In france, as in most advanced economies, the traditional distinction between stable permanent contracts on the one hand and precarious temporary ones on the other no longer holds: many people on short-term contracts are able to live decently with relative ease, but many others find their work situation difficult. As Jolly and Flamand show, even those who opt for self-employment are not immune to the erosion of a post-war labour model that guaranteed salaried workers a certain level of social protection for decades. URL https://euworkers.fr/

In fact, people on fixed-term contracts tend to remain in this category of employment for several years and have a much lower probability of transitioning to an open-ended contract (CDI or civil service) than do their counterparts with permanent jobs. They also receive less on-the-job training, and have a greater difficulty in adjusting to a negative economic shock.

Career Advancement Opportunities for Temporary Workers in France

In this article, we examine the role played by organisational identification in the effects of temporary employment on these attitudinal outcomes. We find that voluntary temporary workers identify with their employer more than do low-autonomy/low-compensation employees, but less than with permanent employees. Moreover, they are less likely to react collectively in the face of injustice. They are more prone to avoidant and/or self-centred reactions instead. We also find that the decrease in organisational identification mediates the differences with low-autonomy/low-compensation workers in terms of their reaction to injustice (negative effect on collective response, positive effect on avoidant and /or self-centred responses). We conclude that the influence of ingroup identity is stronger than that of other foci of identification and that it has important implications for attitudinal outcomes.