Precarious temporary agency work in British Columbia /

TAWs often find themselves in the most economically insecure form of temporary employment due to the nature of the temporary and triangular employment relationship.9 This report focuses specifically on the experiences of TAWs engaged in a triangular employment relationship involving an employment agency supplying workers to a client. [...] Furthermore, sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Employment Standards Regulation17 stipulate the following obligations on employment agencies and the consequences of failure to comply: LICENSING OF EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES 2 (1) An application for a licence to operate an employment agency must (a) be made to the director [of the Employment Standards Branch], and (b) be accompanied by a fee of $100. [...] This is the context through which we must understand the rise and significance of the employment services industry and labour market intermediaries, such as employment agencies, in the remaking of labour market and employment norms. [...] The ESI is the most precise measure of temporary agency employment available from Statistics Canada, and therefore the broader employment services industry serves as a proxy of temporary agency work, with temporary staffing accounting for the majority of industry sales. [...] Temporary agency work is configured around the needs of the client firm and is outlined in the service contract between the employment agency and the client firm.