Purpose: This thesis aims at exploring some of the possibilities,opportunities and challenges within the temporary agency work sector from boththe regular and the temporary agency workers points of view within the Swedish labourmarket. Background: Temporary agency work sector in the past two decadeshas been a fast growing sector that has got many young people into the labourmarket. With the current changes in the global economy, many organizations areturning more to these organizations to enable them adapt to changes in theirenvironment. In Sweden for instance, the growth and development of this sectorhas primarily been due to the constantly increasing rates of unemployment,massive job losses and also as a result of de-regulation of labour regulations. Methodology: A quantative survey was carried out using structuredquestionnaires in three companies that largely engage in hiring of temporaryworkers.  A total of 137 regular andtemporary agency workers, took part in the survey which was conducted through aweb-survey to e-mail addresses provided by client companies and temporary work agenciesand for those who had no access to e-mail received the questionnaires duringstaff meetings. Findings: Majorityof those engaged in this sector are young people of ages between 20 and 30years old, with high school education level and not married but maybe livingwith girlfriend or boyfriend. It resulted that many see these sectors asoffering an entry point into the labour market through which they feelrecognized and hopefully can advance their careers. Although all that glittersis not gold, those who work within this sector are also faced with variouschallenges that make it more of a stepping stone work place such as lack ofcontrol, complex interpersonal, insecurity and being treated as commodities andthe inability to decide when, where and how to work, with very little or nocontrol of when they can take off. Conclusion: On testing thehypothesis in relation to the possibilities, opportunities and challenges ofworking in the sector, it was not very obvious within the sector that ingeneral the regular staff had more favourable conditions than the temporary,but it did vary from one situation to the other and more often than not theyhad similar conditions. For instance, individualized flexibility was equallynot easy to achieve by the employees within the two groups. Keywords; Temporary Agency Work, Temporary Agency workers, Client Company, Regular/ordinarystaff, Motivation

This essay is focusing on the connection between insecure employment within temporary agency work and the psychological health in young adults and immigrants. Groups who are overrepresented as employees at the agencies. The employers responsibility for a safe work environment have also been analysed regarding the psychological health for the employees within temporary work agencies. Two questions have been answered to be able to investigate this; how the employers responsibility for a good organizational and psychological work environment meets the special needs of employees within temporary work agencies and how the psychological health in young adults and immigrants is affected by insecure employment. In this essay I used the jurisprudence method with focus on the doctrinal method since the written material is the main source of material which I connected to the sources of law. I have used both international and national law together with literature, reports, articles and electronic sources to give the essay an extensive ground to stand on. Finally, I reach the conclusion that the employers’ responsibility for a well-functioning organizational and psychological work environment for employees within temporary work agencies are inadequate. The explanation is that the general design of the contracts to which the employers and the customer companies enter into, usually makes the employers absent from the workplace which limit their ability to implement proper work adjustments for the employees.  Neither can the employer control which type of work that is available which makes it hard for the agency to make sure the employee can evolve within the job. The mutual responsibilities between the temporary work agency and the client company risk to put the employee in danger since some responsibilities easily can be neglected by both parties. When it comes to what kind of factors that have a negative effect on the young adults and immigrant’s psychological health because of insecure work I found that the main factors were; high expectations, few social relations to other employees and to not be able to control their own work. The factor of an insecure future was also found to have a negative effect.

The topic of this thesis is regulation of temporary agency work in the Czech Republic and the Republic of Poland. The stress is put mainly on the comparison of individual areas of regulation in both countries and describing the substantial differences. The goal of the paper is to contribute to better understanding of this special issue of the labour law and to introduce foreign incentives to the discussion about the pros and cons of the practice related to using temporary agency work in the Czech Republic. Finally this paper may also serve as a source of reflections de lege ferenda. In the first part this thesis focuses on the description of the basic characteristic of temporary agency work. The different points of view of this issue are introduced gradually, especially in the context of the other labour market services, next a brief description of the sources of international law in this area follows, and finally short historic excursus into the development of the regulation in Poland and the Czech Republic is presented. The second part is devoted to the public law regulation of temporary agency work, especially to acquiring the license for running a work agency and the obligations arising from the public law. Regulations in both states are divided into the separate chapters. The last part involves...

The aim of this diploma thesis is to offer a complete overview of the institute of temporary agency work. Temporary agency work is an institute that brings to the user undertakings the possibility to quickly adapt to the increase or decrease in demand for their products by changing the number of employees. The first part of the diploma thesis presents a brief excursion into the history of temporary agency work with focus on the most important historic moments and includes the explanation of its impacts. This chapter emphasises Czech history of temporary agency work, but it takes a quick glance at the history of temporary agency work in other states. The institute of temporary agency work was introduced to the Czech legal system as late as 2004. This point is very important to understand the uneasy position of agency employment on our labour market. The main part of this diploma thesis concerns current legal status of temporary agency work. It analyses obligations of the Czech Republic arising from the C181 and directive 2008/104/ES. The thesis continues to the Czech legal system and it analyses the positions of a private employment agency, user undertaking and an agency employee. It includes the establishment of a private employment agency, obligations during its existence and its cessation. There...

As globalization is under its way, enterprises should take the turbulent business environment into account as the normal conditions. Furthermore, the advancement of information technology (IT) facilitates the information flow between departments inside and outside organization, and which brings us more convenient & flexible communication. The force of globalization and the IT impact is not only influence the employment systems, but also restructure the relationship among them. Following the dramatic change is that enterprises try their best to look for flexibility to cope with business needs. Unlike the traditional employment system, the dispatched employment is a system which involves the interaction among the three parties (dispatched worker, dispatch agency and working enterprise). The purpose of this research is to investigate the operation of this atypical employment from the perspective of working enterprise in the consumer banking. The method employed in this research is in-depth interview with eight cases. The purpose of interviewing can be classified into three aspects: 1. Understanding the operations of working enterprise associated with dispatched affairs, including reasons for employing dispatched workers, positions, and standards for selecting dispatch agency. 2. From the enterprises point of view, how the dispatch agencies dispatch their workers, including the services offered from dispatch agencies, recruiting, and the management of employment relationship, etc. 3. What are the expectations from the working enterprise, and how should the government and dispatch agency work hand in hand to make the whole process smoothly.

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the issue of preferential rights in relation to the increased practice of hiring temporary staff. The object is illuminated from a diversity perspective by seeing what a circumvention of the preferential rights may have consequences for vulnerable groups on the Swedish labor market.   The question of preferential rights to reinstatement is controlled in  The Employment Protection Act. The preferential right is for the protection of workers made redundant due to redundancy. The use of agency workers has increased significantly in the Swedish labor market since the industry's legalization in 1993. This has created some problems in terms of preferential rights.   To a circumvention of the law, shall exist requires that the measures constitute circumvention is justified, measures should have been sought to circumvent the law and been unfair in view of the particular case. Hiring of staff is not considered as a new employment, which is the requirement to invoke preferential rights, thus causing it to staff hiring is legitimate action under the preferential time.   To reduce the abuse of the right of priority, I believe that the application of law should be changed so that it takes into account the triangular available on today's labor market.

Temporary agency work Abstract The theme of this thesis is temporary agency work. Temporary agency work has been a part of the global conversation on flexible employment for most of the 20th century. Now, thanks to the labor market changes and the changes in the attitude toward "atypical work", it's becoming more relevant than ever. The main objective of the legislative efforts related to temporary agency work on global, European and national level is to find the right balance between the necessary flexibility and protection for temporary agency workers. Temporary agency work is a relatively new institute to the Czech legal system and as a result of that, the national legislation is still developing. This thesis is divided into four chapters that are, except for chapter two, focusing on the current legislation of temporary agency work in the Czech Republic. The first chapter provides a definition of temporary agency work and classifies it as "atypical work". It also points out its place in the Czech legal framework as a form of employment intermediation. The second chapter describes the evolution of the legislation on temporary agency work on an international and European level. Special attention is paid to conventions adopted by International Labour Organization and in particular to the Convention C181 -...

Temporary agency employment - legal theory and application practice The title of this diploma thesis is "Temporary agency employment - Legal theory and application practice ", where temporary agency employment being is characterized as flexible form or provision of labor force. The main aim of this work is to summarize the regulations of temporary agency employment and to point out problematic its most critical flaws. The thesis additionally highlights the most important differences compared to regulations in force in neighboring countries. The first chapter defines the central attributes of temporary agency employment, including flexibility and secondment. It further formalizes how temporary agency employment differs from similar concept of outsourcing. The main law text sources are subsequently presented and set to the historical law context of the Czech Republic. The third chapter defines the main players partaking in temporary agency employment, with focus on how permissions are obtained, the deposit obligation and the bankruptcy insurance. The fourth chapter deals with interplay of labor and commercial law, including the definition of individual terms of the contract. Next, the liabilities of all parties are explained, with particular focus on regulation of salary and employment terms,...

Today, the temporary agency work is a well-established industry in the Swedish labour market. The industry has grown every year since the start 1992 and seemingly, the legislation has not kept up with its’ pace. The reason behind the growth of temporary agency work is their clients impulsion for flexibility as well as making their organisation more efficient. Employers organizations argue that the ability to be flexible is a tool to increase economic growth in the society while the unions argue that the temporary agency workers are paying the price with insecure employment-contracts. The line between cancelation of employment due to redundancy and dismissal due to personal reasons is unclear, with disadvantages to the employment protection, through this triangular relationship between the temporary agency work, user company and the employee. The question is if the goal justifies the means. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the temporary agency work-industry is affecting the temporary agency workers employment protection, in addition, the thesis will investigate which legal impacts the legislation is creating in a diversity perspective. In order to answer the research questions properly, a traditional legal dogmatic method has been used as well as legal sociological perspective.

Syfte: Syftet med studien var att skapa förståelse för hur konsultchefers ledarskap blir präglat a trepartsrelationen som uppstår när det är två parter som är ansvariga för en konsult. Vi ville skapa oss en inblick i hur konsultcheferna leder sina konsulter och hur de arbetar för att motivera dem. Vidare ville vi skaffa oss en uppfattning över hur konsulterna upplever situationen. Metodik: Studien har genomförts i form av en fallstudie på två bemanningsföretag med utgångspunkt i en induktiv forskningsansats. Data har samlats in genom en kvalitativ metod där sju semistrukturerade intervjuer med personer på fallföretagen har genomförts. Slutsats och slutdiskussion: Genom studien har det framkommit att trepartsrelationen är ett komplext fenomen där chefen inte ses som den traditionella ledaren utan snarare som en administratör. Genom trepartsrelationen har det framkommit att problem kan uppstå då konsultchefernas roll blir likt medlare istället för chef. Konsulterna reflekterar inte över trepartsrelationen utan anser att gränserna är tydliga, däremot kan de inte alltid urskilja vilket företag de tillhör. Genom studien har det även kommit fram att konsultchefer och konsulter har olika bild över vad motivation är, vilket vi menar tyder på att de har olika förhållningsätt till fenomenet. Studien har även visat att motivation till arbetet inte är något som konsultcheferna lägger någon större vikt vid. Konsulterna beskriver att de strävar efter en heltidsanställning och menar på att de inte nödvändigtvis vill vara anställda som konsulter. Konsultcheferna menar på att en konsult som slutar är något positivt för företaget eftersom det resulterar i gott rykte för verksamheten. / Purpose: The purpose of this study was to create an understanding of how the temporary employee manager is characterized by the triangular relationship that occurs when there are two parties responsible for an employee. We also wanted to create a picture of how temporary employee manager manage to lead their temporary employees and how they work to motivate them. Further, we wanted to get an idea of how the temporary employees experience the situation. Methodology: The study was conducted in the form of a case study on two staffing companies on the basis of an inductive research approach. Data were collected through a qualitative method where seven semi-structured interviews with individuals on the companies that we studied. Conclusion and final discussion: The study has revealed that triangular relationship is a complex phenomenon in where the leader is seen more as an administrator more than a traditional manager. Through the study we have concluded that the triangular relationship have made that managers are seen as a mediator, this is something that temporary employees did not reflect over. But in other hand they have problem to know which company they belong to. The study has proved that the managers and employees have different ways to look at motivation. We can see that they have different approaches to the phenomenon. The study has also shown that motivation to work is not something that a temporary employee manager put any greater emphasis on. The temporary employees describe that they are looking for a full time job, and that they don’t necessary want to be a consultant. The managers see that an employee that quit is something good for the company, because it leads to a good reputation.