relief staff
Temporary replacement employees
Relief staff are workers who temporarily fill in for regular employees during absences, vacations, or busy periods.
The term appears most often in healthcare, social services, and other fields requiring continuous coverage: The hospital relies on relief staff to cover night shifts.
Also called relief workers or simply reliefs.
- substituteReplacement for another
- temporaryLimited in duration
- temp agencyBroker for provisional workers
- coverProtect by overlaying
- backupStored duplicate for recovery
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