Spain: temporary work agencies want to serve as employment agencies by 2012

Representatives from the temporary work sector think that the way has been paved to open the debate on one of their claims: serve as mediators for the recruitment of temporary and permanent jobs. (Ref. 080530)
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According
to the Agett, the association which gathers most temporary employment agencies
(TEAs) in the country, the reversed situation and increased unemployment should
help defeat the government’s reluctance to allow these agencies, until now confined
to temporary employment, to turn into employment agencies. For several years
now, the temporary employment sector has been asking to raise the curtailment
of its skills to become recruitment agents and be able to interfere in sectors
which they c

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