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Who Is a Contingent Worker?
In this chapter, you will learn:
• the differences in the various classifications of contingent workers
• how to manage different types of contingent workers
• how misclassifying different types of contingent workers can cause problems.
LET’S GET BACK TO YOUR SITUATION as CEO of the spring company Elasticity. Your managers have offered you a variety of options, involving several different contingent employment possibilities:
• using agency-supplied production and IT workers
• converting engineering employees to independent contractors
• directly engaging additional independent contractors
• using engineers and drafters supplied by a staffing agency.
Before accepting any of these recommendations, you need ...
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