Spain
The three trade union federations - CCOO, UGT and CSIF - representing 90% of workers in the state statistics office have blocked an attempt by the agency to take on 450 temporary agency workers to carry out survey work. The unions argued that not only was this in contravention of last year's agreement covering the general state administration but also ran counter to the government's intention to reduce the level of temporary working in the public sector.
Read more at > FSP-UGT (ES)
The European Court of Justice has issued a ruling in favour of the AKT transport union that brought a case on the Temporary Agency Workers Directive. The ruling allows for collective agreement to regulate the use of temporary agency work. AKT brought an action against Shell Aviation for infringing a collective agreement that stipulates that employers should restrict the use of temporary agency workers to work peaks or other tasks restricted in time or in nature, which cannot be given to workers of their user company due to urgency, the limited duration of the work, required professional
The Fagforbundet municipal union will be joining other unions in a day of action on 18 January against implementation of the Temporary Agency Work Directive in Norway. Trade unions are concerned that the legislation will undermine collective agreements that set pay rates and limitations on the use of temporary agency work and will transfer final authority on these issues to the EU/EFTA court that rules on the implementation of EU legislation in Norway. Read more at > Fagforbundet (NO)
The UK government has finally agreed to a deal on agency workers that should enable progress to be made on the long-delayed temporary agency workers directive. In the agreement with the TUC trade union confederation and CBI employers' organisation the UK government has conceded that after 12 weeks on the same contract, agency workers should be able to claim equal treatment (in terms of pay and some other conditions) with the permanent members of staff they work alongside. Movement on this directive is closely linked to progress on revision of the working time directive and both will be
