{"id":23078,"date":"2018-11-24T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T14:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23078"},"modified":"2018-11-24T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T14:23:25","slug":"holidays-in-us-drive-strong-demand-for-temporary-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23078","title":{"rendered":"Holidays in US drive strong demand for temporary workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"64\">\n<p>Retailers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">US<\/a> are expecting to do good business in the run-up to Christmas and that has made seasonal workers more valuable than any hot product.<\/p>\n<p>Low <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/unemployment.html\">unemployment<\/a> has driven up wages and increased perks for short-term, part-time work, but labour advocates in the US worry that companies are using the temporary positions to avoid hiring full-time workers and paying for health and retirement benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Kristen Saloomey reports from New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retailers in the US are expecting to do good business in the run-up to Christmas and that has made seasonal workers more valuable than any hot product. Low unemployment has driven up wages and increased perks for short-term, part-time work, but labour advocates in the US worry that companies are using the temporary positions to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}