Now, says Microsoft spokesman Matt Pilla, tempemployees can only work at Microsoft for 12 months at a time, and then the company cannot employ them for at least 100 days.
Both Microsoft and the law firm agree that the company has curtailed such hiring practices, hiring 3, 000 former temp workers as full-time employees in the past year alone.
The city also reported the fastest increase in hourly temp pay rates, although it was Glasgow employees whose permanent salaries saw the strongest rises.
These permatemps were allegedly hired to work as full-time employees, but Microsoft paid them through temp agencies to avoid paying them benefits like stock options and health care plans.