Sentence examples for workers on contracts from inspiring English sources

In 2005, there were 100,000 workers on contracts that did not guarantee a minimum number of hours.

Company executives deny abusive conditions and have said they hired entry-level workers on contracts and made them permanent as they gained experience.

Air Force officials estimated that within that group, the number of workers on contracts similar to that of Mr. Riechers was in the low thousands.

The chiefs had agreed to provide workers on contracts lasting six months, but Clark wrote that he could attempt to supply labour all year round if the Company wished.

In the last few years, development partners have provided funds to hire additional workers on contract; those workers are posted to districts on the condition that they must remain in the posted station for the entire duration of the contract.

More workers are on contracts rather than on permanent staff these days.

He was an Urdu-speaking aid worker on contract with U.S.A.I.D., a man past retirement age, who was kidnapped from his home, in Lahore, in the summer of 2011, days before he was supposed to return to the States.

Sports Direct's 20,000 part-time employees – all on zero-hours contracts – make up one in 10 of the total number of workers on such contracts across the UK, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.

The Hinch amendments would guard against sham contracting and address the underpayment of workers on government contracts, including 457 workers.

One estimate by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development puts the numbers of UK workers on the contracts at more than one million.

It farms out its lines to 16 staffing agencies, who hire workers on one-year contracts.