The
Temp Factor shows how to implement techniques for creating a new level of business intelligence in temporary employment.
TUC officials say negotiations around the Temporary Agency Workers Directive have stalled in Brussels, depriving UK
temps of decent pay and basic rights while almost all EU countries have already acted to protect their
temps, with no adverse economic effects.
The research also found that 80 per cent of
temps were happy with their jobs, citing increased flexibility and the chance to gain more experience as the main reasons for their job satisfaction.
The TUC wants companies to have to offer full rights to
temps from day one, and this would help destroy the very jobs the unions are supposed to protect.
'The court has made it clear that after one year with the same business, a
temp will have the right to claim unfair dismissal.
The other reason
temps don't get trained is that the manager doesn't want to spend the time and money training somebody who will not be a permanent part of the work force.
While nominally based on Le
Temps Retrouve, the last section of Proust's masterpiece, Ruiz's film (coscripted with Proust scholar Gilles Taurand) evokes characters and incidents from the entire magnum opus.
Since 1982 the
temp industry has exploded, growing from 400,000 workers to more than 3.4 million, many without benefits, livable wages, or protection under the law.
The curator of "Le
Temps, vite!," Daniel Soutif, has long been interested in staging comparisons between contemporary art and other fields of knowledge and forms of expression, primarily philosophy and music, and this was evident in the exhibition.
Backed against the wall since the Reagan years, most unions have, until lately, assumed a defensive posture, opposing the creation of
temp jobs as a unionbusting strategy rather than looking for ways to unionize
temps.
* FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS WHO BECOME
TEMPS may be financially independent because of generous severance packages but feel that they are too young to retire.
Since 1991, the percentage of payroll paid to professional
temps has more than doubled from 2.4% to 6.9%, according to the National Association of Temporary and Staffing Services (NATSS).
Not that this film about four American women working as
temps is well known.
Many
temps complain that permanent staff think they are either mind-readers or mind-less!
