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Temporary Employment In The Republic Of Croatia - Lessons For Future Regulation In The Republic Of Serbia

Author(s): Mario Reljanović
Subject(s): International Law, Labor relations, EU-Legislation
Published by: Institut za uporedno pravo
Keywords: temporary employment (leasing of workers); agencies for temporary employment; employees; flexible employment; labor law;

Summary/Abstract: For a long period of time, temporary employment has been a part of legal systems and employers’ practices in Europe. It is a particular three-party employment relation – employee signs employment contract with agency for temporary employment, but performs work at agency’s client. This sort of employee referral is a result of a specific legal regime which has to be regulated in details, in order to protect the rights of these employees. Although temporary employment has been present in Serbia over a decade under a colloquial term „leasing of workers“, this kind of employment is completely deregulated. Furthermore, legal institute of temporary employment is often presented wrongfully and tendentiously by different actors and stakeholders. All this was a motive for the analysis of temporary employment, based on legal solutions of the Republic of Croatia. Croatia is good example of regulation of temporary employment, since it has been regulated in great details, enabling protection of employees’ rights as well as compliance with relevant international and EU documents. At the same time, analysis deals with several problems and controversies immanent to this legal institute, giving full image on its values and flaws, with the inevitable conclusion that state of deregulation in Serbia has to be ended as soon as possible.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 191-209
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Serbian