He added that the auctions held for renewables contracts last week would pay for schemes which would power 1.4m homes, creating thousands of green jobs, and give a massive boost to home-grown energy while reducing reliance on volatile foreign markets.
When Alessandra Santoro, 31, lost her job in October at a client relations company in Rome that worked with Alitalia, the former national airline of Italy, she got no severance pay because she had been hired on a short-term renewable contract, which was simply not renewed.
Under his new two-year renewable contract, his salary will remain $350,000 a year.
MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and WETA produce "NewsHour," which is a nonprofit program, under an annually renewable contract.
Hewlett-Packard leased a house in Silicon Valley on a 90-day, renewable contract for Mr. Capellas, a company executive said.
The company announced a three year contract extension with Service Birmingham - a joint venture between Birmingham City council and Capita - worth £220,000 on what was previously an annually renewable contract.
They began a drive to ensure that farmers at last got long-promised certificates showing the exact boundaries of their fields and housing as well as confirming their rights to use them (farmland is subject to a 30-year renewable contract).Without such documents a market could not take off.
HHMI investigators receive a 5-year, renewable contract during which the investigators are expected to follow their scientific muse.
After all, the life of a CEO these days is relatively short, so a five-year non-renewable contract shouldn't scare many candidates away.
My title here is simply "Scientist," although my current 2-year renewable contract is in some ways more like a postdoc.
