The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 come into force on 1st
October. They give agency workers the right to the same basic
working and employment conditions as comparable employees of the
hirer after a qualifying period of 12 weeks. Although the
regulations are designed to protect and grant new rights to agency
workers they will not give agency workers employee status and
agency workers will not have unfair dismissal rights or the right
to receive statutory redundancy pay.
Please click here to access our quick guide on the new
regulations.
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The original publication date for this article was 27/09/2011.
