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The article calls dismisses one or two year contract jobs as temporary work. All jobs are temporary in at-will environment! Meanwhile, according to the article
by morsch 10y ago
The article calls dismisses one or two year contract jobs as temporary work. All jobs are temporary in at-will environment!
Meanwhile, according to the article (which quotes a report based on numbers 5 years old, so who knows how things are now), 50% of new jobs in the EU are still permanent. And 20% of the temp contracts turn into permanent positions.
Not that permanent is actually permanent, employers in the EU fire permanent employees all the time (either for cause, or because there is no viable business alternative; permanent positions also come with a 3-6 month "at-will" probationary period).
- zigzigzag 10y agoNo, it's not the same. Laws that are different for "temporary workers" normally require those workers to genuinely be temporary. That means you get laid off when your time is up regardless of whether you are doing a good job or whether the company wants to keep you: unless you are spectacular, your contract ends and it's someone elses turn. In an environment with very liberal labor laws, there is no government enforced "time up". If you're doing good work and the company still needs you, then you still have a job. And as you point out, "permanent" jobs aren't permanent anyway. I can't really see good reasons to have such tight labor laws.