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Six Vehicle Features That Keep Your Employees Safe

The Startup Magazine

Employers must do what they can to keep their employees safe when acquiring or leasing vehicles for employee use, as well as to reduce business liability of company vehicle accidents. In the United States, front airbags have come as standard on all new vehicles since the late 1990s (1998 for cars and 1999 for light trucks).

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Fixing immigration for startups: What the US government can (and should) do right now

The Next Web

employers can obtain for “skilled” employees (the H-1B ). The AICWA (American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998) Fee ($750 if the company has 1-25 employees, $1,500 if you have more). This can be easily done by instituting another component of startup visas, for early employees of startups.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

I came to the United States in 1992 at the age of 17 (so there, now you know exactly how old I am!) I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. to attend Carnegie Mellon University. At the same time, I was also working on the product.

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Venture Deals 4e German Edition

Feld Thoughts

The boom years of 1998 (79 IPOs), 1999 (175 IPOs), and 2000 (142 IPOs) are long gone. regarding employee issues. ” This must have meant Germany… If a company regularly has more than ten full-time employees, terminations may only be made for certain reasons. .”

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How Diversity Can Increase Innovation And Growth In Your Business

YoungUpstarts

With an almost 50 percent split between male (57%) and female (43%) employees, a diversity of ages of employees, with 30 percent identifying as Asian, 30 percent Hispanic/Latino, 13 percent Caucasian, and 27 percent Other, every aspect of our company’s make-up is diverse.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

As a boon to the Israeli market’s future stability, the Bank of Israel approved a new law that specifies price stability as the central bank’s primary goal, forms a board of directors with a majority of members who are not bank employees, and creates a six-member committee to set interest rates. and was founded in 1998.

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People are the whole game - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

Remarks to the Visionary Companies Conference, Billings, MT May 27, 2010 It’s a fact that all net job creation since the 1980s has come    with under 100 employees.   The company grew to 250 employees in two states.   The company grew to 250 employees in two states. It was bootstrapped.