Specific compensation of a temporary employment agency for damage caused to temporary agency employee

Abstract

The article deals with the growth of agency employment in the Slovak
Republic and provides an overview of the legal regulation of compensation
for damages caused to temporarily assigned employees. The current
legislation is inspired by the standard-setting of the International
Labour Organisation and the European Union. These primarily regulate
working conditions in general and taking into account health, safety and
dignity of temporary agency worker, limitation of maximum working
hours, daily and weekly rest periods and an annual period of paid leave.
However, the paper deals with the special liability for damages contained
in the Labour Code No 311/2001 Coll., which is applied instead of the civil law.
The purpose is to raise awereness of the importance of this topic, particularly,
the main problem is the brief of legislation.