Temporary Agency Work in the European Union — Economic Rationale and Equal Treatment

Donald Storrie

Chapter 7 in Flexibility and Stability in Working Life, 2007, pp 103-122 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Of the various forms of atypical employment, temporary agency work is of most current interest.1 It has been by far the most rapidly growing contractual form in the last decade and research on agency work is relatively limited. It is also conceptually a very interesting contractual form, being a hybrid of an employment and a commercial contract. It was extensively deregulated during the 1990s and we still await the fate of a proposed EU Directive on agency work.2 Furthermore, if appropriately regulated agency work may provide some reconciliation of perhaps the major conflict between employer and worker interests in recent years, namely the apparently irreconcilable demand for flexibility for the employers and job security for employees.

Keywords: Equal Treatment; Employment Contract; Economic Rationale; Employment Protection; Agency Work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230235380_7

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