Agency work

Agency Employment This thesis is focused on Agency Employment in the Czech Republic. The aim of this paper is to analyze current legislation of this issue and to highlight its potential shortcomings. The thesis is divided into seven chapters. The First chapter focuses on general characteristics of agency employment. The essence of agency work is a tripartite legal relationship arising between the temporary agency, its employee and the user. Within this relationship temporary work agency assigns the employee to perform work for the user. The Second chapter discusses the sources of legislation on temporary agency work and is divided into two subchapters. In the subchapter entitled "International legal sources", the work deals with the ILO Private Employment Agencies Convention No. 181. The following subchapter entitled "The Community legislation on temporary agency work" is gradually focusing on three important directives of the European Communities - directive No. 91/383/EEC supplementing the measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of workers with a fixed-duration employment relationship or a temporary employment relationship; directive No. 96/71/EC on the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services; and directive No. 2008/104/EC on temporary agency..