Benefits Of Precarious Employment

Precarious employment, is a term used to describe a type of employment in which there is no job security and neither any benefits (D. D., L. G., & Meisner, A, 2013, pg. 3). Contract jobs and wage earning employees are an example of this rising issue. Contingent jobs also fall under the same category. They fill permanent job needs but are not given permanent employee rights. According to a report, “precarious employment has increased by nearly 50% in the last 20 years” (D. D., L. G., & Meisner, A, 2013, pg. 4). The increasing numbers of employees is very upsetting because in todays world there is a lot competition amongst people and the population is also increasing which makes it harder for employees to earn money and support a family. Therefore, …show more content…
In addition, people from the designated groups are likely to be hired for temporary positions in a company such as women, people with visible minorities, and immigrants. Employers are hiring these workers because it lowers their labor cost but it is invaluable for the employee. These employees call themselves as self-employed or independent contractors but the truth is that this is just an inappropriate classification for the term precarious workers. Employment agencies and the use of outsourcing has been contributing to the rising number of precarious employees (International Labour Rights Forum, para …show more content…
This also results in the violation of the employment equity act because once again, equality has not been followed. There are opposing views to my opinion because precarious employees are not on a permanent basis and these laws and regulation are only for permanent employees. Contrary to this, I believe that even if employees are working for a temporary time, they are still doing very similar work if not the same work as other employees in the company. Therefore, I believe that if it is possible to hire employees temporarily to get work done, then there should be a possibility to get temporary benefits. It is well understood that the benefits and compensation given to these employees will be different from the permanent employees but it will still give precarious workers a sense of security for the time being. The government should work around this and form laws for precarious workers. Otherwise the number of precarious workers will increase because I feel that it is beneficial to employers but the employees need to support their