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Agency staff – known as dispatch workers in China – do not get sick pay or holiday pay and can be laid off without wages during lulls in production. China changed its labour laws in 2014 to limit their use to 10% of any workforce in an attempt to stop companies exploiting them to cut costs.
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It's too bad we don't have a law like this in the United States, where corporations get rewarded (with rising stock prices) when they lay off long-time workers (who have benefits) and hire contract labor instead.