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An employment agency is a company that matches workers to open jobs. The first employment agency in the United States was opened by Fred Winslow who opened Engineering Agency in 1893. It later became part of General Employment Enterprises who also owned Businessmen's Clearing House (est. 1902). Another of the oldest agencies was developed by Katharine Felton as a response to the problems brought on by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Temporary staffing firm

A temporary agency may be distinct from a recruitment firm, which seeks to place permanent employees, but there is often a large overlap: temporary workers may go on to become permanent employees; or workers a company intends to hire as a permanent employee may start out as trial temporary worker.

In the UK the temporary worker is technically self employed & introduced by the recruitment agency to working on site for the client who pay the bills. The agency is responsible for paying the temporary worker plus paying employers national insurance to the government and setting aside holiday pay (working time directive or WTR (regulations)). This total cost then has a profit margin added and is charged per hour to the client. The temporary worker fills in timesheets (often online) and is paid by BACS on a weekly basis. Some industries in the UK are more heavily regulated by the gangmaster regulations. Many UK manufacturing companies rely heavily on "Temp Staff" during periods of high demand, in recent years U.K agencies hqave responded to the demand for high quantaties of cheap temporary labour by "shipping people in" from within the EU particularaly eastern Europe and former Soviet states. The vast majority of these workers are employed using a contract for services and rarley earn more than the national minimum wage.

Many temporary agencies specialize in a particular profession or field of business, such as accounting, health care, technical, or secretarial.

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