Depends on how bad it is for, I got hired once with a 6 month temp to perm contract. Between 5.5 and 6.5 months you got called into the boss's office and either given an offer letter or were let go. No extensions no re-signing. Not the best but not horrible. Later it was changed to up to 3 years of contractor at which point you needed to be "let go" for 6 weeks and then maybe be offered another contract. That's some bullshit.

That is why Deloitte, PwC, Tata, ... and the list goes on, exists. They were the gig economy before the likes of uber, door dash...

I worked for a multinational a long time ago and learned 2 important things:

• Some countries have strong labour laws, and a judiciary that bites. The company was sued and had to compensate those contractors similar to employees, including severance packages for people that were dismissed.
• One of the main unions (some unions cover a sector of the industry in a country rather than a single company) brought up terms related to contractors, to ensure they would have similar benefits, and they manage to get a few in during the collective agreement, sadly it only affected people in that region. It was ridiculous, some RH firms were paying people 10% of what they were billing us. It was cheaper to hire them straight, but for silly reasons we were not allowed to.

Seems like a guy named zero decided it might fit in this community and pressed the crosspost button!