Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the application of Directive 2008/104/EC on temporary agency work

Directive 2008/104/EC on temporary agency work (hereafter ‘the Directive’) was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council under Article 137(2) of the EC Treaty (now Article 153(2) TFEU).

Its purpose is to ensure the protection of temporary agency workers and to improve the quality of temporary agency work by ensuring that the principle of equal treatment is applied to temporary agency workers, and by recognising temporary-work agencies as employers, while taking into account the need to establish a suitable framework for the use of temporary agency work with a view to contributing effectively to job creation and to the development of flexible forms of working.

The aim of this report is twofold. First, it provides an overview of how Member States have implemented the Directive and highlights key problems. However, it cannot provide an exhaustive account of all national implementation measures. Second, it examines whether experience gained in applying the Directive, two years after the end of its transposition period, may justify any amendments to the text currently in force.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2014)176: Follow the progress of this report through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2014:176:FIN

ESO: Background information: Working conditions: Commission reviews application of EU rules on temporary agency work http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-working-conditions-commission-reviews-application-of-eu-rules-on-temporary-agency-work/

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