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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 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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Temporary Agency Work and Trade Unions in Comparative Perspective

open access: yesSAGE 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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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 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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Temporary Agency Worker Organizing in an Era of Contingent Employment

open access: yesGlobal Labour Journal, 2014
This article discusses labour organizing among racialized immigrants and migrants working for temporary labour recruitment agencies in Montreal. It discusses building worker agency, leadership, an independent organization of temporary agency workers and ...
Aziz Choudry, Mostafa Henaway
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Community and National Provisions for Temporary Work Agencies. Trends in the Evolution of Temporary Work Agencies and Temporary Workers

open access: yesLogos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Law, 2021
The temporary work agent is an important player in the EU labor market from the perspective of labor flexibility. The evolution of the national legal framework on the regulation of the establishment and operation of the temporary work agent in accordance with the European provisions - Directive 2008/104 / EC - is an important issue to consider in this ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The regulation of the notion of employer in an overregulated framework: the case of the Chilean labour law

open access: yesItalian Labour Law e-Journal, 2020
This work presents the notion of employer in Chilean labour law. It begins with a brief introduction of the context of the Chilean overregulated legislation. Then, it is studied the definition of employer and some basic concepts of the Labour Code.
Pablo Arellano Ortiz
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Health Institutions, Temporary Work Agencies, and the Mobility Power of Nurses

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2019
The objective of this article is to explore how the mobility power of nurses (the ability to move between employers or leave the labor market) contributes to changing relations between health institutions and temporary work agencies in the Norwegian ...
Hege Merete Knutsen
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THE SPECIFICITY OF SOME ASPECTS OF TEMPORARY AGENCY WORK IN ITALY AND CROATIA

open access: yesZbornik Pravnog Fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci, 2018
The paper offers a short introduction into the legal framework of the Croatian and Italian labour law system with respect to agency work. The European Union legal framework, some of the most important cases of the Court of Justice of the European Union ...
Vanja Smokvina
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