EU Directive Will Cause Big Drop in Agency Work, warns CBI

The CBI has warned that Britain's agency temps could lose up to 160,000 employment opportunities a year under EU plans to further ratchet up employment rights.

A CBI survey, published last week, indicates that a draft EU directive on temporary agency work would cause 57 per cent of firms to offer fewer temp assignments. The employers' body uses the findings to urge the trade union movement not to campaign for harmonisation of EU employment law.

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