The 10-year-old plant employs a mix of permanent and long-term temporary workers.
The Rev. Isiac Jackson Jr., chairman of the coalition, said the use of long-term temporary workers at the plant makes second-class citizens out of some Mississippians.
And even a few dozen workers at Microsoft called for a union because they were angry about being long-term temporary workers, with few benefits, rather than permanent workers.
As the way Americans work has changed in the last decade, with more people working flexible hours, part time or from home, employers are facing lawsuits demanding that long-term temporary workers receive benefits from them.
At the same time, highly trained scientists who remain in the same research positions for prolonged periods are too often treated as long-term temporary workers or ?permanent postdocs" with poor remuneration, security, and benefits.
It's just a long-term temporary situation.
This causes a situation where people are at risk of becoming long-term temporary.
Likewise, let's be honest about the term "temporary" worker.
Currently, I use my PCard to requisition short-term temporary workers.
Furthermore, the OECD (2015, p. 188) has recently provided numbers for the long-term probabilities of temporary workers obtaining a permanent contract.
Migrants fall into five broad categories: those coming for long-term work, students, temporary workers and visitors, refugees and asylum seekers and people arriving for family reasons.
