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Mr President, I should like to thank and make a point of congratulating Mrs van den Burg on her excellent report and on her positive input to the Commission proposal on working conditions for temporary agency workers. We all know that this was not an easy procedure; there were serious political and technical difficulties and I really must thank her, because I think that, with the work that has been done, Parliament will help push through this important directive.
Since the beginning of the 1980s, temporary agency work has become an important cog in the wheel of the European job market as companies strive for more and more flexible employment management. Over recent years, this type of work has increased in leaps and bounds.
Truly massive employment agencies have developed in numerous countries, sometimes with hundreds or thousands of workers, and we see this sort of intervention on the job market as a positive development; it often creates jobs and it is always an extremely important tool for people looking for their first job.
The growth in temporary agency work is firmly on the agenda of social and economic reform which was strengthened at the Barcelona Summit. In many countries, however, temporary employment is looked down on, mainly when flexibility and quality of work are not pulling in the same direction. This is the shortcoming on certain job markets which this directive is designed to rectify or prevent in future. The aim is to create a broad, flexible framework based on fundamental workers' rights; these rights must be protected in all cases so that we can protect the quality of work.
The Commission tabled this proposal when talks between the social partners broke down in May 2001. I think it is extremely important that the Council and Parliament manage to approve this directive, which sends out a very important political message that the European institutions are prepared to shoulder their responsibilities and take action even where the social partners are unable to agree."@en1
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