Consultation on Agency Workers Directive published
The government has finally published (8th May 2009) its long awaited consultation on new rights for agency workers, following the Agency Worker’s Directive enacted in Europe in December 2008. Click here to view the consultation document and see subsequent articles in left hand column. The proposal is that agency workers should have “at least” the same pay, working and employment conditions as employees on the end user site. There is a legal requirement for the government to bring in legislation on this basis by no later than December 2011, but the government has vowed to introduce the UK legislation within the current Parliamentary Session, namely by the end of this year. The proposed new laws have the potential of being the single most damaging piece of legislation since the recruitment industry began, and the concept has been controversial from the outset. This now takes the number of current government consultations affecting…