She said the contracting out of cleaning services has meant the quality of service has decreased.
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One past example of private sector in the NHS was the contracting out of cleaning services.
And it allows companies to specialise, contracting out other work to firms around the corner.
Even small companies can now afford to operate internationally by contracting out the management of the process.
The Treasury will get more because the new system stops people contracting out of the state second pension.
There is also a very useful factsheet produced by the Financial Services Authority entitled Contracting out of Serps.
Contracting out libraries and roads and military services are all pretty bad ideas.
At the height of privatisation and contracting out, zero hours contracts were seen as a model of flexibility and cost-saving.
Industries that grew up under import substitution policies, such as textiles and drugs, are closing factories or contracting out production.
For instance, a small part of the fall in manufacturing jobs is a statistical illusion caused by manufacturers contracting out services.
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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The French have been contracting out their water systems since the 19th century, and the British privatised their water utilities in 1989.
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Reforms, such as the contracting out of cleaning services, bring with them new working practices and often lower wages for workers who were already miserably paid.
The bill would also allow contracting out of the examination function which means that foreign entities could be in a position to determine U.S. property rights.
Serps was introduced in 1978 and since April 1988 it has been possible to opt out (known as contracting out) of Serps via a personal pension plan.
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".
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.
And contracting out can work only if the PT overcomes its distaste for decent private profits: the many risks in project-execution mean that otherwise investors will stay away.
More generally, the growing fashion for contracting out production to small independent companies has further slimmed the studios: almost 100, 000 of the people employed in the business are now freelance workers.
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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This made each senior artisan something like a small business owner or tenured professor, managing a certain amount of risk, negotiating pay dynamically with bigger capitalists and the government, and contracting out work to other artisans.
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.
As the ranking man on the ground for the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), his hands are also closest to the purse strings, since his State Department branch is funding and contracting out much of the work.
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.
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.
However, it's here that there have been the most intensive and detailed negotiations - the unions have secured faster accrual rates (the speed at which pensions build up), protection for those within ten years of retirement and a promise to maintain pensions even if workers are transferred to the private sector after privatisation or 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.
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