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"Mr President, my sincere thanks go to Mrs van den Burg for the work she has done. For many years now Europe has clearly not managed to fulfil its aim to become the world’s most competitive economic area. Unfortunately, this proposal for a directive on temporary agency work will take us even further away from our objective. The Lisbon targets bind us to a more flexible labour market than before. Increased bureaucracy and interference in contracts between companies will constrain the labour market. Do we not want supply to meet demand?
Since the Treaty of Rome the EU has aspired to the creation of a dynamic Internal Market. The Member States take care of the social consequences of that by taking account of the interests of employees in the way they themselves consider best. This lies at the heart of the principle of subsidiarity. It is not the EU’s job to regulate sectors that do not require intervention at EU level. For historical reasons there are big differences between the labour market systems in Member States. One rigid solution in this sector will not suit everyone. If things have not been dealt with properly in Ireland, it does not mean that this directive should be employed to complicate things in Finland, where they have.
This directive’s implementation will clearly worsen the general situation regarding temporary agency work in Finland. It would appear that, once again, no thorough cost-benefit analyses have been carried out. The results will ultimately be reflected in growing unemployment and weakening competitiveness. The committee’s decision to allow employment agencies to receive reasonable costs, however, is an improvement on the poor proposal put forward by the Commission. Refusing to pay such costs would lead to the work of the agencies discontinuing.
Temporary employment agencies offer a flexible solution in the way they fill vacancies promptly and speedily in sectors suffering from a shortage of manpower. Under no circumstances should we make conditions worse for them."@en1
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