of staff; providing personnel for season work, during vacations, as staff replacement,
etc.; payroll and administrative services; staff audit; administrative services for foreign
workers (such as foreign company registration in Ukraine, getting job permit, handling
visa issues and much more).
An international staffing agency Europa Recruitment focusing on staff leasing.
Recruitment is performed through the staffing agency branches in the Czech Republic
and through subsidiary companies – staffing agencies in different countries of Central
and Eastern Europe, Slovak Republic, Poland, Latvia, Ukraine. The feature of staff
leasing and temporary help is in simplicity of human resource use, provision
of necessary number of people in the shortest possible time, as well as transparency of
calculation. Due staff leasing
enterprise could save up to 25% of human resource costs.
Period of supply of temporary workers – up to 3 days, trade workers – 1 day, craft
professions – 3 days [17]. Temporary workers are placed in industrial production,
logistics and storage, in food production, for service and health sectors. Historically,
there have been three main approaches to the regulation of private employment
agencies: first, strict prohibition of any placement or other services offered by private
agencies; second, strict regulation of private employment agencies that were allowed
to operate alongside public employment service; and, third, minimum regulation of
private employment agencies that were accepted as private players in the labour
market. Whereas the first policy option has been abandoned by most ILO Member
States, differences, as regards the scope and density of regulation, are significant. The
starting point for all regulation is the determination of the legal status and conditions
governing the operation of private employment agencies. As set out in Article 3 of ILO
Convention No. 181, the private employment agencies legal status shall be determined
according to national law and practice and its operation, according to a system of
licensing or certification. However, such licensing or certification system should be
properly enforced, be objective, transparent and able to assist agencies in delivering
their services appropriately and adequately. As options to licensing, registration and
certification systems can also be implemented [18].
The Annual Report of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights
on the state of human rights and freedoms in 2014 indicated that the modern features
of the labour market is threatening the pace of conversion to non-standard forms of
employment (outsourcing, outstaffing, staff leasing, homeworking, teleworking) the
so-called borrowed work, also related to the violation of labour rights, in particular the
failure to ensure employees even minimum state guarantees.
Furthermore, it should be noted that the results of the monitoring of the Ukrainian
Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights indicated that it is due to mismatch
between the effective provisions of labour legislation and other legal acts and
contemporary social and economic developments, international trends and standards,
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