Employers’ ‘Expendable’ Contingent Workers Need New Workplace Safety Protection
As more and more employers duck paying workers decent wages, health care and training costs by hiring contingent/temporary workers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) must step up its protection efforts for those workers, a new report urges. Martha McLuskey, one of the authors of the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) report, At the Company’s Mercy: Protecting Contingent Workers from Unsafe Working Conditions, says:
Increasingly, employers are treating them as expendable, accepting high injury rates because the company is largely insulated from the economic consequences.
