Agency Regulations

Recruitment businesses, whether introducing candidates or supplying contractors and agency workers, are required to comply with various regulations, laws and tax rules.

The main governing regulations are the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (“the Conduct Regulations”). These contain numerous contractual and procedural requirements including specific rules relating to the structuring of transfer fees (such as temp-to-perm fees).

Compliance is a must, but a pragmatic approach can give your business the commercial edge. We provide advice and solutions matched to the particular needs and commercial objectives of your business.

We can help employment businesses and employment agencies to manage agency regulations including with:

Compliance advice
Client facing contract terms
Candidate facing contract terms
Procedural workflow and internal documents
Dealing with complaints from agency workers or BIS

Why Lawspeed?

Lawspeed was involved in the drafting of the Conduct Regulations from 2001 and was the architect of, amongst other things, the limited company opt out. As a leading adviser in the recruitment sector we are well placed to give practical advice on how these Regulations affect your business, the documents, contract terms and the procedural steps required.

Click here to view the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003

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Consultant Manager ® - A compliance tool for recruitment businesses

Compliance is a big deal in recruitment. Penalties for breaches of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 are now an unlimited fine and directors of non compliant organisations can be disbarred. So too is commercial best practice. How many times have you cracked the champagne on a deal only to find that your terms of business were not properly put in place?

Consultant Manager® is the answer.

A sophisticated interactive safeguard for compliance and best commercial practice, designed to be used alongside your recruitment software.

Used properly, it will navigate consultants through every step of the recruitment process, taking account of relevant legislation and best commercial practice. It takes the form of an interactive multi-page flowchart displayed in the Internet Explorer browser, and a set of accompanying template documents for each stage.