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Video: Agency workers regulations
The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 came into force on 1 October 2011. This programme will show details of changing legal obligations within the temporary market relating to temporary workers, significantly employed in the construction sector and architecture, engineer and survey professions.
Key learning
- An explanation of the directive and its origins
- The consequences for practices and the preparatory work which had to be carried out before October 2011
- The cost and management implications for employers under this new directive
- An explanation of the implication of new rights and entitlements from day one, the very first day of hire, and 12 weeks, when agency workers are entitled to significant rights to basic employment and working conditions “as if they had been recruited directly”
- Implications for HR
About the contributor(s)
John Hayes is a partner in Irwin Mitchell solicitors and heads up the London Employment Team. He is a dual qualified solicitor and barrister.
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