Mary White (Fianna Fail)

No, I want to see the change made. The word "employee" here could include an individual employed on a temporary basis for one or two weeks while the legal relationship is with the agency. The situation is different if the employer sets up a contract with a person who has been recruited through an agency. However, if a person is employed in a temporary position for just one or two weeks, the agency that sent them is the legal employer. When an employer recruits an employee from an agency he or she sets up a contract with the person before they are fully engaged, but it is totally different for someone coming into a company on a temporary basis.