1.   They can also shift employees to other departments or require contractors to hire them at comparable wages and benefits.

2.   An existing statute requires that contractors hire the affected city workers at comparable wages.

3.   A construction contractor hired him as a laborer, but Jewell quit after one day.

4.   But there is so much work that contractors will hire folks with erratic work histories or those lacking in job skills.

5.   By undercutting union labor, he added, apprenticeship programs will be gutted and contractors will hire lower-skilled workers, costing governments more in the long run.

6.   City Council members and urban planning experts have voiced concerns about the independence of engineers hired by contractors.

7.   Cities such as Atlanta and Milwaukee have written into their contracts that the private contractor must hire every city employee in the area to be privatized.

8.   Damian Obiagu, a chief in a town called Izombe, has been pressing Hutto to make a Chevron contractor hire local youths as casuals.

9.   Defense contractors often hire retired officers like Crowe.

10.   It cited the example of the Port of Oakland, whose agreements require contractors to hire only local residents as apprentices.