The new legal framework of the employment agencies after the labour reform of 2010

Abstract

The National Employment System is currently integrated by the State Public Service of Employment, the Public Services of Employment of the Autonomous Communities and by a great number of institutions and collaborating companies. As well as the Public Services of Employment there are also a great number of actors operating in the labour market: private employment agencies, temporary recruitment agencies, employment websites. The activity of these agencies, in many cases is not regulated by a legal framework.

Therefore the will to empower the Public Employment Services must also be accompanied with an improvement of the supplies and demnads in the labour market in order to increase the opportunities for the unemployed to become employed. In that direction the role of other actors that can operate in the supply and demand, such as private employment agencies, temporary recruitment agencies must be enhanced. In this line of action the recent labour reform of 2010 and the RD 1796/2010 legalize these companies and the paper analises the new legal framework.