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Agency and temporary workers
Well agency or not, and even with prior 'appropriate' training - the H&S onus is with you so you would still need to assess their skills to ensure Regs are adhered to. You are responsible for Risk Assessments too. So I don't think you should or even can, just rely on someone's paper qualifications. I me...
Comment | 28 Feb 2009
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Agency and temporary workers
To what level are employers legally obliged to train Agency Staff or does the onus on training agecny staff remain with their respective Agency. IE: if your asking an agency person to undertake porterage work should you train him/her alongside your staff, or should you ask the Agency to pay for the training or only send someone who has received appropria...
Comment | 27 Feb 2009
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DSE and temporary employees, employed by agencies
With regards to agency and temporary staff, L26, the HSE guide "Work with display Screen equipment" clarifies the position as follows Host employers are responsible for • assessing the risks to agency workers • ensure all workstations provided comply to minimum requirements • ensure agency worker is able t...
Comment | 26 Aug 2008
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Economic uncertainty fuelling demand for temporary workers
...s to 66% last month. A further 42% expected staffing level to remain the same, which indicates that 91% of employers expect to maintain or increase their permanent workforce over the coming year. Employers’ long-term demand for temporary staff has risen with 83% of employers saying their use of agency workers will either grow or stay the same during the next 12 months. For the short-term, 79% surveyed foresaw either taking on extra agency staff or keeping current levels static. According to the REC, the overall number of temporary workers in the UK is at an all-time high at 1.6 million. Commen...
News | 24 Aug 2011
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EU ministers consider 48-hour opt out and temporary workers rights
The EU Council of Employment Ministers meets today, and two topics of particular interest to UK employers are on the agenda: the individual 48-hour week opt-out, and the EU Temporary Agency Workers Directive. Currently, workers in the UK can choose to opt out of the EU 48-hour week on an individual basis. The UK is arguing to keep this individual right to opt out, but is facing strong opposition from other countries, including Sweden and France. Proposals that would give tempora...
News | 7 Dec 2004
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Inquiry reveals widespread mistreatment of meat workers
...12 months by supermarkets, processing firms and recruitment agencies, and will consider taking enforcement action if necessary. The inquiry, which was launched in October 2008, examined the employment and recruitment practices in the sector to identify differences in pay and conditions between agency and temporary workers and employees with permanent or directly employed status. One-third of the permanent workforce and over two-thirds of agency workers in the industry are migrant workers. At one in six meat processing sites involved in the study, every single agency worker used in the past 12 months was a migra...
News | 15 Mar 2010
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Temporary Workers Directive adopted by EU Parliament
The European Parliament has adopted a directive on temporary agency work which enables temporary workers to be treated equally, from day one, with those of the employer company. However, following agreement reached in May this year between the social partners in the UK, agency workers will get the same pay and conditions as permanent staff after being employed for ...
News | 23 Oct 2008
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Agency workers costing councils £1.7bn
...agency and temporary workers to get the same rights as permanent employees from day one of employment.When asked what this extension of rights could mean for employer spending on agency workers, Mike Emmott, Employee Relations Advisor at the CIPD said, “we cannot really say how big the increase would be, but any deal on a di...
News | 9 Jun 2008
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Temporary Workers Directive postponed until 2008
A decision on the Agency Workers Directive has been postponed until 2008 after Ministers failed to reach agreement. This directive, which has been under discussion since 2002, is intended to give temporary and casual employees the right to equal treatment with permanent employees on issues such as pay, working time and hol...
News | 7 Dec 2007
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Business organisations against temporary worker rights
Business leaders have called on the Prime Minister to resist attempts by the European Union to impose new rights for temporary and agency workers on employers.The issue is to be discussed at a key meeting of employment ministers in Brussels on Wednesday 5 December, where plans by the Portuguese presidency of the EU for a temporary and agency workers directive are being negotiated.A previous draft directive proposed that temporary ...
News | 4 Dec 2007
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DSE and temporary employees, employed by agencies
Equity & Law not unreasonable so, should try the 'reasonable person' common sense approach that would suggest agency, contract, supply workers should 'normally' be 'temporary' although, that may not always be the case so: 1. Focus on a good even 'OTT' induction package reinforcing the responsibilities of both parties in terms of identifying foreseeable risks and in the case of DSE operators especially VISUAL R...
Comment | 26 Aug 2008
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TUC urges Government action on rights of temporary workers
...d that “life as a temporary worker in the UK too often means earning less than permanent colleagues, being denied access to a pension scheme, having less annual holiday entitlement and no sick pay”. Research conducted by the TUC found that in almost nine out of ten of the workplaces surveyed, agency workers were earning less than directly employed staff, either taking home less per hour than their permanent workmates, or losing out on overtime or other bonus payments. In 'Working on the edge: A report on agency workers', the TUC says that although the UK Government has said it remains commit...
News | 2 Jun 2006
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Temporary workers: managing the benefits and risks
...ion to any organisation's bottom line. Employers have to realise that getting the most from temps requires planning and attention in the same way as other employee groups." Cases such as Dacas -v- Brook Street Bureau have, however, previously raised concern about the extent to which temporary and agency workers should be integrated into the workplace. Commenting on the implications of that case, law firm Tarlo Lyons advised that users of temporary workers should consider adopting the following precautions to reduce the “control” risk: avoid integrating temps and contractors into t...
News | 6 Jun 2005
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Temporary Workers Directive to be scrapped
...on of British Industry (CBI) believe the UK’s successful labour market could only be jeopardised by extra regulations. The TUC branded the move a ‘major set back for temps’. The TUC’s EU Temp Trade report shows unlike the rest of Europe most of the UK’s estimated 600,000 temporary agency workers receive no sick pay, work pension, protection from unfair dismissal, or vocational training and are paid less than permanent colleagues doing similar work.
News | 28 Sep 2005
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Mismanaged Temporary Workers Pose Serious Risks to Employers
...d by HR management consultancy Reflect, which has seen a 100% increase in the number of temp workers taking legal action against its clients. Reflect defines the temporary workforce as "temps and contractors that are supplied through recruitment agencies, be they self-employed or on contract to the agency". Dacas -v- Brook Street Bureau The latest development in the history of case law relating to whether temporary workers can acquire the same rights as employees is the Dacas –v- Brook Street Bureau Court of Appeal case, as previously reported on the Workplace Law Network (see Status of Age...
News | 8 Jul 2004
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Temporary Workers Directive to be scrapped
...icle we wrote was about temporary workers not temporary employees, a distinction we didn't make clear enough. There is an important difference between the two because temporary workers are not technically employed with the firm they work for - normally because they are on the books of an employment agency and are placed with clients of the agency to carry out specific assignments. Like you said there's nothing to stop a temporary employee acquiring most of the rights permanent employees enjoy, however most agency temporary workers are treated as not employed by anyone and this restricts the range of...
Comment | 29 Sep 2005
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Temporary Workers Directive still a Threat to UK Businesses
The Employment and Social Affairs Committee of the European Parliament voted on Monday 21 October to accept the European Commission's proposal for a Directive on the equal treatment of temporary agency workers subject to some significant amendments. There has been an amendment to the "non-discrimination" principle. The Directive outlaws less favourable treatment of temporary agency workers. Originally, the comparable worker against whom a temporary worker was to be measured was a worker of the...
News | 29 Oct 2002
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Report highlights need for risk assessments of all workers
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has published a new report on the need to carry out inclusive risk assessments which take into account the diversity of the workforce. The report – Workforce diversity and risk assessment: Ensuring everyone is covered – aims to describe why and h...
News | 4 Nov 2009
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Leaked temporary workers Directive
...le jobs. These include rights to the same remuneration, pensions, holidays and other benefits such as health insurance, share schemes and bonuses.Although often supplied through agencies, it is thought that temporary workers will be required to look to the end-user of their services rather than the agency to find a comparable permanent employee. The CBI takes the view that temporary workers should be guaranteed the same rights as temporary workers in other agencies, and not full-time employees. The CBI wants to see the Directive amended.The Directive in its current draft would make life a lot more c...
News | 25 Feb 2002
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Mismanaged Temporary Workers Pose Serious Risks to Employers
There is often a great deal of confusion over the term "temporary worker". It can mean an employee who is employed on a fixed term contract (i.e., a temporary employment contract), an agency worker who is engaged and payrolled by a recruitment agency and supplied on to the end user company, a freelance or self employed consultant or a contractor supplying their services through a limited company (or similar). Therefore, the answer to your question will depend on how these workers are ...
Comment | 11 Aug 2004
