The text aims to improve practices in the temporary employment sector and especially as regards employee recruitment conditions and legal protection for user companies that turn to interim employment agencies for employment services. A first draft was presented in July 2016 for consultation. Overall the social partners and sector representatives welcomed the government’s approach and the draft law being presented to parliament differs little from the first draft that the department had prepared earlier.
The main departure of the reform lies in prohibiting the assignment of ‘a type of work’ to an interim employee that was, in the three previous months, carried out by a formerly permanent employee who was made redundant during that period for reasons unrelated to the employee.