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The Republican party has made it it's mission in life to preserve employment-at-will and to protect the employer's right to fire employees-at-will at any time for any reason (the federal government only requires that if an employer is going to fire a lot of employees-at-will, that it give legal notice in advance). As far as we know, every Court in the country has refused to allow statements in employment handbooks and/or oral promises by the employer to be used to transform employment-at-will into employment for a specified duration (i.e to transform the employment relationship from being at-will into the employment being a property interest).

You are not an employee at will if you have a contract to work for a specified duration or you are a government worker.  In these types of employment, your job is considered a property interest. What this means is that your job is property (something you own) and there-

Temps are employees-at-will just like "permanent" employees, both types of employment are minute to minute and there is no implied guarantee of long-term employment. Permanent employees are merely suffering from a grand delusion whereas Temps know that they may not have a job tomorrow. Health benefits etc are merely part of the compensation (and should be taxed as such). I doubt that anyone would say that a permanent secretary making $12.00 per hour with benefits is better off than a temp making $50.00 per hour with no benefits. The fact is that TEMPS and Consultants are subsidizing "permanent" employees because "permanent" employees get compensated in the form of health benefits etc and aren't taxed on that added compensation.

A respected business magazine once praised Intel as a company that was managed well and it cited the fact that the huge barrier to entry  for any new company attempting to compete with Intel. The "barrier to entry" for competing with a temp agency is $95.00. You can create a LLC right now and call yourself a temp agency CREATE A LLC

Employment for the majority of workers in the US is government by their state's Master Servant Clause.  The Master Servant Clause holds that employment, unless contractually stipulated to otherwise by the parties, is At-Will and that the employment contract may be terminated at any time for any reason by either party.

As a result., the unemployment rate in the United States could technically be nearly 100% in 90 days because there is no legal barrier to employers firing all at-will employees if they choose to.  Clearly, Employment-At Will Is A Threat To The National Security Interest of The United States.

At various times during our history, particularly in the last twenty years or so, the public has had to come face to face with the fact that it may not have a job to go to tomorrow.  But in general, for the majority of people, the fact that they are employees-at-will is irrelevant.  They have no problem working at the same stupid company with the same stupid people for twenty or thirty years until, hopefully, they live long enough to retire.  We are of the opinion that this is about to change radically.

One professor stated in an op-ed story in the New York Times, that in the future, no one of value will be an employee, that employment will be composed entirely of the mediocre, the people with no marketable skills to sell. Today, the people that any company considers of value, are signed to employment contracts. If you don't have an employment contract, your company clearly does not consider you to be essential to its business plan.

In addition, North American may no longer be the most desirable or attractive consumer market.  North American has to read an article in the New York Times to know what music is good music.  North America has environmental issues. North American has ethical problems with animals being killed. North America has a problem with cigarettes. Why bother with North America?

What if one day the transnationals just pulled out. What if one day Corporate America, the entity that has been receiving all the tax breaks and grants and free infrastructure, simply decided that North America no longer provided the best investment return for its shareholders. The United Autoworkers seem to believe that this could happen.

The United States' military might and its ability to provide and enforce a stable market for investment and money storage, probably makes it unlikely that all the multinationals will just pull out, they will all probably want to maintain a presence here, just to be in a position to force the US to defend their investments in other countries. But the fact that the multinationals clearly don't view North American as the promised land any more is having an impact and we believe it will have an even greater impact in the years to come. The most radical move we believe will be the jettisoning of employees.  Having employees, we believe, will soon be viewed as a liability, the battle cry will be: "Only an idiot company would have employees".

"Family" will be defined as a group of people in a Relationship LLC (R) who care about each other and want to help each other through life. The labor market will be composed of associations of people in LLCs who have come together to market their skills to businesses. 

Rather than throwing money at transnational corporations that are not even American entities, states will view their employee owned businesses  as vital economic infrastructure (tm) which is to be nurtured and promoted. 

 Perhaps the people with a personal animosity against poor people will find it easier to relate to those people as businesses.  This is  Infrastructuring".

How would you like to have your own personal temporary agency and keep all the money your temp agency makes? Well, once you create your LLC you can use it as a consulting company and bid for temporary and contract work just like any other temporary agency or consulting company. The best part about using an LLC is that the LLC is not taxed when classified as a partnership, it merely distributes the money to you and your partner(s) . You and your partner(s) will of course have to pay tax on the money you receive from the LLC. Employers benefit because you are not an employee and they are not dealing with you as an individual, rather they are dealing with a business.

In some cities it can be very difficult to compete against established temporary agencies . I was amazed to learn that when I offered companies my services through my LLC (at a cost much cheaper than a temporary agency) that some companies did not care. I was actually told by a law firm that they did not care how much temporary word processors cost because they did not pay the bill, they forwarded the bills to their clients for them to pay it. This tells you that law firms can be a very good catch if you can get one.

While it may look difficult at first, if you keeping trying, it is possible to find companies who are actually interested in saving money when they look for temporary help. You can make a very good living with two or three steady clients. Temporary agencies are generally not interested in "little accounts" (i.e. employers who only use a small number of temps or who do not order a lot of temps daily) and most temp agencies are not interested in government accounts (they say the government takes too long to pay and that they don't pay enough). So, these are the places you can look to first. The best thing about government temporary contracts is that the government advertises. Temp contracts with the federal government can be found in Commerce Business Daily. Your state may have some newspaper that it uses to advertise government state contracts.

• Commerce Business Daily
• Contract Employment Weekly

Mega National temporary agencies are so large that they use other temporary agencies as subcontractors. So one tip would be to seek to have your LLC be a subcontractor to a Mega National agency. Just make sure that they pay you a lot more than they pay their temps, because you will have to pay self-employment related taxes as a business/self-employed person. Norrell Services is my favorite national agency. Manpower is the largest temp agency and the largest employer in the US. Talent Tree and Olsten are other national temp agencies.

Warning To Programmers

The New York Times reported on April 27, 1998 that there is a 1986 law in which Congress decreed that most individual programmers cannot be entrepreneurs. The law apparently relates to programmers creating companies in which they are the only employees. It would appear to us that this prohibition would not apply to groups of programmers who get together and form and LLC with which to market their services.

The Relationship LLC Manifesto

Contracts for temporary and contract labor should be advertised and subject to competitive bids and the act of selecting a source for temporary and contract labor should be subject to Federal and State laws on employment discrimination as regular employment hiring is.

You can support this position by writing to a company you are interested in working for (as a consultant or temporary) and requesting the procedure for biding on temporary and contract labor. If you are a member of a protected group, you can file a complaint with your state human rights department and/or the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission if a company refuses to allow you to bid for temporary and contract labor or refuses to give you details on how to compete for contracts for temporary and/or contract labor. Title 42 Section 1981 may also be available in this situation.

As far as we have been able to determine, the EEOC has not taken a position on whether or not contracts for temporary and contract labor should be subject to conditions (with respect to advertising and word of mouth hiring) as regular employment hiring is.

Hiring Welfare Recipients and Making Them Management

The New York Times, Saturday, May 21, 1994, contained an article about a partnership of former welfare recipients that bid on contracts for temporary health care jobs.

The company, Cooperative Home Care Associates has almost 300 members.

"The company has been set up as a for-profit enterpise to enable employee ownership and dividend payments. Cooperative employees split profits of $150,000 a year on $4.5 million in revenues. The dividends amount to a return of 20 percent to 50 percent. Workers must sell their shares for the $1,000 value when they leave the cooperative."

The US Department of Labor has a program to create One-Stop-Centers . These One Stop Centers would be places where people could obtain unemployment services, job training and job placement all in one place. Of particular interest is that these centers would be able to do job placement services and act as central registers of available work, permanent, temporary and contract work. This could create intense competition between the large temporary agencies to obtain THE contract to participate in the One-Stop-Center in a state or nationally, as what ever company is chosen will clearly have a business advantage over their competitors. (i.e. they will have the state and federal governments as business partners).

The Wall Street Journal carried an article on Manpower's alliance with Wisconsin in its one stop program. The Journal reported that Manpower ended up quiting the program at a loss of some $100,000.00.

This One-Stop Program is of interest to us in that (a) getting companies to list (advertise) available temporary and contract work with a government agency can only help those of us who want to have our own companies bid on temporary and contract labor; (b) it may result in non-profit organizations being able to directly engage in job placement services without risking their tax exempt status. If this program becomes widely adopted by all states, it could definitely change the balance of power in the temporary and contract work environment.

And example of an employee owned company biding on temporary and contract labor in the home health care market is Cooperative Home Care Associates.