50      Temporary agency work and the Information Society 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 Contents

 Notes on Contributors

 1.        Introductory Remarks:  The evolving Attitude regarding Temporary Agency Work, Roger Blanpain

 General Reports

 2.         Challenges for Temporary Agency Work in the Information Society, Jan Denys

 3.     Public and private employment services: from co-existence to cooperation, Junko Nakayama and Alexander Samorodov

 National Reports

 4.     Belgium

         A.    General Overview, Frank Hendrickx

        B.    Putting Workers at the Disposal of a User, Chris Engels

        C.    Basic Principles, Temporary Work Agencies and the of Social Partners, Willy van Eeckhoutte

 5.        England, Gillian Morris

 6.     France, Sabine Smith-Vidal

 7.        Germany, Manfred Weiss

 8.     Italy, Michele Colucci

 9.     Japan, Tadashi Hanami

 10.   Spain, Miguel C. Rodriguez Pinero Royo

 11.        Sweden, Birgitta Nyström 

 12.   The Netherlands, Dieuwke Visser, Willem Plessen and Antoine Jacobs

 European Reports

 13.   EU Legislation on Temporary Work,  Roger Blanpain

 14.        Temporary Work and Freedom of Services in the European Union, Ronnie Graham

 15.   Panel discussion: European Developments

         A.    Report on negotiations of the European social partners towards an EU-wide collective agreement on temporary work, Wilfried Beirnaert

        B.    Agency work in the European Union, Eva Casado Alarcon

 16.        Proposal for a Directive on Working Conditions for Temporary Workers (2002)

 17.        Amended Proposal on Working Conditions for Temporary Workers (2002)

 18.   Report on the Proposal for A European Parliament and Council directive on Working Conditions for Temporary Workers (2002)

 CONCLUDING REMARKS,  Roger Blanpain

Notes on contributors

• Wilfried Beirnaert, Unice

• Roger Blanpain, Universities of Leuven and Tilburg, President of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security

• Eva Casado Alarcon, CIETT

• Michele Colucci, University of Salerno, Italy

• Jan Denys, Labour Market Expert, Randstad, Belgium

• Chris Engels, University of Leuven, Belgium

• Ronnie Graham, European Court of Justice

• Tadashi Hanami, President, Japan Institute for Labour

• Frank Hendrickx, Universities of Leuven and Tilburg

• Antoine Jacobs, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands

• Gillian Morris, Brunel University, UK

• Junko Nakayama, researcher, Employment Sector, ILO

• Birgitta Nyström, University of Lund, Sweden

• Miguel Rodriguez-Pinero Royo, University of Huelva, Spain

• Alexander Samorodov, senior labour economist, Employment Sector, ILO

• Sabine Smith-Vidal, Allen&Overy, France

• Ieke van den Burg, Member of the European Parliament

• Willy van Eeckhoutte, University of Gent, Belgium

• Dieuwke Visser, Randstand Group, The Netherlands

• Manfred Weiss, University of Frankfurt, Germany, President of the International Industrial Relations Association