfish. “Games have no problem making money.”...
...Wolseley, the plumbing and building materials group, lost 6.8 per cent to 269¼p on concerns it needs a £750m rights issue....
...Yorkshire Fittings (YF), the UK market leader in the manufacture of fittings and valves for the plumbing industry, and 600 Group, the UK’s biggest machine tool maker, are reminders that there are some traditional...
...But in the west, Silicon Valley was plumbing new lows, at least in terms of its reputation....
...Wolseley, the plumbing and building materials group, was in focus on Tuesday as its shares rallied from recent lows....
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