In places where forklift operators are contractors, part-time employees, students or unskilled workers with high turnover rates, it is especially essential for them to be trained up quickly and start work as soon as possible.
But the specialization trend isn't limited to the food services industry — Curtis Lee, CEO of on-demand parking app Luxe, has acknowledged that "as we grow, we have realized the need to assert more direct control over the customer experience," which inspired the decision to offer Luxe's contractors part-time employee status (though not likely to happen until some time next year).
Following last month's announcement that it would make some of its contractors part-time employees, grocery delivery service Instacart announced this morning that it's now offering its contractor "personal shoppers" the option to apply for employee status in Atlanta, Miami and Washington, D.C.
Instead, they're freelancers, temps, independent contractors, part-timers and the self-employed.
Engineered Support Systems (32, EASI), a defense contractor, part of a sector that until recently looked like a backwater.
The Contractors were part of the tiny Parsee community in Western India privileged by the British.
The surveillance flights in Africa, which are mostly run by private contractors, are part of a classified Pentagon program called Creek Sand.
Joseph Collins, a deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Defense, says that the attacks against aid workers and people employed by foreign contractors are part of a well-defined strategy.
Last year the country's ministry of defence reportedly paid an excess of $200m to fuel contractors as part of a kickback scheme using money destined for reconstruction, resulting in a number of senior ministry officials being fired.
The chamber charged Thursday that the lawsuit, along with Mr. Obama's consideration of disclosure rules for contractors, were part of a "witch hunt" by Democrats meant to punish their "political foes".
