Agency workers: are all working practices bound to change?

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• Eversheds HR Group

News of a revised Agency Workers Directive is still awaited from Europe and is unlikely to emerge before early 2009. For the time being, employers and agency workers alike are in the dark as to how equality of employment rights for agency workers after 12 weeks service will operate in practice. From the responses we received to last month's survey there is not only widespread concern about this development amongst employers but a likelihood that current working practices are set to chang... (5 more words)

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