Gravesham said staff who would receive the new rate were mainly office and public toilet cleaners, admin assistants, gatekeepers and cafe workers.
She serves as his assistant and gatekeeper.
Martha Hauptman, his assistant, played gatekeeper and earth mother.
We decided the keys to executive boardroom lunches are the executive assistants, the gatekeepers.
Whenever I called Straub, he answered his own phone and seemed not to have assistants or gatekeepers, or any kind of filter at all.
Learn and appreciate that the person who knows the most, who can help you the most, is not your boss or colleague, but is the administrative assistant, the secretary, the gatekeeper.
In truth, he was a kind of quill-free Boswell: first a van driver, than an assistant and latterly Apple's gatekeeper and curator.
"Executive assistants are no longer just the gatekeepers," said Christine Jackel, a senior executive assistant at the Polaroid Corporation and president of the International Association of Administrative Professionals, the world's largest association for administrative support staff.
As the governor's top assistant, Mr. O'Byrne is at the heart of the administration's decision-making and is essentially a gatekeeper for Mr. Paterson.
Anji Hunter, a longtime friend and personal assistant to Mr. Blair who served as director of government relations and was known in Downing Street as "the gatekeeper," resigned last summer to join BP as its communications chief.
