Mr. Schwarcz has been pushing state insurance departments to post policies online, so consumer groups and others comfortable with the dense language of contracts can work up comparisons to aid buyers.
StickK.com came about as a result of the theoretical work of Laibson and others on commitment contracts, Karlan said.
In New Zealand, for example, the heads of departments work under contracts specifying what they must deliver.
The tactic worked, and the company has been able to up its rates while keeping hold of existing contracts and winning new work with customers.
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The aim is to unbundle some of these larger contracts and make more work available to smaller companies.
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The protesting employees have recently taken up a "work-to-rule" action -- in essence, performing only the bare minimum of work required by their contracts in an attempt to slow airline activity and pressure management to pay attention to their grievances.
The consortium, known as ABL Alliance, is made up of companies that already work on defence contracts, led by AWE, along with Babcock and Lockheed Martin.
One of the groups behind the declaration, Germany's Max Planck Society, is now changing its employment contracts to require staff to return the copyright of their work to the society.
The other explanation is that those already in self-employment as the downturn hit were the ones who lost out on work contracts while bosses prioritised the retention of their employed staff.
This is kind of a guilty until proven innocent system designed to expedite legal process and if you are really good at contracts and making the right kind of friends it can work for you.
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"We've made it clear we will not be continuing the contracts of anybody who does not wish to continue to work for the company on the new contract, " said Tony Tyler, Cathay's director of corporate development.
While dollars spent on contracting doubled during the Bush administration, the size of the work force responsible for managing federal contracts remained flat.
As a result, the two pilot groups still work under separate contracts, which have some of the lowest wage rates in the industry.
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They will be able to stay at work under temporary contracts until the actual date of privatisation, although at least half are expected to leave beforehand.
In such a reorganization, a state could propose to terminate some, all or none of its government employee union contracts and establish new compensation rates, work rules, etc.
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Greene started working with LB Property Management after LB purchased the client contracts in 2005 of another property management firm, LRA Property Management, which did work at 95 apartment buildings and other properties that Greene owned through various business entities.
For starters, the NFLPA filed a legal complaint with the Special Master that has been assigned to deal with labor disputes with the league over how the contracts were designed with money still flowing to the owners in the event of a work stoppage.
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If you're trying to sort of balance out all of the areas of concern with contracts that force you to pay health benefits and generous pensions to work?
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Eco-Actif Services is one of at least four organisations that have closed recently, citing their Work Programme contracts as a major reason in their collapse.
In connection with this the premier ordered the Ministry of Economic Development and ASI to work on transparent mechanisms for concluding long-term contracts.
Out of 110 companies surveyed by a team at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, nine out of 10 anticipated a boost in their international activity, with 67% expecting growth as a result of decommissioning work from the North Sea and 63% expecting a growth in renewable energy contracts.
We have to be careful that we don't make some of the mistakes that we made in the past, having long-term contracts that didn't work out.
In brief, we need to move to a system that (1) makes room for more flexible contracts in the labour market, (2) has a minimal welfare net for workers who are out of work, and (3) resolves labour market disputes more quickly.
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