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The phrase "a change in the contract" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing modifications or amendments to a legal agreement or contract.
Example: "The parties agreed to a change in the contract to reflect the new delivery dates."
Alternatives: "an amendment to the contract" or "a modification of the contract."
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The decision not to outsource services was also key to its financial independence, according to Pav Ramewal, Sevenoaks's chief executive: "If you control all of your costs then it is easier to make savings... if you have outsourced services and there are changes in [how you want to run] the service, that requires a change in the contract – and the contactor charges for that".
When collective agreements apply to whole branches of the economy, employers who seek a change in the contract face different strategic options.
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A change in the main contract for new permanent workers lowers severance pay from 45 to 33 days' wages for each year worked.
The reserve pool stems from a change in the teachers' contract that ended seniority rights in school staffing decisions and the automatic transfer of teachers who had been cut because of school closings or shrinking student enrollment.
This process has been conceptualised in different ways: for example, as a change in the "social contract" between university and the state (Guston and Keniston 1994), as a change between the modes of knowledge production (Gibbons et al. 1994) or as a result of the dynamics of the triple helix (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff 1996).
The purchase of Burger King by 3G Capital lead to a change in the beverage contract for the Caribbean and Latin America markets.
It blamed lower oil prices, a change in the timing of contracts and a settlement relating to a Shetland project.
The Lillian Vernon Corporation, which sells toys, household and gardening items through catalogs and Web sites, said its first-quarter loss widened because of a change in the value of a contract related to buying paper.
Our interpretation is that there was a change in the general risk of contracting tuberculosis in the Hong Kong society which appeared after 1982.
For instance, if a change in the legislation to permanent employment contracts is deemed to influence the labour market only marginally (e.g. because the share of the labour force in formal employment and with a permanent contract is relatively small), then its approval might be less likely to depend on macroeconomic fluctuations or political pressures.
In it the CLA goes through the motions of outlining how the City might adopt a change in the Standard Provision for City Contracts patterned after a 2006 ordinance, passed by the City of Philadelphia, that incorporates a system of points and penalties affecting eligibility for the City's banking contracts to a bank's federal CRA rating.
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