Too often, the strategy of turning regular employment into contingent work has been used to impose conditions that are deleterious both for contingent workers themselves and for the broader society. The great majority of workers in nonstandard jobs earn substantially less, on average, than regular full-time workers. Nonstandard jobs in all classifications provide fewer benefits. And such jobs offer little job security. 9 Many employment and labor laws exclude contingent workers from coverage.
Most contingent workers lack an effective right to union organization.
In sum, employers treat workers in nonstandard jobs unequally, and the law permits or ignores this inequity. Many employment and labor laws exclude contingent workers from coverage . 10 Particular types of contingent workers face particular difficulties. Temp workers, for example, are part of a triangular relationship with the employment agency and client, for which the worker performs assigned duties. Temps have little leverage and lack essential information affecting their jobs.