Clifford Chance
The Agency Workers Regulations: Action Points
28 July 2011
On 1 October 2011 the Agency Worker Regulations will come into force establishing new rights for temporary agency workers. The Regulations will give qualifying agency workers the right to equality of treatment in respect of basic working and employment conditions and access to vacancies and communal facilities at the hirer.
This briefing examines who is covered by the Regulations, what an agency worker's rights are, what a hirer's obligations are towards agencies and hirers and sets out an action plan for companies who currently make use of agency workers.
