AGENCIES Continued from Page 5 employers who have a specific need. The employer pays the agency which then pays the employee. The agency fre quently charges an exorbitant amount of money to employers who wish to hire a temporary employee away from the agen cy for a permanent position At the Kxpress Temporary agent v. the fee is $1.TiCM) Often, the temporary employ said she would be surprised if KWKB was paying that much for temporary workers |an Cox, office manager for Manpower in Kugerie. said her agency provides payroll ai counting as a customer service, and an employer sin h .is KWKH does not pay mut.h of a markup on the regular employee wage for those services However. Cox would not re veal how much of a markup Manpower charged for payroll services I don't give away trade se ‘It's an easy cop out for employers. There are no unions, no written rules on seniority, no security. ’ Maurice Ray ee is payed half nr out' third what H an hour working m a wood prodm ts far lory as a temp while the man next to him who was a permanent em plovee made Si 11 an limit Hay reported a similar situa lion at KU'liH Kay started out at the entry lev el wane at ol $li 7ti an hour After six months he had set tired a step ini rease in his wages to just over seven dollars an hour However, while he was getting a tew t ents an hour wage ill crease Kay believes KWKH was paving Manpower $1-1 an hum lor Ins servit es, and he did not receive any benefits from either I M i tt or Manpovv er Hut Beth I.hinge from the IvWT'.H personnel department said although she knew temp age in les were expensive she ( r<‘ls.'' she said Hut it is tnir. ( ox said, that because tin' ageiK v lakes less of .1 profit from providing sm h .1 serv H e th.it Manpower i .in not give out am benefits as it would to its regular employees Kay said fie never knew Man power offered am benefits to its employees lie sees the temp agent v as a loophole for cm ployers to iiit (osts .it the ev petlse of employees "It s an easy ( up out for etn plovers." Rav said "There are no unions, no written rules on seniority, no set untv Kay's rase is not all that mi usual Knuugli temporary work ers an- employed at I.WKH for long term assignments between si\ months and two years that 1 trm e Mam lark, himself a tern porarv worker in the KU KM conservation department has started contrai ting out employ ees through Ins energy ronser vation r ompaiiy I fella I Kay said Main lark realized that temp agencies were not providing muc h m the wav of Ixcnefits to employers so he de ( ided to set op it program that would he more generous to the long-term temporary workers However. Manclark said his company is not a temp agem v in the traditional sense His pri mary service is providing ener gy auditors ami inspectors to loc al utilities. Manclark saiii utilities will ask him to put a temp on Delta T's payroll "if they think a ion tract employee is going to lie around for awhile" because he offers more benefits to tempo rary workers than most of the local agencies "I think KWKB wants to lie able to provide sec urity w ith a job whim they offer it to some one," Manclark said He added that KWKB may use temp ageu lies when they feel they can not provide long term joli secu rity Tins kind of use ot temporary agent ies is not unicjue to KWKB Hoc c o said sonic1 local mills in the area staff whole shifts (entirely by temporary workers I he noil will lure1 a tempo rury c rew tor three months then get rid of the whole crew and bring m another one for anoth er three months." Roeco said Mam lark c onfirmed this stale men! Roc c ci said temp agent ices are trained people for a seasonal project but now they may con !ra< t through an agency for the workers Roc co said using a temp agency can give employ ers flexibility in adapting to a volatile wood products market However, he said the situa tion can definitely tie exploited sources available to people in terms of health insurance and the wage structure Rocco said temporary em ployment confounds statistics compiled about growth and productivity in the economy because mill workers employed through a temp agency are tab Temp agencies are good for employers because they provide a contingent labor pool and cut down on the employers’ overhead costs by providing all the payroll services and benefits. by businesses and the temp agencies "The temp agency isn't do ing this for the goodness of the soul." Rocco said Manpower is one of the few agent les in the Kugene area that offers any kind of benefits Out of II agencies surveyed, only four offered health bene fits, and .it three of those, the employee had to pay tor the full t ost of the insurance Agent les that specialize in ill dustrial temporary employment tend to he the most likely not to provide benefits. One employee from the Ore gon Bureau of bailor and Indus ulated into statistics on the ser vice rather than industrial set tor As a result, the reports on the high productivity and growth of the service industry do not accurately reflect the health of the economy. The official from the Bureau of I.ahor and Industry thinks some regulation should exist for temporary employment to prevent exploitation. Rocco said the Hureau of I.abor could probably set up some stan dards. but said as long as em ployers are paying above the minimum wage, they are not going to attract much attention to the problem, and the law does not require businesses to provide health insurance. On a more positive note, Kld ridge said KU'KH is currently revising its policy on tempo rary employment to make it more equitable Unfortunately, this change in policy is a little too late lor Maurice Ray As a result of working for nearly two years at KU'KH hoping to gel a perma nent position, Ray has lost the seniority he earned working seasonally for the park service where be returned alter leaving KU'KH. Often, the temporary employee is payed half or one-third of what a permanent employee in the same position will make. good tor employers because thev provide .1 contingent labor pool and i ul down on the cm plovers' overhead costs !>\ pro viding all the payroll servic cs and bcnelits In the past, Rocro said the mills may have hired and tr\ llunks temporary employ ment serviced through ageiu ies lias a negative impact on the economy as a whole he< ause of the structure of the wage scale Roceo agrees th.it temporary employment is a detriment to society because it limits tfie re Come In For Our End-Of-The Yea CLOSE-OUT WATCH SALE SAVE UP TO 40% ■ SEIKO ■ TIMEX ■ CASIO ■ SHARP ■ & MORE! 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