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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Temporary employment"”.
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Temporary Employment Agencies in Ontario: Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women
… South Asian immigrant women working through temporary employment agencies in Ontario, paying particular attention to how social factors such as gender, race and immigrant status shape these experiences. As FPE pays attention to the interconnection between family, state and market, the study …
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Alternative Human Resources Strategies In China: The Rise Of Temporary Employment Relationships And Their Performance Effects
… the workplace through the use of alternative employment contracts. It consists of three empirical studies. The first study qualitatively explores managers' interpretations of temporary employment contracts. The findings suggest that the use of temporary employment contracts is not merely a …
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The nursing shortage and its relationship to part time and temporary employment growth : how should unions respond?
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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The College-to-Work Transition Through Temporary Employment Services: A Case Study in an Information Technology Company
Transition from the college classroom to the workplace requires certain job knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs). How and where the New Employee acquires these KSAs is mired in the transition between education and the world-of-work. This dissertation informs the college-to-work transition …
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Exploring employee well-being among precarious (fixed-term) call center workers
… work that deviate from the traditional standard employment relationship. Temporary employment or fixed-term employment has become a norm, especially in the call centre industry. In addition to the call centre environment being a major contributor to stress and job insecurity, the status of …
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Interpreting the 2015 amendments to the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 in light of the underlying purpose of South Africa's labour laws
… LRA as far as non-standard workers (particularly temporary employment services) are concerned. If the purpose of labour law is established it will be easier for the legislator to focus the developments of the LRA in line with the desired purpose. Furthermore, an understanding of the purpose of …
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Orientation Programs and Realistic Job Previews: Tactics to Reduce Dysfunctional Turnover
… realistic job previews (RJPs) in the form of temporary employment, department tours, and job descriptions were utilized. It was hypothesized that new hires attending the revised orientation program that incorporated socialization tactics and new hires that received a RJP would remain on the …
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UAB „Guarana“ teikiamų paslaugų kokybės vertinimas /
… JSC „Guarana“ customer opinion about company temporary employment services quality and key factors that effect company's business performance. The theoretical part presents the concept of quality and analyse service quality and service quality evaluation models. This part present performed for …
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Rethinking the Labour-Intensive Sector: The Case of Extended Public Works Programme Employment between 2004 - 2017, in Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo Province
Within the context of the high unemployment and poverty rates in South Africa, this study investigates the best practices of successful Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP) in the Capricorn District, Limpopo Province. The aim of the study was to review three policies on employment and poverty …
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Depopulation and Education in a Mexican Migrant Town: Schools in Villa Juarez, San Luis Potosi, 1942-2000
… trend of migration to the United States for temporary employment opportunities. The effects of a culture of migration and globalization on education in the municipality and town of Villa Juarez have led to the undermining of education as a vehicle to social and economic mobility for future …
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An exploratory study of the perceptions and experiences of homeless persons regarding service provision by Khulisa Solutions, a non-governmental organisation in the Western Cape
… for homeless people related to shelter, food, employment and health services in general; exploring the perceptions and experiences of homeless persons in accessing welfare services at Khulisa; identifying the strengths and weaknesses of available services for the homeless as provided by …
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The legal framework for the protection of employees of labour brokers in South Africa
… South African legislation allows the use of temporary employment services ("labour brokers" in common parlance). Labour broking involves a triangular employment relationship between client, labour broker and worker. In terms of this arrangement the labour broker would employ a worker and …
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Women working for their freedom : FCWU and AFCWU and the women question
… African society; as well as classical and contemporary texts on the theory of women's oppression and its interconnection with exploitation. The research has been hindered by the historical repression meted out by the South African state, which has forced people into exile, banned written …
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The effects of planned career transitions on the job satisfaction of temporary workers
… satisfaction in persons seeking or working in temporary employment. The population for this study was 117 individuals seeking or working as a temporary worker in the internal pool of temporary employees at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. One hundred of the individuals in …
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Clouds of discontent: art, work, solidarity and digital platform labour
… buyers and sellers of labour, through which a temporary employment relation can be entered into with a few clicks of a mouse or taps on a mobile phone. The wide range of questions that this throws open in relation to how work is organised include issues of workers’ rights and organisation, …
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Did the Constitutional Court decision in Assign Services (Pty) Limited v National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and Others(CCT194/17) [2018] ZACC 22 do away with the TES practice in South Africa?
… Relations Amendment Act 6 of 2014(LRAA) on the Temporary Employment Services(TES) in South Africa. The TES practice involves a triangular relationship where the TES places workers/employees with a client to provide labour for the benefit of the client. Over the years, there has been an outcry …
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A Socio-Environmental History of Dispossession and Displacement in the Zimunya, Marange and Bvumba (Chirara) Communities of Eastern Zimbabwe, 1920s - 2015
… were involved in foraging, searching for local temporary employment as labour in return for food and trapping quelea birds and locusts that destroyed their crops and consumed the pests as additional food. During the War of Liberation, people sneaked out from the PVs and carried out farming …