Temporary Work and Temporary Work Agencies in Australia: Going from Bad to Worse?

2011 ◽  
pp. 42-57
Keyword(s):  
Temporary Work ◽  
Temporary Work Agencies

Are Temporary Work Agencies More Vulnerable to Ethnic Hiring Discrimination?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Decoster ◽  
Stephanie Segers ◽  
Eva Derous
Keyword(s):  
Temporary Work ◽  
Hiring Discrimination ◽  
Temporary Work Agencies

scholarly journals Employment Protection and Temporary Work Agencies

Labour ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Baumann ◽  
Mario Mechtel ◽  
Nikolai Stähler
Keyword(s):  
Employment Protection ◽  
Temporary Work ◽  
Temporary Work Agencies

Regulatory avoidance in the temporary work agency industry: Evidence from Australia

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Knox
Keyword(s):  
Temporary Work ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
Temporary Work Agencies

Within the context of the Australian Senate’s Inquiry into corporate avoidance of the Fair Work Act 2009, this research examines regulatory avoidance in the temporary work agency industry. The findings highlight that regulatory avoidance in Australian temporary work agencies has intensified and expanded, normalising exploitation and further exacerbating precarious work and its detrimental outcomes. The study contributes to debates regarding regulation of temporary work agencies and illustrates the importance of examining how regulatory avoidance is constructed and played out in national contexts.

scholarly journals Evolution of Institutional Logics: The Emergence of the Temporary Work Agencies Field in Italy

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Alessia Berni ◽  
Mariavittoria Cicellin ◽  
Stefano Consiglio ◽  
Luigi Moschera
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Temporary Work ◽  
Organizational Field ◽  
Organizational Behaviour ◽  
Temporary Work Agencies

This article shows the process of creation and evolution of an organizational field. By an in-depth longitudinal analysis, we investigate the field of Temporary Work Agencies in Italy (TWAs). The article focuses on how a field evolves over time. We delineate three phases of evolution - incubation, emergence and development - and we analyse events and the role of actors that have characterized them. Further, we identify the institutional logics that have strongly influenced the strategic and organizational behaviour of the actors involved in the Italian field of TWAs and their interactions. Therefore, to respond to this institutional complexity the actors have tried to influence with both individual and collective actions the logics themselves. The analysis shows that two competing logics have coexisted within the TWA field: the regulation logic, inspired by the social status and welfare, and the de-regulation logic, connected to the liberal and free-market model. Through the longitudinal analysis repeated in four different field studies, we have reconstructed the process of evolution of the field, describing the links between the different phases. Our research contributes to the institutional logic perspective fitting into the discussion on the coexistence of competing logics in an organizational field.

scholarly journals Health Institutions, Temporary Work Agencies, and the Mobility Power of Nurses

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hege Merete Knutsen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Temporary Work ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Temporary Work Agencies

The objective of this article is to explore how the mobility power of nurses (the ability to move between employers or leave the labor market) contributes to changing relations between health institutions and temporary work agencies in the Norwegian welfare state. Based on case study as the research strategy, the article contributes to the political economy of labor relations approach and the debate over the role ofTWAs and temporary nursing in the health sector.The mobility power of Swedish nurses who shift from agency nursing to direct temporary nursing in health insti- tutions (bank nursing) partly explains the constrained growth of agency nursing in the Norwegianhospital sector. However, contracting flows of Swedish nurses to Norway since 2015 challengeinternal labor hire and could make health institutions more agency-dependent in future.The dataemployed are semi-structured interviews, official statistics, reports, and news clippings.

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