On 15 October, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) published a new consultation document, supported by draft Regulations, which explains, in nearly final form, how the European Directive on Conditions for Temporary Workers will be brought into UK legislation.  The following notes update an article, based on the initial May 2009 consultation document, which appeared in this newsletter in May 2009.  It must be noted that further changes may yet be made to the draft Agency Workers Regulations 2010 and that these notes do not necessarily describe the final rules.

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Posted October 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »

In May 2009, the Government published a consultation document on the implementation of the European Directive on Agency Workers. The consultation period ended at the end of July.

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Posted August 5th, 2009 | No Comments »

The European Directive on Agency Workers was approved by the EU member states and the European Parliament in December 2008. In principle, the Directive requires that agency workers have the same basic working and employment conditions as they would have done if they had been recruited to do the same job by the business for which they are actually working.

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Posted May 18th, 2009 | No Comments »

On 10 June, agreement was reached by the EU Employment and Social Affairs Council on the longstanding issues of the Temporary Agency Workers Directive. The proposals, which have been under discussion since 2002, will provide equality of treatment for temporary workers with workers engaged on full employment contracts.

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Posted June 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »