Published on IUF UITA IUL (http://cms.iuf.org)

Temporary jobs, lasting risks

12-10-2012

Trashed!, the latest number of the online workplace health and safety publication Hazards, brings together recent research from around the world to document the many ways precariou work generates alarmingly higher rates of work-related injuries, illness and death for the growing number of disposible workers when measured against those employed on direct, permanent contracts.

Precarious work not only generates permanent insecurity - it sickens, maims and kills.

Read Trashed! here [1]

The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) is an international federation of trade unions representing workers employed in agriculture and plantations; the preparation and manufacture of food and beverages; hotels, restaurants and catering services; all stages of tobacco processing. The IUF is composed of 394 affiliated organizations in 126 countries representing a combined membership of around 2,6 million.

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[1] http://www.hazards.org/insecure/trashed.htm