About IWH
The Institute for Work & Health is an independent, not-for-profit organization. Our mission is to conduct and share research that protects and improves the health of working people and is valued by policy-makers, workers and workplaces, clinicians, and health & safety professionals.
The Institute for Work & Health is doing a study about temporary work agencies. We want to understand what it is like to be a temporary worker directly from people doing this work. We want to learn how temporary work agencies handle workplace health and safety issues and hear about everyday situations at work.
We are holding focus groups with temporary workers in Ontario to learn about these kinds of experiences first-hand.
The focus group will take 2 hours and we need 6-8 workers to participate in each group. The groups will be in February or March 2010 and the exact date, time and place will be based on what is best for most participants.
Participants get $50 as thanks and to cover any costs getting to the focus group. We will also provide a light meal.
Participation is confidential (only our research team and other worker participants will know who you are), and it is anonymous (information that might identify you, i.e. name, workplace, hometown, etc, will be removed). If you join our focus group, your private information will be replaced with information that will NOT identify you, so people who know you – including your employer and other people at work – will not find out that you participated in this study.
Please contact Dara Roth Edney, the Project Coordinator, to participate or find out more about the study. Dara can be reached by e-mail or telephone at: drothedney@iwh.on.ca or 416-927-2027, ext 2105. (If the call is long distance, we will pay you back for the cost.)
You can also contact the study’s Principal Investigator, Ellen MacEachen. Her telephone number is: 416-927-2027, ext. 2136 and her e-mail is: emaceachen@iwh.on.ca.
We also have a flyer with this information to download, print out and post: Temporary Work Agency Study Flyer (PDF, 440 KB)
