Status of Agency Workers: Franks -v- Reuters

• Author:
• Daniel Barnett

Another decision on agency workers - this time from the Court of Appeal.

It is authority for the proposition that an implied employment relationship may arise between 'temp worker' and the 'client' of the temp agency. It supports the 'status' rather than 'contract' approach to determining who is an employee.

In Franks -v- Reuters, Mr Franks initially went to work as a 'temp' for Reuters via an employment agency. In the event, he ended up working for five years for Reuters before his engag... (141 more words)

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