News

During 2009, Eurociett and UNI-Europa will be working jointly on the implementation of a project entitled “Setting up a European Observatory on cross border activities within temporary agency work”, for which a grant was received from the European Commission. The objectives of the Observatory will be to develop a better understanding (facts and figures, regulatory framework) of cross border assignments and contracts within the temporary agency work industry in the EU, and to prepare information and background documents to support discussions with the European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee.



Actions to be undertaken as part of the project include:

A. An independent research to analyse cross border movement of temporary agency workers and the impact and implementation of the EU Directive on Posting of Workers;

B. The setting up of a European Observatory on cross border activities within temporary agency work;

C. The organisation of a 1 day pan-European conference to disseminate the results of the research.



As part of this project, Eurociett and UNI-Europa will devote a special attention to the implementation of the Posting of Workers Directive (96/71/EC), and if possible, will adopt a joint contribution vis-à-vis the European institutions.



The project will also cover a research to inventory the range of labour contracts that temporary work agencies are entitled to provide to agency workers within the framework of the triangular relationship.



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Meetings

The proceedings of the 1st Steering Commitee Meeting on 3rd March 2009 can he found here:

http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/UNIMeeting.nsf/0/F627615E9A6DBAE9C12575A7002EA7FC



The proceedings of the 2nd Steering Committee Meeting on 18th May 2009 can be found here: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/UNIMeeting.nsf/0/7A72470AC9532CE8C12575A7002E59D8



The proceedings of the 3rd Steering Committee Meeting (TBC) can be found here:

Coming soon!



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Desk Research and Questionnaire

The research will be executed by the Working Lives Research Institute (London Metropolitan University) in co-operation with Labour Asociados. Along with Eurociett and UNI-Europa, they have developed a questionnaire to gather the data required under action A above.



We hereby send you this questionnaire, which is available in English, French, German and Spanish and kindly ask you to provide us with the answers for your country/company.



To visualise the questionnaire, please follow this link: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/UNICirculars.nsf/0/E47EFA9F2CECF4AFC12575A0003B26F5



Ideally, we would like to get the questionnaire being filled in jointly by the Eurociett and UNI-Europa member in each country. So please get in touch with your counterpart at national level to discuss how best to proceed.



The deadline for sending in your reply is 8th May 2009. Please send back the filled in questionnaire by e-mail to: marjolein.oorsprong@uniglobalunion.org or by fax to: +32 2 235 08 70



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For further information, please contact:



Fabrice Warneck

Policy Officer



UNI europa

rue de l'Hôpital 31

1000 Bruxelles

Belgium

Tel: +32 2 234 56 57

Fax: +32 2 235 08 70

fabrice.warneck@uniglobalunion.org

www.uni-europa.org





Marjolein Oorsprong

Policy Officer



UNI europa

rue de l'Hôpital 31

1000 Bruxelles

Belgium

Tel: +32 2 235 08 66

Fax: +32 2 235 08 70

marjolein.oorsprong@uniglobalunion.org

www.uni-europa.org



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Avec le soutien financier de la Commission Européenne

Mit der finanziellen Unterstützung der Europäischen Kommission

With the financial support of the European Commission