Sentence examples for layers of contractors from inspiring English sources

The arrangements that brought the foreign students to work at the Eastern Distribution Center III, a vast warehouse in a trim industrial park near Hershey, the American chocolate capital, involved layers of contractors.

Instead, the students were dropped into the middle of a transformed American workplace, doing fast-paced production line and lifting work in round-the-clock shifts for wages of $7.25 to $8.35 an hour, under multiple layers of contractors.

Mr. Lanham, who was being paid $200,000 a year by the city, used layers of contractors and subcontractors to hide his scheme, and each of them profited a little from it, according to the federal complaint.

Ms. Leppink said her division's investigations were no longer just complaint-driven and looked especially at industries with many "vulnerable workers" and various layers of contractors and subcontractors often trying to minimize labor costs.

The report quotes one former detainee as saying that the only attempt at rehabilitation was marching and chanting slogans like "Try your best to quit drugs!" In the generally opaque world of Vietnamese manufacturing, with layers of contractors and subcontractors, some foreign companies have discovered that their products have been created by the detainees in these centers.

In these auctions, the waste is often sold to a first layer of contractors who promise to handle it appropriately, only to have the most toxic portion subsequently sold to subcontractors who move it around as they wish.

"The layers of sub-contractors, the billions of dollars thrown in, who did that?" he demands.

Many of these issues come from the layers of sub-contractors that make it nearly impossible for multinational companies to gain transparency into their supply chain.

Instead, different job functions are accounted for by layers of temp workers, contractors and subcontractors.

When one adds in the sheer layers of secrecy that intelligence activities are typically wrapped in it is easy to see how the use of contractors could easily get out of hand very quickly.

The globalization of production, moreover, has introduced more opacity into the process of garment assembly, often through a labyrinth of retailers, suppliers, contractors and subcontractors, and layers of deniability for all.