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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 ...
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Non-standard employment and mortality in Belgian workers: A census-based investigation
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2021 OBJECTIVES: Evidence is growing that non-standard employment is associated with adverse health. However, little is known about the relationship between different non-standard employment arrangements and subsequent all-cause and cause-specific mortality ...
Rebeka Balogh +2 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 The vulnerable situation of temporary agency workers is manifested in previous research that evidences the job insecurity of this group. However, research shows that this insecurity is due to the temporary nature of employment contracts for this group of
Kristina Håkansson, Tommy Isidorsson
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Vulnerability of “Agency Workers” and the Need for Their Protection
Collection Regional Law Review, 2023 Temporary-work agencies present in the labor market worldwide as a result of the flexibilization of work, economic crises, globalization, and digitalization, as well as the unemployment.
Jovana Rajić Ćalić
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Temporary Agency Work as a Means of Achieving Flexicurity?
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 After decades of debate about flexibility, flexicurity has become a new buzzword in working life. Flexicurity refers to both the employer’s demand for flexibility and the employee’s demand for security. Thus, the idea is to solve the flexibility–security
Kristina Håkansson +2 more
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Temporary the Agency Work in Russia: the Past, the Present, and the Future
Московский журнал международного права, 2015 The paper discusses the use of the temporary agency work (contingent labor) in Russia. From 1 January 2016 enters into force the Federal Law № 116-FZ dated May 5, 2014, which regulates the issues of temporary agency work, personnel providing as well as ...
Tatiana A. Gorlovskaya
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Temporary employment and work‐life balance in Australia
Journal of Family Research, 2020 While it is often believed that temporary forms of employment, such as fixed-term contracts, casual work and temporary agency work, provide workers with more flexibility to balance work and private commitments, convincing empirical evidence on this issue
Inga Laß, Mark Wooden
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Qualitative Sociology Review, 2021 Research on temporary agency work emphasizes that temporary agency workers (TAWs), particularly those in low-skilled jobs associated with precariousness and low social prestige, are likely to be exposed to poor treatment, as well as stigmatization.
Pia Cardone +2 more
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Temporary Agency Work and Trade Unions in Comparative Perspective
SAGE Open, 2015 The article examines local union approaches toward temporary agency work in Belgium and Germany. Heterogeneous plant-level use of temporary work is explained by differences in collective bargaining, together with representation structures and rights for ...
Nadja Doerflinger, Valeria Pulignano
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TEMPORARY AGENCY WORK IN THE LIGHT OF THE TRANSACTION COST THEORY
Ekonomia i Prawo, 2006 In the paper’s introduction the role of institution in the economic theory is shortly examined, then it concentrates on the contract of employment as a labour market institution. For the last two or three decades we can observe the erosion of traditional
Michał Moszyński
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