Temps do almost every important job in NPR's newsroom: they pitch ideas, assign stories, edit them, report and produce them.
Next on my list is providing the agency with an approximate schedule of what the
temp worker should be expecting.
But the largely unchallenged success of the
temp industry could not last forever.
"At the moment one of the growing number of
temps in Poland or Spain is treated far better than one of the falling number of
temps in the UK.
The research also found that 80 per cent of
temps were happy with their jobs, citing increased flexibility and the chance to gain more experience as the main reasons for their job satisfaction.
The first is slightly removed from my usual focus, but it is relevant to the total dynamic between the
temp and the company.
The
temp labor sector is the fastest rising portion of labor, from white-collar office workers, to the folks who serve beer at baseball games, to construction workers and dean up crews.
The IWN Women's Policy Research Center is currently examining the enforcement of new legislation designed to end the practice of employing
temp workers for an unlimited time period, and suggests other methods for securing the rights of
temp employees.
How
temp agencies use welfare-to-work laws to rack up big profits.
For veteran Silicon Valley
temp workers like Julian Cornejo, the stark disparities drive home the point that temps-long underpaid, underemployed and "disposable"-must band together to improve conditions and restrict the ability of employers to exploit their labor.
Financial
temps can earn between $200 and $1,500 a day, depending on local business conditions and the
temp's skills.
DO identify one person who can assist the
temp, as and when required and make sure that they are comfortable with this responsibility.
"Just as the exchange floor provides a fluid, efficient forum for clearing the market for stocks, gold and pork bellies, the
temp industry is becoming a clearinghouse for buyers and sellers of skills," the business magazine Fortune commented in an article last year.