Posted on 12/20/2009 8:04:09 PM PST by reaganaut1
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Last month 52,000 temps were added, greater than the number of new workers in any other category. Not even health care and government, stalwarts through the long recession, did better.
“Sometimes we’re asked by a company to bring back ex-employees as temps,” said Joanie Ruge, a senior vice president of Adecco. Some are even ex-employees who have been laid off. “That does happen,” she said.
In the past, temps who do well have often been offered regular employment, with higher pay and benefits. Given the uncertainties about this recovery, companies are not doing that now, and temps, as a result, are less likely to spend as freely as regular employees or to qualify for credit, generating less demand than permanent employment would.
Adding to this undertow, corporate America is investing very little in expansion at a moment when current capacity — the machinery and floor space now available — is underused. And pressure is rising on the Obama administration and Congress to offset the shortfalls by authorizing more stimulus spending — enough to bring the national unemployment rate down from the present 10 percent.
“Depression has been forestalled only because major government borrowing and spending is filling the gap,” Albert M. Wojnilower, a Wall Street economist and consultant at Craig Drill Capital, said in a newsletter last week.
Caution in hiring is certainly the watchword at Eggrock, which makes prefabricated bathrooms in Littleton, Mass. During the summer, Eggrock received its first new order since the recession began: 462 units for a hospital project in Canada.
The order caught the company with only 10 workers on the factory floor, down from 45 early last year. But rather than recall those who had been laid off, Eggrock arranged for 40 temps from Manpower: plumbers, electricians, assemblers and the like.
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They also would rather not pay higher unemployment insurance if they have to lay off.
This can almost entirely be expained by Christmas temporary workers. Let’s see how January and February look.
SURGE?
The 0bama regime has succeeded at creating 1.2 million 2010 census jobs.
This is nothing to report about, in fact, it is NOTHING AMERICAN.
You want American, SARAH PALIN 2012!
Vote Congress OUT - Save America!
Just perfect, the kenyan and his commies mandate all these “benefits” for workers and so business hires temps to get around it. Now you get a lot of low paying jobs that can end on a moments notice with no benefits at all. Nice job BamBam!!
Speaking from my personal experience as a laid-off mortgage person, I’ve been doing temp work on and off for 1 1/2 yrs now. Started my current temp job 2 mos ago. I’ve seen entire depts that are all temps with a Manager that’s a permanent employee. Many of the temps I’ve come across have been on the same temp job for almost a year and some a little more than year.
I think companies (at least in this industry) are just too afraid to hire people as ‘permanent’.
IMO, the surge in temp hiring has to do with the season. It’s Christmas...UPS hires temps, retail stores hire temps, etc. An online retailer might hire temps for help with shipping, but once the “rush” is over, they’ll be let go.
"Except for working at a chicken slaughterhouse in Devon I have never had a CV-worthy full-time job in the UK, and that makes getting jewellery-based jobs difficult. Seen 20+ pawnbroking positions advertised, and 20+ of them wanted at least 1 year experience.
"Decided to leave benefits [welfare] to buy me time to look for a job in the field I want to work in. Modest Thai baht teaching salary from November will only see me though a short time though.
"The problem is that UK's minimum wage is so high that firms are reluctant to hire a 'project' guy with plenty of qualifications but zero experience.
"Will do what I did last winter and get back on benefits [welfare] when my cash runs out. Then I can dodge supermarket/warehouse jobs until they cut the funding, and escape abroad.
"I was thinking about the US, but would there be any point with my needing a work permit etc. I am assuming the States is also over-saturated with American gemmos, with not enough work to go round for them?"
Note to young Brit: STAY HOME AND FIND REAL WORK IN A LONDON SUPERMARKET OR WAREHOUSE!
Did not the NYT and other libtard news media outlets lambast the Bush administration over the creation of “temporary jobs”?
How much more hypocrisy can we put up with before someone goes postal on these people? Geezus.
One wonders if temp workers and their employers might be able to use contract worker arrangements to circumvent the minimum wage law (I know I have entered into to contract work agreements under which I was not only paid less than minimum wage, but ended up losing money on the deal)
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