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Back in the olden days when I worked in the aerospace/defense biz, it was
standard procedure for a certain company to *always* bring in new people as
contractors (through an agency) and then hire them as employees later, if
the company liked your work. The standard "trial" period was about 6 months.
Dennis Hanrahan
dennis -dot- hanrahan -at- unisys -dot- com
-----Original Message-----
From: Joaquim Baptista [mailto:px -at- EASYPHONE -dot- PT]
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 1999 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Staffing (was interviewing, shoe-tying, tests, etc.)
At 06:10 99/01/14 -0800, Chris Hamilton wrote:
>One way to get to know people want to hire is to do a contract-to-hire
>position, yet I haven't seen that mentioned.
It is standard in Portugal to have an experimental period in a permanent
position. You sign a single contract. During the experimental period, the
employee has all the bennefits of a permanent employee. The contract can
be breaked at any time by the employer or the employee. At the end of the
experimental period, the contract automatically becomes a permanent
contract. We usually employ people with a six-month experimental period.
--
Joaquim Baptista, alias pxQuim Precisa de uma contabilista?
- px -at- easyphone -dot- pt (01) 8684294
