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"Agency work is considered to be one of the essential tools of the modern labour market that allows employers to respond flexibly to changed economic conditions, depending on greater or lesser requirements for labour. A progressively developing segment of the European labour market, agency work should provide a certain level of benefit to both employer and employees. However, in the Slovak Republic, agency work is becoming problematic as regards individual labour law and for the social security system. Certain practices on the part of some agencies create fundamental market distortions in the Slovak Republic. These include the circumvention of legal provisions regarding the employment relationship for a fixed-term period, as the basic unit of the labour law relationship; the paying of part of the wages of agency workers in the form of reimbursements of travel expenses, without there actually being any change in the place of work; and the failure to secure adequate working conditions, for example with regard to occupational safety and health protection at work. "