What are the Agency Worker Regulations?
The new regulations derive from European legislation designed to give temporary agency workers parity in pay and employment conditions as they would have been entitled to had they been recruited by the hirer directly to do the same job. Whilst in other parts of the EU, this entitlement comes into effect from day one of an assignment, the UK has a derogation period of 12 weeks. This means the agency worker needs to be engaged for 12 weeks’ of service with the same hirer, in the same role, in order to qualify.
