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...Kennedy School, which was cited specifically in the HCECP report for employing a large number of low-paid outsourced dining services workers, is waiting to hear back from Sodhexo, its major outside contractor, on what implementing a parity wage plan would cost...
...American Scientists on biological weapons issues, thinks Assaad may be right. Moreover, based on her own analysis she has prepared a profile of the killer far more detailed than anything the FBI has released. She thinks the killer is a middle-aged American who works for a CIA contractor in the Washington area but has had access in the past to the labs at Fort Detrick. She believes he or she has been vaccinated against anthrax and knows how to conceal forensic evidence. Says Rosenberg: "It's highly probable that the perpetrator is someone who was known...
...though the committee portrays parity as a natural outgrowth of collective bargaining, one can easily imagine cases where two principles might conflict. A unionized contractor might take a large number of different jobs from different employers, and the union might reasonably have agreed to lower wages in order to ensure a steady supply of work—those tradeoffs are the essence of collective bargaining. But if union negotiation is the only proper way to set wages, then why shouldn’t Harvard be able to purchase the contractor’s services in good conscience regardless of whether...
Mike didn't notice the second time he was photographed on the job. It happened around the 20th floor in a crowded stairwell of the burning 1 World Trade Center. A Port Authority contractor had grabbed his digital camera on his rush down from the 71st floor and released the shutter just as Mike, a fireman with Engine 28, was climbing to the scene of the blaze...
Culture shock is a constant factor in matching contractors to jobs. Martin Kelman, 35, a Briton who until recently headed Dataworkforce's U.S. office in the Dallas suburb of Plano, says he found U.S. business culture "a real buzz," because "in the United States, it doesn't matter if you have the right school tie or who your father was." But one contractor he brought in from Indonesia found the change unsettling. "One day he's riding his bike to work in Jakarta; the next he's in Manhattan," chuckles Kelman. The company nurtures its contractors on the road. Brayshaw...