Yesterday, we looked at some of the risks involved in employing temporary employees. Today, we’ll explain a few more, and we’ll tell you how you can attend a webinar next week to clear up the confusion—absolutely free.
Laura E. Innes, an employment law attorney with Simpson, Garrity, Innes, & Jacuzzi, PC, and Drew Langevin, a management consultant, emphasize the need for supervisors to make contingent workers aware of dress codes, safety and security standards, rules on access to data, and other policies that apply to them, perhaps through a contingent worker handbook.
Langevin notes that such a document would help your legal defense if you are sued over trouble a temp worker caused. “They couldn’t say ‘I wasn’t told about that,'” he says.
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What about student interns? “If the intern simply ‘shadows’ employees, learning what they do,” says Innes, “none of the employment laws apply. But if they do anything of value … even answer a phone … then all the laws apply.”
Temp workers: They’re not around all the time, but they can make their presence known in the form of a costly lawsuit if you’re not careful.
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