This book describes the law concerning temporary work in the European Community & in the EC Member Countries, with the exception of Luxembourg. The reports, prepared by national experts, most of them academics, were written on the basis of a common outline in order to guarantee, to a maximum, that each national report would contain the same & therefore comparable material. This has self-evidently not been possible for all countries, such as Greece, Italy & Spain where temporary work, in the sense of travail temporaire, is until now prohibited. On the basis of the EC -- & the national reports, a comparative report has been written, highlighting the convergencies & the divergencies in the regulations of temporary work as they emerge from the varying approaches in the different Member States. In doing so, one is again baffled by the enormous diversity which prevails in the Member States, although an interesting, positive & integrating approach can be discerned.