Director of EstimatesRonkonkoma, New York
Placement Type: Permanent Position, Full-timePay Rate/Salary: $85,000-$130,000 per annumNumber of Openings: 1
Description: Successful candidate will have prior supervisory experience in an estimate department. Experience in the commercial construction industry is required.
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The Missouri Supreme Court has recently ruled that a contractual employee who had conflicts with company personnel cannot expect to return to work by moving to another temporary staffing agency. John Stehno was removed from the data management department of Sprint Spectrum LP after conflicts with fellow employees and later attempted to return to the […]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report that healthcare spending in the United States is expected to grow 7.3% in 2006 and exceed $2 trillion. Final 2005 figures are expected to show a 7.4% increase last year. Though growth in healthcare spending is decelerating, with 2004 growth at 7.9%, overall spending has […]

Of the myriad economic indicators utilized by economists to determine the condition of the U.S. economy, online job postings have risen to the ranks of legitimacy, as the Conference Board includes among its survey the percentage increase or decrease in online job postings each month.
In February, 2006, for example, there were 1.99 million new online […]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will consider a proposal exempting smaller public companies from complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Act was passed in 2002 and was designed to increase financial controls within publicly traded companies. The new, soon-to-be-considered proposal would exempt public companies with capitalizations under $700 million. As written, the proposal […]

With the national unemployment rate at a reasonable 4.8%, a glance around the nation finds that the individual cities and regions that comprise the aggregate numbers can vary quite a bit. December, 2005 statistics posted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics noted that of 367 metropolitan regions throughout the country, 311 posted year over […]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that the unemployment rate for February 2006 rose to 4.8% after several months of trending downward. Economists view the slight increase as evidence of more entrants into the job market who may previously have not been actively seeking employment. Additionally, the increased rate remains significantly lower than the […]

Integrally intertwined, staffing, law and economics have come together regularly to define the atmosphere in which staffing firms operate. On that front, various interesting developments in the industry are at the forefront of staffing news.
In the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner (D-Ohio) is the new majority leader and has proven to be a staunch […]

In the study of economics, nothing is definite, as the “dismal science” is also a very inexact science. Perhaps one of the best cases in point is the pre-1970s belief that inflation could not accompany economic stagnation, and that such “stagflation” was not possible. The concept, a mainstay of Keynesian Economics, was challenged in the […]

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