Agency Workers Regulations 2010

Lawspeed has reported comprehensively on the developments with the Agency Workers Directive, now implemented as the Agency Workers Regulations 2010. The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) has also been fighting a campaign in respect of the Agency Workers Regulations for fairer regulations. Below is a collection of the latest articles on this topic. For more information on the Agency Workers Regulations see here, and the actual Regulations can be found at http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2010/uksi_20100093_en_1.

Since the finalisation of the Agency Workers Regulations earlier this year there has been a flurry of activity to gear up for the new rules. However these regulations do not come into force until October 2011 and there is no legal reason why they cannot be modified, providing that they meet the requirements of the European Agency Workers Directive.

The new coalition Conservative/Liberal Democrat government should take the opportunity to cut back the excess of employment regulation created by the last Labour Government. That is the view of Adrian Marlowe, Chairman of the Association of Recruitment Consultancies(ARC).

The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) has decided not to pursue action for a judicial review of certain parts of the Agency Workers Regulations. This is purely because of the tight three-month timescale prescribed by law.

The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) has obtained a written opinion from leading Counsel that some of the Agency Workers Regulations...

Commenting on recent reports about the deal struck between supermarket chain ASDA and the trade union Unite in advance of the Agency Workers Regulations that are due to come into force next year, the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) urges caution against adopting the model ahead of Regulation.

Part of the draft regulations to bring the Agency Workers Directive into UK law may not be legal, according to inquiries carried out by the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC).

The much anticipated Agency Workers Regulations 2010 were laid before parliament in January. The regulations are intended to give agency workers equal entitlement to pay and leave arrangements as if they had been recruited directly by their hirer, following an EU Directive finalised in December 2008. The Regulations are due to be adapted into law by March 2010 with application from October 2011.

The 2^nd Consultation on the Agency Workers Directive brings some key issues sharply into focus, says the Association of Recruitment Consultancies.

ARC (the Association of Recruitment Consultancies) today 26th October 2009 welcomed news that Government plans to "gold-plate" the Agency Workers Directive in key areas, have been dropped.

The Government has now published its long awaited response to the first consultation on the Agency Workers Directive and the draft regulations they intend to introduce

Amongst a series of other proposals to delay new laws, the government has announced that it intends to delay implementation of the Agency Workers Directive in the UK until late 2011.

Some of you may have read an article from Recruiter.co.uk sent under its email alert scheme headed “ Agency workers directive implementation delayed until 2010”, which stated that Gordon Brown has announced that the Directive will be included in the “next parliamentary session”.

In an article published in Personnel Today on 4th September the HR Managers of two hirers of agency workers indicated that once the Directive is in place they intend to hire temps direct from their own internal bank of temp workers.

What the above two articles demonstrate is how easy it is for facts to be misreported and also how important it is that trade representation is accurate and protective of members interests.

The Government’s second consultation on the UK implementation of the Agency Workers Directive (AWD) is expected to be announced at the end of September 2009. At this time, the government will advise on the results of the first consultation which ended in July and the draft legislation will be published for all to consider. Until the second consultation is announced, the potential outcome cannot be known.

After weeks of hard work with the Institute of Directors the message that we have been attempting to publish that the government intends to massively gold plate the Agency Workers Directive has finally hit the national press.

After a huge battle with recruiters in the middle of this decade the government finally settled on a formula for limiting temp to perm, temp to temp and temp to third party fees (“transfer fees”).

The Financial Times has reported on concerns by the Institute of Directors (IoD) that the government is proposing to gold plate the Agency Workers Directive.

At Lawspeed's seminar on 24th June Adrian Marlowe, Managing Director, explained that Government plans to implement the Agency Workers Directive go far beyond the intention of the EU Parliament...

Government plans to implement the Agency Workers Directive go far beyond the intention of the EU Parliament, warned ARC (Association of Recruitment Consultancies) today (25 June).

Lawspeed will be holding a series of seminars (London, Manchester and Birmingham) to analyse and discuss the BERR proposals for implementing the AWD in the UK

The government has finally published its long awaited consultation on new rights for agency workers...

The Association of Recruitment Consultancies vows to take a proactive stance...

The Agency Workers Directive (AWD) has long been simmering in the background, with many believing it would never become law, especially since the Government was originally against the proposals. However......

15th July 2008

On the 9th June, the EU Council met and agreed points of principle as to the content of the proposed Agency Workers Directive......

10th June 2008

The government has announced that it has agreed a deal with unions and employers that will see agency workers receiving equal treatment as employees. Equal treatment will mean......

May '08

Whilst many of you have no doubt heard of the proposed Agency Workers Directive (AWD), do you really understand the possible effect this proposal could have on your business and the recruitment sector?