June 9,1999
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Worker-Owned Temp
Agencies Aim to Halt
Slide in Benefits
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As corporate downsizing creates a
boom in the temporary worker industry
thatcriticscontendderues workers their
right till benefits, the concepts ot worker-
owned and nonprofit temp agencies are
emerging as a way to build solidarity in
the temporary workforce and provide
such employees with access to benefits
like health insurance.
The temp industry nationally
has grown 15 percent in revenue
every year tor the last 16 years,
explains Barrie Peterson, associ
ate director o f the Seton Hall U ni
versity Institute on Work.
Worker-owned and nonprofit temp
agencies are being seen as an alterna
tive to provide "something better for
the worker than the commercial in
dustry now provides," such as health
insurance or training. Peterson said.
“If a nonprofit is hooked up, as most
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job. get o ff w elfare and then be
back in my office again two or
C o v t r ib l t iv c Wunen from ANS
three months later.”
The network meets this challenge
Experience teaches that it re
by pairing welfare mothers with
quires more than just landing a job
mentors - business or professional
to keep a women off welfare per
women who volunteer to work one-
m anently, says Louise M oss, a
on-one in the program for a year.
former state casew orker who runs
Asked what effect new laws man
the Stamford W om en’s Mentoring
dating a time limit to w elfare ben
Network in Connecticut.
efits have had on a program like
“What most w elfare m others
hers. Moss said: "They put us in a
need is the "know-how" that middle-
vise. The number o f women seek
class people take for granted,” said
ing help has doubled, while the fi
Moss, who founded the network
nancial support from private do
eight years ago.
nors that we count on is shrinking.
For example, she said, “How do
Connecticut’s 21-month cutoff
you act and dress tor a jo b .’ How can
o f welfare benefits means that “we
an attitude you need on the street
are sending women into an economy
work all wrong in an office?"
where their skills levels don t meet
Then there’s managing money.
workplace demands. But we just
"How do you budget a weekly salary
don’t have the time to get them
when you’ve been used to a monthly
ready. At the same time, fewer and
welfare check? How can you get de
fewer government dollars are avail
cent child care when you have little
able for education and training.
money? And what do you do when the
"A nd to make matters worse,
babysitter doesn't show up?
more and more o f the entry-level
According to M oss, "It was all
jobs our clients can get are becom
those reasons and more that women
ing part time with no benefits.”
after woman would actually find a
Bi N a o m i B i
are, with a career-counseling service
or an agency that helps job seekers,
that means that that agency has little
cost of recruitment. It’s already get
ting talent coming in who are being
assessed, and it’s not a big additional
step to add a placement function on
that,” he said.
"Look at the classified section
in the new spaper," Peter said. “ A
nonprofit temp agency would not
have to go to the expense to recruit
people because it would have a
regular flow o f talent.
Secondly, if a nonprofit temp
agency could arrange to provide
health insurance and broker good
training, turnover would be prac
tically nonexistent, Peterson said.
“Temp workers in that kind o f en
vironm ent will stay w ith you be
cause there is viable health insur
ance and a career ladder, neither
o f which exist in commercial agen-
cies,” he said.
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