I agree completely... this is even worse in countries where it's quite uncommon for companies to hire independent contractors.

Here in Spain there are a lot of companies (known among engineers as "cárnicas", meat factories) that recruit people as own employees when they see an opening for contract work in a company, ship them directly to the contracting company for short terms proyects, and dumping them uncereimoniously when the contract ends.

They pocket a generous hourly rate, paying the contractor a standard rate monthly salary.

A large part of job offers publicly available here are of this kind...