This report examines the effects and influences of the EU's
directive on fixedterm contracts in the Danish local government
sector. The study is based on interviews with 259 workplaces,
central management and trade union representatives from 14 randomly
selected Danish municipalities. The report argues that although
social partners at local level have transposed the directive, its
actual effects are limited, as employers' recruitment strategies
and fixed-term workers' working conditions have changed relatively
little as a result of the directive. However, the directive has
been more influential among municipalities, which have
transposed
the directive through local implementation initiatives and have
more centralised procedures for regulating wage- and working
conditions, particularly if the individual workplaces have no trade
union representative.