The supply of temporary workers is a complex situation involving a two-fold employment relationship between, on the one hand, the temporary employment business and the temporary worker and, on the other, the temporary worker and the user undertaking, as well as a relationship of supply between the temporary employment business and the user undertaking. The specifics of these triangular employment relationships require a special regulation which would be able to meet both temporary agencies' and user undertakings' needs for flexibility on one hand and employees' needs for security on the other. It is therefore this article seeks to analyze and assess the deficiencies of the regulation on both European Union and national levels, by using the method of systematic analysis for the Directive 2008/104 and the Law on Temporary Employment of the Republic of Lithuania.

The supply of temporary workers is a complex situation involving a two-fold employment relationship between, on the one hand, the temporary employment business and the temporary worker and, on the other, the temporary worker and the user undertaking, as well as a relationship of supply between the temporary employment business and the user undertaking. The specifics of these triangular employment relationships require a special regulation which would be able to meet both temporary agencies' and user undertakings' needs for flexibility on one hand and employees' needs for security on the other. It is therefore this article seeks to analyze and assess the deficiencies of the regulation on both European Union and national levels, by using the method of systematic analysis for the Directive 2008/104 and the Law on Temporary Employment of the Republic of Lithuania.