The very simple answer to this (save for extraordinary conditions or very specific contract wording beyond the standard form) is no. The removal of work to give to another will be a repudiatory breach of contract. There is quite a bit of case law on this, see for example Scheldebouw -v- St James where there was a term that said work could be omitted and given to someone else but even that was not specific enough in the circumstances.
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