Sentence examples for in secondees from inspiring English sources

She said it was clear that the Conservative promise to rid government of highly paid consultants was being done so at the expense of ushering in secondees and she wrote to the Cabinet Secretary, Gus O'Donnell, on Friday to ask him to investigate the issue.

This is despite a tidal wave of criticism, not least because the number of secondees in Decc from EDF and British Gas/Centrica – a fellow member of EDF's nuclear consortium – far outweigh any other company.

It covers the period since Decc was founded in 2008 but most of the secondees arrived after the general election in May 2010.

In an additional role, she has been working with DECC as a part-time secondee in an attempt to link up the environmental research base with policy.

We also have a longstanding secondee in Italy to support efforts to transfer children to the UK".

"It's been vital in driving change," says Conner, who heads up a team of 26 secondees and five directly hired managers.

In Chevron,s case, XXXXXXXXXXXX noted that PDVSA is pressuring the company to reduce the number of Chevron secondees assigned to the Petroboscan and PetroIndependiente JVs as each one of them costs five times the amount of a locally hired Venezuelan.

Our secondees do not write legislation or make policy decisions".

So too is the vocabulary: increasingly, companies talk about international "assignees" or "secondees" rather than expatriates.

Half of Fox's new secondees have been transferred from the private arms industry.

The contracts signed by secondees ask them to self-police any conflicts of interest.