Published on 9 Jun 2008
On Monday (June 9th) the EU Employment Council is meeting in Luxembourg to discuss an outcome to the Agency Workers Directive (AWD) which has remained blocked for the last six years.
One of the aims of the Directive is to ensure equal treatment in terms of pay and working conditions between temporary workers and permanent employees recruited to do the same job.
The REC has always made it clear in its discussions with Government and EU officials that we are not against the overall aims of the Directive and that it is in interests of the industry to ensure that temping is a positive and rewarding experience.
However, we have consistently argued that any EU Directive must be implemented in a way that recognises the specific nature of the UK's temping, contract and interim market. For more on this story please click here.
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