The Changing Workplaces Review Final Report: Permanency And Equality For Temporary Help Workers

Along with franchisors and unionized employers, the recommendations made in the Changing Workplaces Review Final Report could signal change for temporary help agencies, the individuals they employ ("assignment workers"), and the businesses who use these services to staff their operations ("client employers").

With the view that assignment employees are among "the most vulnerable and precarious in the workplace," the review focused its policy objectives and recommendations for temporary help agencies on three main areas:

1. Equality and permanent jobs;
2. Termination pay; and,
3. Workplace safety for assignment employees.

Here are some of their recommendations:

• After working for the same client employer for 6 months, assignment workers should be paid at least as much as full-time employees performing comparable work for that employer.