TELEWORKERS
August 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNNEW worries about the health and safety of teleworkers, homeworkers and others on short-term contracts are expressed in two new studies by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. It says they not only lack the protection of national occupational health and safety (OSH) regulations but may also suffer from "an increased sense ofjob insecurity, often associated with work-related stress and its potential human and economic costs."The problem has become of "increasing importance in the last five years as companies cut costs by letting people ...
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