Contractual

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Of, relating to, or enforced by a contract..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of, relating to, or enforced by a contract.
2. A contractualized employee; One who is hired as a temporary worker, especially one who is hired for a single project.
3. (accounting) A charge for a service that is applied through a contract with another provider.
4. (government) A contract specifying details of the relationship with another country or body

Example Sentences

contractual rights, contractual obligations

"For myself, because of the baggage of 30 years of balkanisation, I think the elegant solution is to take operations back into the public sector. It will mean you can have a whole-industry approach to running the railway, unencumbered by contractual differences."

[…] Labor Day is just around the corner, hence, it is timely to examine the current and hot issues affecting the workers’ sector. One such issue concerns the matter of endos, contractuals and contractualized employees. / Endos, contractuals and contractualized employees do not enjoy full security of tenure rights as guaranteed by the Constitution and the Labor Code.

Serrano (2014, p. 84), meanwhile, claims that non-regular workers now account for around 30 percent of the labor force and that the top five industries that hire contractuals are real estate, renting and business activities, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, construction workers and hotels and restaurants.

Under House Bill 2173, job contracting, subcontracting, direct-hiring of contractuals, and use of labor cooperatives are expressly prohibited with hefty fines and imprisonment.

Additionally, the CALM general ledger has no account comparable to the contra ( offset ) account maintained by private sector medical centers for contractuals and discounts.

Contractuals are telephone, utilities, and other contracted services.

Other Contractuals are usually Insurance, Completion Bond, and sometimes Legal Fees.

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Word Forms

• contractuals

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