Re:Undercover in a Toronto factory where a temp worker died
by frandroid on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @11:44AM
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Catering companies, sports venues, etc. can still have you on-call. The difference between a temp agency and a catering company is that it completely severs the employment relation which protects the workers by law.
Re:Undercover in a Toronto factory where a temp worker died
by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @12:15PM
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Yes, and that's usually worse than getting a fairly predictable number of hours from a temp agency. A temp agency will generally try to avoid asking an employees to be in multiple places at once. It's a pretty simple resource allocation problem.
I disagree.
Working for a temp agency doing catering, sports venue and whatnot is generally more stable income than working for several places like that directly. Temp agencies work well for industries where demand is variable but predictable.
Companies that use temps to fill their baseline staffing requirements to skirt legal/ethical requirements are terrible though.