Sentence examples for in the existing contract from inspiring English sources

From the perspective of Catholic Health Services, leeway in managing St . Johns without the strictures in the existing contract was fundamental to a fresh start.

A spokesman said: "Consultants do a vital job and should be properly rewarded, but this analysis shows why we are working with the BMA to replace a unique evening and weekend 'opt-out' in the existing contract.

Mr. Rivera said one of his main goals would be to maintain job security language similar to that in the existing contract, which bars layoffs of workers hired before Sept. 17, 1992.

The News made Mr. Alvino aware that it was considering selling some routes in a letter that was delivered January 14 along with the paper's proposed changes in the existing contract.

"We were singing show tunes up at the Statehouse," Ms. Daniels said, "but when it was all over, we'd sit in the car and shake and say, 'My God, what's going to happen to us?' " The union agreed to support the state takeover as long as the state dropped a provision that would eliminate all collective bargaining language in the existing contract.

She denied that, but said that union members would feel the impact of new media defects in the existing contract before the negotiations next fall.

For exclusively represented employees, these closure days will be handled in accordance with the existing contract provisions and are subject to discussion and/or collective bargaining where applicable.

In defending the company's push for concessions — including a pension freeze, fewer sick days and far higher employee health contributions — Verizon's chief executive, Lowell McAdam, said in a letter to employees, "The existing contract provisions, negotiated initially when Verizon was under far less competitive pressure, are not in line with the economic realities of business today".

In some circumstances, contract changes are handled as a modification to the existing contract, while in other situations, a separate contract is created.

In defending the demand for givebacks, Verizon's chief executive, Lowell C. McAdam, wrote in a letter to employees last year, "The existing contract provisions, negotiated initially when Verizon was under far less competitive pressure, are not in line with the economic realities of business today".

Under the existing contract, which expired in December 1997, nurses started at an annual salary of $42,500 and reached a top salary of $61,400 after 18 years.