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"Mr President, temporary work agencies are a necessary part of the flexible labour market of the future. The recruitment difficulties of companies are solved to an increasing extent by taking on staff from temporary work agencies. Immigrants often gain excellent opportunities to get a foothold in the labour market through these companies. It is therefore important to encourage and facilitate the activities of temporary work agencies.
We have heard here that legislation regulating temporary work agencies varies greatly from Member State to Member State. It is therefore difficult to create even framework legislation which takes into account all the differences. The political starting points for the proposal for a directive are to view work done for temporary work agencies as a variation on temporary employment, and to prevent what has come to be known as social dumping. The problems with framework legislation at European level are clear when one looks at Sweden. Here, the political starting points are not reflected in the actual conditions. In Sweden, permanent employment is the rule. Around 70%of those employed through temporary work agencies are on permanent contracts. Terms and conditions of employment are regulated by collective agreements for both permanent and temporary employees.
The salary of white-collar workers is set individually and separately, which means that no pay comparisons can be made. Blue-collar workers have collective agreements guaranteeing that pay will not fall below the pay in the user undertaking and that the working hours of the user undertaking will apply. This is not regulated in law, however, but through negotiations between the social partners, as should continue to happen in the future. This is why we do not believe that pay should be included in the directive’s definition of terms and conditions of employment. Nor should comparisons of pay and terms and conditions of employment be regulated in the directive.
The temporary work agency sector functions well in Sweden and could be a model for Europe. There you are, Mr Andersson. However, the proposal before us does not facilitate development of this sector in Europe. Europe needs more forms of employment, not fewer."@en1
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