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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access originally published online on April 22, 2009
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2009 2(3):395-411; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsp007
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

This article appears in the following Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society issue: Transforming Work: New Forms of Employment and their Regulation [View the issue table of contents]

Less than adequate: regulating temporary agency work in the EU in the face of an internal market in services

Leah F. Vosko

Political Science York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Canada M3J 1P3, lvosko{at}yorku.ca


  Abstract

This article analyzes the Directive on Temporary Agency Work (2008) in the face of a new internal market in services in the European Union. I argue that the adoption of this Directive is paradoxical: on the one hand, it breaks the lengthy stalemate characterizing workers’ and employers’ efforts to craft a framework agreement. On the other hand, the compromise reached marks a setback for workers’ protection because the Directive qualifies equal treatment and its adoption fuels pressure to include services provided by temporary work agencies within the Services Directive (2006).

Keywords: temporary agency work, precarious employment, European Union, Service Directive, Directive on Temporary Agency Work

Received on November 4, 2008. Accepted on February 25, 2009.

JEL Classifications: K39, L38, P16


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