Sentence examples for precarious workforce from inspiring English sources

Figueroa serves as co-chair of the Precarious Workforce Initiative.

The discovery of these new schemes comes as part of a series of articles published by the Guardian about modern employment practices and a newly precarious workforce.

Opponents of the contract, which does not offer a minimum number of hours, argue they show workers have emerged from the recession in a weakened state, allowing employers to replace stable jobs with a precarious workforce.

The Precarious Workforce Initiative draws on the research and expertise of the ILR School faculty and associates in the areas of labor rights, collective representation, leadership and strategy development.

The Precarious Workforce Initiative focuses on the labor rights and socioeconomic conditions of low-wage and contingent workers, who receive little or no benefits and have largely no institutional or legal protection.

These conditions create a competitive, precarious workforce in which workers are willing to lower their demands so that they can get their 'foot in the door' with a prestigious client.

The truth is that vested interests don't want this because the more precarious their workforce, the greater the amount of risk they can pass on to their employees, the less they can pay and the less they have to innovate.

The "precariate" (precarious proletariat) now makes up more than one-third of Japan's workforce.

Specifically, the main aims of the Jobs Act are to (a) increase employment and reduce the share of the workforce with precarious contracts and to (b) stimulate enterprise productivity by encouraging the employment of a young labour force, thereby improving growth and competitiveness through reduced labour costs.

The answers lie not in regrettable prejudice but in balance of power: as profit is distributed more towards capital than labour, and the workforce becomes more precarious, its precariousness can be leveraged against it to drive down pay and conditions further, and the insecurity deepens.

"One in 10 of the UK workforce is now in precarious work.