Posted on 07/08/2013 12:20:32 PM PDT by thouworm
Behind Wal-Mart, the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider....
It's a sad state of affairs for our country. While part-time and temp jobs reached highs last month, full-time jobs decreased by another 240,000. The recovery, or lack thereof, is being fueled by a shift from full-time to part-time work.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Kelly Services; right behind #1 employer, Wal-Mart
Par for the course in Europe. Nobody ever hires full-time because the mandatory benefits are so expensive, and if they fail you are still not allowed to fire them.
Actually, the Federal government is employer #1.
Nissan in Smyrna, TN bought out some of their most senior employees and has been replacing them with temp employees who get no benefits.
I am working through a temp agency. There’s plenty of work, and companies love employees who can be hired and fired with just a phone call. Welcome to the future. At least I can still get 40 hours.
“Actually, the Federal government is employer #1”
Good point.
It would be instructive to see actual-numbers breakdown——Fed employees, along with welfare enrollment numbers, unemployment numbers, and people no longer looking for jobs, I forget what they title the latter category, but they are not considered in the unemployment numbers.
Does Kelly Services have to offer benefits to its temps/employees?
There is one thing to blame.
LET’s HEAR IT.
OBAMACARE.
Thanks you illegitimate puke.
Does Big Media have the guts to draw a connection between this and 0bamacare?
My question though remains....where is the American small business entrepreneur? In the 80’s they struck out in the thousands starting their own businesses and saying to hell with big companies and government dependency ...why is this generation NOT doing that?
Ah! temp but full-time. Of course. Really, another category.
If you don't mind a personal question. What do you do---or will you do---about health insurance...with Obamacare 2014 barreling down the road like an out of control freight train? How will that change things for you?
—— ....where is the American small business entrepreneur? ——
In college, where they learn to work for companies, the government, or non-profits.
“Does Kelly Services have to offer benefits to its temps/employees?”
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Good question. Don’t know. And if they do, how will Obamacare 2014 change their temp workers circumstances?
“where is the American small business entrepreneur? “
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I don’t have any hard facts, but from what I have been reading, most of them are being regulated out of business-—either going out of business or priced out before they even start.
:::where is the small business entrepreneur?
A common source of capital for small business start-ups is home equity. With housing prices slow to recover, this avenue is not as readily available as in previous recoveries.
Combined, these workers number nearly 17 million people who have only tenuous ties to the companies that pay them — about 12 percent of everyone with a job.....
The number of temps has jumped more than 50 percent since the recession ended four years ago to nearly 2.7 million — the most on government records dating to 1990. In no other sector has hiring come close.
Yes, I would think that’s a major factor. Plus, banks aren’t lending.
But where would a child learn an entrepreneurial mindset? I don’t recall a single mention of starting one’s own business in school or college.
My cynical side tells me that this was part of Carnegie’s goal in forming the modern government school curriculum.
The important lessons of schooling aren’t on the chalkboard.
Fortunately my wife is a teacher, and as a state employee she gets a pretty good deal on family benefits. It’s a good thing that insurance doesn’t come out of my paycheck. In a way, being a temp carries a measure of job security these days; if one company decides they don’t have enough work for me, another company will pick me up and I don’t have to go through all the application/direct deposit stuff again. The demand for temps is high. I expect one of these days Obama will just create an Employee Exchange and we’ll all work for the government as temps, paying ourselves with our own taxes.
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