Kumar's allegation is only one among a plethora of reasons, such as low wages and overuse of contract labor threatening to undermine this burgeoning garments-to cars hub that has been an integral part of India's industrial growth and globalization story ever since Maruti Udyog set shop here to produce the iconic Maruti 800 in the 1980s.
The use of informal contract labor in underdeveloped markets is blamed by the McKinsey Global authors for missed deadlines and other cost overruns.
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High on her list of priorities now, says Josiah, is the introduction of comprehensive protection for helpers, along the lines of guidelines for employers used in Singapore, and incorporating elements of a standard contract drawn up by the Philippines Department of Labor and Employment.
"What gets measured gets done, " said Patricia Shiu, director of the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
This may have been true in the 1950s and 1960s, but since the 1970s, we have seen the minimization of labor unions, the loss of the loyalty contract for professions, and the rise of outsourcing.
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Manpower seemed to have some small area of focus on this that appeared driven by a contract with the U.S. Department of Labor to do so.
The same goes for nearly every aspect of a government labor contract: hours, benefits, and working conditions.
Workers and managers in Dundee are guided by a labor contract the size of a pocket calendar, not the usual Manhattan phone book.
But still, some (private) firm wins the design contract, and then some other (private) firm or (private) firms contract out the labor (or most of it) to do things like, environmental studies, surveying, accounting, pouring concrete, laying bricks, stretching wire, managing the people who do environmental studies, surveying, accounting, pouring concrete, laying bricks and stretching wire.
Homeowners typically sign a long-term contract of 15 to 20 years with the companies that pay for solar equipment and labor and make sure the solar panels work properly during the lifetime of the contract.
Coincidentally, his comments were delivered as the IAM and Bombardier Learjet were in the process of hammering out a new labor contract.
As Chrysler's senior vice president of labor relations, he'd spent much of the past week in round-the-clock contract negotiations with union leaders in Toledo, Ohio, and still there was no settlement.
Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn says the work rule and hiring flexibility of the auto maker's recent Spanish labor contract can serve as a road map for its efforts to cut costs in France.
Last week, the FLA released its latest report card on the labor practices of Foxconn, which is the world's biggest contract-electronics manufacturer by revenue.
Last week, the FLA released its latest report card on the labor practices of Foxconn, which is the world's biggest contract electronics manufacturer by revenue.
The company is not in the construction business itself, and so avoids the ups and downs of that industry, frequently caused by exposure to cost overruns and labor contract problems.
Part of Weiner's talk with media was a discussion of changes to draft-pick compensation for free agents under the new labor contract.
The company may also shutter as many as four factories, employing thousands of workers, though perhaps not until 2007, when Ford's labor contract with the United Auto Workers is renegotiated.
Cerberus got a company dependent on a narrow range of sales (trucks and sport utility vehicles), behind on key technologies, burdened by high U.S. labor costs (though the new labor contract with the UAW includes some savings) and having little presence outside of North America.
Another part to this initiative is mandatory arbitration: If management does not agree to a labor contract with a newly unionized unit after 120 days, an outside arbitrator can dictate the terms of the contract.
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