Right of TEmporary Agency Workers to Equal Treatment from the Perspective of the European Directive

The article deals primarily with the regulation of the temporary agency work set in the Labour Code. Based on the description of the legislation essential features, the paper deals mainly with the right of temporary agency workers assigned at a user undertaking to the same working and employment conditions that would apply if they had been recruited directly by that undertaking to occupy the same job.
The article compares the legal regulation of the equal treatment in the Czech Labour Code with the European Directive on temporary agency work. It concludes that the Czech legislation is in comparison with the European directive significantly wider when it comes to the equal treatment securing. The directive is focused on determining specific areas where equal treatment must be adhered to, and provides some exceptions. Czech temporary agency work regulation guarantees temporary agency workers the right to the same working and employment conditions in general. The article calls into questions whether this approach is appropriate and effectively helps to ensure equal treatment for temporary agency workers.