Because of court orders and other stopgap measures, state workers were paid.
In fact, the gig economy has become a stopgap for some workers who can't make ends meet in a weak labor market.
Bartlett shows how the framing of these recruited teachers as stopgap, low-status workers cultivates a high-turnover, low-investment workforce that undermines the conditions needed for good teaching and learning.
The Philippine government began helping workers go abroad as a stopgap measure to address high unemployment in the 1970s.
Although the stopgap measure did not appear to be succeeding, workers would keep trying to stem the leak, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director general of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.
In this rocky economy, the median duration of unemployment last month was the longest in 20 years, according to the Labor Department, and more and more high-level workers are having to take low-paying stopgap jobs while continuing to seek work in their chosen fields.
Teachers, administrators, counselors, social workers and other support staff are serving as stopgaps to safeguard children's lives.
He drifts into that era's standard stopgap for itinerant arts graduates: teaching general studies to bored day-release workers at a technical college.
Yet the measure, which raised the number of foreign work visas to 100,000 from 60,000 annually, was only a stopgap measure for an industry in need of hundreds of thousands of workers.
Bunning has obstructed a bipartisan effort to move legislation that would provide a 30-day stopgap extension of enhanced unemployment benefits and subsidized COBRA benefits for laid-off workers, provisions of last year's stimulus bill that expired on Feb. 28.
