assignment worker

assignment worker
assignment worker,
a part-time or temporary employee: »

Employment agencies call them…assignment workers. Some labor economists, by contrast, call them disposable and throwaway workers. Whatever they are called, their numbers are climbing (Peter T. Kilborn).


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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