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

In: Flexibility and Stability in Working Life

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  • Donald Storrie

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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.

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  • Donald Storrie, 2007. "Temporary Agency Work in the European Union — Economic Rationale and Equal Treatment," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Bengt Furåker & Kristina Håkansson & Jan Ch. Karlsson (ed.), Flexibility and Stability in Working Life, chapter 7, pages 103-122, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23538-0_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230235380_7
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