Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jun-06-10 03:28 AM
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Say goodbye to full-time jobs with benefits Updated at 3:28 AM
Edited on Sun Jun-06-10 03:32 AM by Better Believe It
Say goodbye to full-time jobs with benefits
By Chris Isidore, senior writer
June 5, 2010
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Jobs may be coming back, but they aren't the same ones workers were used to.
Many of the jobs employers are adding are temporary or contract positions, rather than traditional full-time jobs with benefits. With unemployment remaining near 10%, employers have their pick of workers willing to accept less secure positions.
James Stoeckmann, senior practice leader at WorldatWork, a professional association of human resource executives, believes that full-time employees could become the minority of the nation's workforce within 20 to 30 years, leaving employees without traditional benefits such as health coverage, paid vacations and retirement plans, that most workers take for granted today.
"The traditional job is not doomed. But it will increasingly have competition from other models, the most prominent is the independent contractor model," he said.
Doug Arms, senior vice president of Ajilon, a staffing firm, says about 90% of the positions his company is helping clients fill right now are on a contract basis.
"Employers are reluctant to bring on permanent employees too quickly," he said. "And the available candidate landscape is much different now. They're a little more aggressive to take any position."
Much of the change is due to employers' desire to limit their costs. Stoechmann equates the shift to the one seen in retirement plans, in which employers moved away from the traditional pension plan toward defined contribution plans, which passes more of the burden onto the employee.
Health care reform legislation passed earlier this year, which will create a mandate for employers to provide health benefits for employees but not contractors, will also feed the trend.
"Once you have an employer mandate in place, you create an incentive for employers to get around that mandate," said Susan Houseman, a senior economist studying labor issues at the W.E. Upjohn Institute.
Sara Horowitz, the founder and executive director of the Freelancers Union, an advocacy group for freelancers and independent contractors, said that employment laws and protections have been slow to recognize the shift. For example, independent contractors aren't eligible for unemployment benefits. And they have to pay both the employee and the employer match on their Social Security taxes.
Read the full article at:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/01/news/economy/contract_j...
Emphasis added by DUmbass.
You know DUmbass, this is EXACTLY what conservatives were saying would happen. Go to hotair.com and search their articles and those they brought over from numerous sources like the WSJ. You and CNN ignored them. In fact, you did worse than ignore them, you vilified them and said it was nothing more than abject racism because the president was half non-white.
Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jun-06-10 03:34 AM
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4. Not when we are well organized and have competent leadership. Updated at 3:28 AM
Look at American history.
We need to organize on a massive scale and independently of the politicians. Don't wait for some savior or saviors.
Who did you vote for in 2008.
'Cuz unless you voted for Palin and her trained monkey then you voted for exactly what you are bitching about.
You EARNED this.
Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jun-06-10 03:33 AM
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2. a conservative wet dream
But conservatives fought against this idiotic bill for this very reason.
Then there is the violent Teabagger faction:
Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jun-06-10 03:34 AM
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3. as long as people allow themselves to be fcked they will be fcked
until they rise up, there wont be change.
pattmarty (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jun-06-10 01:30 PM
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31. My belief is that for the people that can afford to move to another...............
............country that doesn't treat the MAJORITY of it's citizens like ****ing shit. As far as the rest of us with no resources or educational backing, we are ****ED.
"Well--bye."rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jun-06-10 01:34 PM
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33. with all the teacher firings going on
we're ****ed for at least another generation.
Yes, as RI goes, so goes the nation.
And it goes on like this.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8495810
