The Temporary employment agency industry in France includes a wide range of placement and recruitment agencies. This includes both large players that have a national reach and small agencies that focus on one particular sector or region. The profitability of this industry depends on the wages paid to temporary workers and the fees collected from users for placing them.

In France, the 2008 Directive on Temporary Agency Work requires that agencies protect the welfare of workers and pay them fairly. In addition, agencies must ensure that they provide adequate holiday and sick leave. Furthermore, if a temporary worker has been employed by an agency for more than a year and the agency has not given them sufficient rest periods, it must pay them an additional salary for each day of non-recovery of their rights.

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If a temporary employment agency fails to present the books, records or documents made mandatory by law, it incurs a fine of EUR 3,750 (in case of repeat offense, it may be liable for a fine of up to 7,000 euros and six months imprisonment). Furthermore, if the user company is not satisfied with the guarantees taken out by the temporary employment agency, it can require that a new guarantee be put in place.

EuWorkers are working to improve the professional integration of vulnerable people through economic activity, including setting up systems for them to participate in assignments at user companies. These include the ETTI “Temporary Integration Work Companies”, whose activities are defined in a specific legislative framework and allow them to perform duties on behalf of the user companies.