Will they pay me for my work? Will they be fair to me? Do I get as much as a tribal employee? These are the most common concerns of people looking for a job through an employment agency. Compared to the past, today’s legislation protects them much more.
Who among us would want to work their hardest for a month and get a completely different salary than they were promised? Not so long ago, many employment agencies actually belonged to the “scumbags” category. People were presented with a job position with benefits, but never got paid or not paid at all.
However, the Labour Code changed in March 2015 – it is much more protective of people who have found employment through an employment agency. The change has also helped the agencies themselves, which provide a quality service. It has made the situation much more difficult for the unfair ones who were profiting from circumventing the law.
Control limits Speculators
Under the new Labour Code, employment agencies are also responsible for fulfilling the agreed conditions. The company that uses agency workers has the right to control them, to be informed about what the agency workers’ wages consist of. It will also find out, for example, whether the agency properly pays health and social security contributions on behalf of its employees. And firms do check their partners, because if there is any misconduct by the agency, it is they who would have to pay for the damages to the employees. Change is a scourge on both sides – on the companies looking for employees and on the employment agencies that provide them. The Slovak labour market is thus being cleansed of speculators.
Tribal staffare no longer
The status of agency and tribal staff has also been equalised after the change. Working for an agency is no longer a disadvantage, companies value such a person as much as an employee in the tribe. There are significantly more job offers compared to people willing to work, which is why every skilled employee is just as important to companies.
Moreover, agency workers are most often used by large, multinational companies – and they cannot and do not want to spoil their reputation. That is why they choose only reputable agencies that are able to meet the conditions and pay people the agreed salary. Relationships today are fairer – those between employment agencies and firms, those between agencies and employees and those between firms and assigned employees.
