Law 14/1994, of 1 June, laying down temporary employment agencies are regulated.
Hiring workers in order to transfer them temporarily to other companies to address conjunctural needs has been traditionally prohibited by labor systems and considered illegal labor, assimilating the brokerage activity in the labor market for profit, considering that both figures could violate fundamental rights of workers.
However, since the late sixties, the core countries of the European Union, having ratified, like Spain, 96 ILO Convention, have been regulating the activity of temporary employment on the grounds that its performance, when developed properly controlled manner, far from harming the workers they hired can channel a significant number of jobs whose specialization and immediate response, especially in the services sector can not be offered through the mechanisms traditional.
Moreover, for workers is an important access to work activity and become familiar with the life of the company, besides allowing some professional diversification and cross-training, while in some cases, makes it easier for certain collective mechanism have a working system that allows them to combine work activities with other non-productive jobs or family responsibilities.
Hiring workers in order to transfer them temporarily to other companies to address conjunctural needs has been traditionally prohibited by labor systems and considered illegal labor, assimilating the brokerage activity in the labor market for profit, considering that both figures could violate fundamental rights of workers.
However, since the late sixties, the core countries of the European Union, having ratified, like Spain, 96 ILO Convention, have been regulating the activity of temporary employment on the grounds that its performance, when developed properly controlled manner, far from harming the workers they hired can channel a significant number of jobs whose specialization and immediate response, especially in the services sector can not be offered through the mechanisms traditional.
Moreover, for workers is an important access to work activity and become familiar with the life of the company, besides allowing some professional diversification and cross-training, while in some cases, makes it easier for certain collective mechanism have a working system that allows them to combine work activities with other non-productive jobs or family responsibilities.
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