Temporary Employment Agencies in the Nordic Countries

Abstract

In the past, the Nordic provisions in force concerning promotion of employment entrusted the monopoly of employment procurement to public employment agencies. The origins of this phenomenon are international. Article 1 of the ILO Employment Service Convention No. 88/1948 sets the standard stipulating that the ratifying member “shall maintain or ensure the maintenance of a free public employment service”. All the four Nordic countries have ratified this Convention.2 When discussing the issue of temporary employment agencies, it must be borne in mind that public employment agencies, whose main task it is to channel job opportunities to job seekers, are bypassed in those segments of the labour market where temporary employment agencies or other persons act as intermediaries. Such activities frustrate the objectives of the state monopoly. The ILO Convention No. 96/1949 on Fee-Charging Employment Agencies (revising Convention No. 34/1933) either bans the activities of fee-charging employment agencies, which are conducted with a view to profit, or provides for

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