Abstract
This article presents findings from qualitative research on the Greek banking sector, focusing on pseudo-contracted workers employed through Business Service Providers (contractors) and performing their work on bank premises. Drawing on interviews with workers and trade union representatives, the analysis examines employment relations, job precariousness, and forms of collective organization among this under-represented workforce. Although the international literature on labor leasing and outsourcing has expanded substantially, pseudo-contracting as a concealed form of labor leasing remains largely unexplored at both theoretical and empirical levels. The findings demonstrate that banks and contracting firms enter into fictitious project-based agreements, while in practice workers perform fixed and ongoing operational tasks without enjoying the rights and protections afforded to permanent employees. The study contributes to debates on labor market segmentation, precarious employment, the deregulation of industrial relations, and the erosion of collective representation, underscoring the need for clearer regulatory frameworks governing in-house outsourcing arrangements that conceal the use of leased workers.