Chris Forde, a professor of employment studies at Leeds University, says arrangements such as Randstad’s with Amazon are becoming increasingly common in Britain. He has encountered situations in which workers on these sorts of contracts make up 90 per cent of a company’s workforce in sectors such as car manufacturing, food processing, hotels and restaurants.
Across Britain, the number of people in temporary jobs has swelled 20 per cent since the financial crisis hit in 2008, and the proportion of that group who say they cannot find permanent jobs has increased from 26 per cent to 40 per cent.
Amazon said it employed ‘hundreds of permanent and temporary associates’ at Rugeley, and had recently given a further 200 permanent jobs to temporary workers there.
It said it was proud of giving its ‘associates’ a ‘great working environment’, including on-the-job training, opportunities for career progression, competitive wages, performance-related pay, stock grants, healthcare, a pension plan, life assurance, income protection and an employee discount.
It added that it takes on temporary workers during periods of high demand, and when permanent positions are available ‘we look to the top-performing temporary associates to fill them’.
Certainly, not everyone in Rugeley is upset about Amazon. A group of workers having a pint on a picnic table outside The Colliers pub near the warehouse said they liked their jobs, albeit as their managers hovered nervously in the background. One young agency worker said he was earning about £220 a week, compared with the £54 he had been receiving in jobless benefits.
Across the table, an older man said slowly: ‘It gives you your pride back.’ Many in the town, however, have mixed feelings. They are grateful for the jobs Amazon has created, but they are also angry about the quality of them.
Chris Forde, a professor of employment studies at Leeds University, says arrangements such as Randstad’s with Amazon are becoming increasingly common in Britain. He has encountered situations in which workers on these sorts of contracts make up 90 per cent of a company’s workforce in sectors such as car manufacturing, food processing, hotels and restaurants.
Across Britain, the number of people in temporary jobs has swelled 20 per cent since the financial crisis hit in 2008, and the proportion of that group who say they cannot find permanent jobs has increased from 26 per cent to 40 per cent.
Amazon said it employed ‘hundreds of permanent and temporary associates’ at Rugeley, and had recently given a further 200 permanent jobs to temporary workers there.
It said it was proud of giving its ‘associates’ a ‘great working environment’, including on-the-job training, opportunities for career progression, competitive wages, performance-related pay, stock grants, healthcare, a pension plan, life assurance, income protection and an employee discount.
It added that it takes on temporary workers during periods of high demand, and when permanent positions are available ‘we look to the top-performing temporary associates to fill them’.
Certainly, not everyone in Rugeley is upset about Amazon. A group of workers having a pint on a picnic table outside The Colliers pub near the warehouse said they liked their jobs, albeit as their managers hovered nervously in the background. One young agency worker said he was earning about £220 a week, compared with the £54 he had been receiving in jobless benefits.
Across the table, an older man said slowly: ‘It gives you your pride back.’ Many in the town, however, have mixed feelings. They are grateful for the jobs Amazon has created, but they are also angry about the quality of them.
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