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JOB DOC

Temp worker should ask agency about raise

By Elaine Varelas

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 26, 2012

A reader asks the Job Doc: ‘I have been working for a temporary agency for almost three years and have had a number of different assignments. Is it proper business etiquette to ask a temp agency for a raise? Are they really my employer, or is it the company where I am working?’

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