There are currently more than 300 former RUC officers employed in civilian roles on temporary contracts.
Spain's response in the mid-1990s was to allow the spread of temporary contracts for newer recruits.
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Futures and other derivatives contracts are proxies, and they are temporary contracts that expire.
Last year, the economy created 400, 000 new jobs, four-fifths of them in the form of temporary contracts.
Temporary contracts have proliferated in many countries, as a way around the expense and difficulty of firing permanent workers.
Hundreds of former RUC officers have been rehired by the PSNI on temporary contracts after retiring with generous Patten redundancy packages.
Holyrood's Economy committee said there had been a rise in temporary contracts, zero hours contracts, self-employment, and part-time working for these groups.
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Young workers everywhere are vulnerable to downturns because they have fewer skills and are more likely to be on temporary contracts than prime-age workers.
Labour markets in southern Europe are notorious for protecting insiders (permanent workers) at the expense of outsiders (employees on temporary contracts or the unemployed).
On labour markets, however, the Prodi platform proposes partly to reverse the Biagi law by making it less attractive to employ people on temporary contracts.
Although the profusion of temporary contracts has brought greater flexibility, it has laid the burden of adjustment disproportionately on the low-skilled, the young and immigrants.
This is likely to include speeded-up tribunal hearings and temporary contracts.
They are increasingly hiring workers on flexible part-time and temporary contracts.
In France employment on temporary contracts has fallen by a fifth.
Between 2005 and 2007 roughly 80% of Spanish workers aged 16 to 19 were on temporary contracts, compared with 32% of 30-year-olds and 24% of 40-year-olds.
They will be able to stay at work under temporary contracts until the actual date of privatisation, although at least half are expected to leave beforehand.
The latest news will affect 59 workers on temporary contracts.
Even now, many staff in the children's department want to leave, and more than half the staff in some social-work teams are hired from agencies on expensive temporary contracts.
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Many states and municipalities already face crippling pension costs, so they hire teachers on temporary contracts to prevent them acquiring the generous pensions entitlements of permanent staff, increasing turnover still further.
The dispute centres on the management's desire to put more workers on temporary contracts, to give it the flexibility it says it needs to tackle multi-channel broadcasting, satellite radio and podcasting.
"For those people who are in work, more will be on temporary contracts than for a very long time - the highest for 10 years, " shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne told the BBC.
This is because temporary sheriffs' contracts are only for a year.
In recent years, the government has relaxed regulations on part-time work, fixed-term contracts and temporary-work agencies.
Too many labour-law changes have created two-tier markets, with an inner tier remaining protected but an outer one on temporary or short-term contracts.
Instead, according to a report this week in Syria Today, the government has steeply increased public sector wages and offered 100, 000 temporary workers full-time contracts.
Last November workers won an employment tribunal over the pay cuts but the union said Greencore had since failed to restore the temporary changes and issued new contracts.
On Thursday, 490 temporary employees were told they would be laid off at the end of January, while last month 270 temporary employees were informed their contracts were not being renewed.
This month, the Army also will freeze hiring for civilian jobs, release temporary workers and sign no new contracts.
For many of Manpower's bigger multinational clients, the number of temporary employees, ranging from those on short-term contracts to consultants, can represent around a fifth of the workforce.
Aggreko has become one of the world's largest suppliers of temporary power in recent years, having picked up a string of contracts for major events around the world.
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