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Vulnerability of “Agency Workers” and the Need for Their Protection

open access: yesCollection 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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Non-standard employment and mortality in Belgian workers: A census-based investigation

open access: yesScandinavian 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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Fighting (for) the margins: Trade union responses to the emergence of cross-border temporary agency work in the European Union

open access: yes, 2020
Recent research suggests that trade unions in the European Union have become more receptive towards temporary and migrant workers and recognise their distinct interests.
Steffen Heinrich   +2 more
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Temporary Agency Work as a Means of Achieving Flexicurity?

open access: yesNordic 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

open access: yesМосковский 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

open access: yesJournal 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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TEMPORARY AGENCY WORK IN THE LIGHT OF THE TRANSACTION COST THEORY

open access: yesEkonomia 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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New Legislative Rules of Agency Work in the Slovak Republic [PDF]

open access: yesSocietas et Iurisprudentia, 2015
The presented study focuses on the current issues of temporary agency work in relation to the new Slovak legislation in force. Its author specifically concentrates on the following key areas: the current situation on temporary agency work in the Slovak ...
Helena Barancová
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Temporary Employment, Permanent Stigma? Perceptions of Temporary Agency Workers Across Low- and High-Skilled Jobs

open access: yesQualitative 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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Work Commitment Modes of Temporary Agency Workers in Restaurants

open access: yesInternational Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, 2020
: In this study the focus is on single form of temporary work in order to create added value in comparison to previous well-being research in the temporary work context. Very little research has been conducted on temporary agency work in restaurants.
N. Cajander, A. Reiman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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