National Employment Law Project: Temporary Jobs Are Growing Fast, But Temp Workers Have Few Legal Protections
August 26, 2019
August 26, 2019
NEW YORK, Aug. 26 -- The National Employment Law Project issued the following news release:
Jobs supplied by temp agencies reached a record high of 3.2 million jobs last year, and temp agency employment has grown four times faster than overall U.S. employment since the end of the Great Recession in 2009. But except for three states--Massachusetts, Illinois, and California--legal protections for temp workers are largely nonexistent in the United States, even though temp workers are u . . .
Jobs supplied by temp agencies reached a record high of 3.2 million jobs last year, and temp agency employment has grown four times faster than overall U.S. employment since the end of the Great Recession in 2009. But except for three states--Massachusetts, Illinois, and California--legal protections for temp workers are largely nonexistent in the United States, even though temp workers are u . . .