• Nils@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    That is why Deloitte, PwC, Tata, … and the list goes on, exists. They were the gig economy before the likes of uber, door dash…

    I worked for a multinational a long time ago and learned 2 important things:

    • Some countries have strong labour laws, and a judiciary that bites. The company was sued and had to compensate those contractors similar to employees, including severance packages for people that were dismissed.
    • One of the main unions (some unions cover a sector of the industry in a country rather than a single company) brought up terms related to contractors, to ensure they would have similar benefits, and they manage to get a few in during the collective agreement, sadly it only affected people in that region. It was ridiculous, some RH firms were paying people 10% of what they were billing us. It was cheaper to hire them straight, but for silly reasons we were not allowed to.
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      I’m really not sure why they don’t just hire the contractors full time, since they’re keeping them for years anyway. The staffing company is taking a cut, and that can’t be that much cheaper than just giving regular benefits.

      It probably works out via cruel economics to do it this way, somehow.