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America's Second-largest Employer Is a Temp Agency

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-a-job dept.

cold fjord writes "From the Examiner: '...the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider. ... part-time jobs are at an all-time high, with 28 million Americans now working part-time. ... There are now a record number of Americans with temporary jobs. Approximately 2.7 million, in fact. And the trend has been growing. ... Temp jobs made up about 10 percent of the jobs lost during the Great Recession, but now make up a tenth of the jobs in the United States. In fact, nearly one-fifth of all jobs gained since the recession ended have been temporary.' The NYT has a chart detailing the problem."

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  1. Re:Corporate executives are smart. by bryguy5 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mod parent up. The intended effect was to give minimum wage employees free healthcare but the actual affect is to reduce their hours from 40 hrs a week + overtime to a strict less than 30 hours a huge paycut for a group that was living pay check to pay check as it was.

  2. CITATION NEEDED by Antipater · · Score: 5, Informative

    In fact, nearly one-fifth of all jobs gained since the recession ended have been temporary.'

    What in the what? I'd REALLY like to see a source on that, given that it's directly contradicted by the BLS.
    http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab9.htm
    Since the job market bottomed, we've created 5.4 million full-time jobs and 600,000 part-time jobs. How is that "nearly one-fifth"?

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    1. Re:CITATION NEEDED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      You're assuming full-time == permanent,
      and
      temp== part-time

      neither of which is necessarily true.

  3. Re:Corporate executives are smart. by kenaaker · · Score: 5, Informative

    So why do most of the other countries in the developed world, that do have universal health care, deliver better overall health care outcomes for 60% less (10% of GDP) than the current US system (16% of GDP)?