Equal treatment of temporary workers

The purpose of Directive 2008/104/EC is to ensure the protection of temporary workers and to improve the quality of temporary work by guaranteeing temporary workers compliance with the principle of equal treatment by entrepreneurs. The factual basis of the dispute in case C-311/21 CM against TimePartner Personalmanagement GmbH was an action brought to the labour court by a temporary worker. The essence of the dispute was to determine: 1) how to define the concept of general protection of temporary workers contained in Article 5(3) of Directive 2008/104/EC and; 2) what is the function of the above term?

Keywords: Temporary work; equal treatment; collective agreements; basic working conditions

References

Opinia Rzecznika Generalnego Antony'ego Collinsa przedstawiona 14 lipca 2022 r. w sprawie C-311/21, ECLI:EU:C:2022:581.