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...The strategist and professor Michael Mauboussin, of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, has a new paper tracing increasing returns to five separate causes: economies of scale; international trade; learning...
...Michael Hartnett’s strategy team at Bank of America has been singling out homebuilders as one of the sectors pricing in a “goldilocks” soft-landing economic scenario that is unlikely to happen....
...“California’s example should be a warning to Australia to not go down the path of giving rights based on whether a rider qualifies as an employee or not,” said Michael Kaine, the national secretary of the...
...For one thing, most office canteens are operated by outside contractors. It’s robbing Peter to get back at Paula. Was the alleged offence a repeat occurrence? Was the trader dishonest when confronted?...
...For many of the team members and contractors it was the first time that managers had actively discussed their work with them....
...Last year Australia’s tax office classified riders working for Foodora, a food delivery service, as employees rather than contractors....
...If it has anything to do with Nadine Cobham, whose late husband Michael Cobham ran the FTSE 250 group, it won’t....
...michael.skapinker@ft.com Twitter: @Skapinker...
...Its developer, Michael Stern, defied Mr LaBarbera by opening the site to non-union labour. Since its 2014 groundbreaking, the project has hit snags that have engendered lawsuits....
...Donatella Versace sold the family catwalk brand to Michael Kors of the US last month for $2.1bn....
...“This is just another gimmick by Uber to paper over the cracks of its appalling workplace practices,” said Michael Kaine, the TWU national secretary....
...Ms Jacobs joins from Raytheon, the US defence contractor, where she served in a similar role....
...In a 2014 analysis of published studies about motivation, Christopher Cerasoli, Jessica Nicklin and Michael Ford concluded that performance was shaped by the joint impact of external incentives and internal...
...Michael Moy, an employment lawyer at McCullough Robertson, said regulation was being left behind as the nature of work changes in the modern era....
...The experts are “Amazon employees, not contractors”, Amazon notes on its website....
...The FTSE 250 company is one of the main contractors on the High Speed 2 rail project in the UK, and is involved in a host of other large British infrastructure schemes including the Hinkley Point C nuclear...
...The US defence contractor that has come under pressure from Mr Trump over the cost of its F-35 fighter jets said profits rose to $988m or $3.35 a share in the three months ended in December, compared with...
...“Regulators and lawmakers and states and localities are acknowledging that they can’t ignore them any more; they are too big, too powerful,” says Michael Drobac, a Washington-based tech lobbyist at law firm...
...The carpenters who maintained the timber starlings on London Bridge were paid per tide, according to Judy Stephenson, an economic historian....
...“What’s fascinating about all this is the seemingly endless possibilities for both chaos and mischief,” wrote Michael Eisen, the University of California, Berkeley, biologist on his blog....
...Earlier this month it emerged that Seth Carpenter, a former senior adviser to Jack Lew, the US Treasury secretary, has joined Rokos Capital Management, the $3.5bn hedge fund company....
...Atwood Oceanics, an offshore rig contractor, was down by roughly the same margin at $8.67....
...“These were exceptional cases in that they were the start of a challenge to Uber’s way of doing business,” said Michael Landen, a parter at Kluger Kpalan....
...“I’m working longer hours and getting paid less,” says Richard Ortiz, a 61-year-old former carpenter with a big white beard, explaining why he joined the protest in Candlestick Park....
...The jobs would last up to nine months, the time the contractor was engaged. Only half of the villagers took the work, Daewoo said....
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