Outsourcing of Personnel: Transfer or Secondment
Outsourcing of personnel has become a widespread practice in view of ever-growing demand for highly specialized staff. There is an essential difference between "transfer" and "secondment" of personnel: under the transference procedure employment relations of the transferred employees with the previous employer are terminated; while in the case of the secondment procedure, the current employment relations of the seconded employees remain in effect...
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