Do Not Tolerate Discrimination or Harassment
If you are ever placed on a job where you feel that you are being discriminated against, harassed, or mistreated, get up and leave the office immediately, and call or go see your service as soon as possible. Never stay in a place where you are not safe. If the service does not respond in a satisfactory way, report it to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or consult an attorney.
Organizations for Specific Problems
While staffing services should offer fair treatment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability, you should be aware of your legal rights. The organizations listed below provide information on career planning, training, job opportunities, or public policy support for specific groups and concerns. If you believe a staffing service has discriminated against you or failed to enforce your legal rights, these organizations can be a valuable resource, and you may want to consider contacting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as well as any of the following:
You Can Fire Your Staffing Service
The more you temp, the more comfortable you will be with giving your staffing service feedback. If the service does not take the time to listen to you and work with you, it is telling you that you are not important to it and it does not value your work. Staffing services do not succeed without good temps. So, if one staffing service is not good for you, then you, the temp, should fire it and change to a service that does appreciate you. Remember, the temporary employment business is very competitive, and services are competing for good temps just like they compete for the best companies to send the temps to. People who temp talk to other temps and they talk to businesses that hire temps. Services should treat their temps right; the staffing service that does not deserves to have a bad reputation in the temporary industry.
Change staffing services if your current service doesn't help you, and tell everyone why you fired the service. If you like the business where the staffing service placed you and the service is mistreating you, tell the business you want to keep working there but you will have to be hired through another staffing service, and tell the business what service you are switching to. (Most companies work with more than one staffing service, so the business may even recommend another staffing service that would help you more than the current staffing service has done.) If any staffing service does not treat you well, the service does not deserve to work with you. Find a staffing service that does deserve to make money from your services.
Talk to Other Professional Technical Temps
If you see another temp doing a job you want to do, ask the temp how he or she got the job. If the temp is working through the same staffing service you are, call the service and see if you are qualified for the job. Tell the staffing service you want the next opportunity to do that job.
If the temp on the job is working through another staffing service, call that service and go apply with them. Be specific with the service about why you are there and say which job you want.
The staffing service you are currently working through may ask you to continue with the job you are on that you do not like until it can replace you and find you the job you want. It is up to you whether you will stay on a job you do not like while waiting for one to open that you will like.
