The Regulation of Temporary work in the light of Flexicurity: between soft law and hard law. WP C.S.D.L.E. "Massimo D'Antona" N. 14/2003

[From the Introduction]. Limiting the notion of flexibility to the narrower context of the so-called atypical forms of employment, the aim of this paper is to identify and analyse a number of possible profiles of security that can be achieved on the basis of the indications contained in EU policy and legislation in relation to a certain type of contract: temporary work. The starting point for reflection on the possible mechanisms by which this can be achieved is given in particular by the process of drawing up the discipline regulating the conditions of employment of temporary workers, the subject of a recent Directive proposal presented by the European Commission on March 20th 2002 and subsequently modified in the November of the same year