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"Mr President, this report will introduce some improvements in working conditions for temporary workers in Europe. Its main aim however is to legitimise the flexibility and fluidity of the labour market. This is in the interest of employers and, in addition, of capitalists who invest in temporary work agencies. This is why the report presents temporary employment as a normal form of working, even though it accentuates exploitation, flexibility and insecurity. Even in a period of high unemployment, temporary employment is never a real choice for workers.
A number of amendments even ratify the employers’ point of view on the flexibility offered by this form of insecure employment. Clearly, temporary employment makes it possible to dismiss workers overnight, without even being obliged to implement a social plan or pay compensation. In many countries, temporary employment is becoming a normal way of running a business. There are firms where 30, or even 40% of employees are in temporary, insecure jobs on a permanent basis. This has been recognised by the relevant British employers organisation. It reports that there are 1 300 000 temporary workers in Great Britain, and that 10% of these have been in their temporary post for a year or more.
Temporary workers everywhere should at least benefit, from the first day of their contract, from the same working conditions, pay and holiday entitlements as the staff employed by the company using the temporary workers. However, certain amendments mean that temporary workers would not benefit from these same conditions until they had worked in the company for six weeks, six months or even 12 months. This is intolerable! We shall oppose all European directives and regulations endorsing the unacceptable policy of the employers aimed at worsening employment conditions as a whole and making jobs more insecure."@en1
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