The
traditional model of the 9-5, permanent "job for life"
may or may not be in terminal decline. What is clear, however,
is that it has been joined by a variety of other models of
employment contract, such as:
- fixed term contracts
- use of casual labour
- outsourcing
- use of agency labour
(whose contract may be with agency,
rather than with the organisation worked
for)
- freelance consultancy
(often using previously employed people
on job-by-job contracts but now also
allowed to work elsewhere)
- "company
first" contracts (where workers have
a contract to work a set number of hours
for a company that has first call on
their services but otherwise are free
agents)
- annualised hours
contracts
- term time working
(with "holidays" unpaid, or
covered by small retainer)
- "zero hours"
contracts
- other forms of
variable hours contracts
In this section Flexibility
provides news, guidance and research reviews about flexible
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