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It is worth noting that the laws do not require businesses
to provide "permatemps" with *any* specific benefits, merely
to provide them with the *same* benefits as "regular"
employees after a year. Many small businesses operating
on "paper-thin margins" can't afford to provide *any* of
their employees with benefits, and are unaffected by these
requirements for temporary employees. And I have yet to
encounter one of these companies that kept their temp
workers for very long periods. They either hire someone
fulltime after the need for them long term has been
demonstrated or use temps on an as-needed basis. There's
no competitive advantage to having long-term temps who
don't have any kind of stake in your company's future when
you're running the kind of company that lives and dies on
the dedication of its people; it's only the big MS-like
ones that can afford to treat their workers like
consumables on a regular basis.
Gene Kim-Eng
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Fri, 25 Apr 2003 23:03:36 -0700 (PDT) Andrew Plato?wrote:
But for every Microsoft doing OK, there are 20,000 small businesses being
crushed by regulations and rules that make it impossible for them to remain
competitive. Not every business has 90 billion in assets to dip into. Many
companies live on paper thin margins. Many of those rules hurt a lot of small
businesses. Fine for the clock-punching gang, not so great if your work for or
own one of those small businesses.
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