But now, he said, they are contract workers, not employees.
The company has also laid off some of its contract workers and employees.
The company has also dismissed 500 contract workers this year.
The company further announced that it will stop using contract workers by March 2013.
The number of Americans who have been replaced by foreign contract workers is unknown.
"Even for part-time jobs and contract workers, most companies only accept people under 35."
Contract workers, especially skilled engineers, can often make better money in the open market.
It also have around 1200 contract workers to cater to the support services.
The rest are contract workers receiving low wages and no benefits.
A total of nearly 900 employees and contract workers will be transferred or laid off.
Most were employed as contract laborers on the plantations.
Chinese people took work as contract laborers in the agricultural and fishing industries.
"If it's so safe, why do you use contract laborers and not your own people?"
I thought you might want to see for yourself that our contract laborers work under completely safe conditions.
My niece told me he used to be a contract laborer.
They hadn't recognized him, but figured he must be some contract laborer for that weekend.
Onplanet, he might lie about his age, and maybe get a job as a contract laborer on somebody else's farm.
The children of these contract laborers who were born in the island nation are called "tongas."
It would push farmers still farther down the road to becoming nothing but contract laborers.
"The remaining people can hire on as contract laborers, but they will have to perform or no one will need their services," he said.
