And a reduction there undoubtedly is, even allowing for the effect of contracting-out rebates and other factors.
Increasingly, they act as co-ordinators, contracting out everything from manufacturing to transport to specialist groups, according to Ricardo Rocha Garcia, an economist at Rosario University in Bogota.
The effective abolition of the separate state second pension, and its incorporation into the new enhanced single-tier version, will end the complicated system of so-called "contracting out".
However, successive and continuing government policies (and again this is an international phenomenon) of privatisation, contracting out, public-private partnerships, the private finance initiative, academy and free schools - all aspects of the private provision of public services - have increasingly entwined the public and private sectors and now focused attention on how far freedom of information should reach.
On the other hand, say the advocates for new police commissioners, there are now - for the first time - democratically elected local leaders to hold the police to account, to advocate local people's priorities and, perhaps, to lobby against national policies - budget cuts or contracting out.
The Department for Work and Pensions confirmed that under a single-tier pension there would be no contracting out so workers would pay more national insurance, but as a result they would get a better state pension.
The most promising sign is that cash-strapped local governments are beginning to realise that contracting out social services to charities may mean better, cheaper and more popular provision.
Nintendo produced and distributed the magazine (with articles that were often just thinly veiled marketing copy) from 1989 through late 2007, when it started contracting the brand out for a more independent angle from tech-and-game-focused Future Publishing.
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This will abolish the current practice whereby employees get a National Insurance (NI) rebate of 3.4% for contracting out of the second state pension to enter final-salary schemes, which affect more workers in the public sector such as in the NHS, the UK's largest employer.
Senior administration officials said the decision speaks to her accomplishments at the agency, such as reducing lender paperwork for SBA-backed loans, enforcing stricter oversight of government contracting and rolling out several laws that facilitated more lending to small businesses.
Our goal, obviously, is to get us out of the private security business -- private security contracting business.
They have also supported related areas of labor, contracting out clay mining in the surrounding area, hauling and trucking 10-20 loads of clay and brick per day, and bringing in contractors for large maintenance projects.
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In 1994, as the Mandela government came to power, Motsepe left the law firm and struck out on his own, hoping to build a business contracting low-level labor like sweeping, where workers use brooms to glean gold dust from the rock surface after industrial mining crews have done their work.
At the height of privatisation and contracting out, zero hours contracts were seen as a model of flexibility and cost-saving.
Apparently the frequency with which consumers are dining out has been on the rise since mid-2009, presumably since contracting during the worst part of the recession and stock market collapse, and the writers at The Fiscal Times think it may have something to do with cost.
The children of today, he wrote, were missing out on "falling into ponds, eating poisonous berries, contracting stomach ache from under-ripe stolen apples, getting lost, being bitten by dogs, fighting and starting fires, sitting in cowpats and acquiring bumps the size of a duck egg on their heads".
Various models of contracting out bits of public health care are used, but more could be done, especially at primary-care level.
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And another thing that I'd like to ask you to do is to take care of our 8(a) program because those of us -- those that are landless out there can develop economic development opportunities through the 8(a) contracting program, and that may ease some of the burdens that some of the landless tribes are, because you don't need to have land to operate that.
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