<?xml version="1.0" ?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.eef.org.uk/eef/rss.xslt" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>EEF Northern Ireland : HR &amp;amp; Legal briefings</title><link>http://www.eef.org.uk/nireland/</link><copyright>© EEF, the manufacturers organisation</copyright><description>EEF provides over 10,000 UK businesses with advice, guidance, representation and training in employment law and employee relations, occupational health and safety, environmental management, information and training</description><managingEditor>ptrueman@eef.org.uk</managingEditor><webMaster>rjannoo@eef.org.uk</webMaster><category>engineering</category><category>manufacturing</category><category>EEF</category><category>business</category><category>Northern Ireland</category><generator>EEF RSS feeder 1.0</generator><image><url>http://www.eef.org.uk/eef/templates/eef/v3/images/logos/eef.jpg</url><title>EEF Northern Ireland</title><link>http://www.eef.org.uk/nireland/</link></image><item><title>European Parliament approves the Directive on Temporary Agency Workers[m]</title><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:43:40 GMT</pubDate><guid>http://www.eef.org.uk/nireland/whatwedo/hrlegal/briefings/legal/uk/members/2008/European_Parliament_approves_the_Directive_on_Temporary_Agency_Workers.htm</guid><description>The European Parliament has adopted a Directive on Temporary Agency Workers, which, in essence, gives agency workers the right to be treated equally in their ‘basic working and employment conditions’ as employees recruited directly by the end-user to do the same job.</description><link>http://www.eef.org.uk/nireland/whatwedo/hrlegal/briefings/legal/uk/members/2008/European_Parliament_approves_the_Directive_on_Temporary_Agency_Workers.htm</link><author>EEF</author></item></channel></rss>