BIS Agency Workers Regulations Guidance
The BIS Agency Workers Regulations Guidance is guidance from the Department for Business Innovation & Skills for hirers of agency workers and the recruitment sector on the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (the Regulations).
BIS states that you may re-use this information free of charge under the terms of the Open Government Licence, under © Crown Copyright 2012.
What the guidance explains
The guidance summarises the key provisions of the Regulations and includes illustrative examples. Under the Regulations, agency workers gain the right to the same basic employment and working conditions as if they had been directly recruited by the hirer, once they complete a 12-week qualifying period in the same job.
Contents
- Introduction
- Scope
- In Scope
- Out of Scope
- Qualifying for ‘equal treatment’
- How to identify ‘basic working and employment conditions’ and the relevance of a “comparator”
- Pay
- Supply teachers
- Working time and holiday entitlements
- Pregnant workers and new mothers
- Pay between assignments
- Information requests, liability and remedies
- Information a TWA must have before supplying an agency worker
- Compliance information required by a TWA from a hirer
- Other factors
Related Simply-Docs guidance
Simply-Docs has produced a refined version of the BIS guidance, entitled Guidance Notes for Employers: The Agency Workers Regulations 2010, available within Equal Opportunity, Diversity Policy and Guidance.
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