The share of “non-regular” workers—which includes temporary, part-time and contract workers—has risen from 19% in 1989 to 33% today.

一极是“非正式员工”，包括临时工、兼职和合同工，他们所占的比重从1989的19%上升到现在的33%。

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The share of "non-regular" workers—which includes temporary, part-time and contract workers—has risen from 19% in 1989 to 33% today.

一极是“非正式员工”，包括临时工、兼职和合同工，他们所占的比重从1989的19%上升到现在的33%。

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They are not able to find the temporary, part-time jobs they would normally take," she says.

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That portion of the bill was challenged, and in 1997, by a vote of five-to-four, the Supreme Court found the temporary part of the law unconstitutional.

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Sutton Fell says companies are increasingly hiring seasonal professionals, meaning contractors and temporary part-time or full-time workers, in lieu of salaried workers because it keeps their costs down while also meeting the holiday rush.

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Steel mills that needed 100 -- or 1, 000 employees are now able to do the same work with 100 employees, so layoffs too often became permanent, not just a temporary part of the business cycle.

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