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Perspective

Feb. 25, 2011

Surfing the Contingent Workforce Wave

The law has not kept up with employment trends, so how can you? Here are three essential guidelines that have emerged. By Garry G. Mathiason and George M. Reardon of Littler Mendelson.


By Garry G. Mathiason and George M. Reardon


Economic and social forces are accelerating a trend to contingent labor that requires innovative employment and labor law compliance efforts from organizations that, until now, have focused principally on their roles as direct employers.


Contingent labor includes most of the ways that people work other than the direct, long-term employer-employee relationship. The most common ways are as temporary agency emplo...

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