Government consults over agency workers’ rights

Plans to protect vulnerable agency workers and clamp down on rogue companies have been set out in a Government consultation.

In its strategy paper 'Success at Work' the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) identified vulnerable workers as a group it was planning to focus on.

There are currently 1.4 million temporary workers, including agency workers, in the UK. According to DTI research, there are approximately 600,000 agency workers.

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