EU: social partners for the temporary agency work sector jointly contributed to the debate on flexicurity

The temporary work's employer organization, Eurociett, and the European union federation Uni-Europa adopted a joint declaration on flexicurity. It constitutes the joint contribution of the sector's social partners to tasks currently led within the European Commission to elaborate joint flexicurity principle. (Ref. 070208)
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In their declaration, social partners from the temporary work sector refuse to consider this type of employment as participating in the detriment of working conditions and underlines the positive role that agency work plays in the European labour market, notably by smoothing transitions. Both organizations reaffirmed the need to find a fair balance between the protection of agency workers and encouraging the positive role agency work may play in the labor market. In particular, according to t

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