Temporary Jobs Becoming A Permanent Fixture In U.S.

[eridani]

http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2013/07/temporary-jobs-becoming-a-permanent-fixture-in-us?et_cid=3356420&et_rid=54679148&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.manufacturing.net%2fnews%2f2013%2f07%2ftemporary-jobs-becoming-a-permanent-fixture-in-us


Hiring is exploding in the one corner of the U.S. economy where few want to be hired: Temporary work.

From Wal-Mart to General Motors to PepsiCo, companies are increasingly turning to temps and to a much larger universe of freelancers, contract workers and consultants. Combined, these workers number nearly 17 million people who have only tenuous ties to the companies that pay them — about 12 percent of everyone with a job.

Hiring is always healthy for an economy. Yet the rise in temp and contract work shows that many employers aren't willing to hire for the long run.

The number of temps has jumped more than 50 percent since the recession ended four years ago to nearly 2.7 million — the most on government records dating to 1990. In no other sector has hiring come close.

Driving the trend are lingering uncertainty about the economy and employers' desire for more flexibility in matching their payrolls to their revenue. Some employers have also sought to sidestep the new health care law's rule that they provide medical coverage for permanent workers. Last week, though, the Obama administration delayed that provision of the law for a year.

The use of temps has extended into sectors that seldom used them in the past — professional services, for example, which include lawyers, doctors and information technology specialists.

Temps typically receive low pay, few benefits and scant job security. That makes them less likely to spend freely, so temp jobs don't tend to boost the economy the way permanent jobs do. More temps and contract workers also help explain why pay has barely outpaced inflation since the recession ended.

[flamingdem]

1. People will have more time for DU

[NoOneMan]

2. Think of all the names we can create the apply to Snowden with this time

And the rest of his whistleblowing ilk!

[Cooley Hurd]

7. Economic and employment insecurity isn't funny.

[msongs]

3. get a job spying on americans with NSA - pvt contractors, huge pay and bennies nt

[TheMastersNemesis]

4. Welcome To The New Normal For Work. Contract Jobs Are The Future. The End Of The Permanent Job Is

Near.

During the early years of the Reagan administration a corporate plan was hatched and supported by the GOP secretly to put and end to traditional employment. The idea was that all jobs including government would be contracted and workers would compete for contract work and be an independent and free agent just like an athlete.

Under such a scheme you pay ALL your own expenses including SSA taxes, federal taxes, insurance (UI & disability), your own training etc. The traditional employer employee relationship would be dissolved. That means the employer would pay none of the usual taxes and would be non regulated.

Today about 40% of all jobs are contract. About 20% are already temp or seasonal. The dirty little secret is that few life supporting jobs will exist in the future. Only about 10% of the working class will be privileged to hold full time employment. If you analyze the GOP rhetoric they support such an apartheid work structure and have been working toward such a world since Reagan.

The present mechinations of the are aimed at completing that tool. Their attack on the safety net, Ayn Randism, and obstruction are a crucial part of the strategy. Now they can rig the vote.

How we reverse this trend I do not know. But it has been developing since Ronald Reagan who unleashed all manor of evils on the US.

[WestStar]

5. No. 2 employer in the country, Kelly Sevices

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/20/business/the-iphone-economy.html?ref=business&_r=0

[Lugnut]

6. Becoming?

Temp agencies have thrived around here for the past 15 years or more. Temp jobs used to lead to eventual permanent employment but that's not always the case now.

[warrant46]

8. No benefits no insurance

Don't pay your exorbitant medical bills for your children ? The doctors and Hospitals will garnish your $8.00 per hour wages

[bhikkhu]

9. Maybe that's misleading?

as the numbers for temps are here:



Which puts temp jobs at a fairly stable 2 million over the last decade, which is about 1.5% of the workforce. I'm not sure I would equate temps with consultants and contract workers. Many people chose to not be employees of corporations because their skills allow them that opportunity, in a healthy economy.