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‘Zeitarbeitsfirma’ (temporary employment agency): The ‘other side’ of Germany’s labour market

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There are hundreds of ‘Zeitarbeitsfirma’ or ‘temporary employment agency’ dominating the current German labour market. These agencies lease workers mostly on short-term basis to different industries, supermarkets and other business enterprises. Leased workers (In German: Lieharbeiter or Zeitarbeiter) are normally low-paid and forced to do the heaviest works at their work places. Often they have to accept or bow down to inhuman demands of the ‘Zeitarbeitsfirma’.

Summarized here are few cases from different sources who experienced the hardship under the so-called ‘Zeitarbeitsfirma’: (more…)

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‘Zeitarbeitsfirma’ (temporary employment agency): The ‘other side’ of Germany’s labour market

Troops in Afghanistan Had Special Group to Exterminate “Terrorists”