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Make the Best of a Bad Bargain 1100 Words You Need Week 42 Day 3

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Make the Best of a Bad Bargain 1100 Words You Need Week 42 Day 3

Make the Best of a Bad Bargain 1100 Words You Need Week 42 Day 3

to change or go along with a poor situation, manage a critical situation, deal with a problem successfully, cope with a difficult situation, get on well with, handle a problem successfully

Fixed-term contracts (FTCs) have always existed in labour markets and serve specific purposes. They provide flexibility to enterprises to respond to changes in demand, such as due to seasonal fluctuations, to replace temporarily absent workers, or to evaluate newly hired employees before offering them an open-ended contract. But beyond these traditional reasons, some enterprises have come to rely heavily on FTCs, hiring workers recurrently on these contracts for permanent tasks of the company. For these enterprises, temporary employment may bring challenge for the firm, including on how to make the best of a bad bargain and manage workers in different type of arrangements but performing similar tasks; it also risks leading to underinvestment in training and innovation and hence lower productivity.

Source: http://www.ilo.ch/

Antonym: fail, clash, avoid


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