Article: Maintain accurate employee files for everyone working on your project. That will include payroll records and all legally required documents. If you are using engineers, electricians, plumbers, or other licensed workers, you will need to keep on file proof of their active certifications. This is required for most engineering and construction jobs whether or not they are government contracts. It is your responsibility to ensure everyone working for you is properly certified, including subcontractors.  You may pay people who are not your employees to do work on your project. These "subcontractors" work for you, the contractor, and you bill your client for their labor. Even though subcontractors are not actually your employees, you should gather their certification information and keep it on file. As the contractor, you are responsible for ensuring that anyone you hire to work on a project is qualified, unless otherwise specified in their contract. Government contracts generally require additional employee and subcontractor information indicating compliance with federal law. This may include reporting on employees’ ethnicity and pay rates to ensure there is no discrimination taking place on the jobsite. If you have a government contract, read it carefully and follow all of the instructions for hiring and reporting in order to prevent difficulty in getting paid. To submit accurate reports to your client, you need a reliable method of tracking how many hours your workers are on the job. You can use a time clock or a written time sheet, but these records should be verified to ensure they are accurate. Depending on your contract, you may be subject to periodic audits and may be required to prove that the hours you submit are justified.  One way to ensure the accuracy of time reporting is to establish supervisors over each employee or employee group. At the end of the week when an employee submits his or her timecard, the supervisor can review and sign the card, certifying the information is correct. This will prevent employees from submitting time cards for hours they did not work. You may also consider using an electronic timecard system to track your employees’ work on the job. Be sure the system is controlled to prevent abuse. You'll want to be able to prove that's the case if your hourly reporting comes under question. Government clients are required by law to gather all of this information before paying their contractors, because they are using taxpayer money to pay for the work. You can expect a heightened level of scrutiny when reporting time on government jobs. Carefully follow all reporting instructions detailed in your agreement. Your contract should specify how often you are to report man-hours to your client in order to receive payment. When you submit these reports, you will likely transfer information from your payroll and timekeeping documents to a dedicated report for your client comparing a number of hours you are charging to the estimates you submitted during bidding. If there are large variances between your actual hours and your estimates, you will need to provide explanations of these variances to your client. At the end of a project, your time-tracking information will be extremely valuable, as it gives you details about how long it took to complete specific jobs. You can use this data to create hourly estimates, such as the number of hours per square foot of laid tile or the down time after laying fresh cement. Use this information to improve your future bids and keep your business profitable.
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Collect information on your workers. Track your workers’ time. Send your client payroll reports at regular intervals. Use your records to prepare future estimates.
Article: This is essentially the Irish equivalent of toasting “Merry Christmas” in English.  "Nollaig shona" means "happy Christmas," and "duit" means "to you," so it directs the toast to the person being toasted. Pronounce this seasonal toast as null-ig hun-ah ditch. This toast is appropriate to use on New Year's Eve and wishes for health and prolonged life.  It translates roughly to, "may we be alive at this time next year." This is another phrase that is difficult to translate directly. The first part, "Go mbeire muid mbeo ar" means, "may we live again" and the latter part, "an am seo arís," means "this time next year." You should pronounce this toast as go merr-ih-meedh mee-oh err on om shioh ah-reesh. Offer this toast to the bride and groom to wish blessings upon their future family.  Roughly translated, the toast means, "may there be a generation of children on the children of your children." Essentially, you are wishing for the newlyweds' family to continually expand and survive for many generations to come. Pronounce this wedding toast as sluckt schlock-ta er shlucht voor schlock-ta.
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Shout "Nollaig shona duit" at Christmas. Use "Go mbeire muid mbeo ar an am seo arís" for New Year's. Say "Sliocht sleachta ar shliocht bhur sleachta" at a wedding.
Article: You'll need to find a long serial number, usually 17 digits, marked somewhere on your car or truck. It may be in one of several locations. You can read the wikihow article on how to Find Your VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) or look in the common locations listed below.  Look on the dash at the base of the windshield on the driver's side for a small plaque. Look for a sticker on the driver's door. A VIN may also be found in the front of the engine block, easily visible once you open the hood. On most newer vehicles, some body parts such as fenders and hoods also have the VIN on them for identification and matching parts to the vehicle. Open the driver-side door, and look at the where the side view mirror would be located if the door were shut. Older cars may have VINs found elsewhere, such as on the steering column, radiator support bracket, or the left-side inner wheel arch. You can find websites that can decode the VIN of most manufacturers automatically. Try VIN Decoder.net if you're looking for detailed, quickly accessible information.  You can try to find a VIN lookup on your car manufacturer's web site, but it's not guaranteed to have one. If your vehicle was manufactured before 1980, it might have a nonstandard VIN. If free lookup websites don't work, try a paid service such as CARFAX, AutoCheck, or VinAudit. These should give you a little information for free, but a full VIN decoding will cost money. Specialized VIN websites and VIN lookup services exist to see whether your vehicle was involved in an accident, fire, or other damaging situation. You cannot decode this information from a VIN yourself, since the VIN for a vehicle never changes. These services just take advantage of the fact that police and other organizations use the unique VIN to describe a car in accident reports.  First, try the free service at The National Insurance Crime Bureau website. If you cannot get information for free online, you may need to pay for a Vehicle History Report. This should be included in the VIN report services described earlier, such as VinAudit's. Follow the methods below instead if you want to have fun decoding it yourself, or if your vehicle was made by an unusual manufacturer not decodable by a website. Finding out where and when your car was made should be easy, while the other methods may take extra effort. These codes are fully standardized in North America. Elsewhere in the world, most major manufacturers follow the same standards, but they may use the 9th and 10th characters for different purposes. In North America, the 9th must be used as "checking code" to confirm the VIN is real, and the 10th must be used to indicate the year the car was made.
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Locate the VIN on your car to start the decoding process. Find detailed information quickly by entering the entire VIN online. Use a service to check whether your vehicle has a history of damage. Use the other methods to decode it yourself.