Agency Workers Lose Out: Esso Petroleum -v- Jarvis

• Author:
• Daniel Barnett

The EAT’s recent decision in Esso Petroleum -v- Jarvis (18th January 2002) confirms the catch-22 situation experienced by agency workers who attempt to rely on employment rights which are available to employees only (but not the wider category of ‘workers’).
 
In that case, the EAT overturned a finding that agency workers were employees of Esso (and thus entitled to claim unfair dismissal).  Because there was no contract between the workers and Esso – and thus, by extension, no co... (751 more words)

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