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Businesses temps and unemployment


A divide between permanent employment and unemployment may not be a good idea for society.  Having temporary employment opportunities might be a good buffer and stepping stone.

What would good practice be?

Business should be forced to treat unemployment rather like racism, in the sense that the internal distributions should be similar to the local distributions.  That way knowledge of the issues will be better known and understood.

Outsourcing to another business should not be counted.  That is cheating or hiding it under the carpet.

I would suggest that temporary employment should be at least as high as the local level of unemployment, thus giving the unemployed in some sense a more than half chance of gaining temporary employment.

Now this has some interesting effects.  It is the companies with least temporary employment who have to change most if unemployment rises.  They also cannot use temporaries as disposable buffer at the bottom end.

Obviously there are definitional and deviousness issues here in plenty, and permanent employment will need some protection.  This might include need to ensure rotation of temporaries.

Unemployment is everybodies' problem, and a waste of good resources.  The above ideas in extreme situations rightly is a tax on the 'wealthier' businesses or an encouragement for mobility.

It might be tempting to have higher rates than 1:1, but i think that would have too much instability.

Both business and unions will hate the ideas, and that is probably proof enough.

Martin