EU: EU Member States must take measures to preserve the temporary nature of temporary agency work

While the EU Directive on temporary agency work does not require EU Member States to limit the number of successive assignments for the same temporary worker with the same user undertaking, it nevertheless obliges them to take measures to preserve the temporary nature of temporary agency work. The decision by the CJEU on 14 October in a case examining Italian legislation amounts to obliging governments to take measures aimed at avoiding successive missions being assigned to the same temporary worker for the same user company, although the decision avoided imposing any particular measure such as a specific number threshold.