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...university went beyond the recommendations of the [Katz] committee,” he says. “They imposed an exact wage scale on the contractors, not just a minimum wage parity...
...just because there are audits, Katz says, “doesn’t mean no abuses...
...haven’t faced any difficulty [winning contracts] though because everyone is on the same playing level,” he added. Katz adds that a “dramatic” drop in employee turnover—a result of higher wages and better benefits—is lowering Harvard’s operational costs. “Turnover costs are a major cost in running a corporation,” he says...
...labor landscape as it currently exists would be virtually unrecognizable to Harvard workers and administrators from the ’70s, says Professor of Economics Lawrence C. Katz, when virtually all Harvard custodial, dining and security workers were employed directly by the University...
...Katz claims that this “monopoly” on services by in-house unionized workers forced Harvard to pay high wages even though it received relatively low productivity in return...