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  1. Agency Workers Directive put back

    The Government has announced today that it will delay the introduction of the Agency Workers Directive (AWD) until 2011 in order to minimise disruption and give businesses the chance to prepare.  The AWD will give agency workers the right to the same pay, holidays and basic conditions as permanent staff after 12 weeks on a given job. There had been speculation that the Direct...

    News | 15 Oct 2009

  2. CIPD: Agency Worker Directive 'Bad for British Jobs'

    The CIPD has criticised a draft EU directive which seeks to give agency workers on temporary contracts the same rights as their permanent counterparts. The Institute has sent its comments to Ms Leke van den Burg MEP, who is preparing a report to the European Parliament on the draft EU Directive on agency workers. The comments refer to independent evidence which ...

    News | 5 Aug 2002

  3. CIPD: Agency Worker Directive 'Bad for British Jobs'

    ... the comparison should be defined as being no less favourably than if they had been engaged directly by the end user. This seems to us to create the possibility that companies could create terms and conditions that would apply to temporary workers which could then become the point of comparison for agency workers rather than the company?s permanent work force. The Directive is still very much at the discussion stage and these early deliberations may not actually reveal the shape that the final directive takes although it is useful to have an early indication of the thinking amongst the UK?s social p...

    Comment | 20 Nov 2002

  4. CIPD: Agency Worker Directive 'Bad for British Jobs'

    We seem to have an issue of balance between the fundamental rights of temporary workers to basic sick pay, holiday and pension with that of an "administrative head-ache". If this is really the argument against temporary and agency workers receiving benefits on a par with that of permanent staff then it is nonsense. I also submit that anytime further rights to temporary workers is raised the CIPD resorts to the scare-mongering tactics of stating that business in the UK will not hire temps and unemployment will rise? At presen...

    Comment | 11 Nov 2002

  5. CIPD: Agency Worker Directive 'Bad for British Jobs'

    Considering the fluid nature of business today, flexibility is a core issue for every organisation. Having access to temporary agency workers who can integrate to consolidate our gains or leverage our opportunities seems to me to be as important as what core group we need to have at any time. Since business survival is hinged more and more on this flexible workforce, the EU directive in its rearrangements of advantages in the re...

    Comment | 5 Nov 2002

  6. EU Agency Workers Directive Progresses; CIPD Urges Government to Protect UK

    ... of Ministers failed to reach agreement on the draft Directive. The Workplacelaw Network will follow future developments closely. Commenting on the outcome, Peter Martin, Director of Employment Policy at the EEF said: "Employers will be relieved at the failure to reach agreement on the Temporary Agency Workers Directive. The UK must maintain its strong stance and continue to protect the flexibility of both employers and temporary workers which this Directive would threaten."

    Comment | 4 Jun 2003

  7. CIPD: Agency Worker Directive 'Bad for British Jobs'

    ...they got rid of all their contractors and temporary staff. I was told I was no longer required in the car park on my way to buy lunch by the VP of my department. I felt so degraded and worthless. It was the best thing that could have happened, but I had no sick pay, no holiday entitlement and an agency that could not care less if I did not work again, unless, of course, they placed me. For me it was a short term thing until I found another job, and I can sympathise with all the other temporary staff out there doing a very good job. Whilst temping, I found that little or no instructions are give...

    Comment | 20 Nov 2002

  8. CIPD: Agency Worker Directive 'Bad for British Jobs'

    ...ent such as this is that the employees are as entitled to say "I don't want to work tomorrow / I'm taking next week off". The bad employer's response here is often that "they've gat a bad attitude", and the employee loses their job by default as they aren't offered further work. Flexible contracts, workers (and employers) are a vital part of our modern economy, especially with more mothers working, but employees who are prepared to commit to their employer should be entitled to the ful range of benefits (say after 6 months (pro rata)of sevice. Otherwise, the employees will become less motivated, wil...

    Comment | 19 Nov 2002

  9. CIPD: Agency Worker Directive 'Bad for British Jobs'

    Should this EU draft be implimented, could we now expect that each temporary worker/employee conform with our qualifacation requirements, as this is a constant problem when taking on temporary staff. Especially Electricians. I also see this as a massive administration headache, and agree with the CIPD, and Anne that it would not be worth the hassle for one temp for a day.

    Comment | 6 Nov 2002

  10. CIPD: Agency Worker Directive 'Bad for British Jobs'

    I have to agree with the CIPD. This could be a bureaucratic nightmare. Working out the benefits owed to a temp who could be with an organisation for a week or even a few days wouldn't be worth the hassle and personally I'd think twice before getting a temp in.

    Comment | 5 Nov 2002

  11. Brown pledges equal treatment for agency workers in months

    Speaking at the TUC Congress in Liverpool this week, Gordon Brown said that the Agency Workers Directive, which will give agency workers equal rights, will be brought in within the next few months.  Gordon Brown said: “I believe that the fight for fairness must include agency workers, and so I pledge to you today that when parliament returns our new legislative programme will inc...

    News | 18 Sep 2009

  12. Agency workers costing councils £1.7bn

    UK councils spent £1.7bn employing agency and temporary staff in 2006/07 according to a new report published at the GMB Congress. With UK agency workers now set to qualify for equal treatment after 12 weeks of employment, and an EU Directive going through the European Council today (9 June) pressing for this equality from day one, is this ...

    News | 9 Jun 2008

  13. Employers divided over rights for agency workers

    Employers are divided over whether equal rights should be given for temporary agency workers, a new survey has shown.The survey, carried out by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and KPMG, surveyed employer opinion on increased rights for agency workers in light of the Parliamentary private members bill, which is due for its second reading on 22 February. W...

    News | 21 Feb 2008

  14. EU Agency Workers Directive Progresses; CIPD Urges Government to Protect UK

    The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) have reiterated their call for the UK Government to resist proposals that it says would damage the employment of agency workers. The CIPD's statement comes ahead of the meeting of the EU Council of Ministers on Tuesday 3 June when the EU Council of Ministers will consider the draft Directive on Agency Workers. CIPD Employee Relations Adviser, Mike Emmott said: "The Government has continued to argue that giving a...

    News | 2 Jun 2003

  15. New Agency Workers Regulations guide launched

    The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), in partnership with Adecco, has today published a guide to help employers prepare for the impact of the Agency Workers Regulations 2010. The Regulations, which come into effect on 1 October 2011, implement an EU Directive requiring the basic employment terms and conditions of agency workers after a qualifying period of 12 weeks to be no less favourable than those that would apply if they had been recrui...

    News | 23 Nov 2010

  16. Equal treatment for agency workers: A guide to the Agency Workers Regulations 2010

    When the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 came into effect on 1 October 2011, agency workers, for the first time, gained rights to a form of equal treatment; after a qualifying period their basic terms and conditions of employment must be no less favourable than the terms they would have been entitled to had they b...

    Official guidance | 16 Nov 2010

  17. Equal rights for agency workers: still a lot to play for!

    Accepting the agreement on equal treatment for agency workers after 12 weeks is not just the “least worst option” (BCI); there is still a lot to play for and industry will be looking for the most workable arrangements to be agreed. That was the key message from the Agency Summit hosted yesterday by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC...

    News | 3 Jun 2008

  18. Call for repeal of Working Time Directive

    ...n Government has been called upon to repeal the Working Time Directive. The latest Labour Market Outlook ‘Employer Focus’ survey of 800 respondents from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and KPMG found that employers view the Working Time Regulations (28%) and the Agency Worker Regulations (32%), due to come into effect in October 2011, as of most hindrance to business. Only 28% and 13% respectively believe they will be helpful. It also reveals that only 40% of organisations offer working fathers two weeks’ pay at or near the full rate of pay, while around ...

    News | 24 May 2010

  19. Reaction to EC proposals for agency workers

    ... from the CBI, which attacked the Directive, describing it as "unworkable for companies and for workers". The TUC has published its own response, with a predictably opposite reaction. CBI John Cridland, Deputy Director-General, said: "This proposal claims to be about employment protection for agency staff. But in reality it will undermine opportunities for people who want to do temporary work. We fully support the principle of equal treatment but European law must not damage our labour market. Requiring firms to match the terms and conditions of temps with permanent staff would actually reduce...

    News | 21 Mar 2002

  20. Submission made on temporary worker rights

    Equal treatment of agency workers should extend only to their wages and other basic statutory rights. That’s the view of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), the professional body representing the recruitment industry, which has made its recommendations on how the EU Agency Workers’ Directive should be i...

    News | 16 Feb 2009

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