The purpose of this Directive is to ensur
e the protection of temporary agency workers and to improve the quality of temporary
agency work by ensuring that the principle of equal treatment, as set out in Article 5, is applied to temporary
agency workers, and by recognising temporary-work agencies as employers, while taking into account the need to establish a suitable framework for the use of temporary
agency work with a view to contributing effectively to the creation of jobs and to the deve
lopment of flexible forms ...[+++] of working.