Although open-ended contracts (CDI) are still the norm in France, a growing proportion of people are employed on short contracts. According to the government statistics agency INSEE, temporary contracts account for 8.5% of employment, which is significantly more than in other countries in Europe. For many, these contracts are synonymous with precariousness because they make it difficult to reconcile work and personal life given the uncertainty surrounding their renewals or working hours. Moreover, it can be hard for those on short contracts to move on because they lack the experience and references required by companies for permanent jobs. Read more https://euworkers.fr/

In addition, some sectors are more reliant on temporary workers than others. For example, the growth of large supermarkets, hypermarkets and malls in france has led to a decline in mom-and-pop shops and has shifted some shopkeepers into a more corporate role, thus increasing their use of short contracts. Similarly, the expansion of large construction companies has replaced small craftspeople with temporary contract workers.

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It is therefore important to understand the determinants and consequences of these dynamics. Our study explores the role of ingroup identification and how it can be modulated by other foci of identity such as organisational identification. We show that voluntary temporary workers identify less with their employer than their counterparts on permanent contracts, which partially mediates the negative effects of their job type on work motivation. However, it also partially explains the positive effect of this type of employment on reactions to injustice: lower ingroup identification has a negative impact on collective responses, but a positive effect on avoidant and/or self-centred reactions.