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Agency workers

Temporary agency workers offer great flexibility as an additional labour resource. They can fill in staffing gaps, often at very short notice, and can be engaged for anything from a few hours to weeks or months at a time.

Under the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, on completing a qualifying period with a hirer, agency workers qualify for the same basic employment conditions that they would have had if directly recruited.

If an employer wishes to take on an agency worker as a permanent member of staff, it may have to pay a “transfer fee” (sometimes known as a “temp to perm” fee) to the agency supplying the worker.


    • Agency workers
    • NHS
    • Public sector

    Controversial ban on agency staff in NHS dropped

    by Jo Faragher 31 Mar 2017
    by Jo Faragher 31 Mar 2017

    The ban on certain agency staff in the NHS, which was due to come into force on 1 April, has...

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    • Agency workers

    BBC reporter’s employment case struck out

    by Stephen Simpson 8 Mar 2017
    by Stephen Simpson 8 Mar 2017

    An employment tribunal has struck out a BBC reporter’s claim after finding that she discussed her case with a newspaper...

    • Agency workers
    • NHS
    • Public sector

    Nurses and teachers choose agency work for better work-life balance, report finds

    by Jo Faragher 23 Feb 2017
    by Jo Faragher 23 Feb 2017

    Teachers and nurses are choosing to work through agencies because they are disillusioned with permanent work, research has found.
    A...

    • Agency workers
    • Zero hours
    • Gig economy

    Businesses are using self-employment laws to avoid tax, says Matthew Taylor

    by Rob Moss 14 Feb 2017
    by Rob Moss 14 Feb 2017

    Matthew Taylor, the head of Theresa May’s independent review of modern employment practices, has said that businesses are using self-employment...

    • Agency workers
    • Zero hours
    • Gig economy

    Insecure work up 27% in five years says TUC

    by Rob Moss 7 Feb 2017
    by Rob Moss 7 Feb 2017

    The number of people working without guaranteed hours or baseline employment rights has grown by 660,000 (27%) over the past...

    • Agency workers
    • Gig economy
    • Learning & development

    Gig economy will grow, say half of HR leaders

    by Rob Moss 2 Feb 2017
    by Rob Moss 2 Feb 2017

    Nearly 40% of companies hire staff on a temporary or project basis, and “gig economy” working is set to grow,...

    • Agency workers
    • Employment law
    • Department for Business and Trade (DBT)

    Gig economy worker rights inquiry announced

    by Personnel Today 27 Oct 2016
    by Personnel Today 27 Oct 2016

    The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee has launched an inquiry into the changing nature of work and the...

    • National living wage
    • Agency workers
    • Zero hours

    Unions to shine light on “businesses that treat workers like animals”

    by Rob Moss 12 Sep 2016
    by Rob Moss 12 Sep 2016

    Frances O’Grady is to warn “greedy businesses that treat workers like animals” that they have no place to hide in...

    • Sexual harassment
    • Agency workers
    • Corporate governance

    Sports Direct scraps zero hours contracts and “six strikes” policy

    by Rob Moss 6 Sep 2016
    by Rob Moss 6 Sep 2016

    Sports Direct is to offer its casual retail workers the opportunity to switch from a zero hours arrangement to a...

    • Agency workers
    • Zero hours
    • Minimum wage

    Sports Direct to back-pay warehouse workers

    by Jo Faragher 15 Aug 2016
    by Jo Faragher 15 Aug 2016

    Staff at Sports Direct’s Shirebrook warehouse are to receive back pay totalling around £1 million for non-payment of the national...

    • Sexual harassment
    • Agency workers
    • Employee relations

    Sports Direct’s business model treats workers like commodities and “without dignity”

    by Rob Moss 22 Jul 2016
    by Rob Moss 22 Jul 2016

    Sports Direct is founded on a business model that enables the majority of workers to be treated “without dignity or...

    • Collective redundancy
    • Tribunal Watch
    • Agency workers

    The 10 most important employment law cases in 2015

    by Stephen Simpson 7 Dec 2015
    by Stephen Simpson 7 Dec 2015

    What were the most significant employment case law decisions in 2015? We count down the 10 most important judgments for employers this year.

    • Agency workers
    • NHS
    • Public sector

    Why are recruitment agencies being made the NHS’s scapegoat?

    by Kevin Green 9 Jun 2015
    by Kevin Green 9 Jun 2015

    After last week’s clampdown on recruitment agencies supplying the NHS with doctors and nurses, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s chief...

    • Agency workers
    • NHS
    • Public sector

    NHS agency staff to have pay capped

    by Rob Moss 2 Jun 2015
    by Rob Moss 2 Jun 2015

    Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered a clampdown on recruitment agencies supplying the NHS with doctors and nurses as a...

    • Agency workers
    • USA
    • Family-friendly benefits

    Facebook to raise minimum wage and improve benefits for contract workers

    by Clare Allerton 15 May 2015
    by Clare Allerton 15 May 2015

    Facebook is to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour in the USA for its contractors and suppliers, among...

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