Union wins temporary agency work case

Finland

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 knowledge and specialised equipment or similar reasons.
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