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Temporary Agency Work and Well-Being—The Mediating Role of Job Insecurity [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Organisations use non-standard employment as a means of flexibility and reduction of fixed costs. An increasingly growing group of employees are self-employed, have work contracts such as part-time and temporary contracts or are employed by a temporary ...
Birgit Thomson, Hünefeld Lena
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Temporary agency work, migration and the crisis in Greece: labour market segmentation intensified [PDF]
Transfer, 2016 This article focuses on the under-researched temporary agency employment in Greece. It shows that the development of the temporary employment agency sector has gone hand in hand with the flow of undocumented and exploitable migrant labour in Greece over ...
Maroukis T.
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Temporary safety. Regulating working conditions in temporary agency work [PDF]
Safety Science, 2019 Abstract This comparative case study investigates how regulatory frameworks of temporary agency work shape occupational health and safety at workplace level. Research is framed by Pressures-Disorganization-Regulatory Failure (PDR) model explaining workplace level occupational health and safety outcomes through economical, work organizational and ...
P. Strauss-Raats
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 The concept of liminality refers to the experience to be betwixt-and-between social structures and the associated positions, statuses, and roles. We advance the original use of the concept by introducing the various meanings that the experience of being ...
Ingo Winkler, Mustafa Khalil Mahmood
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[Influence of working conditions and salary on temporary agency work for intermediate care and intensive care units : Partial results of a nationwide survey]. [PDF]
Med Klin Intensivmed Notfmed, 2023 BACKGROUND Agency nursing is used as a form of labour to counter vacant staff positions in hospitals. Stakeholders and nurses might view this critically for different reasons.
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Administrative Sciences, 2022 Temporary workers already represent a relevant percentage of the total workforce in several European countries. This type of employment is usually associated with more precarious contractual and working conditions.
Pedro Ferreira, Sofia Gomes
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The ‘temporariness’ of temporary agency work assignments
European Labour Law JournalTo prevent the misuse of the equal treatment principle and successive assignments designed to circumvent the TAW Directive's provisions, Member States have to take appropriate measures in accordance with national law and/or practice (Art. 5(5)). One such measure, as mentioned but not further defined by the TAW Directive itself (Art.
M. Kullmann
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When temporary agency work is not so temporary [PDF]
Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2018 Theory and empirical research have provided mixed arguments and evidence for the effects of temporary agency work on workers’ well-being. One unresolved issue is how length of service in agency work affects workers’ well-being and behaviour. This study, based on Self-Determination Theory, explored this question by comparing the motives for temporary ...
Chambel, Maria José, Sobral, Filipa
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Insights into Heterogeneity of Temporary Agency Work in Restaurants [PDF]
International Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, 2021 The term temporary work is an umbrella term comprising a wide variety of atypical employment forms. This study focuses on temporary agency work in restaurants characterized by a third-party involvement in the working relationship. Data was collected through a questionnaire based on the Organizational Commitment and QPS Nordic questionnaires, both of ...
Cajander Niko, Reiman Arto
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Regulation of temporary agency work and the modern labor market: a case study of Slovenia
StanovništvoTemporary Agency Work (TAW) is a unique employment model involving a three-way relationship between a posted worker, an employment agency, and a client organization, enabling clients to adjust their labour force in response to fluctuating demands, but ...
Katarina Krapež
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