EU: the European Parliament permanently adopts the draft temp work directive

Today, October 22, the European Parliament, adopted the draft directive on temporary work which came out of the Council of Ministers. Temporary workers will get the same rights as the permanent employees of the company which employs them from the first day at work. (Ref. 080813)
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The report of the socialist MEP, Harlem Desir, was adopted on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 22 without a hitch. This vote closes a procedure which has been in limbo since 2002. During the last development, European employment Ministers sealed the fate of the revision of the working time directive with the draft temporary work directive and reaching an agreement after the unblocking of the case in Great Britain (see our dispatch No. 080412). The euro-assembly chose to treat the two cases separatel

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