On 16 November 2015, Germany's Federal Minister of Labour
introduced draft legislation to reform temporary employment and
contracts for work and labour. The planned modifications intend to
focus on the core function of temporary employment (covering peak
workloads) and to prevent abuse in the creation of contracts for
work and labour. While amendments to this draft bill are likely, a
final version is expected to come into force on 1 January 2017. The
most important elements of the draft bill are summarized below.
How long will an employer be able to use temporary employees in
the future?
A significant element of the draft imposes an 18-month
limitation on the maximum loan period for deploying temporary
employees to another company. Temporary employees are those who are
made available by their employer (the lending company) to another
company (the user employer) for a certain period of time. Once the
new law takes effect, the user employer will be required
