Agency worker law might not protect most agency workers

If agency workers were given the same rights as full time employees after a year - as the CBI has argued for - then three quarters of agency workers would still be excluded from protection, a new report has revealed. 

The study, Agency working in the UK: what do we know?, has been conducted by academics from the universities of Leeds, Bradford and Kent. It coincides with discussions in Parliament over a Private Members’ Bill, which would grant agency workers equal treatment to pe... (453 more words)

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