View metadata,citationandsimilarpapersatcore.ac.uk UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN Institut des sciences du travail INSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVENESS OF TRADE UNIONS AND EMPLOYERS’ ORGANISATIONS IN THE TEMPORARY AGENCY WORK SECTOR Project No VC/2003/0451 provided by Diposit DigitaldeDocumentslaUAB Research project conducted on behalf of the of the Employment and Social Affairs Directorate-General of the European Commission brought toyouby CORE Institut des sciences du travail, UCL: Author: Alexandre Chaidron, research assistant Research Team: Prof. Bernard Fusulier Prof. Evelyne Léonard Marinette Mormont, research assistant Prof. Pierre Reman Prof. Armand Spineux Isabelle Vandenbussche, research assistant Administrative coordination: Marie-Anne Saussu National experts: Austria: Franz Traxler, Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien Belgium: Jean Vandewattyne, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Denmark: Carsten Jorgensen, Forskningscenter for Arbejdsmarkeds- og Organisationsstudier, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen Finland: Pekka Ylostalo, Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki France: Solveig Grimault, Brigitte Croff Conseil et Formation Germany: Dieter Sadowski and Catherine Leillich, IAAEG, Universität Trier Greece: Aliki Mouriki, National Center for Social Research, Athens Ireland: Pauline Conroy, Ralaheen Ltd Italy: Franca Alacevich and Andrea Bellini, Dipartemento di scienza della politica e sociologia politica, Università degli studi di Firenze Luxembourg: Franz Clement, Centre d’Études de Populations, de Pauvreté et de Politiques Socio-Economiques (CEPS – INSTEAD) 2 The Netherlands: Chris Moll, Marc van der Meer, Hester Houwing and Jelle Visser, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies, University of Amsterdam Portugal: Marinus Pires de Lima, Instituto de Ciências Sociais – Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Universidade de Lisboa Spain: Ramon De Alos-Moner Vila, Grup d’Estudis Sociologic sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Sweden: Dominique Anxo, Center for European Labour Market Studies (CELMS), Department of Economics, Göteborg University United Kingdom: David Marsden, London School of Economics 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS..........................................................................................................................................................................................................4 ABBREVIATIONS.................................................................................................................................................................................................................13 INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................................................................................................................17 Context of the study................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Research approach and comments on methodology............................................................................................................................................................................... 18 The national summary reports ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19 THE TEMPORARY AGENCY WORK SECTOR IN THE EU15 ...........................................................................................................................................20 Definition and delimitation of the sector.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 20 Socio-economic features of the sector....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23 Social dialogue and social legislation........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 25 Social dialogue at European level............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 28 European employers’ and employees’ organisations and their affiliates.............................................................................................................................................. 29 The (Euro-)International Confederation of Temporary Work Businesses (Euro-CIETT) ....................................................................................................................... 29 Union Network International Europa (UNI-Europa) ............................................................................................................................................................................... 38 4 AUSTRIA ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................52 1. Description of the sector........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 52 Legal framework and delimitation of the sector ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 52 Socio-economic features of the sector ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 52 2. Social dialogue in the sector.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 53 3. Organisations active in the sector......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 54 Employers’ organisations......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 54 Workers’ organisations............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 55 AUSTRIA ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................57 Elements relating to the organisations..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 57 BELGIUM..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................59 1. Description of the sector........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 59 Legal framework and delimitation of the sector ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 59 Socio-economic features of the sector ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 60 2. Social dialogue in the sector.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 60 3. Organisations active in the sector......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 61 Employers’ organisations......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 61 Workers’ organisations...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................