New Legislative Rules of Agency Work in the Slovak Republic

Abstract

The presented study focuses on the current issues of temporary agency work in relation to the new Slovak legislation in force. Its author specifically concentrates on the following key areas: the current situation on temporary agency work in the Slovak Republic; legal characteristics and new legal aspects; time duration of temporary employment by employee’s temporary assignment; maximum length of the temporary assignment of employee, number of temporary assignments and legal consequences of non-compliance with legal requirements; the principle of equal treatment in temporary agency work; temporary employment agency as an exclusive employer; joint and several liability of using employer for payment of comparable wages; establishment of employment; new employer’s termination reason for employee’s redundancy; exception from offer obligation only for temporary employment agencies; staff catering; work recording of the temporarily assigned employee; termination of employment by law; agreement on termination of employment; options for further cultivating the performance of temporary agency work in accordance with the Directive 2008/104/EC; temporary agency work and case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Keywords

• temporary agency work
• seconding employer
• using employer
• agency employee
• agency work and principle of equal treatment
• exceptions to the principle of equal treatment
• joint liability of using employer and seconding employer
• directive 2008/104/ec on temporary agency work
• abuse of temporary agency work
• the european court of justice case law on temporary agency work
• the european union
• the slovak republic