contracting-out

Changes over time have also been well-charted, showing faster growth in the voluntary sector workforce over the past 15 years on the back of an increase in the contracting-out of public services.

Why do staff join and leave the voluntary sector? 2011

Wages (which lag behind those of other museum workers in the region) and contracting-out are in dispute.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

The contracting-out of government functions (delivering vast amounts of should-be official information into private hands), the intertwining of business in the regulatory process, and the gutting of government oversight capacity and investigative reporting (enfeebling institutions of check and balance) are some of the key components of this new system.

Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite : The DISCLOSE Act -- Who's Blindfolding the American Electorate? 2010

The contractors will be going to the same networking events, and might be able to put the hirers in touch with other people who can fulfil their contracting-out needs, or even with new clients.

Could local be the new British? Alix Mortimer 2009

The contractors will be going to the same networking events, and might be able to put the hirers in touch with other people who can fulfil their contracting-out needs, or even with new clients.

Could local be the new British? Alix Mortimer 2009

A complete reversal would have meant abandonment of the "contracting-out" model - where mostly-Asian contractors cut costs to the bone to win orders - in favor of a commitment to own factories, set wage rates (or, collectively bargain!), limiting (rather than forcing) overtime and to pay attention to the abuse of vulnerable Asian migrant-laborers.

Jeff Ballinger: The Corporate Social Responsibility Farce 2008

Although contracting-out has been celebrated by big thinkers from both parties and although it has been practiced in some form or other since the earliest days of the republic, an ideological commitment to outsourcing is one of the signatures of conservative rule.

Conservatives and Their Carnival of Fraud 2008

Where appropriate, work together with commercial agricultural and the private farming sector to promote black economic empowerment, create partnerships between emerging and established farmers, create linkages between large and small farmers including through procurement and 'contracting-out' and build institutions to contribute towards more equitable structures of production and ownership in rural South Africa, including through collective ownership, employment equity, skills development and support for new enterprises in the agricultural sector

ANC 52ND NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2007 - RESOLUTIONS 2007

The US has an inglorious history of complicity in torture e.g., the infamous School of the Americas, the more recent contracting-out of torture in its "extraordinary rendition" program, and the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, overthrowing democratically-elected regimes as in Chile and Haiti, and flouting international law, as in its misuse of "enemy combatant" status to sidestep the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Archive 2006-03-01 2006

Even while they talk about creating high-quality jobs, many businessmen are revamping mass production, cutting labour costs, contracting-out, increasing flexibility by using part-time workers and using computers to “customise” products.

FAT and MEAN DAVID M. GORDON 2003