Temporary Agency Workers Directive, November 2011
15.11.2011
The European deadline for national implementation of the Temporary Agency Workers Directive is 5 December 2011. The Agency Workers Directive is a relevant consideration both for employment agencies and for businesses that engage agency workers. The purpose of the Directive is to achieve equality between temporary agency workers and direct employees in relation to basic working and employment conditions. Once implemented in the Republic of Ireland, it will have significant effects on the manner in which agency workers can be relied upon as a source of labour for private enterprise and in the public sector and in particular, the costs associated with same.
