identified begins with Silver Fiddle’s practice of using subcontractors. * Silver Fiddle routinely subcontracts build work to local subcontractors. As previously discussed‚ Silver Fiddle is scheduled to build eleven homes this year‚ and these homes will be built in a local housing market which can be described as “booming”. Since the Czopek home is scheduled to be built within five months‚ our concern is that there will be a lack of subcontractors available to work on the home‚ given the booming housing
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Case 2: Nike: The Sweatshop Debate Nike is a prolific international company with humble origins that has come to be known as a premium provider of athletic apparel and other assorted items. The Nike “swoosh” is one of a host of logos/symbols that can be recognized the world over. However‚ the beginnings of Nike are far more pedestrian than their global organization today. Nike is a company that was founded in 1972 by former University of Oregon track star Phil Knight. Though it may have had
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Page 2 of 16 FULL SURFACE FIRE FIGHTING FACILITIES PROJECT AT DAS ISLAND Revision 0 June 2006 PROJECT REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS Section 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 11.0 12.0 13.0 Description / Title Introduction Definitions and Salient Points Employer’s Background Project Background Project Context and Scope of Work Project Objectives Project Organization Project Complexity and Interfaces Project Risks Project Management Challenges Role and Responsibilities of the Project
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Julius Ng of “SMDB Bag Manufacturing”‚ whereby Mr. Julius Ng provide professional services in manufacturing the Pick-Up-Pack Bags from November 2014 to January 2015. This agreement guarantees the subcontractor a payment of P100 for every product to be done. The work to be performed by subcontractor is limited in nature. It covers exactly and precisely the following duties: The content‚ style‚ form and format of the product shall be completely satisfactory to Company and shall be consistent with
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ManalangWenzi Jeanne MartinezJoyce OngRyan Yuquico | I. Synthesis Roger Berg‚ the Vice President for Planning of the Lake Corporation‚ had to recommend a subcontractor for the environmental study project in connection with their planned large resort. The contract has been decided in principle to be awarded to Ceil Grant‚ one of their regular subcontractors. However‚ after a lunch conversation with Del‚ who represented a larger contractor firm‚ Roger changed his mind‚ now recommending Del’s company to take
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It is actually Nike‚ not the subcontractors that ultimately set the pace of production as well as the wages of the workers. If a subcontractor wants to stay in business‚ he must accept the timeline set by Nike and accept the price Nike is willing to pay (sweatshop.org). Thus‚ although Nike does not own foreign factories‚ it still has a
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Assignment 1 of 2: Health and safety responsibilities at work P1: Identify and describe the roles and responsibilities of the person responsible for health‚ safety and welfare on a construction project Client Duties – The Client is an individual or an organization that has construction work carried out as part of their business. Clients duties should have a role of an input to take part in or to take action which is to have responsibilities of having health and safety signs in places around
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Exchange published a report on working conditions at four Nike and Reebok subcontractors in southern China. ... In November 1997‚ the organization obtained and then leaked a confidential report by Ernst & Young of an audit that Nike had commissioned of a factory in Vietnam owned by a Nike subcontractor. ... Nike formulated a number of strategies and tactics to deal with the problems of working conditions and pay in subcontractors. ... In early 1997‚ Nike also began to commission independent organizations
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principal and the contractor or subcontractor‚ and a contract of employment between the contractor or subcontractor and its workers. Hence‚ there are three parties involved in these arrangements‚ the principal which decides to farm out a job or service to a contractor or subcontractor‚ the contractor or subcontractor which has the capacity to independently undertake the performance of the job‚ work or service‚ and the contractual workers engaged by the contractor or subcontractor to accomplish the job work
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(4) Building construction is a complex‚ significant‚ and rewarding process. It begins with an idea and culminates in a structure that may serve its occupants for several decades‚ even centuries. Like the manufacturing of products‚ building construction requires an ordered and planned assembly of materials. It is‚ however‚ far more complicated than product manufacturing. Buildings are assembled outdoors on all types of sites and are subject to all kinds of weather. Additionally‚ even a modest-sized
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